[LM_NET] TARGET: AR "research-based"

[Shonda Brisco <sbrisco@GMAIL.COM>]

I've been catching up with emails and have seen the comment at least
three times that "AR is research-based."

Where do you find information about AR being "research-based?" (I
would also hope that this research is NOT posted on the Renaissance
Learning website only.)   Is this research independent or (once again)
paid by the Renaissance Learning company?  The last I checked (albeit
a few years ago), AR was not research-based.

Does anyone have resource information WITH links to the actual
research?  I'll even take citations, documentation, etc.  I'd just
like to read through the research myself, since I have only read and
reviewed materials stating the complete opposite.  I'd like to know
when it became "research-based" by an independent, unbiased, unpaid
organization or group.

Thanks!

~Shonda


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Shonda Brisco, MLIS
District Librarian
Peaster ISD
Weatherford, TX 76086

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