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Making Individualized Literacy Instruction Available to All Teachers: Adapting the Assessment to Instruction (A2i) Software for Multiple Real-World Contexts
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Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, in Jacksonville, Florida, United States ISBN 978-1-939797-07-0 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC USA

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The purpose of this project is to use design-based implementation research to complete the development of Assessment to Instruction (A2i) software by gathering and applying ongoing feedback from K-3 teachers, school administrators and educational leaders in Phoenix, AZ and Girard, PA. The schools serve a highly diverse student body: across schools, approximately 40% of the students qualify for the US Free and Reduced Lunch Program and about 79% belong to ethnic/racial minority groups. The A2i software is an integral part of the Individualizing Student Instruction (ISI) intervention. A2i was originally developed as a research tool to compute recommended amounts and types of instruction taking into account that the effect of specific types of reading instruction appears to depend on students’ language and reading skills. Although it shows potential as an effective way to support teachers’ implementation of effective differentiated reading instruction, in its current form it is not feasib

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Connor, D.C., Barrus, D.A. & Fellows, J. (2014). Making Individualized Literacy Instruction Available to All Teachers: Adapting the Assessment to Instruction (A2i) Software for Multiple Real-World Contexts. In M. Searson & M. Ochoa (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2014--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 1220-1226). Jacksonville, Florida, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved April 20, 2021 from .

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