Reading Recovery has potentially positive effects on reading fluency, from a single randomized trial¶

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q3 i3 One RCT found statistically significant positive effects of Reading Recovery on oral reading and text reading level measures, with a WWC domain average effect size of 1.71 and an improvement index of +46 percentile points. → Reading Recovery® 2013

Evidence¶

Reading Recovery® 2013¶

Reading Recovery®. (2013). What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Report, Beginning Reading. Updated July 2013. http://www.readingrecovery.org

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A single randomized controlled trial (Schwartz 2005, 74 students) reported positive and statistically significant effects on the Slosson Oral Reading Test–Revised and the Text Reading Level subtest; Table 1 reports an improvement index of "+46" (range +32 to +49). The appendix prints effect sizes of 0.93 on the Slosson test and 2.49 on Text Reading Level (a Cox index from a logged odds ratio), a domain average of 1.71.

"Schwartz (2005) found, and the WWC confirmed, positive and statistically significant effects of Reading Recovery® on the Slosson Oral Reading Test–Revised and the Text Reading Level subtest of the Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement."

Reading Recovery® 2013 (2)¶

Reading Recovery®. (2013). What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Report, Beginning Reading. Updated July 2013. http://www.readingrecovery.org

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Table 1 reports a "Potentially positive effects" rating for reading fluency based on one study of 74 students, with a small extent of evidence; no standardized effect size is printed.

"Reading fluency Potentially positive effects +46 +32 to +49 1 74 Small"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Reading Fluency — outcome: instruction changes it

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