Interventions for Struggling Adolescent and Adult Readers
IES is currently accepting applications for this research program. For your convenience, you may download the full FY 2009 Education Research RFA below.
Download the full 84.305A Education Research RFA
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Note: FY 2009 applicants that include subawards for work conducted at collaborating institutions should use this template to provide subaward budget information.
Download, view & print the form as an Excel file (164 KB).
Description of Research Program
Through its Research on Interventions for Struggling Adolescent and Adult Readers and Writers (Adolescent/Adult Readers/Writers) grants program, the Institute intends to contribute to the improvement of reading and writing skills among struggling adolescent and adult readers and writers by (1) identifying curriculum and instructional practices that are associated with better reading or writing outcomes, as well as mediators and moderators of the relations between these practices and reading or writing outcomes; (2) developing curricula and instructional practices for teaching reading or writing to struggling adolescent and adult readers and writers, or for addressing the underlying causes of their reading or writing difficulties; (3) evaluating the efficacy of curricula and instructional practices for improving reading or writing skills of struggling adolescent or adult readers and writers; (4) evaluating the impact of reading or writing curricula and instructional practices for struggling adolescent and adult readers and writers when implemented at scale; and (5) developing and validating assessments that can be used in instructional settings to support instruction.
The long-term outcome of this program will be an array of tools and strategies (e.g., assessments, instructional approaches) that have been documented to be effective for improving the reading and writing skills of struggling adolescent and adult readers and writers.
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