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Adams, Gary; Cathers, Steve; Swezey, James; Haskins, Tara – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2012
This article is a response to "Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS): A Tool for Evaluating Student Learning?" by Kamii and Manning (2005). The intent of their study was to evaluate how DIBELS and a writing test predict reading achievement, which was measured by scores on the Slosson Oral Reading Test (SORT) as well…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Writing Tests, Reading Tests, Emergent Literacy
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Smagorinsky, Peter – Educational Researcher, 2009
This article critiques the articles by Connor et al., Croninger and Valli, Pianta and Hamre, and Rowan and Correnti, which appeared in the March 2009 issue of "Educational Researcher," by taking a cultural-historical perspective on reading and reading instruction. In this paradigm a number of those authors' assumptions are seen as questionable,…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Educational Researchers, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Schwartz, Robert M.; Hobsbaum, Angela; Briggs, Connie; Scull, Janet – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2009
Reynolds and Wheldall reviewed research relating to Reading Recovery (RR) and concluded that "RR has provided an excellent model in demonstrating how to plan, promote, and implement an intervention across an educational system and how to design a professional development programme" (2007, p. 218). They balanced this praise with concerns about the…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Reading Failure, Models, Professional Development
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Searfoss, Lyndon W. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1997
Discusses aspects of "First-Grade Studies" and education in the 1960s. Addresses the research questions in the study: to what extent various teacher, class, and school characteristics are related to first grade spelling and reading achievement; which approach to teaching reading is superior; and whether any program is uniquely effective or…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Cooperation, Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness