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ERIC Number: ED083259
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1973-Jan
Pages: 23
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Job Corps Reading Program, Phillips Junior High School, Minneapolis, 1971-72. A Title I, ESEA Project.
Clark, Sara H.; Marty, Adeline O.
This report covers the use of the Job Corps Graded Reading Program at Phillips Junior High in 1971-72, the third year the materials were used. A major goal of this program was to raise the level of reading underachievers to a level of competency. Gates-MacGinitie vocabulary and comprehension tests were used as standardized measures of achievement. Students from grades 7-9 who were at least one year below grade level in reading were placed in the program. The individualized program developed for use in Job Corps training centers consists of a wide variety of graded reading selections. Supplementary materials were provided by staff at the school, and teachers and aides provided individual assistance. Despite a highly transient population, gain scores were obtained for 60% of the 305 students involved. Sixty percent of those students made grade equivalent gains in comprehension as great or greater than might have been expected for length of instruction. Forty-three percent made such gains on vocabulary tests. On the basis of both subjective and objective observations, it was recommended that the project be continued. (Author/KM)
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Authoring Institution: Minneapolis Public Schools, Minn. Dept. of Research and Evaluation.
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I
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