All Outputs (26)

Expert perspectives on how educational technology may support autonomous learning for remote out-of-school children in low-income contexts (2023)
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Across Sub-Saharan African, 98 million children are illiterate and innumerate and do not attend school. Educational technologies (EdTech) that promote autonomous learning may ameliorate this learning poverty. Yet, little is known if or how these tech... Read More about Expert perspectives on how educational technology may support autonomous learning for remote out-of-school children in low-income contexts.

Introduction of an EdTech intervention to support learning of foundational skills in Sierra Leone: policy, teacher, and community perspectives (2023)
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Background: Like many other countries, Sierra Leone faces significant challenges with primary education resulting in many children leaving primary school without acquiring basic foundational skills. To address these challenges, an educational technol... Read More about Introduction of an EdTech intervention to support learning of foundational skills in Sierra Leone: policy, teacher, and community perspectives.

Pedagogical features of interactive apps for effective learning of foundational skills (2023)
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Interactive apps are commonly used to support the acquisition of foundational skills. Yet little is known about how pedagogical features of such apps affect learning outcomes, attainment and motivation—particularly when deployed in lower‐income conte... Read More about Pedagogical features of interactive apps for effective learning of foundational skills.

Using touchscreen technology for screening basic cognitive, sensory, and motor abilities in pediatric patients (2023)
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Nutrition, growth, and other factors associated with early cognitive and motor development in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review (2020)
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© 2020 The British Dietetic Association Ltd. Background: Food insecurity, poverty and exposure to infectious disease are well-established drivers of malnutrition in children in Sub-Saharan Africa. Early development of cognitive and motor skills – the... Read More about Nutrition, growth, and other factors associated with early cognitive and motor development in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review.

Neuropsychological outcomes of children with Optic Pathway Glioma (2020)
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Optic Pathway Glioma (OPG) is a relatively common brain tumour in childhood; however, there is scarce understanding of neuropsychological sequelae in these survivors. In this study, 12 children with diagnosis of OPG before 6 years of age received a c... Read More about Neuropsychological outcomes of children with Optic Pathway Glioma.

Language Counts when Learning Mathematics with Interactive Apps (2020)
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When available in multiple languages, educational apps can deliver the same mathematics instruction in the child’s first language or different language of instruction. This pilot study examined the feasibility of efficacy of a maths app intervention... Read More about Language Counts when Learning Mathematics with Interactive Apps.

Secondary Benefits to Attentional Processing Through Intervention with an Interactive Maths App (2019)
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Previous research has shown that a specific interactive app, designed to support the development of early mathematical skills and delivered on hand-held tablets, is effective at raising mathematical attainment in young children in low-and high-income... Read More about Secondary Benefits to Attentional Processing Through Intervention with an Interactive Maths App.

A New Methodological Approach for Evaluating the Impact of Educational Intervention Implementation on Learning Outcomes (2019)
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Randomised control trials (RCTs) are commonly regarded as the 'gold standard' for evaluating educational interventions. While this experimental design is valuable in establishing causal relationships between the tested intervention and outcomes, reli... Read More about A New Methodological Approach for Evaluating the Impact of Educational Intervention Implementation on Learning Outcomes.

Interactive apps prevent gender discrepancies in early grade mathematics in a low‐income country in Sub‐Sahara Africa (2019)
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Globally, gender differences are reported in the early acquisition of reading and mathematics as girls tend to outperform boys in reading whereas boys tend to outperform girls in mathematics. This can have long‐term impact resulting in an under repre... Read More about Interactive apps prevent gender discrepancies in early grade mathematics in a low‐income country in Sub‐Sahara Africa.

Sexual dimorphism of brown adipose tissue function (2019)
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Objective To determine whether brown adipose tissue (BAT) activity in school-age children differs between the sexes and to explore the impact of dietary intake, sedentary behavior, and picky/fussy eating. Study design Children aged 8.5-11.8 year... Read More about Sexual dimorphism of brown adipose tissue function.

High variability phonetic training in adaptive adverse conditions is rapid, effective, and sustained (2018)
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This paper evaluates a novel high variability phonetic training paradigm that involves presenting spoken words in adverse conditions. The effectiveness, generalizability, and longevity of this high variability phonetic training in adverse conditions... Read More about High variability phonetic training in adaptive adverse conditions is rapid, effective, and sustained.

Raising early achievement in math with interactive apps: a randomized control trial (2018)
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Improving provision and raising achievement in early math for young children is of national importance. Child-centered apps offer an opportunity to develop strong foundations in learning math as they deliver one-to-one instruction. Reported here is t... Read More about Raising early achievement in math with interactive apps: a randomized control trial.

Interactive apps promote learning of basic mathematics in children with special educational needs and disabilities (2018)
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Interactive apps delivered on touch-screen tablets can be effective at supporting the acquisition of basic skills in mainstream primary school children. This technology may also be beneficial for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabiliti... Read More about Interactive apps promote learning of basic mathematics in children with special educational needs and disabilities.

New insights into the role of motion and form vision in neurodevelopmental disorders (2017)
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A selective deficit in processing the global (overall) motion, but not form, of spatially extensive objects in the visual scene is frequently associated with several neurodevelopmental disorders, including preterm birth. Existing theories that propos... Read More about New insights into the role of motion and form vision in neurodevelopmental disorders.

Visual perception in dyslexia is limited by sub-optimal scale selection (2017)
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Readers with dyslexia are purported to have a selective visual impairment but the underlying nature of the deficit remains elusive. Here, we used a combination of behavioural psychophysics and biologically-motivated computational modeling to investig... Read More about Visual perception in dyslexia is limited by sub-optimal scale selection.

Encoding of rapid time-varying information is impaired in poor readers (2017)
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A characteristic set of eye movements and fixations are made during reading, so the position of words on the retinae is constantly being updated. Effective decoding of print requires this temporal stream of visual information to be segmented or parse... Read More about Encoding of rapid time-varying information is impaired in poor readers.

GreekLex 2: a comprehensive lexical database with part-of-speech, syllabic, phonological, and stress information (2017)
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Databases containing lexical properties on any given orthography are crucial for psycholinguistic research. In the last ten years, a number of lexical databases have been developed for Greek. However, these lack important part-of-speech information.... Read More about GreekLex 2: a comprehensive lexical database with part-of-speech, syllabic, phonological, and stress information.

Closing the gap: efficacy of a tablet intervention to support the development of early mathematical skills in UK primary school children (2017)
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The efficacy of a hand-held tablet technology intervention with learner-centred interactive software aimed at supporting the development of early maths skills was evaluated in four studies conducted in three UK primary schools. Immediate and sustaine... Read More about Closing the gap: efficacy of a tablet intervention to support the development of early mathematical skills in UK primary school children.

Can Touch Screen Tablets be Used to Assess Cognitive and Motor Skills in Early Years Primary School Children? A Cross-Cultural Study (2016)
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Assessment of cognitive and motor functions is fundamental for developmental and neuropsychological profiling. Assessments are usually conducted on an individual basis, with a trained examiner, using standardized paper and pencil tests, and can take... Read More about Can Touch Screen Tablets be Used to Assess Cognitive and Motor Skills in Early Years Primary School Children? A Cross-Cultural Study.