This Article Full Text (OnlineFirst PDF) All Versions of this Article: 0162373708328519v1 31/1/82    most recent Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Borman, G. D. Articles by Overman, L. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

A Randomized Field Trial of the Fast ForWord Language Computer-Based Training Program

¹ University of Wisconsin–Madison
² University of Louisville

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: gborman{at}education.wisc.edu.

	Abstract

This article describes an independent assessment of the Fast ForWord Language computer-based training program developed by Scientific Learning Corporation. Previous laboratory research involving children with language-based learning impairments showed strong effects on their abilities to recognize brief and fast sequences of nonspeech and speech stimuli, but generalization of these effects beyond clinical settings and student populations and to broader literacy measures remains unclear. Implementing a randomized field trial in eight urban schools, we generated impact estimates from separate intent-to-treat and treatment-on-the-treated analyses of the literacy outcomes of second- and seventh-grade students who were more generally at risk for poor reading and language outcomes. There were some problems of implementation in the field setting, and the Fast ForWord Language program did not, in general, help students in these eight schools improve their language and reading comprehension test scores.

First published on December 24, 2008, doi:10.3102/0162373708328519

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 2009;31:82.

A more recent version of this article appeared on March 1, 2009


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?