ERIC Number: ED560820
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Nov
Pages: 308
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 117
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
Evaluation of Response to Intervention Practices for Elementary School Reading. NCEE 2016-4000
Balu, Rekha; Zhu, Pei; Doolittle, Fred; Schiller, Ellen; Jenkins, Joseph; Gersten, Russell
National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance
Response to Intervention (RtI) is a framework for collecting and using data to match students to interventions of varying intensity. This study examines the implementation of RtI in Grade 1-3 reading in 13 states during the 2011-12 school year, focusing on 146 schools that were experienced with RtI. Full implementation of the RtI framework in Grade 1-3 reading was reported by 86 percent of the experienced schools. Fifty-five percent of these schools focused reading intervention services on Grade 1 students reading below grade level, while 45 percent of the schools also provided reading intervention services for Grade 1 students reading at or above grade level. Students who scored just below school-determined benchmarks on fall screening tests, and who were assigned to interventions for struggling readers, had lower spring reading scores in Grade 1 than students just above the threshold for intervention. In Grades 2 and 3, there were no statistically significant impacts of interventions for struggling readers on the spring reading scores of students just below the threshold for intervention. The following are appended: (1) Members of the Technical Working Group; (2) Data Collection; (3) Survey Sample Definition, Coding, and Analysis; (4) Schools' Decision Rules and Data Used for the Impact Analysis; (5) Estimation Methods; (6) Validity of the Regression Discontinuity Design; (7) Sensitivity of the Main Impact Findings; and (8) Exploratory Analyses. [For the executive summary to this report, see ED560821.]
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Elementary School Students, Reading Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Incidence, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Primary Education, Reading Achievement, Student Placement, Small Group Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Educational Policy
National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance. Available from: ED Pubs. P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 20794-1398. Tel: 877-433-7827; Web site: http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Numerical/Quantitative Data
Education Level: Elementary Education; Primary Education; Early Childhood Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (ED); MDRC
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: ED04CO0111/0003
IES Publication: http://ies.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=NCEE20164000