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Direct linkRoberts, Greg; Vaughn, Sharon; Wanzek, Jeanne; Furman, Gleb; Martinez, Leticia; Sargent, Katherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Promoting Adolescents' Comprehension of Text (PACT) is a text- and discourse-based set of instructional practices that engage students with disciplinary texts as a means of building content knowledge and improving reading comprehension. PACT)s "efficacy" has been the subject of extensive previous trials. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, History Instruction, United States History, Reading Comprehension
Download full textJason Schoeneberger; Xiaodong Zhang; Samantha Spinney; Jing Sun; Lauren Kennedy; Samira Rajesh Syal – Grantee Submission, 2023
The purpose of this study was to understand the impact, implementation and costs associated with a one-semester elective lab course in 9th grade, Accelerating Literacy for Adolescents (ALFA) Lab, which seeks to improve students' reading achievement, particularly for those from economically disadvantaged communities. This study used three cohorts…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Learning Laboratories, Reading Centers
Wolff, Evelyn S.; Isecke, Harriet; Rhoads, Christopher; Madura, John P. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2013
The struggles of students in the United States to comprehend non-fiction science text are well documented. Middle school students, in particular, have minimal instruction in comprehending nonfiction and flounder on assessments. This article describes the development process of the Readorium software, an interactive web-based program being…
Descriptors: Nonfiction, Reading Comprehension, Middle School Students, Computer Software
Boyson, Beverly A.; Semmer, Martha; Thompson, Lynn E.; Rosenbusch, Marcia H. – Foreign Language Annals, 2013
Educators have generally believed that foreign language instruction should begin in kindergarten or earlier to promote optimum oral language development (e.g., Abbott, 1998; Curtain & Dahlberg, 2010; Rhodes & Pufahl, 2010; Rosenbusch, 1991; Swender & Duncan, 1998). This article describes two Spanish programs in the Westport…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Oral Language
What Works Clearinghouse, 2012
The study of "Thinking Reader"[R] is a multisite cluster randomized controlled trial. Ninety-two reading/English language arts teachers from 32 elementary and middle schools were randomly assigned within their schools to either the "Thinking Reader"[R] condition or the comparison condition. The analysis sample consisted of 90…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Software, Reading Instruction
Barrier-Ferreira, Julia – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigated the impact of the "LANGUAGE!" literacy instruction on the reading comprehension and motivation to read of struggling middle school readers compared to that of a balanced literacy instruction. A convenience sample of sixth, seventh and eighth grade students (n = 175) from a small, suburban middle school in…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Motivation, Reading Difficulties
National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
Each state and jurisdiction that participated in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2009 reading assessment receives a one-page snapshot report that presents key findings and trends in a condensed format. Overall results, achievement level percentages and average score results, comparison of the average score in 2009 to other…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Gap, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
