It's hard to imagine a simpler, cheaper way to cut remedial summer school rates than to use a self-directed computer program that occupies students during free time. Further studies need to increase the number of students in the sample to statistically verify these observed trends. The impact of the intervention on social behavior is also dramatic. That would mean a cumulative difference of up to 1,200 more pro-social acts per classroom per day, and 300 fewer aggressive acts per classroom per day. That would create a massive change in school climate , on a scale that could make the difference between whether a teacher stays in teaching or not, and whether a student skips school, or even drops out or not.
Larger studies are underway.
Referral rates for remedial summer school were used to measure effect of the program on the school's primary educational mission. For some of the same reasons that interactive video games can have the opposite effect. And because all of the strategies used in this program have previously been shown to work in non-computer based settings, using print materials, videos and live instruction. In one sense the computer just puts a broad range of traditional learning resources under one electronic roof. Yes, because of potentially wide-scale implications, it is already underway.