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Education has evolved immensely with the implementation of 21st century skills and technology. My first inclination was to explore how students can set their own learning goals in elementary school, increase their comprehension, and achieve their goals. The focus was on the effects of goal-setting and tracking on reading comprehension when using 21st century skills and technology.
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Design Process
Support and Next Steps
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Research
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Round One In the first round of my research, I identified a possible problem that needed to be solved. I wanted to see if setting reading goals on a digital platform could help increase reading comprehension. The idea was that goal setting on a digital platform could possibly correlate with increasing comprehension in reading. Therefore, creating reading goals on a digital platform could help increase the chances of students obtaining a higher reading comprehension. My findings were that regardless the medium of goal setting, whether on a digital platform or on paper, the results were the same. Students creating goals for themselves always helped increase their comprehension compared to students that did not set any reading goals. These findings helped guide me towards adjusting my original driving question into a new question, but still maintaining the same goal to increase reading comprehension. 
Round Two
In the second round of research, I modified my driving question to closely look at the impact of how reading through digital platforms can help support reading comprehension and fluency. Students are spending a lot more time reading online in various formats, how can we ensure that students are able to clarify, comprehend text, and understand what they are reading? In addition, my school just adopted a new reading program called Benchmarks, which is in the second year of adoption for the district. This new reading program has the digital platform components of texts, and I was able to use it in the class to support the needs of the students. |
The second round of research involved students using the Benchmark curriculum to support their reading. Initially, students had taken the Reading Inventory assessment to measure their reading comprehension with a lexile score. Students were assigned to listening stations to listen, and follow along visually, to a book at their grade lexile level. Students listed to the book, then would read the same book aloud with a partner and discuss key questions about the book. The next day, the students were assigned a different book with the same lexile level, read it aloud with a partner and discussed similar key questions about the book. This round of research took place four times a week for three weeks. At the end of the three weeks, the students took the Reading Inventory assessment again to track their growth. 
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Poster Presentation
- Dotson, R. (2016), Goal Setting to Increase Student Academic Performance, Journal of School Administration research and Development Volume 1, Number 1, Summer 2016
- Hall, T. E., Cohen, N., Vue, G., & Ganley, P. (2014). Addressing Learning Disabilities With UDL and Technology. Learning Disability Quarterly, 38(2), 72-83. doi:10.1177/0731948714544375
- Su, Y.; Kao, C.; Hsu, C.; Pan, L.; Cheng, S.; Huang, Y.; (2016) How Does Mozart Music Affect Children’s Reading? The Evidence from Learning Anxiety and Reading Rates with E-Books, Educational Technology and Society, 20 (2), 101-112, September 27, 2016
- Ritchey, K. D., Palombo, K., Silverman, R. D., & Speece, D. L. (2017). Effects of an Informational Text Reading Comprehension Intervention for Fifth-Grade Students. Learning Disability Quarterly, 40(2), 68-80. doi:10.1177/0731948716682689
- Wu, W.; Hsieh, J.; Yang, J.C.; (2016) Creating an Online Learning Community in a Flipped Classroom to Enhance EFL Learners’ Oral Proficiency, Educational Technology and Society, 20 (2), 142-157, August 10, 2016
- Koenig, E. A., Eckert, T. L., & Hier, B. O. (2016). Using Performance Feedback and Goal Setting to Improve Elementary Students Writing Fluency: A Randomized Controlled Trial. School Psychology Review, 45(3), 275-295. doi:10.17105/spr45-3.275-295
