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Evaluating Educational Interventions Using Multilevel Growth Curves: The Case of Reading Recovery.
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Plewis, Ian – Educational Research and Evaluation (An International Journal on Theory and Practice), 2000
Describes an application of multilevel modeling to repeated measures as part of an evaluation of Reading Recovery in 22 schools in England and multivariate models are applied to the within and between school aspects of the design. Results show Reading Recovery to be effective in the short term, but not the long term. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Intervention
An Evaluation of the Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies Curriculum at Key Stage 1
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Curtis, Cheryl; Norgate, Roger – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2007
Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) is a curriculum designed to promote social and emotional thinking in primary aged pupils. Research in the US has indicated that where used there has been an increase in emotional understanding and a decrease in behavioural difficulties. This study relates to 287 children (114 from intervention…
Descriptors: Intervention, Empathy, Emotional Development, Teacher Attitudes
A Trial Evaluation of SWELL (Schoolwide Early Language and Literacy): A Whole Class Early Literacy Program for At-Risk and Disadvantaged Children.
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Center, Yola; Freeman, Louella – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1997
A study evaluated the Schoolwide Early Language and Literacy (SWELL) program using four Australian disadvantaged schools. Two schools implemented the program in the kindergarten year, while the other two schools pursued regular kindergarten curriculum. Children in the program outperformed others on words read in context, but not on words read in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Disadvantaged Environment, Economically Disadvantaged
"Writing to Read": An Evaluation of a Canadian Installation of a Computer-Supported Initial Language Environment.
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Collis, Betty; And Others – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1990
Description of the "Writing to Read" (WTR) program highlights an evaluation of the WTR experience with first graders at two British Columbia schools. Treatments for experimental and control groups are described and measures used for the comparisons are explained, including reading readiness, reading achievement, and writing achievement.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Foreign Countries, Grade 1