Using Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reading R&D Center
About Us
The Using Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reading R&D Center (U-GAIN Reading) is a research and development hub that investigates how to use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to improve elementary school reading instruction.
Scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show continuing declines in reading performance, a problem that many parents and teachers find deeply troubling. We’re aligned with the following United States Department of Education priority on evidence-based literacy: The evidence-based literacy priority will promote literacy instruction based on evidence to ensure that proven methods based in the science of reading will be used to help students learn to read.
U-GAIN Reading will partner with school districts from across the U.S. seeking to understand how GenAI and the Science of Reading can be used to individualize reading supports to meet the needs of each individual student in our nation’s elementary schools.
U-GAIN Reading will build on prior reading research and evidence that supports giving students feedback as they read aloud. We will build on modern technologies, already in schools, that listen to students as they read a text and offer feedback when a student finds a word difficult to decode or a passage hard to comprehend.
Grounded in the Science of Reading, U-GAIN Reading’s research includes understanding:
- how to keep students highly engaged in practicing reading;
- how to increase the accuracy of speech recognition, particularly as accents, regional dialects, available vocabulary and other individual student characteristics vary; and
- how to personalize tutoring to support each student’s growth of reading fluency and comprehension.
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The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305C240040 to Digital Promise Global. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.
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