Over the past eight years, through examinations of school-administered reading assessments, Springboard has demonstrated internally that the average Springboard Summer scholar improves in reading during the program. Several partner school districts have compared Springboard scholars to their non-participating counterparts and found that, on…

Developmental education, also termed remedial education, refers to curricula intended to improve the academic skills and knowledge of students who are underprepared for undergraduate coursework, particularly in the areas of mathematics, reading, and writing. Many practitioners and researchers agree that developmental education should be improved,…

Educators have known for generations the significance of teaching youngsters to read, but have turned their collective attention in only the past decade or so to the state of inadequate reading in high schools. The view is alarming by many accounts and has led national organizations to urge high school principals to add yet another responsibility…

A district supervisor of reading recommends the formation of teacher/parent advisory boards for reading and other curriculuar areas, based upon his first year of experience working with one. (RD)

This program selected 252 students on the basis of teacher recommendations and kindergarten survey test scores. Students were divided into teams and remained with an Intensive Reading Instructional Team for 10 weeks. Moving from teacher to teacher at hourly intervals each morning, students met with teachers specializing in one of three crucial…

This booklet presents the results of a statewide survey and discusses current information and research in the areas of qualifications, roles, and responsibilities of reading personnel in Connecticut. The survey and results include the areas of: distribution of certified reading personnel; certification of reading personnel according to school…

A tutoring program developed for first grade inner city children, employing student teachers as tutors, is evaluated in this report. Tutoring had no discernible effect on performance on the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Ability. However, tutored children were placed in the highest reading group, and were rated as having completed the first…

This report is intended to provide new evidence dealing with the effectiveness of this educational program and should be used with data secured from other evaluation efforts. The study was not designed to demonstrate clear "cause and effect" relationships, is limited in its scope, and is not intended to be exhaustive in analyzing all…

The purpose of this bulletin is to help teachers, supervisors, administrators, and other educators improve the quality of reading done by junior high school pupils. Interest in ways to teach developmental and remedial reading in the junior high school is nationwide. Junior high school principals and teachers of various subjects are particularly…

The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…