Sentences with phrase «reading than in the control group»

In the PBL group, gains were 63 percent higher for social studies and 23 percent higher for informational reading than in the control group.

Not exact matches

By the fall of their kindergarten year, children who participated in Head Start and the REDI - P group scored higher than the children in the control group on several measures, showing greater increases in their vocabulary, literacy skills, reading fluency and academic performance upon entering kindergarten.

The results showed that students who participated in the program performed at significantly higher levels in reading than the students in an experimental control group.

The CTBA report ignores entirely previous research from the Brookings Institution, a random - assignment study — the gold standard of social science research — that found voucher students in Milwaukee scored six Normal Curve Equivalent points higher than the control group in reading and 11 points higher in math.

On average in the three cities, African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored 6.3 percentile points higher than their peers in the control group on the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portion.

Data also show that students in the reduced - size classrooms had higher standardized test scores in reading and mathematics than did students in the control group.»

Second graders who had participated in the SFA program for three years significantly outperformed their peers who were not in the program on a measure of phonics skills, but on average did not perform better than the control group in reading fluency or comprehension.

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«By the end of the trial, the reading scores for children in the participating schools were far higher than for children in the control group.

Although children in the treatment group and family literacy group reported reading more books than the control group, there was no significant effect on reading comprehension and vocabulary.

The results, published in 2007 in the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, showed that the storytelling students scored significantly better on vocabulary and reading «readiness» tests than the control group.

Preliminary outcome data suggest that students in K - 3 Plus enter kindergarten with higher scores in reading, writing and numeracy than the students that were randomly assigned to the control group.

A federal program that pays private - school tuition for poor DC families, for instance, has been shown to raise students» reading performance by more than two grade levels after just three years, compared to a control group of students who stayed in public schools.

A 2011 paper that investigated the effects of tutoring provided by teachers found that students who received tutoring in either reading or math performed significantly better on the state standardized test than a control group of students with similar prior scores who did not receive tutoring.19 Even when programs are less structured and instruction is not provided by trained teachers, tutoring can have a notable effect on student performance.

Students exposed to the intervention also did much better on the TAAS reading test than did students in the control group.