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D'Agostino, Jerome V.; Murphy, Judith A. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2004
We conducted a meta-analysis of 36 studies of Reading Recovery (RR), an intensive tutorial intervention designed to develop the literacy skills of low-performing first-grade students. Few individual studies of the program have yielded conclusive evidence regarding the program's effectiveness due to various methodological limitations. We relied on…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Intervention

Goldring, Ellen B.; Presbrey, Laurie S. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1986
A meta analysis of preschool intervention programs is performed to arrive at an overall effect size of such programs. Results indicate that despite the diversities in intervention sites, ages of subjects, lengths of intervention, and curricula models, there is a positive homogeneous effect on the variables. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Effect Size, Intervention, Mathematical Models