Reading Mastery for Beginning Readers: An Analysis of Errors in a What Works Clearinghouse Report

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2014-08-25

Authors

Stockard, Jean

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National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI)

Abstract

The scholarly literature includes dozens of studies that show that the Direct Instruction program, Reading Mastery (RM), is highly effective. Despite this large and consistent body of work, a report published by the What Works Clearinghouse in November 2013 stated that it could find “no studies of Reading Mastery that fall within the scope of the Beginning Reading review protocol [and] meet What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) evidence standards” (WWC, 2013b, p. 1). This NIFDI technical report documents a surprising number of errors in the WWC analysis.

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78 pages

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Reading Mastery (RM), Direct Instruction (DI), Technical Report

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