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Angela Charalambous; Carien Wilsenach – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2024
The Cellfield reading intervention is based on the multi-deficit theory of reading difficulties and addresses several foundation skills of reading simultaneously. Existing research has confirmed that the Cellfield intervention leads to improvement in reading skill directly following the intervention, but little data exist to determine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Intervention, Reading Difficulties
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Jacobus Cilliers; Brahm Fleisch; Janeli Kotze; Nompumelelo Mohohlwane; Stephen Taylor – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Background: Information Communication Technology (ICT) holds the promise of enabling low-cost teacher professional development at scale. An expert coach, for example, could reach far more teachers virtually, thus reducing salary and transport costs. But the benefits of in-person interaction--such as developing relationships of trust and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Electronic Learning, Coaching (Performance), Distance Education
Gove, Amber, Ed.; Wetterberg, Anna, Ed. – RTI International, 2011
This book highlights the experience of Liberia in both assessing and improving reading in primary schools. As a result of an Early Grade Reading Assessment, the Ministry of Education and partners, including the United States Agency for International Development, came together to identify and develop strategies for improving reading in schools.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Beginning Reading, Reading Tests
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van Wyk, Gerda; Louw, Arno – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2008
This paper addresses the controversial issues of improving the reading skills of young learners through technology-assisted reading programmes. On reporting the results of primary school learners from grade 2 to grade 7 who participated in a computer-based reading programme for seven months, we try to answer the critical questions of whether…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Reading Programs
Rassool, Naz – 1999
This book examines literacy for sustainable development in the age of information. It begins by discussing the relationship between literacy and hegemony, social policy, national language policy, colonial relations, and postcolonial realities. Also discussed in the introduction are views and definitions of literacy and considerations in mapping a…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Citizenship Education