Cosmos Chaos Evaluation

Some time ago, our partner in Cosmos Chaos crime, Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL), commissioned a study to gauge the impact of playing Cosmos Chaos on the vocabulary knowledge of fourth graders. The study looked at two groups of students: the first attended an afterschool program and the second supplemented the program with the game. The latter group performed measurably higher in vocabulary knowledge assessments. Moreover, children from Spanish-speaking or bilingual households benefited even more than their counterparts from monolingual backgrounds. This seems to suggest that Cosmos Chaos - and games like it - are not only useful learning aids, but may potentially be particularly effective tools for teaching bilingual children.