Results for category: Research-Based/Evidence-Based
Teaching Reading Comprehension and Comprehension Strategies
Tim Shanahan
January 2016
Teacher question: In terms of teaching comprehension to grade 3-5 students, what is the best way to help the readers transfer the strategies they are taught so they can be independent, self-regulated readers?
Shanahan’s response: If you want to teach reading comprehension strategies to on-grade level students between the ages of 8-10, we have […]
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DSM-5 Changes in Diagnostic Criteria for Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD): What are the Implications?
By Rosemary Tannock, Ph.D.
Q: What is SLD1 according to DSM-5?
A: DSM-5 considers SLD to be a type of Neurodevelopmental Disorder2 that impedes the ability to learn or use specific academic skills (e.g., reading, writing, or arithmetic), which are the foundation for other academic learning. The learning difficulties are ‘unexpected’ in that other aspects of development seem […]
Read More....The Proficiency Illusion
By John Cronin, Michael Dahlin, Deborah Adkins, and G. Gage Kingsbury
“The Proficiency Illusion” reveals that the tests that states use to measure academic progress under the No Child Left Behind Act are creating a false impression of success, especially in reading and especially in the early grades.
The report, a collaboration of the Thomas B. Fordham […]
Read More....The NICHD Study Of Early Child Care And Youth Development
By the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
In the early 1990s, the majority of children began some non-maternal care by 6 months of age. results from the NICHD Study of early child care and Youth Development show that, in its demographically and ethnically diverse sample of more than 1,000 children, the average child spent […]
Read More....What Is Scientifically Based Research?
By the National Institute for Literacy
Early in the 17th century, two astronomers competed to describe the nature of our solar system.
Galileo built a telescope and found new planets and moons. Francesco Sizi ridiculed Galileo’s findings. There must be only seven planets, Sizi said. After all, there are seven windows in the head—two nostrils, two ears, […]
Read More....Using Research And Reason In Education
How Teachers Can Use Scientifically Based Research To Make Curricular & Instructional Decisions
by Keith Stanovich and Paula Stanovich
This publication discusses ways schools and teachers can provide evidence about the effectiveness of their instructional methods. Student achievement can be demonstrated by formal testing implemented by the teacher, school district, or state; by published findings of research-based evidence; […]
Read More....Testimony To Congress On Head Start
By G. Reid Lyon Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health Statement by G. Reid Lyon, Ph.D. Chief, Child Development and Behavior Branch National Institute of Child Health and Human Development On HEAD START Before The Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions United States Senate Washington, D.C.
THE CRITICAL NEED FOR EVIDENCE-BASED COMPREHENSIVE AND EFFECTIVE EARLY […]
Read More....Measuring Success: Using Assessments And Accountability To Raise Student Achievement
By G. Reid Lyon Ph.D.
The following is a statement made by Dr. Lyon to the Subcommittee on Education Reform, Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, in Washington, D.C. on March 8, 2001.
Introduction
Good morning, Chairman Castle and members of the Subcommittee. I am Dr. Reid Lyon, Chief of the Child Development and […]
Read More....What Science Offers Teachers Of Reading
By Louise Spear-Swerling and Robert J. Sternberg, Ph.D
Abstract
In this article, we examine what science offers both general and special educators who teach reading. We review some well-established scientific findings about reading and their practical implications, not only for children with reading disabilities but for other children as well. In addition, we consider some broader […]
Read More....The NICHD Reading Research Program
By the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Three Decades of Research to Understand How Children Learn to Read, Why Some Children Have Difficulties Doing So, and What Can Be Done to Prevent and Remediate Reading Failure
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