The Pedagogical Evaluation of TERENCE: Preliminary Results for Hearing Learners in Italy

TERENCE is a European FP7 ICT multidisciplinary project that is developing an Adaptive Learning System (ALS) for supporting poor comprehenders and their educators. The paper reports on the evaluation of the pedagogical effectiveness of TERENCE, i.e., its ability of increasing reading comprehension. The evaluation, for hearing children, in Italy, showed the efficiency of TERENCE in the improvement of comprehension ability, by means of silent reading associated with smart games in scholar age.