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Smith, Samuel – Online Submission, 2016
Student achievement in reading comprehension has been an important topic for the past several years due to the importance of reading in education. School districts in South Carolina have had enormous amounts of pressure put on them to increase student reading comprehension through the implementation of SLOs and the Read to Succeed initiative. The…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Acceleration (Education), Correlation
Marguerite Case – Online Submission, 2015
There are so many different intervention programs for educators to use to increase the reading achievement of below grade level students, that it can often be difficult to choose the appropriate one for the students. Most programs are scripted and are used with small groups of students. Reading Recovery is not a scripted program and is taught in a…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Reading Achievement
Li, Yuan H.; Modarresi, Shahpar; Yang, Yu N. – Online Submission, 2006
Summative evaluations have often been undertaken to determine the impact of educational programs on student academic achievement employing a quasi-experimental design. The summative finding is expected to be less misleading if a statistical model is performed on a dataset including a sound matched sample as a control group. This is because an…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Intervention, Summative Evaluation
Basturk, Ramazan; Loadman, William E. – Online Submission, 2001
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess and evaluate the grant selection process for reading excellence program in Ohio. School districts in Ohio were given the opportunity to apply for funding to support district based reading programs through a request for proposal procedures. An effort was made to reliably and equitably score the…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Tutors, Statistics, Grants
Powers, Stephen; Price-Johnson, Connie – Online Submission, 2006
Background: The Waterford Early Reading Program (WERP), a technology-based program for early elementary grades, was provided through Arizona all day kindergarten funds to kindergarten students in 15 Title I elementary schools in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) in the 2005-06 school year. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests