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Activboard Instruction: Does It Increase Reading Skills?, Denita Hall

The Corinthian

The purpose of my research project was to involve students in interactive activities using the ActivBoard in order to guide practices that may lead to increased reading skills. My research project involved an ActivBoard group and a control group. Each group consisted of twenty second grade students in separate classes but taught at the same elementary school. The ActivBoard group engaged in active learning using guided practices incorporating the ActivBoard into the reading curriculum. Each group completed four pre- and posttest reading quizzes, two CRCT reading tests, and two STEEP reading fluency tests. I conducted this study over a two …