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- How findings from WiREAD+ can help your students
- Introduction of WiREAD+
- WiREAD+ research methodology
- Research findings
- What does this mean for teaching and learning?
- Useful Links & References
- Research Projects
- Research Team
“…makes thinking visible, deep learning, higher engagement, promote thinking and discussion through collaboration and responding to comments from peers and teachers, so learning is appealing to them.”
– Teacher feedback
“…because you can just highlight parts that you want to annotate and the really good thing about this is, you can actually collaborate with your classmates as well, so you can give input on others’ opinions as well and receive input on your own.”
– Student feedback
- 448 students
- 15 teachers
- 2 primary schools, 3 secondary schools, a junior college, and a tertiary institute course
Primary school, secondary school, junior college, tertiary institute
English Language, English Literature, Discourse Studies (Master’s course)
Principal Investigator
Co-Principal Investigator
Co-Principal Investigator
Knowledge Resource Bank
WiREAD+
How findings from WiREAD+ can help your students?
Towards the scalability readiness of WiREAD+
- Supported students in their participation, evaluation or expansion of metacognitive tag usage, and showed them where to improve.
- Encouraged self-directed learning, collaborative knowledge-building and learning beyond the lesson materials.
- Promoted deep learning, critical reading ability, critical thinking, and self-directed learning on average across the participating schools.
Introduction of WiREAD+
WiREAD+ research methodology
Research findings
What does this mean for teaching and learning?
Related Links
- Research Brief Series, No. 22-022, “Towards the Scalability Readiness of WiREAD+” [pdf]
WiREAD, a prior version of this project, was implemented with secondary school students. For more information:
Further Readings
For educators interested in the research methodology behind WiREAD+, you may refer to:
Research Projects
- WiREAD+: Augmenting The Validated Prototype Design Of A Web-based Collaborative Critical Reading And Learning Analytics Environment Towards Scalability Readiness
- WiREAD: Enhancing Students’ 21st Century Critical Literacy Skills through a Web-based Collaborative Reading and Learning Analytics Environment
Research Team
To learn more about this research, please contact Dr Koh Ruilin, Elizabeth at elizabeth.koh@nie.edu.sg
Principal Investigator
- Dr Elizabeth Koh, Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP), Office of Education Research (OER) and Research Support, Education Research Funding Programme Office, NIE.
Co-Principal Investigators
- Dr Munirah Shaik Kadir, CRPP, OER, NIE
- Assoc Prof Victor Lim Fei, English Language & Literature (ELL), NIE
Collaborators
- Ms TAY Siu Hua, Educational Technology Division (ETD), MOE
- Ms Helen Hong, Corporate Research Office (CRO), MOE
- Dr Jennifer TAN Pei-Ling (formerly of NIE)
- Dr Roberto De Roock (formerly of NIE)
Research Assistants
- Ms Christin Rekha Jonathan, CRPP, OER, NIE
- Ms Dhivya Suresh, CRPP, OER, NIE
- Ms Tee Yi Huan, CRPP, OER, NIE
Software Engineers
- Ms Kok Shi Hui, CRPP, OER, NIE
- Ms Lai Hong Lan, CRPP, OER, NIE
Acknowledgements
WiREAD+ was funded by Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) under the Education Research Funding Programme (DEV 02/18 EK) and administered by National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Singapore MOE and NIE.
This knowledge resource was written by Dr Elizabeth Koh and Ms Christin Jonathan, and presented by Ms Radiah Maria Belak on 10 November 2023.
