The Year 3 pilot is a randomized control trial assigning at-risk first graders within schools to FUSION or at-risk control, with an additional average control condition¶
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q2 i? Within each school, at-risk students were randomly assigned to FUSION Intervention or At-risk Control, and additional students were randomly selected for an Average Control condition. → Strand Cary 2013
Evidence¶
Strand Cary 2013¶
Strand Cary, M., Doabler, C., Clarke, B., Fien, H., Baker, S. K., & Jungjohann, K. (2013). Evaluating the Promise of the FUSION Tier 2 Math Intervention. SREE Spring 2013 Conference. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED563132
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Design description of the pilot randomized control trial in nine schools in two suburban districts with 151 students (68 female) taught by nine interventionists; no outcome results are printed because data were still being analyzed.
"Within school, students determined at-risk for math difficulties were randomly assigned to one of two conditions, FUSION Intervention or At-risk Control. Additional students were randomly selected to participate in an Average Control condition."
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Related Claims¶
- Prior implementation studies and a single-case design indicate FUSION is a feasible, usable Tier 2 intervention with promise for improving student math achievement — related
- Kindergartners with mathematics difficulties randomly assigned to the ROOTS intervention made significantly greater fall-to-spring gains than control students on the NSB, ASPENS, TEMA-3, and RAENS — related
- SMART® tutoring produced a statistically significant positive effect on first-graders' word identification after two years of intervention — related
- In an underpowered randomized study, Fusion Reading students gained significantly more than Second Chance Reading controls on the GRADE composite comprehension score (Hedges's d = 0.66–0.70) — related
- At-risk first graders receiving Fusion showed significantly greater gains than control peers on the proximal conceptual-understanding measure ProFusion, with a large effect — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
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