ARC LP0990171 ABRA: Improving foundational literacy through technology in regional and remote schools through a randomized controlled trial

This project will test the effectiveness of a promising literacy program, ABRACADABRA, for improving the literacy skills of emerging learners (Indigenous and other) aged 4-8 years. Already proven in Canada and the United Kingdom, preliminary pilot study results suggest that ABRACADABRA is equally effective in NT Schools. A randomized control trial will establish its educational effectiveness more definitively, yielding critical information about what works for early childhood literacy in disadvantaged settings with high workforce turnover and high student mobility, whilst building equally needed skills in the techniques for generating robustly tested education solutions among researchers and practitioners.