"The center currently uses Stone’s application to evaluate the results of a reading intervention in four middle schools in Iowa. Additionally, the center evaluates the results of interventions in three other Iowa school districts and in three juvenile justice facilities in Georgia.

Stone’s work has been to make collecting reading and writing test results more efficient so that the center can determine if the schools it partners with follow the center’s learning programs and have improved student literacy as a result.

'The applications that we create are generally tools and things that assist in the research collection that the center does,' Stone said. 'As the lead, I also work directly with project managers and directors to take application ideas, project ideas, and requirements that they need.'"