This program evaluation took place in Harnett County Schools, North Carolina. This study evaluated two common reading intervention programs currently used in the Harnett district. This evaluation compared and examined the effectiveness of Reading Recovery and Leveled Literacy Intervention on a subset of students at Highland Elementary School, a…

Since 2007, nineteen Houston Independent School District (HISD) campuses have partnered with Literacy Now to offer the Reading Intervention program. The Reading Intervention program provides individualized, small group reading tutorials for at-risk students in kindergarten to second grade to create proficient readers by the end of third grade.…

Achieve 3000 is an online differentiated reading program for students with disabilities and English Language Learners in grades 6-8. The software delivers differentiated assignments at 12 different reading levels. The software features internal assessments that continuously gauge students' reading levels, provides feedback to teachers, and…

In 2005, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education issued a request for proposals (RFP) for programs to improve adolescent literacy. The Department's stated goal was to improve the performance of struggling adolescent readers and help build a strong scientific research base around specific strategies to help…

The Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test and the Culture Fair Intelligence Test were administered to all pupils ages eight to eleven in the Windsor (Connecticut) Public Schools as part of an evaluation of the Individually Guided Education (I. G. E.) program. In this seven-month evaluation, all age groups achieved reading scores significantly higher than…

Assesses a learning lab program while measuring student's attitudes toward individually prescribed reading instruction through a ten item questionnaire. (RB)

This article documents evaluations of the New Primary Grades Reading System (NRS). NRS was implemented in a variety of settings. Evaluations track implementation from early stages of pilot testing through large-scale adoption of NRS. Accumulation of evidence regarding success of innovation across settings allows greater confidence in conclusions…

A study examined the success of a university based reading clinic conducted in the summer of 1979. Twenty-one students, in grades two through nine, participated in the clinic. Each student was pretested using the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test (WRMT) and then assigned to one of four graduate students. An individual educational plan was prepared for…

This paper provides descriptive information about the implementation of prescriptive criterion referenced testing and its impact on a compensatory reading laboratory program in the Houston public schools. After describing the program and the rationale for the selection of a criterion referenced test, a study of the teachers' utilization of the…

The Project RISE (Reading Individualized in Special Education) program undertaken by the Austin (Texas) Independent School District collected and analyzed data on the reading achievement of junior high school special education students. A random sample of 256 such students was given several measures of reading achievement. Demographic information…

Examines the effectiveness of a systems approach, diagnostic reading program. (RB)

Intended for reading teachers and others involved in the testing or placement of students, this paper describes the development and evaluation of a prescribed individualized reading program. Following an introduction to the program (which allows students to progress through each reading level at their own pace), the second and third sections of…

The relationship between the organizational and instructional features of IGE (Individually Guided Education) schools and the reading achievement of second and fifth grade students is discussed. A theoretical model of how variations in different organizational and instructional features would be linked is presented and evaluated in terms of how…