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Project
Description: The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk (MCPER) partnered with the University of Houston, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas A&M University, and Florida State University to improve the reading comprehension of students in grades 7 through 12.
Project
Description: The data within this project comprise a four year longitudinal study assessing various aspects of literacy including decoding, fluency, vocabulary, reading comprehension, listening comprehension, working memory and writing. Participants were tested on all measures once a year, approximately one year apart.
Project
Description: The purpose of this study is to explore the relations among elementary schools’ RTI (Response to Intervention) implementation and teachers’ awareness of RTI implementation and student outcomes.
Dataset
Part of Project: Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT)
Description: In the 2013-14 school year, two PACT social studies RCTs were conducted, both with Grade 8 students. One study focused on schools with a higher percentage of English learners. The second study focused on struggling readers and provided a more intensified version of the PACT program.
Dataset
Part of Project: Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT)
Description: Students were in Grades 11 enrolled in general education social studies or in Grades 7-12 and enrolled in general education English/language arts classes. Data were collected using measures of reading and other academic skills, attitudes, and student characteristics. All students participated for one school year only.
Dataset
Part of Project: Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT)
Description: Students were in Grade 11 enrolled in general education social studies or in Grades 7-12 and enrolled in general education English/language arts classes. Data were collected using measures of reading and other academic skills, attitudes, and student characteristics. All students participated for one school year only.
Dataset
Part of Project: Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT)
Description: The Vocabulary and Comprehension (VoCo) project was a small study involving 44 struggling readers in Grade 9. The treatment was a multicomponent reading intervention delivered over 80 sessions during one school year. Data on measures of reading comprehension and fluency were collected at pre-test and post-test.
Dataset
Part of Project: Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT)
Description: Students were in Grades 8 or 11 and enrolled in general education social studies or in Grades 7-12 and enrolled in general education English/language arts classes. Data were collected using measures of reading and other academic skills, attitudes, and student characteristics. All students participated for one school year only.
Dataset
Part of Project: Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT)
Description: Students were in Grades 8 enrolled in general education social studies or in Grades 7-12 and enrolled in general education English/language arts classes. Data were collected using measures of reading and other academic skills, attitudes, and student characteristics. All students participated for one school year only.
Dataset
Part of Project: Longitudinal Study on Reading and Writing at the Word, Sentence, and Text Levels
Description: This dataset is longitudinal in nature, comprising data from school years (2007/2008-2010/2011) following students in grade 1 to grade 4. Measures were chosen to provide a wide array of both reading and writing measures, encompassing reading and writing skills at the word, sentence, and larger passage or text levels.
Dataset
Part of Project: Project FOCUS: Exploring RTI Implementation with a Focus on Students Receiving Tier 3 and Special Education
Description: These are data from 1000 teachers and 77 administrators. Data include demographic variables on teachers, and their perceptions of RTI implementation in their school. This is a cross-sectional dataset.
Dataset
Part of Project: Project FOCUS: Exploring RTI Implementation with a Focus on Students Receiving Tier 3 and Special Education
Description: These are data from 65 school administrators.
Document
Part of Project: Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT)
Description: This document serves as a codebook for all related project datasets. Project years and subtests are separated as distinct worksheets within the document. This codebook spans 4 years and contains information on a large variety of tests and measures, and as a result is quite long.
Document Type: Codebook
Document
Part of Project: Project FOCUS: Exploring RTI Implementation with a Focus on Students Receiving Tier 3 and Special Education
Description: This codebook accompanies the data set "Teacher Survey Data on School RTI components, and includes variable name, prompts, data type, and allowable values.
Document Type: Codebook
