First Step to Success shows no discernible effects on reading achievement/literacy¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3 · i0 negligible
Currency · newest study 2012 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i0 Walker et al. (2009) found no statistically significant difference between treatment and comparison groups on oral reading fluency, and the WWC-rated domain effect was –0.04. → First Step to Success: WWC Intervention Report 2012

Evidence¶

First Step to Success: WWC Intervention Report 2012¶

First Step to Success: WWC Intervention Report. (2012). What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/179

q3 · i0 · causal · r2

RCT in Albuquerque Public Schools comparing 101 intervention with 97 control students on oral reading fluency and WJ-III DRB Letter-Word Identification. Domain-average effect size was –0.04; oral reading fluency showed p = 0.79, so neither outcome was statistically significant or substantively important.

"Walker et al. (2009) found, and the WWC confirmed, no statistically significant difference between treatment and comparison groups on oral reading fluency."

Discussion¶

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