Efficacy of Additional Web-based Computer Treatments for Kindergarten Children with Poor Emergent Literacy Skills(symposium1275)

Author(s):

Verna Van der Kooy - HoflandAdriana G. Bus

Conference:

ECER 2009

Network:

9. Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement

Format:

Symposium Paper

Session Information

09 SES 05 A, The Acquisition of Language Competencies of Children (Age 4-15) with Social and Migrational Disparities: Results of Empirical Studies (Part 1)

Symposium: The Acquisition of Language Competencies of Children (Age 4-15) with Social and Migrational Disparities: Results of Empirical Studies (PART I), continued in 09 SES 06 A

Time:

2009-09-29

08:30-10:00

Room:

HG, HS 50

Chair:

Inge Blatt

Discussant:

Andreas Voss

Contribution

Computer interventions may be useful tools for enhancing early language and literacy skills because computer programs are patient, flexible in duration and adaptive in content and for those reasons probably a valuable supplement to teacher-led interventions in kindergarten. In the present study we examined the differential effects of two early literacy treatments on the computer for children with poor literacy skills, one program promoting language and the other phoneme and alphabetic skills. We selected 135 kindergarten children lagging behind in emergent literacy skills. We conducted a pretest-posttest comparison group design in which children were randomly assigned to one of three conditions. Assessments were made at pretest and at posttest at the end of the intervention. All intervention groups improved significantly but interventions resulted in differential effects. The increase in phoneme and alphabetical skills was less in the group scoring lowest on the pretest, but accelerated in the group of children who were more proficient at pretest. In case of Living Books, children at the lower end of the pretest hardly benefited from Living Books but especially the relatively more advanced children did benefit from exposure to Living Books.

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References

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Author Information

Verna Van der Kooy - Hofland

Leiden University

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Leiden

157

Adriana G. Bus

Leiden University, Netherlands, The

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