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Sekhar S. Pindiprolu; David Forbush – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2024
Learning to read is an essential skill for later academic success, positive self-esteem, and gainful employment. Students who display reading difficulties/disabilities at the end of third grade are less likely to succeed in content areas and graduate from high school. Recent data suggests that many students in today's schools do not become skilled…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Reading Skills, At Risk Students, Summer Programs
Janzen, Kathy S. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Research on variables that are related to student academic proficiency has intensified due to the increased emphasis on high achievement for all students. The purpose of this correlational study was to explore the relative strength of the relationship between the school's learning environment and student achievement, and a literacy benchmark…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Educational Environment, Benchmarking
Shumway, Larry – Utah State Office of Education, 2010
Optional Extended-Day Kindergarten benefits students above and beyond non-Optional Extended-Day kindergarten. While OEK students began the 2009-10 school year with significantly lower scores than non-OEK students, by the end of the year OEK students had closed this achievement gap and scored similarly to non-OEK students. In some cases OEK…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, School Schedules, At Risk Students, Kindergarten
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Pindiprolu, Sekhar S.; Forbush, David E. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2009
The ability to read is essential to school-based learning and skilled responding in an information rich society. Unfortunately, many students in today's schools do not become skilled readers. Many reading researchers (Blachman 1996, 1997; Felton, 1993; Fletcher & Lyon, 1998; Torgesen, 1997) agree that the vast majority of problems experienced…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Reading Difficulties