"Project Assist," conducted in two elementary schools and one junior high school, tested the hypothesis that students in schools with trained instructional reading aides will read better than students in schools with either untrained aides or no aides. This report presents data on the project gathered during the 1974-1975 school year. The first section poses "decision questions" regarding continuation of the project, recommends answers to the questions, and offers data support; of the recommendations. The next two sections describe the project and show in narrative and tabular form the context in which the project operated. The following section of the report summarizes the program objectives (including cognitive and affective outcome objectives, process objectives, and input objectives), notes their level of attainment, and describes the evidence through which the levels of attainment were determined. Summary data and a glossary of terms conclude the report. Although the project data failed to substantiate the initial hypothesis, several positive aspects of the project are noted. (GW)