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Baker, Scott; Fien, Hank; Park, Yonghan; Haria, Priti; Santoro, Lana; Chard, David; Otterstedt, Janet; Williams, Susanna – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
The purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of tier 2 instruction on the comprehension and vocabulary of first grade students identified with low language and vocabulary skills. Specifically, the authors conducted a pilot study within the context of federally funded efficacy research to examine whether students participating in…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Vocabulary Skills, Vocabulary Development, Grade 1
Smith, Carl B.; Austin, Mary C. – Reading Res Quart, 1969
Descriptors: Developmental Reading, Federal Programs, Population Distribution, Reading Programs
Thomas, Thomas C.; Pelavin, Sol H. – 1976
This report describes and interprets the reading achievement rates of Title I participants over a period of six years beginning with the school year 1968-69. The primary data source consisted of 283 ESEA Title I evaluation reports for the years 1969-1974, supplemented by information from the state Title I offices. From pretest and posttest data…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Reading
Logan, Juanita – 1976
This report contains an evaluation of the reading improvement program in the primary grades in Cleveland, Ohio, which attempts to provide specialized reading instruction and support for disadvantaged pupils at a time deemed critical in their school experience. The project utilizes the services of a reading consultant, master teachers, and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Expenditure per Student, Primary Education, Program Evaluation
Utka, Joseph Michael – 1975
The purpose of this study was to examine whether or not a reading laboratory, as defined by Educational Developmental Laboratories (EDL), is an effective means of teaching reading to Title I children, grades two through six, in the two Title I schools of an eastern Massachusetts community. Three hundred subjects participated in the study. There…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Learning Laboratories, Reading Achievement
Logan, Juanita; Fleming, Margaret – 1972
The Cleveland Reading Improvement Project attempts to provide specialized reading instruction for disadvantaged pupils in the primary grades. The project utilized the services of a reading consultant in each target school and serves children who have been identified by their classroom teachers and school principals as experiencing difficulty in…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Longitudinal Studies, Parent Participation, Primary Education
Lewis, Susan Edwina Bivins – 1976
The effects of an instructional program in active listening upon reading comprehension were investigated in a sample of 60 black, inner-city children in two Title I elementary schools. The Durrell Listening Reading Test and the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Achievement Test were administered before and after the experimental program. Comparisons with…
Descriptors: Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
RMC Research Corp., Arlington, VA. – 1976
Selected results from a study of compensatory reading programs sponsored by Title I and by other sources are presented and discussed. Various phases of the study included a questionnaire survey of a nationally representative sample of elementary schools, pre- and posttesting of students in grades two, four, and six of a subsample of the original…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Doerr, William Anthony – 1976
This research project investigated the differences in reading achievement levels between students enrolled in Title I compensatory education programs and other students in the same school. Both groups also were compared to similar students in a school which did not receive Title I benefits. The evaluation process was based on an analysis of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
DeVito, Pasquale John – 1976
To investigate the effects of Title I reading programs and the relationships of relevant sets of variables to student achievement, this study sought to determine the unique, and the common, contributions of background, mental ability, program, and parental involvement to the variance in reading comprehension and vocabulary scores for Title I…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Doctoral Dissertations, Intermediate Grades, Program Evaluation
Harrison, Grant Von; And Others – 1972
All (172) second grade nonreaders in Title I schools received structured tutoring from intermediate age youngsters 15 minutes per day, four days per week for five months in a program to remediate reading skills. Control Subjects were randomly selected, without regard for reading ability, from the total grade 2 population of three non-Title I…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Grade 2, Individual Instruction, Individualized Instruction
Weigert, Barbara Ann – 1971
This study investigated whether there was a significant difference in the mean achievement scores of second and third grade remedial reading pupils taught by two different programs. The approaches used were (1) a basal reader program in both regular and remedial reading classes and (2) a basal reader program in the regular classroom supplemented…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3
Jarvis-Janik, Margaret – 1993
A study investigated the effectiveness of an Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Pull-out program on the reading achievement of Hispanic fifth- and sixth-grade participants. Earlier research on the effectiveness of such programs was inconclusive. Subjects, 30 randomly chosen students from a Chicago public school who received instruction…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Hispanic Americans, Instructional Effectiveness
Julius, Patsy F. – 1974
The purposes of this study were to develop criteria for effective reading programs and objectives, to determine the correlation between the quality of the objectives written and the quality of the reading program characteristics of Title I funded reading projects in West Virginia for 1966-75, to determine the correlation between the quality of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1975
The overall effectiveness of the Title I program is questionable, according to this report to Congress. Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act authorizes federal financial assistance for programs designed to meet the special educational needs of educationally deprived children living in areas with high concentrations of children…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Program Effectiveness
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