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Jason 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
Lencioni, Gina M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of explicit direct instruction and cooperative learning on reading comprehension in fourth grade students. A quasi-experimental design was used. There were six cognitive and three affective measures used to collect quantitative data. Cognitive measures included California State Test scores,…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Reading Comprehension
Guzzetti, Barbara J., Ed. – Praeger, 2007
Living in an age of communication, literacy is an extremely integral part of our society. We are impacted by literature during our infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. "Literacy for the New Millennium" includes information from specialists in the field who discuss the influence of popular culture, media, and technology on…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Young Adults, Adolescents, Literacy Education