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This project team is developing and testing a prototype of the Teachley Analytics Library, a platform intended to host third party-developed mathematics game apps for students in kindergarten through Grade 8. The prototype will include a dashboard to host games and generate formative assessment data to inform teacher instruction. In the Phase I pilot study, the team will examine whether the protot ...

Video Demonstration of the Phase I Prototype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-wxSuE2Tcc Purpose: This project team will develop and test a multimedia platform, The Lightning Squad, designed to guide teachers in providing tutoring sessions to small groups of struggling readers. Grade 3 students who read below grade level are more likely to drop out of high school than peers who read at grade lev ...

This project team will develop and test a prototype of the ESL Reading Assistant, intended to strengthen reading and listening skills of English as Second Language students. The web-based prototype will help students understand complex words and passages while reading. Based on user feedback, the product will adapt to provide personalized just-in-time supplemental information. In the Phase I pilot ...

As the global economic competition for qualified workforce increases, our country’s ability to compete effectively in the global marketplace depends on our school systems’ ability to create a competitive workforce. Recently, there has been an increase in expectation on American schools to perform better than ever before in preparing students to meet rigorous educational standards. Keeping in l ...

The proposed research builds upon the work on the Children’s Progress Academic Assessment (CPAA), a computer dynamic assessment in language arts and mathematics for children in pre-kindergarten through second grade. The goal of this project is to develop new assessment technologies that will allow for real-time error analysis of children’s responses that will compliment the CPAA. The error ana ...

The proposed research builds upon the work on the Childrens Progress Academic Assessment a computer dynamic assessment in language arts and mathematics for children in prekindergarten through second grade. The goal of this project is to develop new assessment technologies that will allow for real-time error analysis of childrens responses that will compliment the CPAA. The error analysis will targ ...

The project is intended to result in a comprehensive system that delivers natural warning and communication mechanisms for persons with hearing loss. The SoundAlert system offers a unique approach to enable persons who are deaf or hard of hearing to: (1) initiate and receive emergency communications; (2) receive alerts in the workplace or home environments on a single, pocket-sized device throug ...

The project sucessfully proved the feasibility of the Life Improvement Portal (LIP) Glucose Monitoring Sysem (GMS) for persons with vision and hearing disabilities. During Phase II, the project refines and readies the pre-production prototype for commercialization by incorporating additional consumers' input into its design, further developing the GMS capabilities to include voice input, and test ...

Sirius Thinking, Ltd., the creative producer of the award-winning children’s educational television series Between the Lions, is proposing a feasibility study of a prototype of a multiple-media early literacy educational tool. This computer-based product, “The Between the Lions Digital Reading Den,” will allow early readers to navigate a user-friendly computer interface to select interacti ...

Immersive Virtual Reality (VR) has seen explosive growth over the last decade. Immersive VR attempts to give users the sensation of being fully immersed in a synthetic environment by providing them with room sized screens and 3D stereo goggles, and allowing them to interact with life-size worlds. The technology is extremely effective for learning and exploration, and has been widely adopted by t ...