- 1. Lessons from Project Follow Through (1967-1977) for the Northern Ireland Curriculum
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- This technical report offers a critique of the Revised Northern Ireland Curriculum (RNIC), in place since 2007. The author argues that these revisions have remained largely unchallenged since their introduction ...
- Created on 22 November 2019
- 2. The Impact of Administrative Decisions on Implementation Fidelity of Direct Instruction and Student Achievement
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- This article presents results from three studies that examined the impact of administrative decisions and implementation fidelity to on student achievement within schools implementing DI programs. Results ...
- Created on 22 November 2019
- 3. The Effectiveness of Direct Instruction Curricula: A Meta-Analysis of a Half Century of Research
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- This updated meta-analysis synthesized the results of 328 studies on the effectiveness of Direct Instruction, spanning 50 years (1966-2016). Results were consistent with conclusions of previous meta-analyses ...
- Created on 22 November 2019
- 4. Examining the What Works Clearinghouse and Its Reviews of Direct Instruction Programs
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- In this report Stockard analyzes the conclusions of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) on the effectiveness of Direct Instruction, specifically examining the strong differences between their review of ...
- Created on 02 November 2015
- 5. Increasing reading skills in rural districts: A case study of three schools
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- Reviews of research on rural education suggest that identifying ways to help rural schools improve teachers’ pedagogical skills should be a high priority. This article addresses this issue by examining ...
- Created on 27 September 2015
- 6. Research on the Effectiveness of Direct Instruction Programs: An Updated Meta-Analysis
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- This paper reports the results of a meta-analysis of studies of DI programs that included a comparison group, randomly assigned students to groups, and reported statistical information that could be used ...
- Created on 14 April 2015
- 7. 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
- 8. A Bibliography of the Direct Instruction Curriculum and Studies Examining its Efficacy
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- Research on the effectiveness of Direct Instruction (DI) has spanned over 40 years, consistently providing support for the assertion that all children can learn if provided with appropriate instruction. ...
- Created on 30 September 2013
- 9. The impact of Reading Mastery in kindergarten on reading achievement through the primary grades: A cohort control group design
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- This study examined the effect of exposure to Reading Mastery (RM) in kindergarten on the growth of reading skills through the primary grades. The study used a cohort control group design, comparing cohorts ...
- Created on 05 October 2015
- 10. The Development of Early Academic Success: The Impact of Direct Instruction’s Reading Mastery
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- This study examined the effect of exposure to Reading Mastery (RM) in kindergarten on the growth of reading skills through the primary grades. The study used a cohort control group design, comparing cohorts ...
- Created on 27 September 2015
- 11. Promoting early literacy of preschool children: A study of the effectiveness of Funnix Beginning Reading
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- Thirty-seven four-year-old students in a Head Start program in a suburban community in the southern United States were randomly assigned to receive 30 minutes of additional instruction each day in their ...
- Created on 27 September 2015
- 12. Fourth Graders’ Growth in Reading Comprehension and Fluency: A Pretest-Posttest Randomized Control Study Comparing Reading Mastery and Scott Foresman Basal Reading Program
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- This study compared the effect of two reading programs (Reading Mastery Signature Edition, Scott Foresman’s Celebrate Reading) on the reading comprehension and fluency of fourth grade students. Fifty two ...
- Created on 27 September 2015
- 13. Effects of Direct Instruction on the reading comprehension of students with autism and developmental disabilities
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- This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading on the reading comprehension of four elementary and secondary students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and developmental disabilities (DD). Curriculum-based ...
- Created on 22 June 2016
- 14. Direct Instruction reading: Effects of the Reading Master Plus – Level K curriculum on preschool children with developmental delays
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- This study examined the effect of Reading Mastery Plus (RMP) on the reading achievement of preschool students with and without developmental delays. Curriculum based measures were administered for pre- ...
- Created on 10 June 2016
- 15. Reading Achievement in a Direct Instruction School and a “Three Tier” Curriculum School
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- This study compared the effect of two reading programs on the reading achievement of kindergarten and elementary students from two schools within the same school district. Student achievement between kindergarten ...
- Created on 27 September 2015
- 16. Interventions for reading difficulties: A comparison of response to intervention by ELL and EFL struggling readers
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- This study examined student response to remedial reading intervention, with comparisons made between students from differing language backgrounds and across instructional programs. Struggling readers who ...
- Created on 04 December 2013
- 17. Effects of small-group reading instruction and curriculum differences for students most at risk in kindergarten: Two-year results for secondary- and tertiary-level interventions
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- This study selected participants from a larger study that evaluated effects of a three-tier model for academics and behavior (Kamps & Greenwood, 2005). In the current study, reading achievement of students ...
- Created on 04 December 2013
- 18. Academic Kindergarten and Later Academic Success: The Impact of Direct Instruction
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- The National Reading Panel recently concluded that pre-literacy and early literacy instruction is appropriate for kindergarten students and an important element of promoting higher achievement in later ...
- Created on 04 December 2013
- 19. 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
- 20. The Third Wave Project: Report of a project to investigate effective ‘Third Wave’ intervention strategies for students with learning difficulties who are in mainstream schools in years 4, 5 and 6
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- This study examined “Third Wave” intervention strategies for fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students with learning disabilities in mainstream schools. Fifty six schools participated in the study with 35 ...
- Created on 09 June 2016
- 21. The effects of a Direct Instruction program on the fraction performance of middle school students at-risk for failure in mathematics
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- This study examined the effects of a Direct Instruction mathematics program, Corrective Mathematics, Basic Fractions on middle school students identified as at-risk for failure in mathematics. Concepts ...
- Created on 04 December 2013
- 22. Effectiveness of Corrective Reading with high school special education students
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- This one year study examined the effect of the Corrective Reading (CR) program on the reading achievement of ninth and tenth grade students with learning disabilities. Student achievement was compared ...
- Created on 22 May 2017
- 23. Corrective Reading program evaluation for struggling readers in third grade
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- This study examines the effect of the Corrective Reading (CR) program on the reading achievement of four third grade students. All four students had been identified as low-performing students. CR was implemented ...
- Created on 20 May 2017
- 24. Effects of a decoding program on a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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- This study examined the effect of the Direct Instruction program, Corrective Reading, on the reading and language skills of a seven year old boy with high functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder. The student ...
- Created on 13 October 2015
- 25. 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
- 26. Cleveland school keeps Reading Mastery as curriculum core
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- This study examined the effect of Direct Instruction on the reading achievement of economically disadvantaged elementary students. The school fully implemented Reading Mastery in grades K-6 during the ...
- Created on 28 September 2015
- 27. 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
- 28. Implications of utilizing a phonics-based reading curriculum with children who are deaf or hard of hearing
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- This study examined the effects of Reading Mastery I, supplemented with a Visual Phonics system, on word reading, pseudoword reading, and reading comprehension of kindergarten and first grade students ...
- Created on 17 April 2015
- 29. 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
- 30. Direct Instruction of decoding skills: Effects on fluency rate of two learning disabled students
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- This study examined the effect of the Corrective Reading program on the decoding skills and reading rate of two secondary students with learning disabilities. Student ages were 13 and 15, but both read ...
- Created on 09 June 2016
- 31. The Effectiveness of Direct Instruction in Reading Compared to a State Mandated Language Arts Curriculum for Ninth and Tenth Graders with Specific Learning Disabilities
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- This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading on high school students with learning disabilities’ reading ability, pass rate on the Gateway Language Arts exam, and their perceptions of reading. ...
- Created on 09 June 2016
- 32. Direct instruction of decoding skills: Effects on fluency rate of two learning disabled students
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- This study examined the effect of the Corrective Reading program on the decoding skills and reading rate of two secondary students with learning disabilities. Student ages were 13 and 15, but both read ...
- Created on 05 November 2015
- 33. The efficacy of utilizing a phonics treatment package with middle school deaf and hard-of-hearing students
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- This study examined whether the Corrective Reading-Decoding curriculum could be altered in order to meet the needs of deaf and hard-of-hearing students, and therefore, result in the students’ ability to ...
- Created on 04 December 2013
- 34. Teacher expectations of low-SES preschool and elementary children: Implications of a research-validated instructional intervention for curriculum policy and school reform
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- for their students on mastery of material covered in the Reading Mastery program. Abstract: This study examined the effect of Direct Instruction programs (Reading Mastery, Language for Learning, Corrective ...
- Created on 29 March 2017
- 35. The effectiveness of the Reading Mastery Reading program when teaching learning support students how to read
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- This study examined the effect of Reading Mastery (RM) on the reading achievement of three fourth grade students with learning disabilities over a period of eight weeks. Curriculum based measures were ...
- Created on 29 October 2015
- 36. 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
- 37. The impact of a structured reading curriculum and repeated reading on the performance of junior high students with emotional and behavioral disorders
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- This study examined the impact of adding a repeated reading intervention to Corrective Reading instruction for middle school students with emotional and behavioral disorders. Reading fluency served as ...
- Created on 04 December 2013
- 38. Effects of a high school peer-delivered Corrective Mathematics program
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- This study examined the effects of a peer-delivered Corrective Mathematics program on math ability of low-performers in a secondary general education classroom. The Calculation and Applied Problems subtests ...
- Created on 04 December 2013
- 39. Basic Model Project, Longwood University, Farmville Virginia
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- This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading (CR) on the reading achievement of middle school students. CR was implemented in seven school districts in central Virginia. The Virginia Standards ...
- Created on 30 March 2017
- 40. Curriculum influences on growth in early reading fluency for students with academic and behavioral risks: A descriptive study
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- This study examined the growth of reading skills of students in kindergarten through second grade who had been identified for academic and behavioral risk. Students in five schools were selected to participate ...
- Created on 02 November 2015
- 41. 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
- 42. Closing the achievement gap: The implementation of Direct Instruction in Whiteville City Schools
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- This study examined the implementation of Direct Instruction (DI) programs in one Whiteville City school, in an attempt to increase student achievement and proficiency, and reduce the achievement gaps ...
- Created on 25 September 2015
- 43. 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
- 44. The effectiveness of the SRA Corrective Reading curriculum in increasing reading level achievement of eighth grade students at Eagles' Landing Middle School
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- This study examines the effect of Corrective Reading on the reading achievement of 333 eighth grade students over the course of one school year. Student achievement on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills from ...
- Created on 20 May 2017
- 45. Does the use of a Direct Instruction reading program affect the early literacy skills in an urban five-year-old kindergarten class?
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- This study examined the effect of Reading Mastery (RM) on the acquisition of early literacy skills by seven urban kindergarten students. Students were administered teacher designed tests, curriculum based ...
- Created on 14 October 2015
- 46. 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
- 47. 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
- 48. Teaching fractions to middle-school students
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- This study examined the effects of Direct Instruction mathematics instruction with four seventh grade boys with learning disabilities. The DI approach, based on the text, Designing Effective Mathematics ...
- Created on 04 December 2013
- 49. Effects of a 15-week Language for Learning implementation with children in an integrated preschool
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- This study examined the effects of the Language for Learning curriculum on preschool students with and without developmental delays. Pretest and posttest scores were compared to those of two comparison ...
- Created on 04 December 2013
- 50. A comparison of reading achievement made by LD and low IQ students using a Direct Instruction reading program
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- This nine-month study examines the effect of Reading Mastery on the reading and writing achievement of two male fourth grade students. One student was diagnosed with learning disabilities and the other ...
- Created on 04 May 2017
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