A Randomized Controlled Trial Study of the ABRACADABRA Reading Intervention Program in Grade 1

Robert S. Savage; Philip Abrami; Geoffrey Hipps; Louise Deault

Journal of Educational Psychology Vol. 101, No. 3 (August 2009) pp. 590–604

This study reports a randomized controlled trial evaluation of a computer-based balanced literacy intervention, ABRACADABRA (http://grover.concordia.ca/abra/version1/abracadabra.html). Children (N = 144) in Grade 1 were exposed either to computer...