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Using Schoolwide Response to Intervention to Close the Achievement Gap in Reading
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Alonzo, Julie; Tindal, Gerald; Robsinson, Quintin – ERS Spectrum, 2008
Using a case study of three elementary schools involved in a Response to Intervention (RTI) model demonstration project, the authors examine the features critical to successful RTI implementation. Preliminary findings suggest that access to and use of sensitive progress monitoring assessments and a willingness to use the data provided by those…
Descriptors: Intervention, Focus Groups, Case Studies, Elementary Schools
A Study on the Effects of Smaller Class Size on Student Achievement
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Watts, Rebecca S.; Georgiou, Andrea – ERS Spectrum, 2008
Since the passage of No Child Left Behind, schools have been looking for resources that are proven, through research, to improve student achievement. The purpose of this article is to determine if there is a relationship between class size and student achievement among 137 school systems in Tennessee. The authors provide a review of the literature…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Class Size, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement
It's Not Being Absent that Affects a Student's Achievement; Florida Data Show It's Whether the Absences Are Excused or Unexcused
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Clement, Russell W. – ERS Spectrum, 2006
Student absenteeism in Broward County Public Schools was examined longitudinally from 1998-99 through the first semester of the 2003-04 school year. Historically, secondary students tend to register more excused and unexcused absences than elementary students; however, data from this study show overall absence rates have declined. Findings reveal…
Descriptors: Attendance, Public Schools, Longitudinal Studies, Urban Schools
Reading Achievement: Effects of Computerized Reading Management and Enrichment.
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Peak, Janie; Dewalt, Mark W. – ERS Spectrum, 1994
Evaluates a computerized reading management and enrichment program's effects on college-bound ninth graders attending Cherryville Junior-Senior High School, in Gaston County, North Carolina. When total reading scores were compared on third-, sixth-, and eighth-grade California Achievement Tests, the Cherryville students (five-year program…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Enrichment Activities, Grade 9
National Study Shows Variations in Early Learning Environments as They Relate to Children's Reading Development
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Flanagan, Kristin Denton; West, Jerry; Walston, Jill – ERS Spectrum, 2004
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has regularly assessed the reading skills of U.S. fourth-graders since the early 1970s, but few national studies have assessed the reading skills of children when they enter kindergarten and then documented the development of these skills through fifth grade. This analysis uses data from the…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Kindergarten, Young Children, Emergent Literacy
An Evaluation of Baltimore City's Grade 9 Transition Program
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Yakimowski-Strebnick, Mary E.; Adedoyin, Kimberly Clark; Connolly, Faith – ERS Spectrum, 2003
The Baltimore City Public School System's (BCPSS) Grade 9 Transition Program was implemented in 2001-02. It is designed to increase student achievement in an era of No Child Left Behind federal legislation by providing additional time and learning opportunities for eighth-grade students who have not met all promotion standards established by the…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, Criterion Referenced Tests