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Carbo, Marie – Principal, 2003
Founder and executive director of National Reading Styles Institute (www.nrsi.com) describes several instructional methods designed to help below-level readers improve their reading skills, such as choral reading, echo reading, and recording. Describes positive effects of reading style instructional methods in a Texas elementary school and a…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Middle Schools, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement
Download full textHoffman, Lee McGraw; And Others – 1984
Examples from the evaluation of a program in which data collection systems were developed jointly by the program's staff and evaluators are described. The Louisiana SPUR (Special Plan Upgrading Reading) Project was evaluated by the Louisiana Department of Education Bureau of Evaluation. SPUR involves 63 of the state's 66 public school systems and…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Decker, Barbara C. – 1985
To learn more about reading specialists (such as job requirements, certification, and opportunities) in Louisiana, a brief, one-page questionnaire was mailed to all principals of elementary schools in the state with a student population of over 400, to personnel directors of every parish in the state, and to directors of certification in all 50…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Employment Opportunities, Job Skills, Reading Consultants
Hotard, Stephen R.; Cortez, Marion J. – 1988
Computer-assisted instruction together with remedial reading classrooms for reading and regular classrooms for math has produced significant remedial gains in Chapter I students in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana--gains which are above the national average for Chapter I. The computer provides a vehicle for daily drill at each child's level which adds…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement
Lofton, Glenda G.; And Others – 1994
A study investigated whether Louisiana school districts and schools involved in the SPUR (Special Plan Upgrading Reading) program were implementing and maintaining essential elements of the project five years after termination of state funding and external support. Subjects were the 66 superintendents or their designee at the district level as…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Education, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation
