The Effectiveness Of Read 180 At A Cooperative High School In New England (CHSNE)

<p>Over the last decade, schools have employed a variety of intervention plans to assist below grade-level achieving students to quickly gain missing skills with the ultimate goal of allowing these students access to proper grade level curriculum. These intervention plans have been directly aligned with educational laws in the US such as the <em>No Child Left Behind Act</em> and the <em>Every Student Achieves Act</em> with very little success. There has been a great deal of research conducted on the most effective and efficient ways to properly diagnose, address, and implement these intervention plans; however there is a lack of literature examining the relationship of the alignment of standards that are common to individual intervention programs and those of the state and federal government. This study fills a gap in the literature and extends the dialogue on this topic focusing specifically on whether Scholastic’s READ 180 intervention program is a suitable Response to Intervention. The program allows struggling readers to gain reading skills and achieve credit in a standard high school Freshman English course. The researcher notes alignment of common standards in the READ 180 program and the curriculum of the standard Freshman English course at the Cooperative High School of New England (CHSNE). This study concluded that students who received the READ 180 treatment saw Lexile growth three times greater than the students who did not receive the treatment; however these students earned a passing grade in the standard high school Freshman English class six times less frequently. Further, this study determined that, even though there is direct alignment in the standards in this standard English class and the READ 180 intervention program, growth in the READ 180 standards did not equate to the same growth in the standards in the English course or attainment of credit.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education (EdD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Year dc:date.available

2020

Author dc:creator

• Daboul, Michael E.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Suzan Nelson
• Corinne Crafton
• David Hobbs

• Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
• Educational Leadership
• Educational Methods

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dune.une.edu/theses/284

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dune.une.edu:theses-1283