Value and Effectiveness of an Intervention Reading Course

<p>Students who graduate from high school and receive a diploma believe they are indeed ready for a college education. What most of these students are not aware of is that many students enter into higher education underprepared for the rigors of college level coursework. There are support programs such as tutoring and intervention reading courses that have been created to combat this problem and further prepare students to handle college level work, specifically reading. This study evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention reading course in terms of student success and growth. Students participated in a semester long course and were taught many reading and comprehension strategies to use in and outside of the class. Students were also given the Nelson-Denny Adult Reading Test as a pre- and post-test measure of success in the intervention reading course. After collecting and analyzing data, statistics show that the intervention reading course does, in fact, have a positive effect on students’ vocabulary and comprehension growth.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

School of Teacher Education

Year

2014

Author dc:creator

• Hazelwood, Imari Rashad

Contributors dc:contributor

• Pamela Petty (Director), Brian Meredith, Barbara Burch, Lucile Maples, Daniel Super

• College Reading
• Underprepared Students
• Support Programs
• Higher Education
• Curriculum and Instruction
• Education
• Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1340

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wku.edu:theses-2343