The Effect of Read 180 on the Reading Achievement of Struggling Readers in a Large, Public, Urban High School in Northern New Jersey
Yurchak, Stephen M. (2013). ProQuest LLC. Retrieved from: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED567305
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examining134Students, grade9
READ 180® Intervention Report - Adolescent Literacy
Review Details
Reviewed: November 2016
- Quasi-Experimental Design
- Meets WWC standards with reservations because it uses a quasi-experimental design in which the analytic intervention and comparison groups 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 READ 180®.
Findings
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Outcome measure |
Comparison | Period | Sample |
Intervention mean |
Comparison mean |
Significant? |
Improvement index |
Evidence tier |
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New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment Analyzing Text Cluster Score |
READ 180® vs. Business as usual |
1 Year |
Full sample;
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38.51 |
39.30 |
No |
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New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment Reading Score |
READ 180® vs. Business as usual |
1 Year |
Full sample;
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41.31 |
42.70 |
No |
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New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment Analyzing Text Cluster Score |
READ 180® vs. Business as usual |
1 Year |
Female;
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40.15 |
39.80 |
No |
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New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment Reading Score |
READ 180® vs. Business as usual |
1 Year |
Black;
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40.60 |
40.30 |
No |
-- | ||
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New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment Analyzing Text Cluster Score |
READ 180® vs. Business as usual |
1 Year |
Black;
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37.50 |
37.80 |
No |
-- | ||
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New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment Analyzing Text Cluster Score |
READ 180® vs. Business as usual |
1 Year |
Male;
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37.82 |
38.90 |
No |
-- | ||
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New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment Reading Score |
READ 180® vs. Business as usual |
1 Year |
Male;
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41.32 |
42.70 |
No |
-- | ||
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New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment Reading Score |
READ 180® vs. Business as usual |
1 Year |
Female;
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40.80 |
42.70 |
No |
-- | ||
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
Characteristics of study sample as reported by study author.
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Ethnicity Hispanic 40% Not Hispanic or Latino 60%
Study Details
Setting
The study took place in a single, large urban high school in northern New Jersey.
Study sample
This study used a quasi-experimental design, matching students in grade 9 receiving READ 180® instruction with students in regular English 9 classes on pretest Language Arts Literacy (LAL) scores from the grade 8 state assessment. Students were eligible for the study if they did not meet proficiency levels on the Language Arts Literacy (portion of the grade 8 state assessment, and if they were on the general education track in school. The overall sample is made up of students in grade 9 from three consecutive cohorts from the 2007–08, 2008–09, and 2009–10 school years. Only students with complete data (those who were in the same school district in grades 8–11) were eligible to be matched and be in the study. The study took place in one school. READ 180® was offered in six class sections the first year, four class sections the second year, and five class sections the third year. Across the cohorts, 67 students had complete data and were able to be matched to students who had participated in English 9.The intervention and comparison groups were both 52% male. The intervention group was 52% White, 27% Hispanic, and 20% African American. The comparison group was 52% Hispanic, 34% White, and 13% African American. The majority of students in both the intervention group (61%) and the comparison group (72%) qualified for free or reduced-price lunch.
Intervention Group
Students in the intervention group were exposed to the READ 180® intervention for a full school year. Classes were 80 minutes daily, which closely resembled the prototypical 90-minute five-class instructional model. Of the 15 READ 180® sections, 13 were inclusion-based classrooms, and two were general education. Inclusion classes were taught by a content-certified English teacher and a special education teacher; general education sections were taught by a content-certified English teacher.
Comparison Group
Comparison students took part in the standard English 9 course, which was 40 minutes long.
Support for implementation
Teachers delivering the intervention were trained by READ 180® personnel or others in the district who were previously trained in READ 180®.
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