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Glazener, Laurie Ann |
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2011-04-12T23:47:59Z |
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2011-04-12T23:47:59Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2010-12 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11076 |
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dc.description |
xi, 111 p. |
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Matching reading deficits to appropriate intervention programs is a challenge given the number of treatment options available to educators. The Fast ForWord (FFW) computerized intervention series has been marketed as a way to treat underlying causes of poor reading skill; i.e., substandard levels of basic language skill, phonemic awareness, and/or phonics application. If the programs work as claimed, then completion of Fast ForWord should improve the next reading subskill developed after phonics, oral reading fluency. Part 1 of this study involves a treatment ( n = 72) versus comparison ( n = 84) group two by two ANOVA to evaluate that hypothesis. No effect for FFW is found ( p = .84). Application of decision rules from Response to Intervention (RTI) models classifies positive changes in risk category at a greater rate for the comparison group ( n = 31) than for the FFW group ( n = 20) ( X 2 = 3.81, (1), p = .05). Pre-intervention language scores for the FFW group are compared to assist with intervention placement decisions. Differences in mean language scores are not significant ( p = .85) between the two groups [positive response ( n = 19) versus low response ( n = 57)]. In a binary logistic regression of quartile membership for language scores, no score ranges predict membership ( X 2 = 4.75, (8), p > .05). Measuring treatment effect with ORF is not recommended. The use of pre-intervention language and ORF scores below the 25th percentile as indicators of a positive change in oral reading fluency following FFW treatment also is not recommended. However, future research that considers language scores along with other curriculum-based measures of prereading skill either as pre-intervention indicators or outcome measures is recommended. |
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Committee in charge: Dr. Paul Yovanoff, Chair;
Dr. Keith Hollenbeck, Member;
Dr. Joseph Stevens, Member;
Dr. Jeffery Sprague, Outside Member |
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dc.publisher |
University of Oregon |
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University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership, Ed. D., 2010; |
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dc.subject |
Oral reading |
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Fluency |
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Fast ForWord |
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Oral reading fluency |
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Program evaluation |
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Elementary education |
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Literacy |
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Reading instruction |
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dc.title |
Developing a profile to predict student response to treatment with Fast ForWord programs |
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Thesis |
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