Effects of CALL program use varied by grade, with significant effects for grades 2 and 5 on overall and written scores and for grades 2, 4, and 5 on oral scores¶
Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associationalr2·q3
Currency · newest study 2025 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Subclaims¶
Reading the evidence codes
q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r
the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.
This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.
q3 i? Grade-by-program-use interactions showed significant positive effects for grade 2 (0.386 overall, 0.435 oral, 0.288 written) and grade 5 (0.468 overall, 0.382 oral, 0.505 written), and for oral scores in grade 4 (0.320). → Nicholas Feroce 2025
Evidence¶
Nicholas Feroce 2025¶
Nicholas Feroce, Jenny Liu, Rajendra Chattergoon. (2025). Exploring the impact of a CALL tool for emergent bilinguals. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-025-10462-5
q3 · i? · associational · r2
Regression analyses with a CALL-use-by-grade interaction term and pairwise contrasts by grade (Table 4). Significant oral-subdomain effects appeared in grades 2, 4, and 5; grade 3 approached significance (p = 0.087). Positive but non-significant coefficients appeared in other grades.
"For the ELPAC oral subdomain, significant positive effects of using the CALL program were seen for grades 2, 4, and 5, with the largest effect for grade 2, and a positive effect approaching significance for grade 3 (p = 0.087)."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Program use was associated with significant gains on both ELPAC subdomains, with a larger effect for the oral subdomain (0.224 SD) than the written subdomain (0.153 SD) — related
- K-5 English learners who used the Lexia English CALL program scored significantly higher on the overall ELPAC than non-users (0.197 SD) in a 2020-21 district implementation — related
Page metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
type |
claim |
id |
call-program-effects-vary-by-grade |
title |
Effects of CALL program use varied by grade, with significant effects for grades 2 and 5 on overall and written scores and for grades 2, 4, and 5 on oral scores |
description |
Effects of CALL program use varied by grade, with significant effects for grades 2 and 5 on overall and written scores and for grades 2, 4, and 5 on oral scores |
status |
review |
evidence_strength |
mixed |
newest_evidence |
2025 |
generated |
by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-29 |
trust |
unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content |
sources |
1 — nicholas-feroce-2025 |
Frontmatter is the page's machine-readable record — see the Schema & Guide.