Findings from the elementary science review support a view that improving outcomes in elementary science depends on improving teachers' skills in presenting lessons, engaging and motivating students, and integrating science and reading. Technology applications that help teachers teach more compelling lessons and that use video to reinforce lessons also showed promise.

The technology and struggling readers review found that educational technology applications produced a positive but modest effect on the reading skills of struggling readers in comparison to "business as usual" methods. Among four types of educational technology applications reviewed, small-group integrated applications such as Lindamood Phoneme Sequence Program and Read, Write, and Type produced the largest effect sizes, but these were mostly evaluated in small studies, which tend to overstate program impacts. 

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