The Evaluation of Reading Comprehension Interventions: a national design for assessing supplemental reading comprehension programs for fifth-grade students¶

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Description¶

The article describes a design report for a national evaluation of reading comprehension instruction. As printed, the report "lays out the design for the Evaluation of Reading Comprehension Interventions, which is assessing supplemental reading comprehension programs for fifth-grade students." The evaluation was prepared for the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, and the National Center for Education Evaluation, and is associated with the National Study of the Effectiveness of Reading Comprehension Interventions with a stated time frame of 2004-2010.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• The evaluation is designed to assess supplemental reading comprehension programs targeted at fifth-grade students, as stated in the report's own description.

Constraints¶

• The scope stated on the page is fifth-grade students and supplemental reading comprehension programs; no other grades or outcome domains are named.

Target Learners¶

• fifth-grade students

Target Learning Goals¶

• reading comprehension

Claims¶

• A national evaluation design was produced to assess supplemental reading comprehension programs for fifth-grade students [+W]

Related Elements¶

• National Study of the Effectiveness of Reading Comprehension Interventions (2004-2010), the associated project behind the design report

Examples¶

• Commission a dedicated national design report before evaluating supplemental literacy programs at scale

Key Sources¶

• Susanne James-Burdumy, David Myers, John Deke, Wendy Mansfield, Russell Gersten, Joseph Dimino, Janice Dole, Lauren Liang, Sharon Vaughn, Meaghan Edmonds. (2006). The National Evaluation of Reading Comprehension Interventions: Design Report. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/the-national-evaluation-of-reading-comprehension-interventions