This study examined the effect of two reading programs on the reading achievement of elementary students. Students were selected from grades K-2 at a Florida elementary school and randomly assigned to ...
This study uses published, aggregated data on the results of implementations of Reading Mastery to show how school assessment data, such as that mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), can be ...
This study examined the effect of two contrasting approaches to teaching United States history to 44 seventh to ninth grade students with learning disabilities. Students were randomly assigned to either ...
This study compared the effects of six reading programs on the oral reading fluency (ORF) growth of 30,000 first to third grade students. Students were randomly selected from almost 3,000 classrooms in ...
This study examined the effect of two Direct Instruction (DI) programs (Reading Mastery, Corrective Reading) on the academic achievement and referrals for special education of elementary students. At the ...
This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading (CR) on the reading achievement of students in grades 7-9 in one school. Prior to the implementation of CR in 2003, every student had required reading ...
This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading (CR) on the reading achievement of English Language Learner (ELL) students in one middle school. CR was implemented in grades 6-8 during the 2001-2002 ...
This study examined the effect of Reading Mastery (RM) on the reading achievement of elementary students. In an attempt to reduce the racial gap in academic achievement, RM was implemented in the African ...
... Mastery program from the second to the fourth grade. The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) was administered to both groups of students during the spring of fourth grade. Results from the FCAT ...
This three-year longitudinal study examined the effect of four Comprehensive School Reform (CFR) models on the academic achievement of elementary students in 12 schools. These four models included Direct ...
This study examined the effect of Reading Mastery on the development of reading skills and the use of reading strategies of 27 second grade students. Students were asked to read story books according to ...
This study examined the effect of Reading Mastery (RM) on the reading achievement of kindergarten and elementary students. In response to receiving a “D” grade from the state of Florida, the Alta Vista ...
This study compared the effect of two Comprehensive School Reform models (Success for All, Direct Instruction) on the reading achievement of 44 middle school students with disabilities who were two or ...
This study compares the effect of two reading programs, Reading Mastery (RM) and the Five Block program, on the reading achievement of elementary students in one school district over four years. Three ...
This study examined the effect of Direct Instruction reading programs on the reading achievement of elementary students. In response to k-5 students at Gulf Elementary School reading one or more years ...
This study examined the effect of Reading Mastery Plus (RMP) on the reading achievement of students in grades K-5. In response to poor test scores, district administrators determined it was necessary to ...
... from 7% to 57% between 1997 and 2005. Results from the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) indicated that the percentage of fourth grade students scoring at or above level 3 (Range 1-5 with 3 ...
... of DI reading programs (2005), 72% of its students scored at or above grade level on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). After using DI programs for many years, it was reported that there ...
This study compared the effectiveness of two instructional programs Direct Instruction (DI) and Success for All) on the academic achievement of elementary students in an urban school district. DI was implemented ...
In this article, Engelmann and Engelmann discuss the various problems involved with scaling up comprehensive school reform models in order to reverse the failure of schools to educate all students. Their ...
This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading (CR) on the reading achievement of middle school students in one school. In response to 75 percent of students reading below grade level and 50 percent ...
This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading (CR) on the reading achievement of 100 low—performing middle school students in one school. CR was implemented at the beginning of the 2001-2002 school ...
... demonstrated an increase from 28 to 30. Results from the 2002 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) indicated that 56% of the school’s poorest readers made adequate progress in reading. At the conclusion ...
This study examined the effect of Direct Instruction and Core Knowledge programs in six elementary schools during the implementation of the four-year Baltimore Curriculum Project. Each of the six schools ...
This article examines changes in student achievement in the Baltimore City School System from 1993 to 2001, focusing on actual change over time and projected achievement based on current performance trends. ...
A meta-analysis of research on the achievement effects of widely implemented comprehensive school reforms (CSR) was conducted. Various CSR models were compared, and schools were then grouped into categories ...
This study examined the effect of Reading Mastery (RM) on the reading achievement of kindergarten and elementary students in one school. The Maryland Schools Proficiency Assessment Program (MSPAP) was ...
This study compared the effect of two reading programs (Reading Mastery, Word Study) on the reading achievement of 36 third grade students. Students were selected from two third grade classrooms in one ...
This study reports on the results of an evaluation of the implementation of Reading Mastery (RM) and Open Court (OC) in the Fort Worth Independent School District, replacing a whole language program. Principals ...
This article discusses the preliminary results of the first four years of the implementation of Direct Instruction (DI) reading programs in six Baltimore elementary schools. DI programs in reading, language, ...
This article reviewed the evaluation of the Alliance of Quality Schools project in Broward County Florida. The project was conducted over five years and was designed to increase the academic achievement ...
This study evaluated the Rodeo Institute for Teacher Excellence (RITE) program, which addressed at-risk students’ failure to develop basic reading skills. The evaluation compared the scores of all K-2 ...
This study examined the effects of Reading Mastery (RM) on the reading achievement of first grade students with reading difficulties in comparison to students receiving instruction with a basal reading ...
This study examined the effects of Reading Mastery on the reading achievement of second graders in comparison to students instructed with a Basal Reading Program. Two second grade classes from separate ...
This study compared the effect of Reading Mastery and Reading Mastery combined with the Stabilized Learning System Program on students with severe learning disabilities acquisition of reading skills. Eighty ...
This book was written in response to the unfounded negative views of Direct Instruction and a lack of a thorough scientific review of the effectiveness of Direct Instruction. It is designed to show what ...
This study compared the effects of whole language instruction in language arts and DISTAR on the reading and writing skills of first grade students. Thirty-eight students participated in this study with ...
This study examined the effectiveness of Connecting Math Concepts on the academic achievement of students entering the first grade in one Follow Through elementary school in Camden, New Jersey. Similar ...
The study was designed to evaluate the relationship of the curricular programs Connecting Math Concepts and Open Court to students’ comprehension of mathematical concepts and procedures. Twenty-four third ...
This study examined the effect of Direct Instruction programs on the academic achievement of 2nd grade students in Camden, New Jersey. (The project received Follow Through funding, but was not one of the ...
This study examined the effect of Direct Instruction programs on the academic achievement of kindergarten and elementary students in one inner-city elementary school. Initially, Reading Mastery (RM) was ...
This study compared effects of two math curricula intended to teach ratio and proportion word problems; instruction was delivered via videodisc and incorporated Direct Instruction principles for the experimental ...
This article examines the results of the Direct Instruction (DI) model from Project Follow Through. Research findings are discussed as well as the components of the DI model. Key components covered include ...
This study examined the effect of Reading Mastery on the reading achievement of 14 fourth grade students over the course of one school year. The Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills was administered each ...
This article examines three studies, which address the efficiency of implementing Teacher Net, a low-cost computer networking system. Each study examined a different context; independent work, teacher ...
This study examined the effect of the DISTAR program on the academic achievement of elementary students. The DISTAR program was implemented in five elementary schools in Oldham County Kentucky in varying ...
This study examined the effect of Reading Mastery (RM) and Spelling Mastery (SM) on the reading and spelling skills of average and above-average fourth and fifth-grade students. Student achievement was ...
This study compared the effect of different preschools on the school achievement and school sentiment of urban minority high school students. Forty four students from a group of 92 original participants ...
This article describes a 7 year-long study conducted to test the effect of a structured immersion program, based on the principles of Direct Instruction, on students with limited English proficiency. In ...
This article describes a 7 year-long study conducted to test the effect of a structured immersion program, based on the principles of Direct Instruction, on students with limited English proficiency. In ...