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White, Mary-Genevieve – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Research has demonstrated the positive effects on reading achievement measures when content is conditioned as a reinforcer for prolonged reading. While previous research has focused on conditioning narrative texts on the relation to increased comprehension, there is no current research on the effects of conditioning informational texts. Experiment…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reinforcement, STEM Education, Conditioning
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Jenkins, Joseph R.; Graff, J. Jason; Miglioretti, Diana L. – Exceptional Children, 2009
This study addressed three basic questions involving the amount of measurement needed to obtain valid estimates of reading growth. Participants were 41 students with learning disabilities from Grades 3 to 8, monitored across 10 weeks using curriculum-based measurement (CBM) of words read correctly (WRC). We compared growth slopes based on…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Learning Disabilities, Achievement Gains, Reading Achievement