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Download full textMeisch, Allison; Hamilton, Jennifer; Chen, Eva; Quintanilla, Priscilla; Fong, Pauline; Gray-Adams, Karen; Petta, Ian; Thornton, Nancy – Westat, 2011
This report summarizes the results of the Newark, New Jersey, Striving Readers program for project Years 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. This report updates one analysis (3 years); the remainder of the impacts and implementation findings are for Year 4. The Striving Readers Grant addresses the unmet needs of middle school students reading 2 or more years below…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Programs, Program Evaluation, Intervention
Rakes, Thomas A.; Hartman, Thomas G. – 1976
From 22 June through 30 July 1976, a prototype instruction/evaluation model for a reading-enrichment program was developed and tested. The model included a randomly selected sample of subjects drawn from 280 children, aged eight through seventeen, participating in a sports program at Memphis State University. The 60 experimental-group students…
Descriptors: Athletes, Elementary Secondary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Models
Parker, Charlie W.; Argenti, Rudy M. – 1977
The effectiveness of an eight week college course for reading/study skills improvement was evaluated by pretesting and posttesting 152 students with the Nelson-Denny Reading Test and the Optimum Reading Achievement Test and running simple correlations between reading rate, comprehension, vocabulary, and 18 variables that included ACT scores, grade…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Reading Comprehension
Taschow, Horst G. – 1977
"The Reading Project" in adult basic education (ABE), designed by the Province of Saskatchewan, consists of 14 sections containing 512 exercises in listening, reading, and spelling skills. This study compares the effectiveness of the project with conventional teaching of reading in ABE classes. A total of 257 adults participated in the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Listening Skills
Peer reviewedStevens, Robert J.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1987
Describes two studies conducted to evaluate a comprehensive cooperative learning approach to elementary reading and writing instruction: Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC). Found significant effects in favor of the CIRC students on standardized measures of reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, language expression, oral…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 4
