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Progress
The Reading Tutor is not (yet) a commercial product, but a research
prototype we are testing and refining.
See Research Basis for a summary of our published
studies and other research underlying the Reading Tutor.
For our latest published work, please see Publications, which is updated more often than this
page.
- Since 2009, we have used
a low-cost EEG sensor to collect data about students’ brain states while
learning.
- As of 2009, we were
extending the Reading Tutor to accelerate children’s development of oral
reading fluency and vocabulary, and to teach explicit reading
comprehension strategies.
- Since 2005, various
researchers have conducted and published controlled studies of the
Reading Tutor with English language learners in Chicago, Toronto,
Vancouver, and Accra, Ghana. See Publications for details.
- In 2005, the Reading
Tutor was pilot-tested in Ghana, launching Project Kané
(a TechBridgeWorld
project).
- In 2004-2005, we
partnered with various organizations to field-test the Reading Tutor in
several new sites.
- In 2003-2004, hundreds
of students used the Reading Tutor daily. In the first independent controlled evaluation of the
Reading Tutor, at a bilingual school in Illinois, 34 ESL students in grades
2-4 gained three times as much in fluency in the month they used
the Reading Tutor than in the month they spent the same time doing
Sustained Silent Reading.
- In 2002-2003, students
used the Reading Tutor at 9 schools.
- In 2001-2002, over 400
students used the Reading Tutor at 8 schools in 5 districts in 2 states
in multiple studies of its effectiveness. Usage varied; classrooms
with higher usage averaged higher gains.
- In 2000-2001, an
equal-time controlled study of 178 students in grades 1-4 at two Blue
Ribbon of Excellence schools compared using the Reading Tutor 20 minutes
daily in a lab setting to spending the same time on Sustained Silent
Reading (SSR) in the classroom. The Reading Tutor group outgained
the SSR group in reading, fluency, and spelling.
- In 1999-2000, an
8-month controlled study of 144 second and third graders compared the
Reading Tutor, one-on-one human tutoring by certified teachers, and
current practice as a control condition. Human tutors did best for
word attack, but third grade vocabulary gains for the Reading
Tutor surpassed the control group and rivalled human tutors.
- In 1997-98, over 100
children in grades 1-5 used the Reading Tutor daily in 10 classroooms under regular classroom
conditions. In a four-month controlled study in spring 1998,
children who used the Reading Tutor gained significantly more in
reading comprehension than classmates who spent the same time in
regular activities.
- In a 1996-1997 pilot
test at an inner-city elementary school, six third graders who started
almost three years below grade level and used the Reading Tutor under
individual supervision averaged two years' progress in under eight
months.
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