Collaborating Researchers & Educators Apply Technology to Establish Evidence-Based Practices (CREATE-EBP)

Our goals are:

• To develop infrastructure/processes to support use of our new, technology-mediated approach,
• To address a problem of practice and test a generalizable EBP solution via a fully online within-subjects experiment,
• Couple this with online communities of practice to understand and integrate teachers’ perspectives on enhancing research ↔ practice translation.

To develop and trial our approach, we are initially focusing on testing generalizable EBPs for alphabet instruction. In Phase 1a, we are soliciting input from Preschool through Grade 5 teachers about how they use technology within their classrooms for teaching and learning as well as for professional learning.

In Phase 1b, we are reviewing the literature and surveying education scholars who use technology to conduct school-based research.

In Phases 2 and 3, we will be working with a small group of prekindergarten teachers in Autumn 2024 and Spring 2025 to develop and then pilot test our technology-mediated approach. We will answer the question: Is it more beneficial to teach uppercase and lowercase letters simultaneously or sequentially? Participation is fully remote. Email EL3@osu.edu or take this survey if you are interested in participating in this project or any of our other research.

After completing the pilot study, we will seek additional funding and participants to continue using the technology-mediated approach for addressing problems of practice and generalizable EBP solutions. In addition to sharing findings with the education community, we will also widely share our infrastructure/processes to afford use of the approach in future educational research.

For more information on Alphabet EBPs, see our Alphabet Learning and Instruction page for some of our prior research.