The article by Sparks reinforces why I have chosen my topic. Students need to have the basic foundational skill of reading to be successful in the future. If they don’t have this at the primary level, by the time they reach high school they still struggle. The intense intervention needs to be made at the primary level in order for students to have success in high school and beyond. The other two articles have conflicting results. Ihsan’s results showed that digital story telling with animation significantly improved reading comprehension, while Wright’s results showed that print books had higher reading comprehension than e-books. These studies were slightly different; it appears that animation and engagement might be the key to increased comprehension. My study will compare one group of student’s reading comprehension with a print book as their pretest and a digital story telling book with slight animation as their post test. Students will also be given a self-assessment to check for engagement. I am curious to see if my results will be similar to Ihsan’s.
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Helen Blood
11/13/2017 07:24:06 pm
I too am curious about your results. It makes sense to me that students would be able to improve their reading through support of digital story telling as we have been told that there has been a lot of research done supporting reading to students increases their vocabulary and fluency, hence improved comprehension. I know that bias can have an effect on a study's outcome. I wonder what you will find since the two other studies conflict?
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Mayra Cindy De la Torre
11/13/2017 08:33:04 pm
I agree some of the articles I have found also show that the technology component doesn't make much difference in reading comprehension but it does make a huge difference in engagement. I hope you can find the results you are looking for so we can start implementing them.
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Alicia Martin
11/13/2017 08:56:37 pm
I agree that intense invention needs to start young. It's interesting that two different articles have contradicting theories. I'm curious to see what you find out in your study.
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