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Macdonald, Kelly T.; Barnes, Marcia A.; Miciak, Jeremy; Roberts, Greg; Halverson, Kelly K.; Vaughn, Sharon; Cirino, Paul T. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
Attention is correlated with reading, but the extent to which behavioral ratings and sustained attention relate to reading skills is unclear. We assessed 245 fourth and fifth grade struggling readers (mean age = 10.3 years) on behavioral ratings of attention, sustained attention, and reading over a school year. Contributions of behavioral ratings…
Descriptors: Attention, Student Behavior, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Vaughn, Sharon; Wexler, Jade; Roberts, Greg; Barth, Amy A.; Cirino, Paul T.; Romain, Melissa A.; Francis, David; Fletcher, Jack; Denton, Carolyn A. – Exceptional Children, 2011
This study reports the effectiveness of a year-long, small-group, tertiary (Tier 3) intervention that examined 2 empirically derived but conceptually different treatments and a comparison condition. The researchers had randomly assigned all students to treatment or comparison conditions. The participants were seventh- and eighth-grade students…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Statistical Significance, Researchers