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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2008-12)The National Reading Panel recently concluded that pre-literacy and early literacy instruction is appropriate for kindergarten students and an important element of promoting higher achievement in later grades. This paper ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2014-08-07)Arthur Academies are a set of six charter elementary schools in the greater Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. The mission of the schools is “to accelerate educational achievement and academic competency of all its ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2015-01-18)Direct Instruction is based on over 5 decades of work. The curricular programs are based on extensively formulated and carefully tested theoretical insights and are developed through a painstaking process of research and ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2011-10)During the 2010-2011 school year, students in grades K-2 at a Florida elementary school were randomly assigned to receive reading instruction in the Direct Instruction program Reading Mastery (RM), Signature Edition, or ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2015-04-29)This report examines changes in mathematics and reading skills of students in a Michigan elementary school after instruction with the Direct Instruction programs Connecting Math Concepts: Comprehensive Edition (CMCCE) ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2010)Educating young children is one of the most pressing problems facing less developed countries around the world. A well educated populace is crucial in helping nations escape from grinding poverty. But developing a well ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2013-04-29)This report examines changes in the average Stanford Achievement Test (SAT) scores in reading of first and fifth grade students in elementary schools in the Guam Public School System (GPSS) from Spring, 1993, through ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2015-07-05)A large body of evidence has documented the effectiveness of Direct Instruction as a whole school reform model. With support from the U. S. Department of Education, Geoffrey Borman and colleagues (Borman, Hewes, Overman, ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2016-04-03)While a large literature shows that Direct Instruction (DI) is more effective than other curricular programs, some DI schools and classrooms are more successful than others. A major reason for these differences is ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2016-03-24)The body of this Report provides background to help users of the EIC. The first two sections discuss terminology and describe the structure of the EIC. The following five sections give examples of the use of the EIC to ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2013)This report provides an analysis of why the conclusions of the WWC regarding DI differ so markedly from the extant scholarly literature. The first section discusses issues related to criteria regarding exclusion or ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2010)The purpose of this study was to examine growth in reading comprehension and fluency of fourth grade general education students receiving instruction in Reading Mastery, Signature Edition or Scott Foresman’s Celebrate ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2015-06-15)Two on-line publications released in May, 2015 warned of the dangers of early childhood education programs that promote academic skills. A group called “Defending the Early Years” released a short document by Nancy ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2008-09)In the late 1990s, in response to very low achievement scores, the Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS) implemented curricular reforms. Eleven schools in the district introduced Direct Instruction as part of a ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2008-09)In the mid 1990s, in response to very low reading achievement scores, the Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS) implemented curricular reforms. Sixteen schools used Direct Instruction. All the Direct Instruction ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2008-09)In the mid 1990s, in response to very low reading achievement scores, the Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS) implemented curricular reforms. Sixteen schools used Direct Instruction. All the Direct Instruction ...
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The Long-Term Impacts of Direct Instruction and the Maple Model: College Preparation and Readiness (National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2015-07-06)This report examines the high school accomplishments and preparation for college of students from a high poverty school in the northwestern United States who had varying degrees of exposure to Direct Instruction in ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2015-05-22)Students taught with Direct Instruction (DI) can have advantages that persist throughout their lifetimes. Students exposed to DI in the early grades are more likely to complete high school and enter college. In turn, ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2009-03)This paper reports the results of a study that employed a pretest-posttest control group design to examine the relationship of instruction in Funnix Beginning Reading to the development of beginning reading skills. ...
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(National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI), 2008-11)This report examines data from two elementary schools in the Bethel, Oregon, school district. One school adopted the Direct Instruction program, Reading Mastery, as the core reading curriculum for the primary grades. The ...
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