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- 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 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
- 3. Technical Support, Fidelity, and Retaining Direct Instruction in the Guam Public School System
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- 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
- 4. A randomized control study of instructional approaches for struggling adult readers
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- This study compared the effect of implicit (Extensive Reading), explicit (Corrective Reading), and a combination of the two approaches on the reading achievement of 198 adults reading at the third to ...
- Created on 10 January 2019
- 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. Effects of Direct Instruction on the Acquisition of Prepositions by Students with Intellectual Disabilities
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- 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. Classroom observations and effects of reading interventions for students at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders
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- This four-year study examined the effect of reading interventions on the reading achievement of 171 elementary students with and without risk for emotional and behavior disorders. Students received instruction ...
- Created on 28 March 2017
- 8. 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
- 9. 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
- 10. 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
- 11. Exploring barriers to the role of Corrective Reading in systematic school reform: Implications of a three-part investigation
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- This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading (CR) on the reading achievement of at-risk 3rd and 4th grade students and teachers’ perception of CR materials. Low-achieving 3rd and 4th grade students ...
- Created on 13 January 2017
- 12. The Effects of the Language Arts Strand of the Reading Mastery Signature Series on the Reading and Language Skills of English Language Learners
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- This study examined the effect of using the Language Arts strand of the Reading Mastery Signature Edition program as a supplement to non-Direct Instruction reading programs with English Language Learner ...
- Created on 19 July 2016
- 13. Evaluating the promise of computer-based reading interventions with students with reading difficulties
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- This study compared the effect of two parent implemented computer-based reading programs (Funnix & Headsprout) on the basic early literacy skills of 25 students with reading difficulties over eight weeks. ...
- Created on 19 July 2016
- 14. Using Precision Teaching with Direct Instruction in a Summer School Program
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- This study examined the effect of the combination of Reading Mastery (RM) and Precision Teaching (PT) on the reading skills of elementary students (Grade 1to 4). Students who were below grade level in ...
- Created on 13 July 2016
- 15. 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
- 16. 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
- 17. Promoting Early Literacy of Preschool Children: A Study of the Effectiveness of Funnix Beginning Reading
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- Thirty-seven four year old Head Start students in a suburban area of the southern United States were randomly assigned to receive 30 minutes of daily instruction in Funnix or the same amount of time in ...
- Created on 04 December 2013
- 18. Effects of peer-mediated Direct Instruction and repeated reading on the reading skills of incarcerated juveniles with disabilities
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- This study examined the effect of peer delivered instruction of the Corrective Reading program on the oral reading fluency and reading comprehension skills of eight struggling secondary readers living ...
- Created on 28 April 2017
- 19. Corrective Reading helps English-Language learners improve reading skills
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- This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading (CR) on the reading achievement of English Language Learner (ELL) students in grades 4-7 in three schools. Student achievement was measured using the ...
- Created on 02 April 2017
- 20. Orlando school improves ESE scores with Corrective Reading
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- This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading (CR) on the reading achievement of 12 third grade students with physical and/or mental disabilities. Prior to instruction with CR, all students were ...
- Created on 01 April 2017
- 21. Assessing the effects of Corrective Reading Decoding B1 with a high school student with intellectual and developmental disabilities: A case study
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- This study examined the effect of five months of instruction with Corrective Reading Decoding B1 (CR) on the decoding skills of a high school student with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The ...
- Created on 18 July 2016
- 22. 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
- 23. Special education students at California elementary school achieve AYP with Direct Instruction
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- This study examined the effect of Direct Instruction (DI) reading programs on the reading achievement of special and general education elementary students. In response to students reading well below grade ...
- Created on 28 September 2015
- 24. Effects of a computer based beginning reading program on young children
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- This study examined the effect of the Funnix Beginning Reading program on the reading achievement of kindergarten and first grade students. Fifteen students were instructed with the computer based Direct ...
- Created on 27 September 2015
- 25. The effects of Reading Mastery Plus on the beginning reading skills of students with intellectual and developmental disabilities
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- This study examined the effects of using Reading Mastery Plus with six K-2 students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) probes ...
- Created on 04 December 2013
- 26. Academic Kindergarten and Later Academic Success: The Impact of Direct Instruction
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- ... hundred students in two different schools are analyzed. Achievement was measured using the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Skills (DIBELS). Results indicate that the students who received Direct Instruction ...
- Created on 04 December 2013
- 27. 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
- 28. Three-tier models of reading and behavior: A research review
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- This study provided a descriptive analysis of the research literature on three-tier models and conducted a meta-analysis on the effectiveness of three-tier models of reading, behavior, and a combination ...
- Created on 13 November 2015
- 29. The effects of a Corrective Reading program in a middle school
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- This study examined the effect of the Corrective Reading (CR) program on the reading comprehension and fluency skills of 11 middle school students. The Jerry Johns Reading Inventory was administered for ...
- Created on 04 November 2015
- 30. Intensifying Reading Instruction for Students Within a Three-Tier Model: Standard-Protocol and Problem Solving Approaches within a Response-to-Intervention (RTI) System
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- This study examined the efficiency and effectiveness of a three tier intervention model and the use of a Response-to-Intervention system. 371 students in grades K to 3 from one elementary school participated ...
- Created on 23 August 2015
- 31. The relative impact of remedial reading instruction on the basic reading skills of students with emotional disturbance and learning disabilities
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- This study investigated the effects of a Direct Instruction reading program, Corrective Reading, on the reading achievement of elementary and middle school students with emotional disturbance (ED) and ...
- Created on 04 December 2013
- 32. 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
- 33. Effectiveness of Direct Instruction for teaching statement inference, use of facts, and analogies to students with developmental disabilities and reading delays
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- This study examined the effect of using Corrective Reading Thinking Basics: Comprehension Level A on reading comprehension of four elementary students. Probes were given in the areas of statement inference, ...
- Created on 04 December 2013
- 34. No Child Left Behind according to script: The efficacy of Reading Mastery
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- This study examines the effect of Reading Mastery on the reading achievement of six low-performing third grade students over ten weeks. The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy (DIBELS) test was ...
- Created on 28 May 2017
- 35. An Inquiry Into Children’s Reading in One Urban School Using SRA Reading Mastery (Direct Instruction)
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- ... Battery indicated that on average, students scored above the national norm with only one student not scoring at or above the national average. Results from the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills indicated ...
- Created on 26 March 2017
- 36. 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
- 37. Native American school uses Reading First grant to implement Direct Instruction
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- This study examined the effect of Reading Mastery Plus (RMP)on the reading achievement of kindergarten and elementary students. After receiving a Reading First grant, RMP was implemented in kindergarten ...
- Created on 28 September 2015
- 38. DIBELS scores advance to grade level with Reading Mastery
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- This study examined the effect of Reading Mastery (RM) on the reading achievement of struggling readers in grades one to six at one elementary school. RM was initially implemented during the 2005-2006 ...
- Created on 28 September 2015
- 39. Effects of a three-tier strategic model of intensifying instruction using a research-based core reading program in grades K-3
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- ... students and students who received special education or Title I/Learning Assistance Program (LAP) services participated in this study. The Diagnostic Indicators of Basic Skills (DIBELS) was used as a pre- ...
- Created on 26 September 2015
- 40. Using systematic instruction to teach decoding skills to middle school students with moderate intellectual disabilities
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- This study examined the effect of the letter-sound correspondence instruction of the Corrective Reading program on three male middle school students with moderate intellectual disabilities. Additionally, ...
- Created on 09 April 2015
- 41. A study of the impact of Direct Instruction on Jefferson County Public Schools' Reading Curriculum
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- ... schools within the district had implemented RM, while the other seven had implemented the Five Block program. The Commonwealth Accountability Testing Scores and the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills were ...
- Created on 28 May 2017
- 42. Accountability for Reading and Readers: What the Numbers Don’t Tell
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- his study compared the effect of three reading programs, Reading Mastery (RM), Open Court (OC), and Guided Reading (GR), on the ability of 84 second grade students to retell stories they previously read. ...
- Created on 10 June 2016
- 43. 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
- 44. The effects of using Direct Instruction and a re-reading contingency with a high school student
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- This study examined the effect of using re-reading as a consequence for a 16-year –old high school remedial student being unable to read passages rapidly with zero errors. The student was reading at a ...
- Created on 13 November 2015
- 45. 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
- 46. The effects of Reading Mastery for students with learning disabilities
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- This study examined the effectiveness of Reading Mastery on the reading achievement of two third grade students with learning disabilities, specifically examining changes in the rates of progress in decoding, ...
- Created on 09 October 2015
- 47. A research-based reading approach for severely emotionally disturbed children
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- This study examined the effect of Reading Mastery (RM) on the reading achievement of students with severe emotional and/or behavior problems. Thirty teachers and 128 students (ages 6-14) from the South ...
- Created on 01 October 2015
- 48. Florida elementary students master reading in preparation for junior high
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- This study examined the effect of Direct Instruction (DI) reading programs on the reading achievement of elementary and kindergarten students. In response to 40% of students in grades three through six ...
- Created on 28 September 2015
- 49. Fostering the Development of Reading Skill Through Supplemental Instruction: Results for Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Students
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- This study examined the effect of supplemental instruction on the reading achievement of a diverse sample of students at-risk for reading difficulty in comparison to a similar group of students who received ...
- Created on 26 September 2015
- 50. 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
