ERIC Number: EJ1294000
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0022-2194
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A Synthesis of the Sustainability of Remedial Reading Intervention Effects for Struggling Adolescent Readers
Journal of Learning Disabilities, v54 n3 p170-186 May-Jun 2021
A majority of reading-related intervention studies aiming to remediate struggling readers' reading outcomes assess student performance immediately following the conclusion of an intervention to determine intervention effects. Few studies collect follow-up data to measure the long-term sustainability of treatment effects. Hence, the aim of the current synthesis was to examine follow-up intervention effects of reading interventions involving adolescent struggling readers in Grades 6 to 12. Our literature search yielded only 10 studies that reported follow-up data for intervention participants, which highlights the dearth of intervention research that examines sustainability of intervention effects. Of the 10 included studies, the weighted mean effect size for all reading outcome measures was g[subscript w] = 0.78 at immediate posttest and g[subscript w] = 0.27 at follow-up, in favor of treatment group students. Although the magnitude of difference between treatment and control groups diminished at follow-up time, a comparison of treatment group students' immediate posttest and follow-up scores showed that students mostly maintained gains made during intervention at follow-up time points.
Descriptors: Intervention, Remedial Reading, Reading Difficulties, Program Effectiveness, Adolescents, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Learning Disabilities, Small Group Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reading Skills, Effect Size, Middle School Students, High School Students, Reading Achievement, Vocabulary
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 6; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools; Grade 7; Junior High Schools; Secondary Education; Grade 8; Grade 9; High Schools; Grade 10; Grade 11; Grade 12
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Language: English
Sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (NIH)
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; Woodcock Reading Mastery Test; Test of Word Reading Efficiency; Wechsler Individual Achievement Test; Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence
Grant or Contract Numbers: P50HD052117