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Download full textShirin Hashim; Katharine Pace Miles; Erin Croke – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
This study presents the first within-program, within-tutor experimental evidence comparing the impact of in-person versus remote tutoring. Based on results from an early literacy tutoring initiative delivered by university students over Summer 2023, we find no statistically significant differences in students' literacy outcomes by instructional…
Descriptors: In Person Learning, Electronic Learning, Tutoring, Emergent Literacy
Schueler, Beth; West, Martin R. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
We study an early effort amid the COVID-19 pandemic to develop new approaches to virtually serving students, supporting teachers, and promoting equity. This five-week, largely synchronous, summer program served 11,769 rising 4th-9th graders. "Mentor teachers" provided PD and videos of themselves teaching daily lessons to "partner…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Educational Technology
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Direct linkRasinski, Timothy; Paige, David; Rains, Cameron; Stewart, Fran; Julovich, Brenda; Prenkert, Deb; Rupley, William H.; Nichols, William Dee – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
The present study examined the impact of an intensive reading fluency intervention on the overall reading performance of 37 struggling readers in 3rd grade. Students' 3rd-grade classroom teachers and/or their performance on a state-mandated reading achievement test given toward the end of the 3rd-grade school year identified them for the study.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency
Humphrey, Jack W. – Middle Grades Reading Network, University of Evansville, 2009
There is abundant evidence that schools with strong reading programs have successful students. But building strong reading skills is a complex task, particularly by the time students reach the middle grades. A survey was conducted that involved all Indiana middle grades schools in May 2009. Two types of data analysis were utilized in preparing the…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Public Libraries
Pollock, John S. – 1995
A study examined the effectiveness of the Title 1 Middle School Summer program that provided students at two middle schools in the Columbus, Ohio public school district with background experiences to help them connect learning to living. Mathematics and literacy lessons were developed around travel experiences to museums, zoos, baseball games, Sea…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Mathematics Instruction
Pollock, John S. – 1994
A study examined the effectiveness of the Chapter 1 Early Literacy Summer School program. The program provided additional reading instruction to underachieving first-grade pupils at seven schools located throughout the Columbus, Ohio public school district. The program featured group instruction (with many of the activities modeled after the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Emergent Literacy, Grade 1
