ERIC Number: EJ1246045
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
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Prevention: Necessary but Insufficient? A 2-Year Follow-Up of an Effective First-Grade Mathematics Intervention
Bailey, Drew H.; Fuchs, Lynn S.; Gilbert, Jennifer K.; Geary, David C.; Fuchs, Douglas
Child Development, v91 n2 e382-e400 Mar-Apr 2020
We present first-grade, second-grade, and third-grade impacts for a first-grade intervention targeting the conceptual and procedural bases that support arithmetic. At-risk students (average age at pretest = 6.5) were randomly assigned to three conditions: a control group (n = 224) and two variants of the intervention (same conceptual instruction but different forms of practice: speeded [n = 211] vs. nonspeeded [n = 204]). Impacts on all first-grade content outcomes were significant and positive, but no follow-up impacts were significant. Many intervention children achieved average mathematics achievement at the end of third grade, and prior math and reading assessment performance predicted which students will require sustained intervention. Finally, projecting impacts 2 years later based on nonexperimental estimates of effects of first-grade math skills overestimates long-term intervention effects.
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Intervention, Arithmetic, At Risk Students, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, Reading Tests, Mathematics Instruction, Followup Studies, Outcomes of Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Grade 1; Primary Education; Grade 2; Grade 3
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Language: English
Sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (NIH)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: R01HD053714; U54HD083211