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Taffeta Wood – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation is guided by my driving research question: what works for whom in education and why? I examine issues of instruction, assessment, and research approaches that begin to answer this question. Study 1 examines a classroom intervention's child x instruction interactions. Study 2 examines underlying cognitive factors, including…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Assessment, Cognitive Processes
King, Marlon Demetrius – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the effects of the Response to Intervention Three Tier Model on third graders' reading achievement. Two hundred forty-three students participated in this study. Students were from an elementary school in the southeastern region of the United States. The data on the students was collected…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Response to Intervention, Databases, Data Analysis
Nichols, Jan Shelton – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Schools in the United States have been using the Accelerated Reader (AR) program since the mid-1980s. A search of the literature related to the effectiveness of the AR program revealed that many of the studies were conducted more than a decade ago, and a large number of those studies failed to utilize a control group to provide comparative data.…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
Yearian, Stephanie Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In 1997, The National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, appointed a National Reading Panel (NRP). The NRP findings, released in 2000, summarized the effectiveness of a variety of instructional approaches in reading. In turn, the NRP report, despite disputed inconsistencies, became the basis of the 2001 legislation, "No Child…
Descriptors: Evidence, Federal Legislation, Child Health, Program Effectiveness
Lim, Hyo Jin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The present study investigated longitudinal changes of the reading achievement among schools populated with English learners. It also examined the heterogeneity in the English learners group in terms of students' performance in high stakes reading tests. Historically, English learners have often been considered the students who are in the process…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Reading Research, Oral Language, Reading Achievement