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Chae, Soojung; Park, Eun-Young; Shin, Mikyung – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2019
This article presents the results of a meta-analysis of the effects of school-based interventions for improving disability awareness and attitudes towards disability of students without disabilities in Kindergarten through secondary school grades in the Republic of Korea (South Korea). A total of 20 studies published between 2001 and 2017 were…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Intervention, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Educational Environment
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D'Agostino, Jerome V.; Harmey, Sinéad J. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2016
Reading Recovery is one of the most researched literacy programs worldwide. Although there have been at least 4 quantitative reviews of its effectiveness, none have considered all rigorous group-comparison studies from all implementing nations from the late 1970s to 2015. Using a hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) v-known analysis, we examined if…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Reading, Reading Programs, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
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Adesope, Olusola O.; Lavin, Tracy; Thompson, Terri; Ungerleider, Charles – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
Background: Many countries rely on immigrants for population growth and to maintain a skilled workforce. However, many such immigrants face literacy-related barriers to success in education and in the labour force. Aims: This meta-analysis reviews experimental and quasi-experimental studies to examine strategies for teaching English literacy to…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Economic Status, Phonics, Academic Achievement
Puzio, Kelly; Colby, Glenn – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
Although some literacy researchers consider grouping students for reading instruction to be a proven educational practice, the support for this belief is lacking from a research synthesis perspective. With this idea in mind, Slavin comments in the middle of his review on the effects of grouping: "there is not enough research on within-class…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement, Educational Practices, Ability Grouping
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Senechal, Monique; Young, Laura – Review of Educational Research, 2008
This review focuses on intervention studies that tested whether parent-child reading activities would enhance children's reading acquisition. The combined results for the 16 intervention studies, representing 1,340 families, were clear: Parent involvement has a positive effect on children's reading acquisition. Further analyses revealed that…
Descriptors: Intervention, Meta Analysis, Literacy Education, Teaching Methods
Senechal, Monique – National Institute for Literacy, 2006
Goal: Educators believe that parents can help their children learn to read. But what evidence supports this belief? And if parent involvement does matter, what kinds of parent involvement are most efficient? The goal of this report was to review the scientific literature on parent involvement in the acquisition of reading from kindergarten to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 3, Reading Difficulties, Kindergarten