The Effect of the Reading Plus Program on Reading Skills in Secondary Students (North East Florida Educational Consortium, unpublished)
Instruction | High School
Summary of Findings:
While the control group showed no significant gains on the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test, the treatment group made statistically significant gains (from pre-test scores of 33.7 to post-test scores of 42.3). The treatment group also made higher gains on the Visagraph GLE (3.6 to 6.8) than the control group (4.0 to 4.6), as well as the Visagraph Reading Rate with Comprehension (142.5 to 182.9 for the treatment group and 140.4 to 149.5 for the control group). On the FCAT, the treatment group showed the most gains with a score change of 220.18, while the control group showed lesser gains with a score change of 142.4.
“While the control group showed no significant gains on the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test, the treatment group made statistically significant gains.”
Study Profile
Type of Study: Impact Study
Measure: Gates-MacGinitie, FCAT
Publication: Unpublished study conducted by North East Florida Educational Consortium’s Foundation for Rural Excellence (NEFEC) and Educational Learning Systems, Inc.
Authors: North East Florida Educational Consortium’s Foundation for Rural Excellence (NEFEC) and Educational Learning Systems, Inc.