Portland Public Schools' Striving Readers Program: Year 5 Evaluation Report
Faddis, Bonnie J., Beam, Margaret, Maxim, Lauren, Gandhi, Elizabeth Vale, Hahn, Karen, Hale, Rita (2011). RMC Research Corporation . Retrieved from: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED600852
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examining3,244Students, grades7-10
IES Performance Measure
Review Details
Reviewed: January 2023
- IES Performance Measure (findings for Xtreme Reading)
- Randomized Controlled Trial
- Meets WWC standards without reservations because it is a randomized controlled trial with low attrition.
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.
Findings
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Outcome measure |
Comparison | Period | Sample |
Intervention mean |
Comparison mean |
Significant? |
Improvement index |
Evidence tier |
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Outcome measure |
Comparison | Period | Sample |
Intervention mean |
Comparison mean |
Significant? |
Improvement index |
Evidence tier |
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Group Reading Assessment and Diagnostic Evaluation (GRADE): Comprehension subtest |
Xtreme Reading vs. Business as usual |
0 Days |
Middle school sample;
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33.89 |
28.86 |
Yes |
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Group Reading Assessment and Diagnostic Evaluation (GRADE) Score |
Xtreme Reading vs. Business as usual |
0 Days |
Middle school sample;
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31.83 |
27.44 |
Yes |
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Group Reading Assessment and Diagnostic Evaluation (GRADE): Vocabulary subtest |
Xtreme Reading vs. Business as usual |
0 Days |
Middle school sample;
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30.36 |
27.22 |
Yes |
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Oregon Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (OAKS) Reading/Literature assessment |
Xtreme Reading vs. Business as usual |
0 Days |
Middle school sample (7th and 8th grade);
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31.67 |
29.98 |
No |
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Oregon Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (OAKS) Reading/Literature assessment |
Xtreme Reading vs. Business as usual |
0 Days |
Grade: 7, 8, 10;
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32.92 |
31.66 |
No |
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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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Study Details
Setting
Students in middle and high school in nine Portland, Oregon Public Schools.
Study sample
In the intervention group, students were 52% male, 25% White, 29% Hispanic, 28% African American, and 15% Asian. Twenty-five percent of the sample received special education services, and 28% received ELL services. In the comparison group, students were 53% male, 24% White, 31% Hispanic, 29% African American, and 12% Asian. Twenty-six percent of the sample received special education services, and 25% received ELL services.
Intervention Group
Xtreme Reading is a one year program for struggling adolescent readers that provides explicit strategy instruction in reading comprehension skills such as Word Mapping, Word Identification, Self-Questioning, Paraphrasing, and Inference. Core principles include direct instruction, teacher modeling, and practice independently and in pairs. All students also had teachers using content enhancement routines as part of a whole school intervention. These routines were designed to help integrate students into the instructional process and focus on key content areas.
Comparison Group
Students in the comparison group received varying interventions. In high schools, the comparison condition was taking any of several electives. The middle school students received their ordinary language arts and social studies courses. All students also had teachers using content enhancement routines as part of a whole school intervention. These routines were designed to help integrate students into the instructional process and focus on key content areas.
Support for implementation
The participating teachers attended a 5-day summer institute in the first year and in subsequent years attended 3-day summer institutes. During the school year, the teachers attended four 3-year follow-up institutes.
Xtreme Reading Intervention Report - Adolescent Literacy
Review Details
Reviewed: February 2021
- Randomized Controlled Trial
- The study does not meet WWC group design standards because it is a compromised randomized controlled trial, and the analytic intervention and comparison groups do not satisfy the baseline equivalence requirement.
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 Xtreme Reading.
Findings
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
Study sample characteristics were not reported.IES Performance Measure
Review Details
Reviewed: March 2016
- IES Performance Measure
- 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.
Findings
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
Study sample characteristics were not reported.An indicator of the effect of the intervention, the improvement index can be interpreted as the expected change in percentile rank for an average comparison group student if that student had received the intervention.
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