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The Effects of One versus Two Years of Intensive Reading Intervention Implemented with Late Elementary Struggling Readers
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Miciak, Jeremy; Roberts, Garrett; Taylor, W. Pat; Solis, Michael; Ahmed, Yusra; Vaughn, Sharon; Fletcher, Jack M. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2018
We examined the effectiveness of a researcher-provided reading intervention with 484 fourth graders with significant reading difficulties. Students were randomly assigned to one year of intervention, two years of intervention, or a business-as-usual comparison condition (BAU). Students assigned to two years of intervention demonstrated…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Implementation, Intervention, Reading Difficulties
A Faster Track: Decreasing the Number of Semesters Students Spend in Developmental Mathematics without Lowering Academic Expectations
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Rodgers, Kathy; Posler, Brian; Trible, Linda – PRIMUS, 2011
The Rapid Review program at the University of Southern Indiana (USI) was designed to decrease the number of semesters under-prepared students spend completing the developmental mathematics sequence without sacrificing their ability to be successful in subsequent math courses. A quasi-experimental design was used to compare first-time, full-time…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Program Effectiveness