Reading Recovery improves writing productivity immediately after the intervention, with promising evidence from one small quasi-experimental study¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2023 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Reading Recovery improved student writing productivity at the end of the implementation year, based on one study with fewer than 350 students. → wp-1

Evidence¶

wp-1¶

What Works Clearinghouse, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. (2023, June). Reading Recovery® Intervention Report | English Language Arts Topic Area. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/730

q2 · i? · causal · r2

WWC synthesis of Burroughs-Lange & Douëtil (2007), a quasi-experimental study of 234 students in UK Year 1 across 42 London schools, rated meets-standards-with-reservations. The report finds "promising evidence that Reading Recovery® improved student writing productivity" measured by the Writing Vocabulary Subtest.

"One study provides promising evidence that Reading Recovery® improved student writing productivity. This assessment is based on one study that meets WWC standards and includes fewer than 350 students."

Discussion¶

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