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Renáta Kiss; Katalin Szili; Beno Csapó; Gyöngyvér Molnár – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The ability to read is fundamental in determining an individual's academic success and social integration, and it is also known to have an impact on other cognitive abilities. A lack of foundational pre-reading skills can accumulate later, causing reading and learning problems. Early diagnosis and development of these skills are therefore…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Skill Development, Intervention, Reading Programs
Emilio Ferrer; Bennett A. Shaywitz; John M. Holahan; Sally E. Shaywitz – npj Science of Learning, 2023
Research indicates that the achievement gap in reading between typical and dyslexic readers is already evident in first grade and persists through adolescence. However, it is not known whether this reading gap persists into adult life. In this report we use an epidemiologic sample of 312 children (typical readers = 246; dyslexic readers = 66),…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Tests, Longitudinal Studies, Grade 1
Skar, Gustaf B.; Huebner, Alan – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2022
This study aimed to investigate the predictability of writing development and if scores on a writing test in the first weeks of first grade accurately predict students' placements into different proficiency groups. Participants were 832 first grade students in Norway. Writing proficiency was measured twice, at the start and at the end of first…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, Writing Skills, Grade 1, Foreign Countries
Ergül, Cevriye; Kiliç-Tülü, Burcu; Aydin, Burak; Ökcün-Akçamus, Meral Ç.; Akoglu, Gözde; Bahap-Kudret, Zeynep – Education 3-13, 2023
Research has often emphasised that children who experience difficulties in learning to read get poorer in their performance, and the gap between good and poor readers increases over time which describes the well-accepted phenomenon called the Mathew Effect. However, some studies have shown that the Matthew Effect has not been confirmed. In this…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Turkish, Grade 1, Grade 2
Fei Tan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Significant socioeconomic disparities exist across the neighborhoods where children grow up today, which may exacerbate inequities in children's educational opportunities (Leventhal et al., 2015; Leventhal & Dupere, 2019; Mijs & Roe, 2021; Reardon et al., 2018). Prior research documents associations between neighborhood socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Socioeconomic Status, Educational Quality, Kindergarten
Megan Luckey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Grade-level retention is a common educational practice with the goal of improving academic performance, but the evidence of its influence is mixed. This study examines the academic effect of repeating kindergarten, first grade, second grade, or third grade on English Language Arts performance at the end of fourth grade. This study also examines…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Grade Repetition, Achievement Gap, Teacher Attitudes
Sheila Hansen Reynolds Brady – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Learning to read is essential, especially for our youngest learners, as the foundational skills for learning to read can determine the future success of our students. The disruptions to learning from the COVID-19 pandemic have affected education. Researchers are still working to understand the depth of learning loss students have experienced.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Achievement, Professional Development, Teacher Effectiveness
Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
These are the appendixes for the report, "Trends and Gaps in Reading Achievement across Kindergarten and Grade 1 in Two Illinois School Districts." This study examined reading achievement data for kindergarten and grade 1 students in two districts in Illinois: District U-46 (Elgin Area Schools) and District 186 (Springfield Public…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Achievement Gap, Reading Achievement, Kindergarten
Barnes, Zachary T.; Boedeker, Peter; Cartwright, Kelly B.; Zhang, Bingshi – Journal of Research in Reading, 2022
Studies have demonstrated significant associations between executive function (EF) and reading ability. Many of these studies have evaluated this association through composite EF skills. In this study, we evaluated the indirect effects of working memory (WM) and cognitive flexibility (CF) in the relation between kindergarten socioeconomic status…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Executive Function, Reading Skills, Short Term Memory
Fatimah Ali – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Education reform is a contested and complicated terrain where multiple stakeholders with competing visions seek to influence the direction of reform in alignment with their own interests. As a result of these competing visions, education policy is not value free or neutral and favors those who hold the political and economic power to maintain the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Katina Latrice Simpson-Ray – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The state of Arkansas adopted ACT 1063 in 2017, which was designed to improve reading achievement for all students. Included in the law was the requirement that "curriculum programs that are supported by the science of reading and based on the instruction that is explicit, systematic, cumulative, and diagnostic be implemented (Division of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, African American Students, Grade 1, Grade 2
Ashley Jochim; Eupha Jeanne Daramola; Morgan Polikof – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2023
Concern about the state of literacy instruction in America's classrooms has recently exploded. As a result, policymakers, school system leaders, and teachers have increasingly sought to remake how children learn to read in order to improve literacy outcomes--a pursuit that has gained heightened urgency in the aftermath of the pandemic. This work,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Tutors, Reading Instruction, Educational Change
Christopher Dignam; James A. Gates; Matthew A. Cooney – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2024
Public school board members are charged with the responsibility and accountability to provide governance-level advocacy for equity and excellence in public education. This qualitative study examined the perceptions of school board members in three K--8 school districts in the midwestern part of the United States regarding the 50+ year Race-Based…
Descriptors: Governance, School Districts, Educational Administration, Leadership
Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
To assess education progress in the early grades and identify achievement gaps, this study examined reading achievement data for kindergarten and grade 1 students in two districts in Illinois: District U-46 (Elgin Area Schools) and District 186 (Springfield Public Schools). Drawing on a different reading assessment in each district, the study team…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Achievement Gap, Reading Achievement, Kindergarten
Meredith G. O'Leary – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study focused on a problem of practice at Mystic River School (MRS), a kindergarten through eighth grade school in an urban district in New England. Schoolwide diagnostic data showed a significant gap between multilingual learners (MLs) and their native English speaking peers in literacy. An analysis of this data, interviews with staff and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Literacy