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  1. Improving Mathematics Performance Using Laptop Technology: The Importance of Professional Development for Success
  2. What Students Think About Technology and Academic Engagement in School: Implications for Middle Grades Teaching and Learning
  3. The New Digital Advance Team—America’s K–12 Students Leading the Way to Transforming Learning with 21st Century Technology Tools
  4. Digitally Inclined: Teacher Use of Digital Media
  5. Technology in Schools: What the Research Says: A 2009 Update
  6. Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge
  7. The Horizon Report: 2009 K-12 Edition
  8. Bloom’s Taxonomy Blooms Digitally
  9. Final Report: A Comprehensive Assessment of Florida Virtual School
  10. Maine’s Middle School Laptop Program: Creating Better Writers
  11. Social Skills of Mainstream Students in Full-Time, Online Public Schools: How They Compare to Traditional Public School Students
  12. U.S.A. Learns Six-Month Report
  13. Effects of Using Instructional Technology in Elementary and Secondary Schools: What Controlled Evaluation Studies say
  14. Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds
  15. Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies
  16. Use of Education Data at the Local Level: From Accountability to Instructional Improvement
  17. Online Learning Policy Survey: A Survey of the States
  18. An Experimental Study of the Effects of Cognitive Tutor Algebra 1 on Student Knowledge and Attitude
  19. Palm Education Pioneers Program: Final Evaluation
  20. 2004 Unitedstreaming Evaluation: 6th and 8th Grade Mathematics in the Los Angeles Unified School District
  21. Technology’s Edge: The Educational Benefits of Computer-Aided Instruction
  22. Laptops and Fourth-Grade Literacy: Assisting the Jump over the Fourth-Grade Slump
  23. Neural Deficits in Children with Dyslexia Ameliorated by Behavioral Remediation: Evidence from Functional MRI
  24. The Effect of Computers on Student Writing: A meta-analysis of Studies from 1992 to 2002
  25. Effects of Technology on Reading Performance in the Middle-School Grades: A Meta-Analysis with Recommendations for Policy
  26. Using Technology to Enhance Connections Between Home and School: A Research Synthesis
  27. An AlphaSmart for Each Student: Does Teaching and Learning Change with Full Access to Word Processors?
  28. Creating and Connecting: Research and Guidelines on Online Social – and Educational – Networking
  29. Evaluation of the Impact of the Enhancing Education Through Technology Project on Mathematics Achievement
  30. SimCalc Classroom Connectivity Project 2: Understanding Classroom Interactions Among Diverse, Connected Classroom Technologies – Overview of the Present findings of a 4-Year Study
  31. Pockets of Potential:  Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children’s Learning
  32. Game Changer:  Investing in Digital Play to Advance Children’s Learning and Health
  33. Effectiveness of Selected Supplemental Reading Comprehension Interventions
  34. The Effects of Distance Education on K-12 Student Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis
  35. Horizon Report: 2010 K-12 Edition
  36. National Broadband Plan: National Purposes Update
  37. The Efficacy of Computer-Based Phonics Programs for Advancing Elementary Reading Skills
  38. The Digital Disconnect: The Widening Gap Between Internet-Savvy Students and Their Schools
  39. The Effect of Computers on Student Writing: A meta-analysis of Studies from 1992 to 2002
  40. START (Service & Technology Academic Resource Team)
  41. An Open Source Platform for Internet-based Assessment
  42. Educational Outcomes and Research from 1:1 Computing Settings
  43. Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from two student cohorts
  44. Evaluation of the Enhancing Education Through Technology Program: Final Report
  45. K-12 Online Learning: A 2008 Follow-up of the Survey of U.S. School District Administrators
  46. National Broadband Plan: Update
  47. Plato? Achieve Now
  48. Solving Algebra on Smartphones

Effectiveness of Selected Supplemental Reading Comprehension Interventions

Thursday, 10 June 2010 09:41 | Written by John Cradler | PDF | Print | E-mail
Title of Study:  Effectiveness of Selected Supplemental Reading Comprehension Interventions:  Findings from Two Student Cohorts

Author(s): S. James-Burdumy, J. Deke, J Lugo-Gil, N. Carey, A. Hershey, R. Gersten, R. Newman-Gonchar, J. Dimino, K. Haymond, B. Faddis, A. Pendleton

Summary:
This study examined the effects of four supplemental reading intervention programs on reading comprehension. The four intervention curricula are: (1) Project CRISS, (2) ReadAbout, (3) Read for Real, and (4) Reading for Knowledge.  ReadAbout is an adaptive, leveled, technology-based reading program.  The other curricula are not technology-based.

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The Effects of Distance Education on K-12 Student Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis

Thursday, 10 June 2010 09:34 | Written by John Cradler | PDF | Print | E-mail
Title of Study:  The Effects of Distance Education on K-12 Student Outcomes:  A Meta-Analysis

Author(s): Cathy Cavanaugh, Kathy Jo Gillan, Jeff Kromrey, Melinda Hess, Robert Blomeyer

Summary:
This meta-analysis synthesized data from 14 studies between 1999 and 2004 that compared web-delivered distance education with classroom-based learning.

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Horizon Report: 2010 K-12 Edition

Monday, 24 May 2010 10:16 | Written by John Cradler | PDF | Print | E-mail
Title of Study:  Horizon Report: 2010 K-12 Edition

Author(s): L. Johnson, R. Smith, A. Levine, K. Haywood

Summary:
This annual report identifies six emerging technologies that are likely to have an impact on K-12 teaching and learning in the next one to five years.  Examples are provided for each topic, as well as suggested readings for those who want more detailed information on a specific topic. The report also identifies critical trends and challenges that will affect teaching and learning during this time period.

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National Broadband Plan: National Purposes Update

Monday, 24 May 2010 09:57 | Written by John Cradler | PDF | Print | E-mail
Title of Study:  National Broadband Plan:  National Purposes Update

Author(s): FCC Broadband Taskforce

Summary:
This report sets out a plan to develop and use broadband infrastructure to support education, health care, public safety and homeland security, civic participation and workforce training among other national interests.  Recommendations in the education sector focus on supporting and promoting online learning, unlocking the power of educational data and improving transparency, and modernizing educational broadband infrastructure by updating and strengthening the E-rate program.

Last Updated (Thursday, 29 July 2010 12:36)

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The Digital Disconnect: The Widening Gap Between Internet-Savvy Students and Their Schools

Monday, 24 May 2010 09:28 | Written by John Cradler | PDF | Print | E-mail

Title of Study:  The Digital Disconnect:  The Widening Gap Between Internet-Savvy Students and Their Schools

Author(s): Douglas Levin and Sousan Arafeh of American Institutes for Research

Summary:
This study of student use of the Internet for educational purposes in school and outside of school is presented largely in the words of the students themselves.

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The Efficacy of Computer-Based Phonics Programs for Advancing Elementary Reading Skills

Monday, 24 May 2010 09:39 | Written by John Cradler | PDF | Print | E-mail
Title of Study:  The Efficacy of Computer-Based Supplementary Phonics Programs for Advancing Reading Skills in At-Risk Elementary Students

Author(s): Paul Macaruso, Pamela E. Hook, Robert McCabe

Summary:
This study examines the benefits of instructional software designed to supplement regular reading instruction in the first grade in an urban public school district.  The intervention programs used in the study are Phonics Based Reading and Strategies for Older Students from Lexia Learning Systems.

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The Effect of Computers on Student Writing: A meta-analysis of Studies from 1992 to 2002

Monday, 24 May 2010 09:14 | Written by John Cradler | PDF | Print | E-mail
Title of Study:  The Effect of Computers on Student Writing: A meta-analysis of Studies from 1992 to 2002

Author(s): Amie Goldberg, Michael Russell, Abigail Cook

Summary:
This report summarizes a meta-analysis of 26 studies comparing writing by K-12 students with computers with paper-and-pencil.

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