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1. Examining the What Works Clearinghouse and Its Reviews of Direct Instruction Programs
(Publication)
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
2. The WWC Review Process: An Analysis of Errors in Two Recent Reports
(Publication)
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) is a federally funded program established in 2002 that evaluates educational interventions and publishes reports and summary ratings. The reports have received extensive ...
Created on 02 November 2015
3. Direct Instruction in the Guam Public Schools: An Analysis of Changes in Stanford Achievement Test Scores
(Publication)
In the fall of 2003, 24 schools in the Guam Public School System (GPSS) systematically implemented Direct Instruction programs with accompanying training and support. Initially used with lower grades it ...
Created on 27 September 2015
4. Technical Support, Fidelity, and Retaining Direct Instruction in the Guam Public School System
(Publication)
This report examines the relationship between schools’ decisions to maintain the use of Direct Instruction programs and the variables of training, coaching, and the fidelity of implementing Direct Instruction ...
Created on 09 December 2014
5. Reading Mastery and Learning Disabled Students: A Comment on the What Works Clearinghouse Review
(Publication)
In response to a recent report published by the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) on the effectiveness of the Direct Instruction program Reading Mastery with students with learning disabilities, Stockard ...
Created on 04 December 2013
6. Effects of Direct Instruction on the Acquisition of Prepositions by Students with Intellectual Disabilities
(Publication)
This article examined the use of direct instruction for teaching the use of prepositions to students with intellectual disabilities. Two African-American middle school boys were included in the study. ...
Created on 17 April 2015
7. A Bibliography of the Direct Instruction Curriculum and Studies Examining its Efficacy
(Publication)
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
8. An evaluation of two methods for teaching United States history to students with learning disabilities
(Publication)
... except for the student attitude measure. Students in both groups demonstrated generally good attitudes to their respective approaches. (Copyright © 2011, National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI). ...
Created on 26 March 2017
9. The What Works Clearinghouse Beginning Reading Reports and Rating of Reading Mastery: An Evaluation and Comment
(Publication)
This report evaluates the procedures of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), and specifically examines a WWC report on the effectiveness of the Direct Instruction program Reading Mastery. Stockard’s evaluation ...
Created on 12 November 2014
10. National Institute for Direct Instruction Institutional Review Board Policies and Procedures
(Publication)
This report summarizes federal regulations regarding protections of human subjects and describes the policies and procedures that the National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI) will use when gathering ...
Created on 04 December 2013
11. Academic Kindergarten and Later Academic Success: The Impact of Direct Instruction
(Publication)
... grades. This paper examines the relationship of receiving the Direct Instruction (DI) kindergarten curriculum, Reading Mastery, on students’ oral reading fluency in first and second grade. Data from several ...
Created on 04 December 2013
12. Effects of comprehensive school reform on student achievement and school change: A longitudinal multi-site study
(Publication)
... impact on teacher attitudes, school climate, and student achievement. For schools that implemented the Direct Instruction model, there were no significant differences in the academic achievement of students ...
Created on 04 May 2017
13. Achievement Outcomes in Baltimore City Schools
(Publication)
... Student achievement in Direct Instruction (DI) schools was compared to schools with similar achievement history, but implemented another instructional program. Elementary schools were matched on achievement ...
Created on 25 September 2015
14. Comprehensive school reform and achievement: A meta-analysis
(Publication)
... based on their evidence of effectiveness. Results indicate that Direct Instruction, School Development Program, and Success for All were the three CSR models that were classified as having the strongest ...
Created on 09 December 2014
15. The Benefits of Direct Instruction: Affirmative Action for At-Risk Students
(Publication)
This article describes how Direct Instruction programs can help at-risk students who are academically behind catch up to their peers. At-risk students who are academically behind are forced to learn substantially ...
Created on 17 April 2015
16. Morningside Academy
(Publication)
This study examines the effect of Direct Instruction programs on the academic achievement of low-performing students in one private school in the Pacific Northwest. Students attend the school for one to ...
Created on 04 April 2017
17. Research on Direct Instruction: 25 Years Beyond DISTAR
(Publication)
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
18. Research study: Raising mathematics problem-solving performance: Do the NCTM teaching standards help?
(Publication)
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
19. Teaching absolute pitch
(Publication)
... first graders to develop absolute pitch using effective Direct Instruction strategies. The majority of the students could not sing on pitch prior to the study. A control group of high school music students ...
Created on 23 March 2017
20. Teaching Reading to Low Performing First Graders in Rural Schools: A Comparison of Two Instructional Approaches
(Publication)
This study compared the effect of Reading Mastery (RM) and a traditional basal program on the reading achievement of low performing first grade students in rural schools. Thirty one students were randomly ...
Created on 27 September 2015
21. A comparison of the effects of academic and cognitive curricula for young handicapped children one and two years post program
(Publication)
This follow-up study examined the effects of two intervention models, Direct Instruction (DI) and Mediated Learning (ML), one and two years after the completion of the interventions. One hundred and ten ...
Created on 25 September 2015
22. A field trial of Mastering Fractions videodisc program
(Publication)
This study examined the effect of the videodisc program, Mastering Fractions, on fifth grade students’ ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions. Mastering Fractions was implemented in one ...
Created on 15 June 2016
23. Direct Instruction in kindergarten part 2: Research findings
(Publication)
In response to criticisms of the Direct Instruction (DI) model, this report examines data from Project Follow Through and studies on the effectiveness of the DI and High Scope models. Results from the ...
Created on 15 June 2016
24. Direct Instruction for teaching “hard to teach” students
(Publication)
This article addresses the challenges of teaching students labeled as “hard to teach” and the effectiveness of Direct Instruction with these students. The term hard to teach students is examined to highlight ...
Created on 17 June 2015
25. First year report on a jr. high LD class
(Publication)
This study examined the effect of Direct Instruction programs on the growth of reading, language, math, spelling, and writing skills of remedial students over one school year. Six students participated ...
Created on 12 June 2016
26. Direct Instruction with Special Education Students: A Review of Evaluation Research
(Publication)
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
27. Direct Instruction in Critical Reading Skills
(Publication)
This article examines a study of three different approaches to teaching critical reading skills to fifth grade students. A direct instruction program, a work book with corrective feedback program and a ...
Created on 17 April 2015
28. A Comparison of an Inquiry and a Direct Instruction Approach to Teaching Legal Concepts and Applications to Secondary School Students
(Publication)
This study compared the effect of Direct Instruction (DI) techniques and an inquiry based treatment on the acquisition of facts about constitutional rights. Thirty high school juniors were randomly assigned ...
Created on 07 April 2015
29. Measuring Implementation of a Structured Educational Model in an Urban School District: An Observational Approach
(Publication)
This article analyzes the implementation of the Direct Instruction model in a large urban school district and how that affected student performance. The Direct Instruction model was implemented in 10 kindergarten ...
Created on 17 April 2015
30. Direct Instruction: Effects on Oral and Written Language Comprehension
(Publication)
This article examines a study on the effects of direct instruction programs on the oral and written language comprehension of learning disabled students. 23 learning disabled students were included in ...
Created on 05 October 2015
31. Making Retarded Children Literate: A Five Year Study
(Publication)
... better than students without learning disabilities. The authors concluded these students substantially benefitted from the Direct Instruction programs and the results in this study supports previous research ...
Created on 09 April 2015
32. Education as Experimentation: A Planned Variation Model: Effects of Follow Through Models. Volume IV-C: Appendices, Part I and Part II
(Publication)
This study examines the various instructional models of Project Follow Through. Each chapter describes the design of each model, teachers’ perceptions of the model, parents’ perceptions of the model, and ...
Created on 29 May 2017
33. Education as Experimentation: A Planned Variation Model. Volume IV-D. Part I: A Longitudinal Study of Follow Through. Part II: A Study of Academic Risk
(Publication)
... vary depending on a child’s preschool experience. The models examined include the Responsive Education Model, Tucson Early Education Model, Bank Street Model, Direct Instruction Model, Behavior Analysis ...
Created on 27 May 2017
34. Education as experimentation: A planned variation model (Vols. 3A-3B)
(Publication)
This study examines the national evaluation of Project Follow Though. The 13 main instructional models are described and analyzed in terms of their design and effect on students’ academic achievement. ...
Created on 29 May 2017
35. Cognitive structures related to the principle of conservation
(Publication)
This study examined children’s ability to solve problems of the conservation of liquid quantities, testing Piaget’s theory that the necessary skills cannot be taught, but are dependent on cognitive development. ...
Created on 25 September 2015

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