Four recent publications from the MSU team. Continue reading “Project Publications: Michigan State University”
Category: Michigan State
Research Team: Cynthia Okolo, Jing Hong Tian Investigating the differential effects of text-to-speech, definitions, summaries, and video clips on reading comprehension of middle school students in social studies and language arts.
New Design Studies at MSU
We are beginning to collect data in a series of single-subject design studies about how different features of supported electronic text affect the text comprehension of students with learning disabilities.
NCSeT Research Team at Michigan State University
The NCSeT Research Team at Michigan State University is comprised of the following individuals:
- Dr. Cynthia Okolo, Principal Investigator and Research Site Director
- Dr. Carol Sue Englert, Co-Principal Investigator
- Dr. Summer Ferreri, Faculty Collaborator
- Jinghong Tian, Research Assistant
- Ira Socol, Graduate Research Assistant and Project Investigator
About NCSeT Research at Michigan State University
At Michican State we are investigating the impact of various forms of electronically supported text with students with learning disabilities. We are working with 5th and 6th grade students in social studies and language arts classes. Texts in social studies and language arts often have similar text structures (e.g., narrative) but rely on different types of information (e.g., social studies text typically make more extensive use of pictures and other artifacts to support the narrative). Thus, we will be able to contrast how different aspects of text structure and textual information affect students’ use of supported text. In each of our studies, we use multielement designs to investigate differences in students’ text comprehension and engagement when they read text aloud versus when the text is read to them by a text-to-speech software program with different types of highlighting, vocabulary, and word recognition features. Continue reading “About NCSeT Research at Michigan State University”