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Douglas D. Ready; Sierra G. McCormick; Rebecca J. Shmoys – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
This paper describes a 12-week cluster randomized controlled trial that examined the efficacy of BookNook, a virtual tutoring platform focused on reading. Cohorts of first- through fourth-grade students attending six Rocketship public charter schools in Northern California were randomly assigned within grades to receive BookNook. Intent-to-Treat…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Tutoring, Reading Achievement
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Timothy Lycurgus; Ben B. Hansen – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Background: Efficacy trials in education often possess a motivating theory of change: how and why should the desired improvement in outcomes occur as a consequence of the intervention? In scenarios with repeated measurements, certain subgroups may be more or less likely to manifest a treatment effect; the theory of change (TOC) provides guidance…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Research, Intervention, Efficiency
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Fuchs, Lynn S.; Seethaler, Pamela M.; Fuchs, Douglas; Espinas, Daniel – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2023
Analyses were conducted with second graders, drawn from an ongoing multi-cohort randomized controlled trial (RCT), who had been identified for RCT entry based on comorbid reading comprehension and word-problem solving difficulty. To estimate pandemic learning loss, we contrasted fall performance for 3 cohorts: fall of 2019 (pre-pandemic; n = 47),…
Descriptors: Grade 2, COVID-19, Pandemics, Achievement Gains