SBIR/STTR Research Award
Technology-enhanced Tutoring: Linking School and Home to Help Struggling Readers
Award amount
$149,200Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Education
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- SIRIUS THINKING, LTD
- Proposal award date
- 2014-07-01
- Contract end date
- 2014-12-31
- UEI
- NYD7LXT8S4C3
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
The project team is developing a prototype of Lightning Squad: Powered-Up Reading with Teams, a multimedia tutoring tool that will be used by paraprofessionals working with up to six 1st to 3rd grade students who need extra support in reading. The tutoring program will build on the Success for All whole school reading program through the incorporation of video segments and gaming content. The product will include teacher resources and curriculum suggestions in order to facilitate classroom integration. In the Phase I pilot research, the team will examine whether the prototype functions as planned, if teachers are able to implement it with small groups of students, and whether students are engaged.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Game Changers: An Early Literacy Intervention with a Multi-level Linguistic Database, Automated Assessments, and Automatic Speech Recognition
- Game Changers: Building and Deploying a Library of Strategically-Targeted Web Games, for Use in the Classroom and at Home, to Increase Student Achievement in Literacy
- Game Changers: Building and Deploying a Library of Strategically-Targeted Web Games, For Use in the Classroom and at Home, to Increase Student Achievement in Literacy
- Reading Roots II: Reading "Between the Lions": Combining Instruction with Technology and Multimedia to Ensure That Every Child Succeeds in Reading by Third Grade
- Modernizing the Reading Roots Intervention
Research funding history
16 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2025). Reported award amounts total $6,411,290. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services