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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: Language processing accounts posit that spoken and written word predictability processes facilitate language comprehension, and prior research on contextual facilitation effects shows that individuals’ processing of a constrained word is faster and more accurate than that of an unconstrained word.
Project
Description: This study examined longitudinal outcomes of late-talking toddlers. Specifically, we included toddlers who participated in the Vocabulary Acquisition and Usage for Late Talkers (VAULT) treatment protocol.
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: A Longitudinal Assessment of Late Talking Toddlers
Description: This dataset contains the data from the overarching project that was collected via the Vocabulary Acquisition and Usage for Late Talkers (VAULT) protocol. This data is longitudinal in nature, containing data for baseline, pretest, at treatment, post treatment, and a delayed follow-up for 68 students.
Code
Part of Project: Sentence Context Effects on Word Processing Among School-Aged Children in Honduras
Description: This SPSS code takes the raw data posted as "SCE_Data".
Code Type: Analysis
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: A Longitudinal Assessment of Late Talking Toddlers
Description: This codebook contains the information needed to understand the variable naming conventions and structure for the VAULT dataset from the larger Longitudinal Assessment of Late Talking Toddlers project. Information is available for all timepoints.
Document Type: Codebook
Document
Part of Project: A Longitudinal Assessment of Late Talking Toddlers
Description: This document serves as an adjunct for understanding the nature of the VAULT data and its accompanying codebook. Specific information and citations are provided for the individual measures used. Additionally, the timeline/protocol used within the project is detailed in this document.
Document Type: Other
