Four supplemental reading comprehension curricula evaluated in a federal study¶

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Description¶

The element is the set of four supplemental reading comprehension programs evaluated in Mathematica's federal study. The report describes it as "Mathematica's federal study of four reading comprehension programs," designed to shed light on "the effectiveness of these curricula in helping disadvantaged students improve their reading comprehension." The curricula were implemented as supplemental programs with fifth-grade students in disadvantaged urban districts and assessed via student test scores. The individual curriculum names are not printed on this page.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Implemented as supplemental reading comprehension instruction for fifth-grade students in disadvantaged districts

Constraints¶

• Effectiveness evidence on this page is limited to a first cohort of fifth-grade students; individual program names and per-program results are not printed here

Target Learners¶

• Fifth-grade students from disadvantaged backgrounds in large urban districts

Target Learning Goals¶

• Reading comprehension, including vocabulary and strategies for organizing information and gleaning knowledge from text

Claims¶

• Four supplemental reading comprehension curricula had no positive impact on fifth-grade students' test scores, with negative impacts in some cases [-W]

Related Elements¶

• Four supplemental reading comprehension curricula evaluated in a large-scale RCT
• Four supplemental reading comprehension curricula evaluated under real-world conditions

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• James-Burdumy, S., Mansfield, W., Deke, J., Carey, N., Lugo-Gil, J., Hershey, A., Douglas, A., Gersten, R., Newman-Gonchar, R., Dimino, J., Faddis, B., Dole, J. (2009). Effectiveness of Selected Supplemental Reading Comprehension Interventions: Impacts on a First Cohort of Fifth-Grade Students. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/pr-effectiveness-of-selected-supplemental-reading-comprehension-interventions-impacts