The four Power4Kids interventions delivered about 100 hours of pull-out instruction in small groups of three students over one school year¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q3
Currency · newest study 2006 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? The interventions were structured to offer about 100 hours of pull-out instruction in groups of three students during one school year. → Joseph Torgesen 2006

Evidence¶

Joseph Torgesen 2006¶

Joseph Torgesen, David Myers, Allen Schirm, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Sonya Vartivarian, Wendy Mansfield, Fran Stancavage, Donna Durno, Rosanne Javorsky, Cinthia Haan. (2006). Closing the Reading Gap: First Year Findings from a Randomized Trial of Four Reading Interventions for Striving Readers. Washington, DC: Corporation for the Advancement of Policy Evaluation. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/closing-the-reading-gap-first-year-findings-from-a-randomized-trial-of-four-reading-interventions-for-striving-readers

q3 · i? · causal · r?

Descriptive statement from the report overview about how the four interventions were implemented. The report states the interventions "were structured to offer about 100 hours of pull-out instruction" in small groups of three during one school year. No outcome data accompany this statement.

"The interventions for the evaluation were structured to offer about 100 hours of pull-out instruction in small groups of three students during one school year."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• The Power4Kids evaluation used two-level random assignment: 50 schools to four interventions and struggling readers within schools to treatment or control — related
• The Power4Kids evaluation covered four widely used reading programs for elementary students with reading problems: Corrective Reading, Failure Free Reading, Spell Read P.A.T., and Wilson Reading — related
• The Power4Kids first-year report presents impacts on reading achievement at the end of the intervention year, with nearly 800 children in the study — related
• Failure Free Reading, the only word-level-plus-comprehension program, showed impacts for third graders but no impacts for fifth graders — related