Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0990171
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
ABRA: improving foundational literacy through technology in regional and remote schools through a randomized controlled trial. Education outcomes in regional and remote Australia, particularly for Indigenous students, are worsening, to the point of constituting a national crisis. Skilled educators are not consistently available in sufficient numbers to arrest this trend in the early years by giving the intensive, continuous expert instruction required. Under limited pilot conditions, a web-based instructional tool known as ABRACADABRA has shown considerable promise as a means of conferring the foundational skills in literacy for emerging learners, despite high workforce turnover. Testing the effectiveness of ABRACADABRA under more stringent experimental conditions is an essential precursor to offering tested solutions based on evidence, not advocacy.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2009
End Date: 12-2011
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $411,529.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Assessment And Evaluation | Educational Technology And Media | Teacher Education: Early Childhood | Specialist Studies in Education
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Education and training not elsewhere classified | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education | Early childhood education |
