ERIC Number: EJ963698
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Jun
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-5984
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Small-Group, Computer-Assisted Tutoring to Improve Reading Outcomes for Struggling First and Second Graders
Bette Chambers; Robert E. Slavin; Nancy A. Madden; Philip Abrami; Michele K. Logan; Richard Gifford
Elementary School Journal, v111 n4 p625-640 Jun 2011
This study evaluated the relative effects of Tier II computer-assisted tutoring in small groups (Team Alphie) and one-to-one tutoring provided to struggling readers in 33 high-poverty Success for All (SFA) schools. In this year-long study, struggling readers in the Team Alphie schools were tutored in groups of 6. In the control schools, students were tutored using the standard one-to-one tutoring process used in SFA. Analyses of covariance of students' standardized reading scores indicated that the first-grade treatment group significantly outperformed the control group on all 3 reading measures, with no significant differences for second graders. Schools using Team Alphie were able to tutor many more students than the control schools. This study shows that a computer-assisted, small-group tutoring program may be at least as effective as one-to-one tutoring and serve more struggling readers. It may serve as a good example of Tier II instruction in a response to intervention (RTI) model. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reading Difficulties, Grade 2, Tutoring, Grade 1, Computer Assisted Instruction, Experimental Groups, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Instructional Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Achievement Gains, Tutorial Programs, Small Group Instruction, Outcome Measures, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement, Reading Strategies, Teaching Methods
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 1; Grade 2
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Language: English
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