Educational Psychology professor Jennifer Cromley is part of a team of researchers who have been awarded nearly two million dollars in funding from the U.S. Dept of Education's Institute for Education Sciences for their project Promoting Reading Comprehension and Learning With Multimodal Science Texts (PRISM).
During their four-year project, Cromley and her University of Texas A&M collaborators will seek to build science literacy, the research team will combine supports for reading comprehension and visualizations in an intelligent tutor called PRISM, which stands for Promoting Reading Comprehension and Learning with Multimodal Science Texts.
PRISM is focused on preparing middle grade students to read and comprehend information that is essential for scientific literacy. The efficacious web-based intelligent tutoring system for the text structure strategy (ITSS) and the visualization instruction provide the foundations of this PRISM development and innovation. PRISM will also develop strong teacher professional development and web-based tools that will allow this program to be distributed widely to students, teachers, schools, and communities in any corner of the world and regardless of their socioeconomic status.
Learn more about the project here.
