NDLI: Using Computer-Based Instruction to Improve Indigenous Early Literacy in Northern Australia: A Quasi-Experimental Study.

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Using Computer-Based Instruction to Improve Indigenous Early Literacy in Northern Australia: A Quasi-Experimental Study.

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Wolgemuth, Jennifer R. Savage, Robert Helmer, Janet Lea, Tess Harper, Helen Chalkiti, Kalotina Bottrell, Christine Abrami, Philip C.
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	The effectiveness of a web-based reading support tool, ABRACADABRA, to improve the literacy outcomes of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students was evaluated over one semester in several Northern Territory primary schools in 2009. ABRACADABRA is intended as a support for teachers in the early years of schooling, giving them a friendly, game and evidence-based tool to reinforce their literacy instruction. The classroom implementation of ABRACADABRA by briefly trained and intensively supported teachers was evaluated using a quasi-experimental pretest, post-test control group design with 118 children in the intervention and 48 in the control. Children received either a minimum of 20 hours of technology-based intervention or regular classroom teaching. Results revealed both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students who received ABRACADABRA instruction had significantly higher phonological awareness scores than their control group peers. The effect size for this difference was large (eta squared=.14). This finding remained when controlling for student attendance and the quality of general non-technology-based literacy instruction. Limitations of the study and implications for effective practice in remote and regional contexts are discussed.
Starting Page	727
Ending Page	750
Page Count	24
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.14742/ajet.947
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://espace.cdu.edu.au/view/cdu:38022/Helmer_38022.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1184&context=esf_facpub&httpsredir=1&referer=
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.14742/ajet.947
Volume Number	27
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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