The Effects of Guided Technology Instruction

on Reading Comprehension Skills of Third

Grade Students.
Yadira Dejesus
East Stroudsburg of Pennsylvania

Research Questions: Procedures: Data Analysis:

1. What are the mean comprehension Throughout the experiment, both groups will work with laptops and will be given the same The control and experimental group took 5
scores of the guided technology reading passages and comprehension questions for 5 days. There will be different passages tests that consisted the same reading
instruction group? and comprehension questions every time they are in their groups. The experimental group will passage and 8 comprehension questions to
2. What are the mean comprehension be guided as they read the passage. This will involve teaching students how to summarize, go along with the passage. The mean score
scores of the independent technology highlight key details, and identify definitions. The students in the experimental group will also were calculated after all the tests were
instruction group? learn how to use the features provided in the computer program. The control group will read completed. The results of these calculation
the passages independently. The tests will take about 15 minutes each to complete. are presented in table 2 below.
3. How do the mean scores of the two
groups compare?
Results:
Subjects: This proposed study asks three research
The subjects of this study will be a questions: What are the mean
homogenous group of third grade students comprehension scores of the guided
at the Smithfield Elementary School in East technology instruction group? What are the
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Out of twenty- mean comprehension scores of the
four students in the third-grade classroom, I independent technology instruction group?
will be using random selection to pick out How do the mean scores of the two groups
10 students to participate in this unit of compare? In regard to the research
study. Then, I will randomly assign 5 questions, the mean comprehension scores
students to the experimental and the other of the guided technology instruction group
were slightly higher than the
5 students to the control group. Measurement comprehension scores of the control group,
Research Design: Instrument: due to the positive benefits of the guidance
they received.
This research proposal is for quantitative
study and will be conducted using quasi-
The reading passages and multiple choice questions are from a reading program
experimental research. The students will be called Achieve 3000. Reading ability level is not being measured in this study, only
randomly assigned as either the control reading comprehension. The 5 passage from Achieve 3000 are entitled , Lost Implications:
group or the experimental group. A time Languages, Dancing in Water, Lincoln was here, Helping A Classmate Learn, and Now The purpose of this proposed study was to
series design will be used for this study. The Playing Sounds from the Past. Each of the passages is followed by eight reading investigate the effects of guided technology
experimental design will be diagrammed comprehension multiple choice questions. Each reading passages is approximately instruction on reading comprehension in a
below: one page long. 3rd grade classroom. The results suggested
that guided instruction, as opposed to
Table 1: Table 2:
independent work, helped to improve the
Day Day Day Day Day Posttest Posttest Posttest Posttest Posttest Average reading comprehension of 3rd grade
1 2 3 4 5 Mean Mean Mean Mean Mean Scores students. Reading teachers should consider
Scores Scores Scores Scores Scores using guided instruction in conjunction with
RG1 X1 X2 X3 X4 X5
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 technology integration. As a result, they
O1 O2 O3 O4 O5 could expect to see an improvement in the
RG2 --- --- --- --- --- G1 72% 72% 75% 79% 88% 77.2% reading comprehension of their students.
O6 O7 O8 O9 O10
R- Random Selection G2 72% 88% 72% 78% 75% 77%
G1 and G2- Groups 1 and 2
X- Guided Instruction
--- - No Instruction
O1-O10 The mean scores
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