Christa_harris's List: Team A

"In Escondido
Union School District, a group of teachers piloted a study to investigate the effectiveness of iPod
application use with first t
hrough eighth grade students to improve reading fluency and
comprehension, as well as motivation, through digital audio playback of the reader’s narration.
Students using the iPods were shown to make up to six times the gains in word count per minute
ove
r a six
-
week period, and nearly two years of reading comprehension growth in six months. "

The
Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)
is a cyclical,
large-scale study of adult skills and life experience focusing on education and employment that was
developed and organized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
In the United States, the study was conducted in 2011−12 with a nationally representative sample of
5,000 adults between the ages of 16 and 65. Similar nationally representative samples of adults were
surveyed in each of the 22 other participating countries.