Fast ForWord Language has potentially positive effects on English language development of elementary school English language learners¶
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q3 i? Fast ForWord Language had a statistically significant and substantively important positive effect on English language development for elementary school English language learners. → What Works Clearinghouse 2006
Evidence¶
What Works Clearinghouse 2006¶
What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. (2006). WWC Intervention Report: Fast ForWord Language. http://www.scilearn.com
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Randomized controlled trial meeting WWC evidence standards, part of a study of 85 English language learning kindergartners through fifth-graders from nine school districts. It compared English language development outcomes for "53 randomly assigned students who used the program against the outcomes for 32 control students who used their regular curriculum." The WWC rated the effect statistically significant and substantively important.
"Scientific Learning Corpora- tion (2004) reported, and the WWC confirmed, that Fast ForWord Language had a statistically significant and substantively important positive effect on English language development for elementary school English language learners."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Reading and Language — outcome: instruction changes it
- English-Learner Status — outcome: instruction changes it
Related Claims¶
- Fast ForWord Language shows no discernible effects on reading achievement of elementary school English language learners — related
- The WWC improvement index is +31 percentile points for English language development and +3 percentile points for reading achievement — related
- The WWC rates Reading Mastery as having potentially positive effects on the reading achievement of English language learners — related
- Fast ForWord has no discernible effects on alphabetics and general literacy achievement and potentially positive effects on reading fluency and comprehension for adolescent learners — related
- All five studies of Fast ForWord in the general literacy achievement domain showed indeterminate effects — related
- Both studies of Fast ForWord in the alphabetics domain showed indeterminate effects, with no statistically significant or substantively important effects — related
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Fast ForWord Language has potentially positive effects on English language development of elementary school English language learners |
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Fast ForWord Language has potentially positive effects on English language development of elementary school English language learners |
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