Formative focus groups found 5th graders most liked choosing story locations, and nearly all felt they learned from the app¶

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q1 i? In focus groups with two 5th grade classes, youth most liked the ability to select locations in the story, and in one class all but one student (N = 16) felt they had learned something from the app. → Kantorski 2019

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Kantorski 2019¶

Kantorski, B., Sanford-Dolly, C. W., Commisso, D. R., & Pollock, J. A. (2019). Backward design as a mobile application development strategy. Education Tech Research Dev, 67, 711–731. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-019-09662-7

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Formative evaluation by Rockman et al. used focus groups with 5th grade students (N = 34 overall) and adult literacy learners (N = 7). "youth using the app most liked the ability to select locations that they visited in the story", and participants reported learning in their own words.

"In one of the classes, all but one student in the focus groups (N = 16) felt that they had learned something from the app: "I learned information that I didn't know before and it was told to me in a fun way.""

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