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

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Description¶

The article exemplifies a strategy of producing an explicit design report prior to conducting a large-scale program evaluation. The report "lays out the design for the Evaluation of Reading Comprehension Interventions" before results exist, and it was "Prepared for: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences," with the National Center for Education Evaluation also named. This makes the evaluation plan publicly documented and federally specified in advance of the study's findings.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A sponsoring agency is needed: the evaluation was prepared for the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences.

Constraints¶

• As printed, the strategy is scoped to assessing supplemental reading comprehension programs for fifth-grade students.

Target Learners¶

• fifth-grade students

Target Learning Goals¶

• reading comprehension

Related Strategies¶

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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