Meaningful reading gains by adult literacy learners
| Autor: | Kenneth R. Pugh, Jane Shore, Hollis S. Scarborough, Laurie E. Cutting, John Sabatini, Leonard Katz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
media_common.quotation_subject education Psychological intervention Special education Literacy Psycholinguistics Education Developmental psychology Basic skills Speech and Hearing Fluency Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Phonological awareness Reading (process) Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Reading and Writing. 26:593-613 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0905 0922-4777 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11145-012-9385-4 |
| Popis: | To obtain a fuller picture of the efficacy of reading instruction programs for adult literacy learners, gains by individual students were examined in a sample (n = 148) in which weak to moderate gains at the group level had been obtained in response to tutoring interventions that focused on strengthening basic decoding and fluency skills of low literate adults (Sabatini, Shore, Holtzman, & Scarborough, 2011). Learners were randomly assigned to receive one of three tutoring programs for an average of 44 h of instruction. We used within-individual gains replicated over tests (WIGROT) as the method for identifying gainers, who were defined as students whose reading levels increased from pretest to posttest by a half year or more on at least two of four measured aspects of reading proficiency. The 46 % of the sample who met the criterion had higher pretest scores than non-gainers on measures of reading (d = .42, p |
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