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Evidence-Based Practices in Deaf Education
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Knoors, Harry, Ed.; Marschark, Marc, Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2018
This volume presents the latest research from internationally recognized researchers and practitioners on language, literacy and numeracy, cognition, and social and emotional development of deaf learners. In their contributions, authors sketch the backgrounds and contexts of their research, take interdisciplinary perspectives in merging their own…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Multilingualism
Effects of a Structured Decoding Curriculum on Adult Literacy Learners' Reading Development
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Alamprese, Judith A.; MacArthur, Charles A.; Price, Cristofer; Knight, Deborah – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
This article reports the results from a randomized control field trial that investigated the impact of an enhanced decoding and spelling curriculum on the development of adult basic education (ABE) learners' reading skills. Sixteen ABE programs that offered class-based instruction to Low-Intermediate-level learners were randomly assigned to either…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Spelling, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning
Functional Curriculum = Evidence-Based Education?: Considering Secondary Students with Mild Intellectual Disabilities
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Bouck, Emily C.; Flanagan, Sara M. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2010
Education is currently in an evidence-based era, demanding as well as assuming all educational practices are evidence-based. In the case of a functional curriculum for secondary students with mild intellectual disabilities, despite existing professional wisdom, the state of empirical evidence is unclear. This study represents a systematic review…
Descriptors: Mild Mental Retardation, Literature Reviews, Educational Practices, Curriculum
Reading and Written Language Competency of Incarcerated Youth
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Rogers-Adkinson, Diana; Melloy, Kristine; Stuart, Shannon; Fletcher, Lynn; Rinaldi, Claudia – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2008
This article explores the reading and written language competency of incarcerated youth and examines the role that literacy plays in recidivism. Suggestions for practice include reading and written language curricular strategies that have empirical validation with this population. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Reading Skills, Writing Skills
Reading Curriculum for K-6.
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Taunton Public Schools, MA. – 1981
The intent of this curriculum is to prepare kindergarten through sixth grade students to become skillful readers by exposing them to increasingly complex activities with print and, at the same time, to develop appreciation for and enjoyment of reading. The curriculum is sequenced to ensure a student's wide exposure to essential reading skills. The…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Elementary Education, Literature Appreciation, Reading Comprehension
Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and the Teaching of Reading: An Annotated Bibliography.
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Goodman, Yetta M., Comp.; Goodman, Kenneth S., Comp. – 1971
The second edition of this annotated bibliography on linguistics, psycholinguistics, and the teaching of reading contains 40 percent more publications than the earlier edition, which covered works through 1967. The citations include a full range of points of view, topics, and authors' special fields and ask the readers to read a number of the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Curriculum, Dialects, Linguistic Theory