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Jim Pruitt – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This experimental mixed-methods study explores what happens to student Lexile scores when they use closed captioning. Since the emergence of closed captioning tools in the 1980s, closed captioning has become more mainstream and easier to access today than at any other time in history (Rickelman et al., 1991). Thus, it is through harnessing this…
Descriptors: Captions, Technology Uses in Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
Brooks, Kristina L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Because children living in poverty and minorities consistently demonstrate persistent reading difficulties (Adams, 1990), Congress intervened and passed the No Child Left Behind Act (U.S. Department of Education, 2006) mandating that scientifically based reading research be implemented in the primary grades. Quantitative studies presented in the…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Federal Legislation, Reading Skills, Reading Research