Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 2 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 9 |
Descriptor
| Grade 8 | 9 |
| Reading Achievement | 9 |
| Grade 7 | 6 |
| Program Effectiveness | 6 |
| At Risk Students | 4 |
| Intervention | 4 |
| Middle School Students | 4 |
| Reading Instruction | 4 |
| Reading Programs | 4 |
| Grade 3 | 3 |
| Grade 4 | 3 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| ProQuest LLC | 3 |
| Educational Policy Institute | 1 |
| Grantee Submission | 1 |
| Insights into Learning… | 1 |
| Journal of Learning… | 1 |
| National Center for Research… | 1 |
| Reading Psychology | 1 |
Author
| Barth, Amy | 1 |
| Biggs, Marie C. | 1 |
| Boudah, Daniel J. | 1 |
| Choi, Kilchan | 1 |
| Dai, Yunyun | 1 |
| Dedrick, Robert | 1 |
| Denton, Carolyn | 1 |
| Epstein, Scott | 1 |
| Fletcher, Jack | 1 |
| Herman, Joan L. | 1 |
| Holliday, Lisa | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Dissertations/Theses -… | 3 |
| Journal Articles | 3 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 3 |
| Reports - Research | 3 |
| Tests/Questionnaires | 1 |
Education Level
| Grade 8 | 7 |
| Middle Schools | 6 |
| Elementary Education | 4 |
| Grade 7 | 4 |
| Junior High Schools | 4 |
| Secondary Education | 4 |
| Grade 3 | 3 |
| Intermediate Grades | 3 |
| Early Childhood Education | 2 |
| Elementary Secondary Education | 2 |
| Grade 4 | 2 |
| More ▼ | |
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Gates MacGinitie Reading Tests | 1 |
| Pennsylvania System of School… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
| Does not meet standards | 9 |
Peer reviewed
Download full textBoudah, Daniel J. – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2018
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data have indicated that many secondary students lack sufficient literacy skills, and that students who receive free/reduced lunch, students from rural settings, and students with disabilities are particularly low-performing (National Center for Education Statistics, 2015). Despite some…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Intervention, Adolescents, Learning Disabilities
Swail, Watson Scott – Educational Policy Institute, 2019
In 2013, the Arizona State University (ASU) Preparatory Academy (ASU Prep) was awarded an Investing in Innovation (i3) Grant through the U.S. Department of Education. The district applied with an ambitious grant designed to innovate programming for a total of six schools: two elementary (one Kindergarten through grade 5; one Kindergarten through…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Grants, Program Effectiveness
Direct linkRakestraw, Kimberly R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the Read 180 program as a Response to Intervention reading strategy tool for middle school students. This study explored the effect of the RtI-designed technology-based reading program on seventh and eighth-grade students labeled as at-risk for reading failure. Data was analyzed using the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Response to Intervention
Herman, Joan L.; Epstein, Scott; Leon, Seth; Dai, Yunyun; La Torre Matrundola, Deborah; Reber, Sarah; Choi, Kilchan – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2015
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation invested in the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) as one strategy to support teachers' and students' transition to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English language arts. This report provides an early look at the implementation of LDC in eighth-grade history/social studies and science classes in two…
Descriptors: Grade 8, History Instruction, Social Studies, Science Education
Holliday, Lisa; Philp, Joel – Grantee Submission, 2015
In 2010, Iredell-Statesville Schools was awarded an Investing in Innovation grant (i3) from the Office of Innovation and Improvement within the Federal Department of Education. Collaborative Organizational Model to Promote Aligned Support Structures (COMPASS) is a development grant that seeks to meet the needs of students with disabilities,…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Disabilities, At Risk Students, Limited English Speaking
O'Hare, John M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Though campus principals must take on many leadership roles, their primary responsibility is to facilitate effective teaching and learning with the overall mission of enhancing student achievement. One way to provide instructional leadership is to evaluate and select effective instructional programs that align with campus goals of improving…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, School Districts, Control Groups, Reading Achievement
Vaughn, Sharon; Wexler, Jade; Leroux, Audrey; Roberts, Greg; Denton, Carolyn; Barth, Amy; Fletcher, Jack – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2012
The authors report the effects of a yearlong, very small-group, intensive reading intervention for eighth-grade students with serious reading difficulties who had demonstrated low response to intervention (RTI) in both Grades 6 and 7. At the beginning of Grade 6, a cohort of students identified as having reading difficulties were randomized to…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Effect Size
Ingrid Danielle McClendon – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study followed a cohort of students from Grade 1 to Grade 11 in one struggling school district that had Reading Recovery (RR) in the Grade 1. The RR program is an intervention given only to students in the Grade 1 who are reading below grade level on the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Assessment. The researched district had a high poverty, high…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Difficulties, School Districts, Grade 1
Biggs, Marie C.; Homan, Susan P.; Dedrick, Robert; Minick, Vanessa; Rasinski, Timothy – Reading Psychology, 2008
Software that teaches users to sing in tune and in rhythm while providing real-time pitch tracking was used in a study of struggling middle school readers. The software, Carry-a-Tune (CAT) was originally developed to improve singing; however, since it involves a repeated reading format, we used it to determine its effect on comprehension and…
Descriptors: Matched Groups, Reading Comprehension, Singing, Reading Instruction
