Read Naturally® shows no discernible effects on alphabetics for beginning readers¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · quant-synthesis r1 · q3 · i0 negligible
Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i0 Across two studies including 264 students, Read Naturally® showed no discernible effects on alphabetics (average improvement index +2, range –2 to +5), with effects neither statistically significant nor substantively important. → Read Naturally® Updated July 2013 — WWC Intervention Report 2013

Evidence¶

Read Naturally® Updated July 2013 — WWC Intervention Report 2013¶

Read Naturally® Updated July 2013 — WWC Intervention Report. (2013). What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/407

q3 · i0 · quant-synthesis · r1

WWC synthesis of two studies (Christ & Davie, 2009; Kemp, 2006) in the alphabetics domain. Table 1 prints "No discernible effects" with an average improvement index of +2 and a range of –2 to +5 across 264 students; the report states the average effect was not large enough to be substantively important.

"Alphabetics No discernible effects +2 –2 to +5 2 264 Small"

Discussion¶

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