Digital-learning platform improves reading with 9 percent marks, reduces learning intervals

According to a study by Michigan University, Saginov Valley State University and YPSilani Community Schools, primary school students have given their reading skills with an interactive, digital-learning platform compared to traditional, pen-end-paper lessons. Improved.

Studies have shown that when primary students from Ypsilanti Community Schools accessed their reading courses at least twice a week through a roadmap learning platform on school laptops, their scores were average in an online test at 48th percentage in an online test. , In which it was evaluated how their reading improved in school year. , Students using only paper versions of the same course were average at average at 39th percent, or below 61% of the tested population. Is study Published In Interactive learning research journal,

Illiot Solova, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Education and Education, said, “This quantitative impact line is very exciting, which we see regularly. Information for UM Center for Digital Courses, and co-co-co-cum- The director, where the roadmap platform was developed.

In the Center for Digital course, Solove and their partners prepared a roadmap platform to promote student engagement, which About half of all teachers say that it is fallingSolOway’s strategy is to provide interactive, digital content that generations Alpha students expect. More than half of the students of today’s primary school started before using the smartphone. 5 years oldAccording to Pew Research Center.

“Smartphone is an interactive tool of their choice,” said Carlos Lopez, assistant superintendent of Ypsilanti Community Schools and co-author of the study. “The challenge for us was to create a platform that is just attractive.”

The hope is that the renovation students will save their literacy, which continues. Only 31% of fourth grade students in America were skilled readers in 2024, according to the result Nation report cardCompared to 2019, fourth grade literacy declined by four percent.

The results of the study suggest that the UM Center is helping for the solution of the digital course. In school districts similar to ypsilanti community schools, where half students received Free and low lunch In 2022, the improvement in reading can create a world of differences.

“For many students, the nine percent of the benefits we see means that there may be a difference between meeting the standards or meeting grade-level expectations to fall low,” Anne Top Jaxa said, Saginaw Valley State Professor of teacher education at the university and the first authors of the study. “With the roadmap platform, we have converted the static course into dynamic, collaborative lessons that students enhance engagement and learning.”

The roadmap platform attaches students with lessons that are held in graphical networks, called Roadmap, that students can only navigate instead of scanning paper assignments in a collection of digital forms. Map allows format Interactive activities To easily complement the existing course, and it gives students an agency on their education by allowing students to navigate the lessons to learn at their own pace, or in groups.

Independent work can be a challenge for students who are not reading at grade level, but roadmap platform allows teachers to give voice to record instructions and terminology words, and students can record their answers likewise. These characteristics make independent work more accessible for struggling students.

“There is a really huge difference between our highest and lowest scoring students,” said the fifth grade teacher at the Ypsilanti International Elementary School, but due to the roadmap, they require all the houses they need. , “If students studying below the grade level are able to read the lesson loudly, they are in touch with high-level vocabulary and thinking skills, even when I am busy helping other students.”

The level of access to roadmap platform is that which makes it so attractive in the school district.

“The innovative work we have seen through this project is exciting for me because it meets children where they are and bring them into the world of literature,” Lopez said.

The roadmap platform will be demolished in the Michigan Association for Computer Users at the Learning Conference in Detroit March 19-21.

The roadmap platform was licensed in the Roadmap Learning Inc. with the help of UM’s innovation participation. The Universities of Solova and Michigan have financial interests.