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Download full textJacob, Robin Tepper; Smith, Thomas J.; Willard, Jacklyn A.; Rifkin, Rachel E. – MDRC, 2014
This policy brief summarizes the positive results of a rigorous evaluation of Reading Partners, a widely used program that offers one-on-one tutoring provided by community volunteers to struggling readers in low-income elementary schools. A total of 1,265 students in 19 schools in three states were randomly assigned to receive Reading…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Volunteers, Tutoring
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Direct linkJames-Burdumy, Susanne; Deke, John; Gersten, Russell; Lugo-Gil, Julieta; Newman-Gonchar, Rebecca; Dimino, Joseph; Haymond, Kelly; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
This article presents evidence from a large-scale randomized controlled trial of the effects of four supplemental reading comprehension curricula (Project CRISS, ReadAbout, Read for Real, and Reading for Knowledge) on students' understanding of informational text. Across 2 school years, the study included 10 school districts, more than 200…
Descriptors: Evidence, Program Effectiveness, Control Groups, Reading Comprehension
Carson, Cynthia J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine if there was a difference between mean measures of preliteracy skills of preschool children who participated in Creating Young Readers, a volunteer based reading program, and a control group who had not. Unpaid community volunteers were trained in a modified dialogic reading technique, focusing on…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Volunteers, Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy
Huang, Jin – Research on Social Work Practice, 2010
This study examines effects of individual development accounts (IDAs) on household wealth of low-income participants. Methods: This study uses longitudinal survey data from the American Dream Demonstration (ADD) involving experimental design (treatment group = 537, control group = 566). Results: Results from quantile regression analysis indicate…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Research Design, Income, Low Income Groups
Marzano, Robert J. – Marzano Research Laboratory, 2006
During the 2004-2005 academic year, an evaluation study was conducted of the Building Academic Vocabulary (BAV) program. The findings from this study, reported in the document "Marzano Program for Building Academic Vocabulary: Preliminary Report of the 2004-2005 Evaluation Study" (Marzano, 2005), found that students who participated in the BAV…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Ability, English Language Learners
