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Peer reviewedBlasik, Katherine A.; Hodges, Ernest V. E. – ERS Spectrum, 1997
Describes the Broward County (Florida) Research and Evaluation Department's assessment of a Sylvan Learning Systems remedial reading program employed in two district schools during 1993-94. Sylvan staff adequately equipped both sites, appropriately used diagnostic tests for placing students, implemented motivation and direct-instruction…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Partnerships in Education, Privatization, Program Evaluation
Download full textEllis, Patricia Ann – 1969
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the unaided teacher is able to teach kindergarten children in remedial reading as well as the teacher who is aided by trained fifth- and sixth-grade tutors. Involved in the study were eight schools using the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) First Year Communications Skills Program, which is…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Communication Skills, Kindergarten
Peer reviewedFraas, John W.; Crail, Jayn – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 1992
Examined the use of kindergarten screening scores to predict whether a student would qualify for a reading intervention program in first grade. From a sample of 243 students, the scores of 121 students were subjected to logit regression analysis and the remaining 122 students were used as a holdout group. Concludes that the model could be used.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Models, Reading Programs
Maine Univ., Orono. Center for Early Literacy. – 1998
In the 1997-98 school year, 219 more children were served by the Reading Recovery (RR) program than were served during the previous year in Maine elementary schools. In Maine, 333 Reading Recovery teachers taught 2,171 students in 219 schools that offered Reading Recovery services across 102 local school administrative units. Of all the RR…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Grade 1, Literacy, Primary Education
Zynda, Barbara – Journal of Clinical Reading: Research and Programs, 1984
Investigates the effectiveness of a program that provides diagnostic and remedial services for individuals with severe reading difficulties and professional growth for reading and resource specialists at all levels. Finds that students who made substantial progress in a special remediation program did not continue to progress at the same rate in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement
Rhodes-Kline, Anne K. – 1995
Administrators, trained Reading Recovery teachers, teachers in training, classroom teachers, and parents of Reading Recovery students from across the state of Maine were asked to complete surveys about their impressions of the Reading Recovery program during the 1994-95 school year. Respondents' comments were summarized by Reading Recovery team…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Early Intervention, Grade 1, Primary Education
Peer reviewedLeinhardt, Gaea – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
This article investigates the impact of assigning poor-prognosis first-grade students to separate transition rooms, and contrasts it with giving similar children (transition eligible) regular instructional settings and under an individualized program, the New Reading System. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Age Grade Placement, Basal Reading, Beginning Reading
Lambert, Judy C.; And Others – 1991
A study examined the first year of implementation of a college reading program developed at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. The study consisted of two separate analyses. In analysis 1, the characteristics of students who were required to enroll in the remedial reading program were studied to determine trends and develop profiles for the…
Descriptors: College Programs, High Risk Students, Higher Education, Reading Ability
Rhodes-Kline, Anne K.; Johnson, Karen – 1997
A telephone interview survey was conducted to determine the reasons some Maine schools have chosen not to implement Reading Recovery, despite the program's statewide support and continued financial support toward training costs from the Maine Department of Education. Out of 72 selected schools, 47 participated, for a response rate of 65%. A…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Educational Research, Grade 1, High Risk Students
Lysy, Daria C.; Moore, Paula F.; Bamford, Rosemary A. – 1998
The purpose of this report is to identify the attitudes of parents, administrators, and teachers about the Reading Recovery[R] program in Maine. The report provides samples of comments and quality ratings as assessed by the standard annual survey forms and supplements the full State of Maine Reading Recovery[R] 1997-1998 Report and Evaluation. It…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Early Intervention, Parent Attitudes, Primary Education
Direct linkBlachman, Benita A.; Schatschneider, Christopher; Fletcher, Jack M.; Francis, David J.; Clonan, Sheila M.; Shaywitz, Bennett A.; Shaywitz, Sally E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2004
Second- and 3rd-grade children with poor word-level skills were randomly assigned to 8 months of explicit instruction emphasizing the phonologic and orthographic connections in words and text-based reading or to remedial reading programs provided by the schools. At posttest, treatment children showed significantly greater gains than control…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 2, Remedial Reading, Remedial Programs
Moore, Paula; Lysy, Daria C.; Bamford, Rosemary; Kimmey, Tonya; Rhodes-Kline, Anne K. – 1997
This report summarizes statewide findings about Maine's Reading Recovery (RR) program based on data from the 1996-97 school year. The information presented in the report includes a brief history of the program in Maine, school-level implementation of the program, demographic information about the children served, the amount of time children spent…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Grade 1, Literacy, Outcomes of Education
Rhodes-Kline, Anne K. – 1996
As part of program evaluation for the Reading Recovery (RR) program in Maine, parents, classroom teachers, administrators, and RR teachers responded to open-ended survey questions, and they rated the program along dimensions of quality. This report summarizes and synthesizes the responses received across the state of Maine to the surveys…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Early Intervention, Parent Attitudes, Primary Education
Harmon, Janis M.; Keehn, Susan; Kenney, Michelle S. – Reading Research and Instruction, 2004
This study examined a reading tutoring program for struggling adolescent readers. The major objectives of the tutoring program were to help struggling adolescent readers develop an understanding of the strategic nature of reading and to encourage these reluctant readers to take control of their reading. The results of the study hold implications…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Adolescents, Minority Groups, Reading Instruction
Kilian, Lawrence J.; Kagen, Edward – 1981
The effect of Title I reading instruction was examined in a group of students as they progressed from grade two through grade six. The number of students who fell below the twenty-third percentile on a reading achievement test (the criterion for Title I participation) was tabulated for each year to determine the program's effectiveness both in…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs, Longitudinal Studies
