Tests second- to sixth-grade children with normal reading efficiency under three conditions of simultaneous amplified auditory feedback on reading aloud nouns and nonwords. Finds that right ear feedback improved reading accuracy in the first three grades. Finds no effect in fifth grade whereas in sixth grade, left ear feedback improved only the…

In this same "Kappan" Issue, Walberg and Greenberg mistakenly allege that Success for All was developed for ulterior (financial) motives, is based on questionable research, and has had poor results. Literacy achievement has not risen for 70 years. Success for All is no panacea but is tackling this problem. (10 references) (MLH)

Describes an application of multilevel modeling to repeated measures as part of an evaluation of Reading Recovery in 22 schools in England and multivariate models are applied to the within and between school aspects of the design. Results show Reading Recovery to be effective in the short term, but not the long term. (SLD)

This report summarizes Austin Independent School District's (AISD's) 2005-2006 school year activities and student performance results in reading and math, with a focus on those students who received academic interventions in these subject areas.

Grade retention is an intervention that has received increasing scrutiny as policies, practices, and results of research diverge. This longitudinal study examines the reading growth trajectories of students (n=147) from first-through eighth-grade. Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) analytic procedures provide unique insights regarding the relative…

Noting that the amount of reading students do is related to their reading achievement, this booklet presents an instrument designed to measure the amount and breadth of students' reading in and out of school. The first part of the booklet discusses the Reading Activity Inventory (RAI) and how it differs from other reading activity measures, uses…

Concludes that the extra attention paid to children during the administration of reading tests does not have a significant effect on test performance and that the Hawthorne effect does not influence reading test results. (RB)

Determines the listening capacity of Spanish-speaking first grade children as measured by subtests of the Metropolitan Achievement Test, Primary I Battery. (RB)

A historical survey of the main milestones in the quest for ways to improve reading instruction as reflected in selections from the vast literature on reading that has emerged in the past 20 years. (Author)

Lists the factors related to reading achievement, together with the research which supports each factor in the list. (RB)

The Los Angeles Unified School District has been concerned over the excess testing of elementary school pupils, particularly those who are in special programs. When the Board of Education decided to have yearly testing of pupil progress using a locally developed criterion-referenced test, the intention was to replace a previously used…

A study was conducted to ascertain what influence transferring from one school to another had on students from four ethnic groups and on the overall reading achievement scores in ten selected Title I disadvantaged schools over a five-year period. The approximately 700 sixth grade students involved in the study represented Hispanic, Causasian,…

This report presents results of analyses of factors affecting reading achievement of students in grades one through sex in District of Columbia schools as measured by the percentage of objectives mastered on the Prescriptive Reading Test (PRT) and by students' interest in reading for the year 1977-78. It also contains descriptive information about…

A discussion of selected ERIC documents that focus on teacher effectiveness in reading instruction is presented. (MKM)