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Michael Hebert; Janet J. Bohaty; J. Ron Nelson; Jessica Brown – Grantee Submission, 2016
In this meta-analysis of 45 studies involving students in grades 2-12, the authors present evidence on the effects of text structure instruction on the expository reading comprehension of students. The meta-analysis was deigned to answer two sets of questions. The first set of questions examined the effectiveness of text structure instruction on…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Reading Instruction, Effect Size, Reading Comprehension
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Michael Hebert; Janet J. Bohaty; J. Ron Nelson; Jessica Brown – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
In this meta-analysis of 45 studies involving students in Grades 2-12, the authors present evidence on the effects of text structure instruction on the expository reading comprehension of students. The meta-analysis was deigned to answer 2 sets of questions. The first set of questions examined the effectiveness of text structure instruction on…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Reading Instruction, Effect Size, Reading Comprehension
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Sheehan, Kathleen M. – ETS Research Report Series, 2015
The "TextEvaluator"® text analysis tool is a fully automated text complexity evaluation tool designed to help teachers, curriculum specialists, textbook publishers, and test developers select texts that are consistent with the text complexity guidelines specified in the Common Core State Standards.This paper documents the procedure used…
Descriptors: Scores, Common Core State Standards, Computer Software, Computational Linguistics