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Corrin, William; Zhu, Pei; Shih, Miki; Brown, Kevin Thaddeus, Jr.; Teres, Jed; Darrow, Catherine; Nichols, Austin; Lack, Kelly – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2022
These are the appendices for the report "The Effects of an Academic Language Program on Student Reading Outcomes." This study investigated WordGen Elementary, a program designed to improve fourth- and fifth-grade students' ability to understand and communicate academic language and their general reading skill. The program provider…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement
Jaciw, Andrew; Ma, Boya; Zhao, Qingfeng – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
Randomized trials of educational interventions often face logistical hurdles (Cook, 2002). For example, sometimes they are prevented from reaching their full-term. This would happen if, as a condition of participation, subjects insist on receiving the treatment program within a certain timeframe. This timeframe may be shorter than the full-term…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Research Design, Educational Research, Statistical Analysis
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Suggate, Sebastian Paul – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Despite impressive advances in the science of reading intervention, how to best help at-risk readers remains a point of contention. Because reading represents the synthesis of background factors and language and reading skills--all of which develop with age and experience--this meta-analysis investigated whether development (as approximated by…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Research Design, Intervention, Effect Size