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Direct linkEspin, Christine A.; Busch, Todd W.; Lembke, Erica S.; Hampton, David D.; Seo, Kyounghee; Zukowski, Beth A. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2013
The technical adequacy of curriculum-based measures in the form of short and simple vocabulary-matching probes to predict students' performance and progress in science at the secondary level was investigated. Participants were 198 seventh-grade students from 10 science classrooms. Curriculum-based measurements (CBM) were 5-min vocabulary-matching…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Vocabulary, Secondary School Science, Content Area Reading
Download full textSchenck, Allen; Feighan, Kelly; Coffey, Debra; Rui, Ning – Research for Better Schools, 2011
This report presents the results from an evaluation of the fourth year of the Memphis Striving Readers Project (MSRP) conducted by Research for Better Schools (RBS). MSRP, funded for five years by the United States Department of Education, comprises two interventions aimed at improving adolescent literacy and the quality of literacy instruction…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Programs, Program Evaluation, Middle School Students
Vaden-Kiernan, Michael; Caverly, Sarah; Bell, Nance; Sullivan, Kate; Fong, Carlton; Atwood, Erin; Borman, Geoffrey; Park, So Jung; Jones, Debra Hughes – SEDL, 2012
The Louisiana Striving Readers evaluation assessed the implementation and effectiveness of the Voyager "Passport Reading Journeys" (PRJ), a widely used supplemental literacy intervention for struggling adolescent readers that reflects the research-based practices recommended by the National Reading Panel (2000) and other more recent…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Fidelity, Grade 6
Murray, Marsha – Georgia Social Science Journal, 1990
Introduces ways to assess students' reading ability and improve reading of social studies textbooks. Combines reading scores from Iowa Tests of Basic Skills and individual sessions to understand students' reading ability levels. Uses cooperative reading groups, reading labs, and whole-class oral reading to improve skills. Suggests pre- and…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities
