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The Effects of the PowerTouch Learning System on Emergent Literacy Skills
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Wilson, Judith Ann
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1171411509
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2007, Specialist in Education, Miami University, Educational Psychology.
Abstract
This thesis reports on a study of the effects of a technology enhanced toy on emergent literacy skills of young children. The effects of a technology enhanced toy on emergent literacy skills were assessed with Head Start children in a midwestern state. Forty-one children were randomly assigned to the technology enhanced toy, PowerTouchTM Learning System, or literacy books. Each participated in weekly 25-minute sessions over a period of six weeks. The Test of Early Reading-Third Edition assessed emergent literacy skills including alphabet knowledge, conventions of print, and construction of meaning. There were no significant findings regarding an increase in literacy skills. More time was spent by the technology enhanced toy group than the books only group in the sessions.
Committee
Doris Bergen (Advisor)
Pages
52 p.
Keywords
Early Literacy
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technology enhanced toys
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headstart
;
reading
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Wilson, J. A. (2007).
The Effects of the PowerTouch Learning System on Emergent Literacy Skills
[Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1171411509
APA Style (7th edition)
Wilson, Judith.
The Effects of the PowerTouch Learning System on Emergent Literacy Skills.
2007. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1171411509.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Wilson, Judith. "The Effects of the PowerTouch Learning System on Emergent Literacy Skills." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1171411509
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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