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May, Henry; Sirinides, Philip; Gray, Abigail; Goldsworthy, Heather – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2017
Research increasingly links low literacy levels in the early grades with a range of poor outcomes; for instance, students who read below grade level at the end of third grade are about four times less likely than their higher-achieving peers to graduate from high school (Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2010, 2011; Balfanz, Bridgeland, Bruce & Fox,…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Reading Programs, Intervention, Grade 1
Henry May; Philip Sirinides; Abigail Gray; Heather Goldsworthy – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2016
This report presents the final results of a four-year independent external evaluation of the impacts and implementation of the scale-up of Reading Recovery, a literacy intervention targeting struggling 1st-grade students. The evaluation of Reading Recovery includes parallel rigorous experimental and quasi-experimental designs for estimating…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Literacy Education, Intervention, Grade 1
Sirinides, Philip; Gray, Abigail M. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2018
Decades of research have emphasized the need for engaging, accessible ways to help students learn fundamental mathematical concepts. Research also shows that teacher beliefs about teaching and learning have an outsized influence on the quality and effectiveness of curricular interventions. This article reports results of an independent evaluation…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Middle School Students, Intervention
May, Henry; Goldsworthy, Heather; Armijo, Michael; Gray, Abigail; Sirinides, Philip; Blalock, Toscha J.; Anderson-Clark, Helen; Schiera, Andrew J.; Blackman, Horatio; Gillespie, Jessica; Sam, Cecile – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2014
Reading Recovery is a short-term early intervention designed to help the lowest-achieving readers in first grade reach average levels of classroom performance in literacy. Students identified to receive Reading Recovery meet individually with a specially trained Reading Recovery teacher every school day for 30-minute lessons over a period of 12 to…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Evaluation, Early Intervention, Low Achievement
May, Henry; Gray, Abigail; Gillespie, Jessica N.; Sirinides, Philip; Sam, Cecile; Goldsworthy, Heather; Armijo, Michael; Tognatta, Namrata – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2013
Reading Recovery (RR) is a short-term early intervention designed to help the lowest-achieving readers in first grade reach average levels of classroom performance in literacy. Students identified to receive Reading Recovery meet individually with a specially trained Reading Recovery (RR) teacher every school day for 30-minute lessons over a…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Early Intervention, Reading Achievement, Reading Difficulties
Robinson, Marian A.; Kannapel, Patricia; Gujarati, Joan; Williams, Hakim; Oettinger, Andrea – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2008
During the 2007-08 school year, the New York City Department of Education launched the second phase of its ambitious and innovative initiative known as "Children First." Ultimately, this initiative aims to intensify the focus by all educators on student performance and in doing so to stimulate the development of evidence-based cultures…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Change Strategies, Teamwork, Program Effectiveness
Corcoran, Thomas B. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2008
This is the first report on the evaluation of the Inquiry Based Science and Technology Education Program (IN-STEP), an innovative and ambitious science education initiative for lower secondary schools being undertaken by a public-private partnership in Thailand funded by MSD-Thailand, an affiliate of Merck & Co. IN-STEP is a public-private…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Schools of Education, Evaluators, Science Interests