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Download full textRachel L. Schechter; Maddie Lee Mason; Laura Janakiefski – Online Submission, 2024
The ongoing literacy crisis in the U.S. highlights an urgent need for effective, scalable literacy instruction. REED Charitable Foundation (RCF) is a non-profit organization that provides structured literacy training informed by Orton-Gillingham, along with ongoing professional coaching and comprehensive implementation support to help all students…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains
Houston Independent School District, 2014
The goal of Head Start is to develop the cognitive and social-emotional skills of children from low-income families to prepare them to succeed in kindergarten and beyond. Houston Independent School District (HISD) collaborates with four federally funded Head Start agencies: AVANCE, Gulf Coast Community Services Association (GCCSA), Harris County…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Preschool Curriculum
Houston Independent School District, 2013
The goal of Head Start is to develop the cognitive and social-emotional skills of children from low-income backgrounds to prepare them to succeed in kindergarten and beyond. Houston Independent School District (HISD) collaborates with four federally-funded Head Start agencies: AVANCE, Gulf Coast Community Services Association (GCCSA), Harris…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Preschool Curriculum
Petscher, Yaacov; Foorman, Barbara – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2009
The current study will examine possible contextual effects relative to differences in reading comprehension performance in the state of Florida. While the Reading First (RF) Impact study examined such difference using a regression discontinuity design, the authors are primarily interested in other analytic methods that might answer different…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Criterion Referenced Tests, Comparative Analysis, Reading Programs
Xu, Zeyu; Nichols, Austin – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2010
The gold standard in making causal inference on program effects is a randomized trial. Most randomization designs in education randomize classrooms or schools rather than individual students. Such "clustered randomization" designs have one principal drawback: They tend to have limited statistical power or precision. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Test Format, Reading Tests, Norm Referenced Tests, Research Design
Athey, Irene – 1975
The need for improved measures is particularly acute in reading because, in spite of the magnitude of time and effort which continues to be invested in reading, there is no insurance that the outcome is indeed proportionate to the effort involved. How much of the educational system's performance relative to its own goals is measured by a…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Education, Intelligence Tests, Longitudinal Studies
