- 1. Changes in Reading Achievement at a Florida Elementary School: A Randomized Control Study of Reading Mastery
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- 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 ...
- Created on 27 September 2015
- 2. Merging the accountability and scientific research requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act: Using Cohort Control groups
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- 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 ...
- Created on 12 November 2014
- 3. An evaluation of two methods for teaching United States history to students with learning disabilities
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- 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 ...
- Created on 26 March 2017
- 4. Examining the core: Relations among reading curricula, poverty, and first through third grade reading achievement
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- 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 ...
- Created on 25 September 2015
- 5. Direct Instruction reduces special education referrals in Louisiana school district by half
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- 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 ...
- Created on 28 September 2015
- 6. Direct Instruction helps Native American school change course, improve reading
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- 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 ...
- Created on 02 April 2017
- 7. Corrective Reading helps ELL students gain multiple years growth
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- 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 ...
- Created on 01 April 2017
- 8. Seattle school boosts reading scores with Reading Mastery curriculum
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- 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 ...
- Created on 30 March 2017
- 9. The impact of instructional methodology on student achievement of black males based on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test
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- ... 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 ...
- Created on 21 May 2017
- 10. Effects of comprehensive school reform on student achievement and school change: A longitudinal multi-site study
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- 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 ...
- Created on 04 May 2017
- 11. An Inquiry Into Children’s Reading in One Urban School Using SRA Reading Mastery (Direct Instruction)
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- 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 ...
- Created on 26 March 2017
- 12. Florida school moves from D grade to A with Reading Mastery
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- 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 ...
- Created on 28 September 2015
- 13. The effects of comprehensive school reform models in reading for urban middle school students with disabilities
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- 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 ...
- Created on 27 September 2015
- 14. A study of the impact of Direct Instruction on Jefferson County Public Schools' Reading Curriculum
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- 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 ...
- Created on 28 May 2017
- 15. Reading Mastery helps Florida students advance two grade levels in reading
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- 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 ...
- Created on 30 March 2017
- 16. Reading Mastery Plus helps Colorado school achieve AYP for first time
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- 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 ...
- Created on 28 September 2015
- 17. Miami elementary school boosts FCAT scores with Reading Mastery
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- ... 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 ...
- Created on 28 September 2015
- 18. Florida elementary students master reading in preparation for junior high
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- ... 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 ...
- Created on 28 September 2015
- 19. Using school reform models to improve reading achievement: A longitudinal study of Direct Instruction and Success For All in an urban district
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- 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 ...
- Created on 27 September 2015
- 20. Impediments to Scaling Up Effective Comprehensive School Reform Models
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- 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 ...
- Created on 07 April 2015
- 21. Leroy F. Greene Middle School, Sacramento, California
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- 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 ...
- Created on 02 April 2017
- 22. Woodstock Middle School, Millington, Tennessee
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- 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 ...
- Created on 02 April 2017
- 23. Colonial High School: Orlando, Florida
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- ... 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 ...
- Created on 30 March 2017
- 24. The Baltimore curriculum project: Final report of the four-year evaluation study
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- 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 ...
- Created on 30 October 2015
- 25. Achievement Outcomes in Baltimore City Schools
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- 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. ...
- Created on 25 September 2015
- 26. Comprehensive school reform and achievement: A meta-analysis
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- 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 ...
- Created on 09 December 2014
- 27. City Springs Elementary School, Baltimore, Maryland
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- 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 ...
- Created on 02 April 2017
- 28. Reading Mastery versus word study instruction as it pertains to third graders' reading achievement scores
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- 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 ...
- Created on 27 September 2015
- 29. Implementing research-based reading programs in the Fort Worth Independent School District
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- 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 ...
- Created on 27 September 2015
- 30. The impact of Direct Instruction on elementary students’ reading achievement in an urban school district
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- 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, ...
- Created on 26 September 2015
- 31. Evaluation of Broward County Alliance of Quality Schools Project
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- 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 ...
- Created on 26 September 2015
- 32. Increasing the reading achievement of at-risk children through Direct Instruction: Evaluation of the Rodeo Institute for Teacher Excellence (RITE)
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- 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 ...
- Created on 25 September 2015
- 33. Comparison of the effects of Direct Instruction and basal instruction on the reading achievement of first-grade students identified as students with reading difficulties
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- 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 ...
- Created on 25 September 2015
- 34. Effects of Direct Instruction and basal reading instruction programs on the reading achievement of second graders
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- 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 ...
- Created on 25 September 2015
- 35. Phonological Awareness and Phonetic-Graphic Conversion: A Study of the Effects of Two Intervention Paradigms with Learning Disabled Children. Learning Disability or Learning Difference?
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- 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 ...
- Created on 16 June 2015
- 36. Research on Direct Instruction: 25 Years Beyond DISTAR
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- 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 ...
- Created on 12 December 2013
- 37. Effects of Interactive Story Reading on Concepts about Print and Journal Writing in First-Grade Children
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- 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 ...
- Created on 25 September 2015
- 38. Research brief: A validation study of Connecting Math Concepts
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- 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 ...
- Created on 14 June 2016
- 39. An Exploratory Evaluation of Dynamic Assessment and the Role of Basals on Comprehension of Mathematical Operations
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- 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 ...
- Created on 09 April 2015
- 40. Effects of curriculum alignment versus Direct Instruction of urban children
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- 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 ...
- Created on 25 September 2015
- 41. Belmont community school, Worcester, Massachusetts
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- 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 ...
- Created on 31 March 2017
- 42. Evaluating curriculum design in the context of active teaching
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- 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 ...
- Created on 04 December 2013
- 43. The Direct Instruction Follow Through model: Design and outcomes
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- 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 ...
- Created on 01 October 2015
- 44. Changing reading programs: North Thurston’s gradual move toward Reading Mastery
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- 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 ...
- Created on 24 March 2017
- 45. Research on the Efficiency of Low-Cost Networking
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- 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 ...
- Created on 02 November 2015
- 46. DISTAR and CTBS results
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- 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 ...
- Created on 20 July 2016
- 47. Is DI only for low achievers?
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- 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 ...
- Created on 20 July 2016
- 48. Longitudinal follow-up assessment of differential preschool experience for low income minority group children
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- 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 ...
- Created on 20 June 2016
- 49. Structured Immersion for Language Minority Students: Results of a Longitudinal Evaluation
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- 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 ...
- Created on 26 September 2015
- 50. Direct Instruction with Special Education Students: A Review of Evaluation Research
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- 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 ...
- Created on 17 April 2015
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