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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. Direct Instruction: Integrating Curriculum Design and Effective Teaching Practice
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This article outlines the key elements of the design principles of the Direct Instruction model. Each design principle is examined in terms of function and how it works in a variety of different areas ...
Created on 17 April 2015
11. Impact of improving student academic achievement on teachers' instructional expectations and decision-making: Implications for the school reform process
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This study examined the effect of Corrective Reading (CR) on the academic achievement of remedial third and fourth grade students and teachers’ instructional expectations and decision-making. The North ...
Created on 29 May 2017
12. 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
13. Two Approaches to Reading Instruction with Children with Disabilities: Does Program Design Make a Difference? ...
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This study compared the effects of two instructional models, Reading Mastery and Addison Wesley’s Meet the Superkids and The Superkids’ Club, on the reading achievement of students with learning disabilities. ...
Created on 27 September 2015
14. Student error patterns as a function of curriculum design: Teaching fractions to remedial high school students and high school students with learning disabilities
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This study compared the effectiveness of a videodisc mathematics program with a basal program on the acquisition of fractions concepts by students with learning disabilities and other remedial high school ...
Created on 14 October 2015
15. 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
16. Teaching Problem Solving Through Computer Simulations
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This study examined the effect of a computer simulation program, Health Ways (HW), on the academic achievement of high school students with mild handicaps in a health class. Thirty students were randomly ...
Created on 05 October 2015
17. 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
18. Direct Instruction for teaching “hard to teach” students
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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
19. Direct Instruction Research: The Third Decade
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This article reviews research conducted on Direct Instruction across three decades, discussing literature on instructional design and technology, research on effective teaching and coaching, and directions ...
Created on 04 December 2013
20. Phonic versus whole-word correction procedures following phonic instruction
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This study examined two approaches for correcting oral reading errors of beginning readers. The whole word and phonic approaches were compared to determine if they differentially affected student decoding ...
Created on 09 April 2015
21. Direct Instruction: An effective approach to educational intervention with the disadvantaged and low performers
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This article summarizes the findings from a national evaluation of Project Follow Through, specifically examining the Direct Instruction model, which was the most successful model for achieving educational ...
Created on 09 April 2015
22. Education as Experimentation: A Planned Variation Model: Effects of Follow Through Models. Volume IV-C: Appendices, Part I and Part II
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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
23. Education as experimentation: A planned variation model. Volume IV-B Effects of Follow Through Models
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This evaluation of Project Follow Though analyzes the 17 different models represented in the study, and reports on their effectiveness on student performance over four years. The report is designed to ...
Created on 08 April 2015
24. Education as experimentation: A planned variation model (Vols. 3A-3B)
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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

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