Claims

Reading Apprenticeship® has potentially positive effects on grade point average in core subjects, based on one qualifying study

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · quant-synthesis r1 · q3 · i0 negligible
Currency · newest study 2023 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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Reading the evidence codes

q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.

This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q3 i0 Reading Apprenticeship® improved student grade point average (effect size 0.07, improvement index +3, statistically significant at p=0.02), with a WWC rating of potentially positive effects based on a single study. → What Works Clearinghouse 2023

Evidence

What Works Clearinghouse 2023

What Works Clearinghouse, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. (2023). Reading Apprenticeship®. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/727

q3 · i0 · quant-synthesis · r1

WWC synthesis row for the academic achievement domain, from one RCT (Somers et al., 2010) of the RAAL curriculum with 2,563 grade 9 students in 17 schools; the printed effect size is 0.07 and improvement index +3.

"Summary for academic achievement: Potentially positive effects 0.07 +3 Yes (p=0.02)"

Discussion

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title Reading Apprenticeship® has potentially positive effects on grade point average in core subjects, based on one qualifying study
description Reading Apprenticeship® has potentially positive effects on grade point average in core subjects, based on one qualifying study
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 2023
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-07
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sources 1 — what-works-clearinghouse-2023

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