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Proctor, C. Patrick; Dalton, Bridget; Uccelli, Paola; Biancarosa, Gina; Mo, Elaine; Snow, Catherine; Neugebauer, Sabina – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
This quasi-experimental study investigated the effects of an Internet-delivered universally designed depth of vocabulary intervention that targeted both English-speaking and Spanish-English-speaking students. Two hundred forty students, 49% of whom were Spanish-English bilinguals, participated in the 16-week intervention. Intervention students…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Vocabulary, Reading Strategies
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Mason, Lucia; Gava, Monica; Boldrin, Angela – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
The aim of this study was to go further than considering only cognitive factors to extend the understanding of the complex, dynamic underlying knowledge revision processes. Fifth graders were assigned to 2 reading conditions. Participants in 1 condition read a refutational text about light, whereas participants in the other read a traditional…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts, Control Groups