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Krezmien, Michael P.; Mulcahy, Candace; Travers, Jason; Wilson, Michael; Wells, Craig – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2013
This study provides the first systematic examination of the status of reading performance among incarcerated youth since the 1978 Project READ report. The purpose of this study was to provide a contemporary depiction of reading skills of a large sample of incarcerated youth, and to provide leaders and administrators with some tangible…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Reading Skills, Correctional Institutions, Youth
Spivey, Frances Jane – 1992
A study compared the effectiveness of computer-assisted reading instruction to that of a direct teaching model. Nineteen adult male inmates from Windham School System's Ellis II Unit (located in Texas) special education classrooms served as subjects. The subjects were divided into two groups each of which spent one hour a day on reading. One group…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction