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van Dijk, Wilhelmina; Huggins-Manley, A. Corinne; Gage, Nicholas A.; Lane, Holly B.; Coyne, Michael – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2022
In reading intervention research, implementation fidelity is assumed to be positively related to student outcomes, but the methods used to measure fidelity are often treated as an afterthought. Fidelity has been conceptualized and measured in many different ways, suggesting a lack of construct validity. One aspect of construct validity is the…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Fidelity, Program Implementation, Reading Programs
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Elaine Wang; John Pane; Nancy Nelson; Marissa Suhr; Hank Fien – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: Reading achievement declined drastically during the COVID-19 pandemic (Bailey et al., 2021). One report suggests more than one-third of fourth-grade students cannot read at a basic level and access to effective literacy instruction is particularly limited for minority students and students with learning disabilities (Ellis et…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Students with Disabilities, COVID-19
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Yawn, Christopher D. – Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship, 2012
This study examined the effects of a peer tutoring program that used a Direct Instruction (DI) reading curriculum. Students identified as gifted and talented delivered instruction, using the DI reading program, to their struggling reading peers. The students used a cross-skill peer tutoring instructional format. The results indicated that all of…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Reading Instruction
Deussen, Theresa; Scott, Caitlin; Nelsestuen, Kari; Roccograndi, Angela; Davis, Ann – Education Northwest, 2012
In 2009, the United States Department of Education conducted a competition for a second round of Striving Readers grants. Its dual purpose was to: (1) Raise middle and high school students' literacy levels in Title I-eligible schools with significant numbers of students reading below grade level; and (2) Build a strong, scientific research base…
Descriptors: Grants, Reading Instruction, Middle School Students, High School Students