Achievement, Placement, and Services: Middle School Benefits of Classwide Peer Tutoring Used at the Elementary School.
Greenwood, Charles R.; And Others (1993). School Psychology Review, v22 n3 p497-516. Retrieved from: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ486049
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ClassWide Peer Tutoring Intervention Report - Beginning Reading
Review Details
Reviewed: July 2007
- Randomized controlled trial
- Meets WWC standards without reservations
This review may not reflect the full body of research evidence for this intervention.
Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Please see the WWC summary of evidence for ClassWide Peer Tutoring.
Findings
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Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS): U Reading subtest |
ClassWide Peer Tutoring vs. Business as usual |
Posttest |
Grade 6;
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46.17 |
40.77 |
Yes |
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Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Sample Characteristics
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Kansas
Study Details
Setting
Six Chapter I elementary schools in one school district in Kansas City, Kansas.
Study sample
Two-hundred and ninety-three first-grade students (170 students in intervention, 123 students in comparison) participated in this longitudinal study that followed students during program implementation from first grade to fourth grade and followed up two years later in sixth grade. The study assigned schools to conditions—four schools were randomly assigned to the intervention and two schools to the comparison. About 24% of the students in the intervention group and 27% of the students in the comparison group were lost to analysis at follow-up at sixth grade. The study demonstrated equivalence of baseline scores of students in the intervention and comparison samples included in the analysis.
Intervention Group
Most teachers were involved in the study for one year. Two teachers refused to participate in the CWPT program, but agreed for the assessments to take place. Teachers received either three hours of paid university credit or a monetary compensation for their participation in the study.
Comparison Group
Comparison group students received their regular reading instruction program and Title I services. CWPT training or implementation was not conducted in the comparison schools. Teachers received either three hours of paid university credit or a monetary compensation for their participation in the study.
Outcome descriptions
The primary outcome measure at grade 6 was the reading subtest of the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills–Form U (CTBS–U), 3rd edition. The reading subtest of the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT) was administered at grade 4, but is not reviewed in this intervention report because of severe attrition of students. Language subtests for both measures were also administered but are not included in this review because they do not reflect outcome domains that are the focus of this Beginning Reading WWC review (see Appendix A2 for more detailed descriptions of the outcome measure reviewed for rating purposes).
Support for implementation
Most of the participating classrooms were taught by a different teacher each year. The participating teachers received CWPT training each year. Teachers first read the program manual and then discussed with their consultants the changes to be made in their classroom practices. After the initial planning and preparation, consultants helped teachers implement the intervention in their classrooms. Teachers were considered trained when they received a score of 85% or above on the consultants’ observation checklists.
Additional Sources
In the case of multiple manuscripts that report on one study, the WWC selects one manuscript as the primary citation and lists other manuscripts that describe the study as additional sources.
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Greenwood, C. R., Delquadri, J., & Hall, R. V. (1989). Longitudinal effects of classwide peer tutoring. Journal of Educational Psychology, 81(3), 371-383.
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Greenwood, C. R. (1991). Longitudinal analysis of time, engagement and achievement in at-risk versus non-risk students. Exceptional Children, 57 (6), 521–535.
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Study findings for this report.
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