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Kathryn S. McCarthy; Christian Soto; Cecilia Malbrán; Liliana Fonseca; Marian Simian; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2018
Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking en Español, or iSTART-E, is a new intelligent tutoring system (ITS) that provides reading comprehension strategy training for Spanish speakers. This paper reports on studies evaluating the efficacy of iSTART-E in real-world classrooms in two different Spanish-speaking countries. In…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Spanish Speaking, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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McCarthy, Kathryn S.; Soto, Christian Marcelo; Gutierrez de Blume, Antonio P.; Palma, Diego; González, Jordan Ignacio; McNamara, Danielle S. – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
iSTART-E is a web-based intelligent tutor developed for Spanish-speaking students to improve their reading comprehension through self-explanation strategy training. This study examined the effects of a blended comprehension strategy intervention on students' reading comprehension skill. Chilean high school students (N = 22) completed nine iSTART-E…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, High School Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods