Open Court Reading© has potentially positive effects on comprehension for beginning readers in grades 1–3, with a small extent of evidence¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3 · i1 small
Currency · newest study 2014 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i1 One randomized controlled trial (Borman et al., 2008; 679 students in grades 1–3) reported positive effects of Open Court Reading© on the CTBS/5 Terra Nova Reading Composite, with an average effect size large enough to be considered substantively important (at least .25). → Open Court Reading© 2014

Evidence¶

Open Court Reading© 2014¶

Open Court Reading©. (2014). WWC Intervention Report: Beginning Reading, Updated October 2014. U.S. Department of Education, What Works Clearinghouse. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/347

q3 · i1 · causal · r2

A multisite cluster randomized field trial across five schools in five states during 2005–06, with 300 students in the Open Court Reading© group and 379 in the comparison group, assessed after approximately 7 months. The article reports the average effect size was at least .25, meeting the WWC's substantively important threshold.

"Borman et al. (2008) reported positive effects of Open Court Reading© on the Reading Composite score of the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills, 5th Edition (CTBS/5) Terra Nova test for students in grades 1, 2, and 3."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Open Court Reading© has potentially positive effects on general reading achievement for beginning readers, with a small extent of evidence — related
• The evidence base for Open Court Reading© is thin: of 185 identified studies, only two met WWC group design standards, and none met standards for alphabetics or reading fluency — related