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Wang, Y. Lawrence; Johnstone, Whitcomb – 1997
A study examined the effectiveness of the Reading Recovery program in the Irving, Texas, Independent School District. Subjects were students discontinued from the Reading Recovery program because they scored at or above the 40th national percentile, selected students from Chapter/Title I programs on campuses that did not implement Reading…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Early Intervention, High Risk Students, Primary Education
Download full textMoustafa, Margaret; Land, Robert – 2001
This study compares average SAT 9 reading scores of second through fifth grade English-only children in schools using "Open Court" (a program for teaching young children to read) with the scores of comparable schools using non-scripted programs in one very large urban school district in California. Findings show that schools using…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Low Income, Program Effectiveness
Nunnery, John; And Others – 1997
A quasi-experimental study compared achievement effects of various configurations of the Success for All (SFA), schoolwide reform model for elementary schools serving many at-risk students, from full implementation (certified tutoring, full-time school-level facilitator, and the family support team) to implementations lacking some elements felt to…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Grade 1, High Risk Students, Language of Instruction
Levinson, Judith L.; Lalor, Ida – 1989
A study focused on the effects of the Writing to Read program piloted at kindergarten and first grade levels in Community Consolidated School District 65. The report included measures of students' writing, performance on district-made and standardized reading tests, and a follow-up on second graders. Statistical techniques of group comparison and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 1, Grade 2, Kindergarten
Yukish, Joseph F.; Fraas, John W. – 1988
Evaluating the effectiveness of the Reading Recovery program pioneered in New Zealand by Marie Clay (daily supplemental lessons, for students with reading difficulties, which develop a strategy-oriented, self-improving reading system), a study examined the success of the program in an Old Order Amish population of first-grade students from Ohio.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cultural Background, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences
Peak, Janie; Dewalt, Mark W. – 1993
The objective of this study was to determine if the Accelerated Reader Program significantly improved reading skills of middle-school students. This computerized enrichment program combines over 750 classics with computers. Subjects for the study were college-prep freshmen from two junior high schools within the Gaston County (North Carolina)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Intermode Differences, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
