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- 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. 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
- 3. The impact of instructional methodology on student achievement of black males based on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test
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- This study compares the effect of two reading programs on the reading achievement of African American elementary students. Students received instruction with either the Harcourt Basal Series or the Reading ...
- Created on 21 May 2017
- 4. An analysis of the Reading Mastery program: Effective components and research review
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- This article articulates the alignment of Reading Mastery with research-validated features of effective instruction in the areas of oral language, decoding, and reading comprehension. The second part ...
- Created on 09 December 2014
- 5. An analysis of phonological awareness instruction in four kindergarten basal reading programs
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- This study examined four basal reading programs at the kindergarten level in order to determine the adequacy of phonological awareness instruction for students at risk for learning difficulties. Authors ...
- Created on 14 April 2015
- 6. A study of the implementation of a Direct Instruction reading program and its effects on the reading achievement of low socioeconomic students in an urban public school
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- This study compared the effect of two reading programs (Reading Mastery (RM) and Harcourt Brace Basal Reading Program (HB)) on the reading achievement of low-SES elementary students (grade 1-5), at an ...
- Created on 27 September 2015
- 7. Research study: Raising mathematics problem-solving performance: Do the NCTM teaching standards help?
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- This study compared the effect of Direct Instruction (DI) videodisc programs and the Scott Foresman basal mathematics program on the mathematics achievement of fifth and sixth grade low- and high-performing ...
- Created on 18 August 2016
- 8. Effectiveness of the DISTAR Reading I program in developing first graders’ language skills
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- This study compared the effect of DISTAR Reading and a basal reading program on increasing the school-based language ability of 80 African American elementary students. Students from two urban elementary ...
- Created on 27 September 2015
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