RQ #1: What effects does the Istation® reading program have on the literacy learning of kindergarten students? Is this learning significantly different than that of comparable children in classrooms without the Istation® program?
A DDA (Huberty, 1994) was used to evaluate whether students who used Istation® and students who did not use Istation® differed in their early literacy knowledge.
Istation® did have a statistically significant effect on the early literacy skills of the kindergarten students studied and was able to explain almost 18% of the variance in group differences.
Differences in Hearing/Recording Sounds and Letter Sound Knowledge were the two main contributors to the variability between the two groups. Variability in Writing Vocabulary contributed minimally to the group differences while Concepts About Print was a suppressor variable in the model.