Effective Reading Comprehensio

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classes. During the 1998-1999 school year one of the resource teachers used computers in his classroom to give periodic comprehension quizzes to the reading students as they read various stories. The second teacher did not use computers for periodic comprehension quizzes.
At the end of the school year, the grades of the students for the year were compared. The purpose of the study was to determine whether there appeared to be any significant difference in the overall progress made in reading comprehension between the two classes.
Problem Statement
To establish a main focus in the study, the following problem statement was used: What are the differences in the overall reading comprehension grades of two separate resource-reading classes if one class is periodically quizzed with computer tests and the other is not?
Hypothesis Statement
If two separate resource-reading classes are tested on reading comprehension upon completion of stories they read, and one of the classes is ...

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(Sullivan, 1998).
There are two sides to the issue of using computers in schools. On the flip side of the "computer revolution" in our schools are those who feel that, although computers can be useful tools, they are not the end in themselves (Ravich, 1998). The author of a recent article in Time magazine stated that students should first learn reading and writing, history and arithmetic. Then "surfing the internet" or whatever other "fun" things could follow (Gelernter, 1998). Another author recently stated in Teaching PreK-8 magazine, that technology isn't a substitute for traditional basics. It's just one part of a comprehensive education agenda (Riley, 1998). Whether either ...

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