Instructional Conversations and Literature Logs produce statistically significant positive effects on factual and interpretive story comprehension in a short-term randomized trial with English language learners¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3 · i2 medium
Currency · newest study 2006 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i2 In a randomized controlled trial, English language learners receiving Instructional Conversations and Literature Logs outperformed comparison students on factual comprehension (effect size 0.82) and interpretive comprehension (effect size 0.80), both statistically significant. → What Works Clearinghouse 2006

Evidence¶

What Works Clearinghouse 2006¶

What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. (2006). Instructional Conversations and Literature Logs — WWC Intervention Report. http://crede.berkeley.edu/research/crede/research/llaa/1.5pubs.html

q3 · i2 · causal · r2

Randomized controlled trial in which 58 students were matched and randomly assigned within classrooms; 32 English language learners (16 intervention, 16 comparison) in grades 4–5 were analyzed. Appendix A3.1 reports factual comprehension effect size 0.82 and interpretive comprehension 0.80, both "Statistically significant", improvement index +29 each. The WWC "was only able to confirm the statistical significance of the factual comprehension measure."

"Saunders and Goldenberg (1999) found that Instructional Conversations and Literature Logs had statistically significant positive effects on both measures of factual comprehension and interpretive comprehension."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Some classroom discussion approaches improve text comprehension, but gains are not uniform across approaches and more student talk alone does not produce them — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
• When implemented alone, neither Literature Logs nor Instructional Conversations produced statistically significant comprehension effects, in contrast to the combined intervention — related
• The WWC rates Instructional Conversations and Literature Logs as having potentially positive effects on reading achievement and English language development — related