Middle school students with reading disabilities taught Fusion Reading significantly outperformed matched comparison students on the overall GRADE reading measure after Year 1 (Hedges's g = 1.66)¶

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q3 i3 In a quasi-experimental matched comparison study of 40 sixth-grade special education students, the Fusion Reading group showed significantly greater improvement than the Corrective Reading comparison group on the overall GRADE score over one year, with Hedges's g = 1.66. → Hock 2017

Evidence¶

Hock 2017¶

Hock, M. F., Brasseur-Hock, I. F., Hock, A. J., & Duvel, B. (2017). The Effects of a Comprehensive Reading Program on Reading Outcomes for Middle School Students With Disabilities. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 50(2), 195–212. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022219415618495

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Repeated-measures ANCOVA in a quasi-experimental matched comparison group design with 20 Fusion Reading and 20 Corrective Reading students, controlling for gender, race, SES, disability severity, school, and classroom. The group-by-time interaction was significant, "F(1, 32) = 6.67, p = .015, Hedges’s g = 1.66".

"An RM ANCOVA was conducted on the overall GRADE scores. There were significant differences between the intervention and comparison group over time, F(1, 32) = 6.67, p = .015, Hedges’s g = 1.66 (see Table 2)."

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