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Download full textCorrin, William; Zhu, Pei; Shih, Miki; Brown, Kevin Thaddeus, Jr.; Teres, Jed; Darrow, Catherine; Nichols, Austin; Lack, Kelly – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2022
These are the appendices for the report "The Effects of an Academic Language Program on Student Reading Outcomes." This study investigated WordGen Elementary, a program designed to improve fourth- and fifth-grade students' ability to understand and communicate academic language and their general reading skill. The program provider…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement
Fortson, Kenneth; Verbitsky-Savitz, Natalya; Kopa, Emma; Gleason, Philip – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2012
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are widely considered to be the gold standard in evaluating the impacts of a social program. When an RCT is infeasible, researchers often estimate program impacts by comparing outcomes of program participants with those of a nonexperimental comparison group, adjusting for observable differences between the two…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Middle School Students, Educational Research, Research Design
Vig, Rozy; Taylor, Megan W.; Star, Jon R.; Chao, Theodore – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
The concept of "implementation fidelity" is broadly used to capture the extent to which an intervention is executed as intended by the designers of the intervention (Century, Rudnick, & Freeman, 2010; Huntley, 2005, McNaught, Tarr, & Sears, 2010, Munter, 2010). Though implementation fidelity instruments are often used to assess…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Program Implementation, Barriers, Intervention
Direct linkAkrofi, Amma; Janisch, Carole; Button, Kathryn; Liu, Xiaoming – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2010
Reader response theory and research on book interest underpinned a study of the appeal of celebrity-authored children's storybooks to elementary school students. We engaged fifth-grade students in selecting and reading from a set of 41 celebrity-authored books and completing reader response forms. Utilizing the survey research design and a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Childrens Literature, Research Design, Reader Response
