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Kindergarteners using PictoPal showed significantly higher emergent literacy learning gains than control-group pupils

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3 · i3 large
Currency · newest study 2012 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Design limits · Amina Cviko 2012: groups were assigned but students were analysed as independent (read from the study by two models, 2026-10-29)

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q3 i3 In a nonequivalent control quasi-experimental design, the experimental group's adjusted learning gains (M = 2.93) were significantly higher than the control group's (M = 1.63), F(1, 159) = 14.508, p < .05. → Amina Cviko 2012

Evidence

Amina Cviko 2012

Amina Cviko, Susan McKenney, Joke Voogt. (2012). Teachers enacting a technology-rich curriculum for emergent literacy. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-011-9208-3

q3 · i3 · causal · r2

Nonequivalent control group quasi-experiment; all 168 pupils pre- and post-tested on emergent literacy over the eight-week PictoPal implementation, adjusted for national language test scores. The article reports "a significant difference for group on emergent literacy". Table 6 prints Cohen's d of 1.24 (experimental) versus 0.54 (control).

"An ANCOVA with pre-post differences as dependent variable and group (experimental and control group) as independent variable, and national test language proficiency as a covariate showed a significant difference for group on emergent literacy F (1, 159) = 14. 508, p< .05, g2 = .08."

Discussion

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id pictopal-significant-emergent-literacy-gains
title Kindergarteners using PictoPal showed significantly higher emergent literacy learning gains than control-group pupils
description Kindergarteners using PictoPal showed significantly higher emergent literacy learning gains than control-group pupils
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 2012
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-29
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