The student responds orally and/or in writing to the questions and practices the correct answer three times when errors are made.
[2] CWPT was initially developed and researched in the early 1980s at the Juniper Gardens Children's Project at the University of Kansas.
[5] The developers of CWPT suggest that this technique provides students more opportunities to practice content or skills, encourages them to engage in active learning, and lets them receive immediate feedback.
[8][17][18] There is also evidence that CWPT helps students of different ages learn facts, such as health and safety information, history material, and social studies concepts.
[23][24][25] The United States Department of Education's What Works Clearinghouse has evaluated CWPT for effectiveness in the areas of General Reading Achievement and English Language Learning (ELL).
These evaluations resulted in a "potentially positive" effectiveness rating in the area of General Reading Achievement for elementary school students, and no rating for ELL due to the fact that no existing studies met What Works Clearinghouse criteria for evaluation.