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Margo, Desiree Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The intense focus on standards and accountability is rapidly altering the education environment. Often the gauge for measuring school effectiveness is performance on high-stake state tests. In this retrospective cohort comparison study, I observe the relation between the use of curriculum-based measures (CBMs) for reading and change on a state…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Reading Tests, High Stakes Tests
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Reutzel, D. Ray; Jones, Cindy D.; Fawson, Parker C.; Smith, John A. – Reading Teacher, 2008
An effective alternative to the traditional classroom practice of Silent Sustained Reading (SSR) called Scaffolded Silent Reading (ScSR), is described in detail in this article. An implementation of ScSR in a third-grade classroom is presented. Quantitative and qualitative results from a year-long field experiment are reported in which ScSR is…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Improvement, Teaching Methods, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)