CIRC has potentially positive effects on comprehension for beginning readers, with an average improvement index of +12 percentile points across two studies¶

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Evidence · 1 study · quant-synthesis r1 · q3 · i2 medium
Currency · newest study 2012 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i2 Across two studies totaling 712 students, CIRC showed a statistically significant positive effect in one study and an indeterminate effect in another, yielding a domain rating of potentially positive effects for comprehension. → wwc-summary-1

Evidence¶

wwc-summary-1¶

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2012, June). Beginning Reading intervention report: Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition®. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/109

q3 · i2 · quant-synthesis · r1

WWC synthesis of two studies (one RCT, one quasi-experiment) covering 712 students in grades 3 and 4 in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Table 1 reports an average comprehension improvement index of +12 (range +1 to +30) and a medium to large extent of evidence; the domain average effect size across studies was 0.31.

"Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition ® was found to have potentially positive effects on comprehension and no discernible effects on general reading achievement for beginning readers."

Discussion¶

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