An adaptive application to practise technical reading in primary education. A smart dashboard provides insight into the development of technical reading skills on sound and word level.
Learning to read technically with ASR
A co-creation project by NOLAI for primary education
- Duration
- 1 January 2023 until now
- Project member(s)
- Dr E. van de Sande (Eva)
- Project type
- Research
- Organisation
- National Education Lab AI (NOLAI)
Key question
Can Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) assist in learning technical reading skills in primary education?
Technical reading provides a basis that is important throughout one’s school career as well as one’s life. Practising and testing technical reading skills is of great importance, but it is also a very time-consuming process. It is nearly impossible for teachers to provide each individual student with feedback while they are reading out loud. There is therefore a demand for support that relieves teachers of some of their duties while also providing them with a more nuanced view of the students’ reading development. The support provided by smart technology can also signal timely when someone is stuck and needs extra attention. However, it can also recognise when a student is doing well and could be challenged more.
NOLAI is the national education lab AI for primary, secondary, and special education in the Netherlands, funded by the National Growth Fund. €80 million has been awarded for the period of 2022 to 2032 in order to develop prototypes and gather knowledge about AI in education together with schools, corporations, and scientists over the span of ten years. Each academic year, around ten new projects are launched all across the Netherlands. A project takes three years on average.
Want to know more?
You can read more about this co-creation project by NOLAI in the NOLAI magazine AI in education 2023-2024.