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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.
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Description: In an attempt to bridge the opportunity gap that exists prior to schooling, understanding the specific activities, resources, and interactions that take place in the home that encourage higher academic achievement has become a primary concern in the field.
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Description: This project was funded by the NIH through the P50 Florida Learning Disabilities Research Center. More information about the project can be read in this publication about the project:
Taylor, J., Martinez, K., & Hart, S.A. (2019). The Florida State Twin Registry. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 22(6), 728-730.
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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.
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Part of Project: Florida Twin Project on Reading, Behavior, and Environment
Description: Race and ethnicity variables can be particularly problematic for data reidentification and data misuse in publicly available datasets, and as such were removed from the original datasets. This dataset contains race and ethnicity information for all waves of data that may be available upon request.
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Part of Project: Florida Twin Project on Reading, Behavior, and Environment
Description: This dataset contains information from the Florida Progress Monitoring and Reporting Network (PMRN) linked to the Florida Twin Project twins.
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Part of Project: Florida Twin Project on Reading, Behavior, and Environment
Description: This dataset contains results from the initial survey assessment completed by parents and twins (who were 9 years or older) regarding the twin pair's environments and behaviors (2010). T
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Part of Project: Florida Twin Project on Reading, Behavior, and Environment
Description: This dataset contains measures from the third wave of data collection of the twins' achievement (collected in 2016). Data was collected via parent assessment using instructions sent in the mail.
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Part of Project: Florida Twin Project on Reading, Behavior, and Environment
Description: This dataset contains measures from the second wave of data collection of the twins' achievement (collected in 2014). Data was collected via parent assessment using instructions sent in the mail.
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Part of Project: Florida Twin Project on Reading, Behavior, and Environment
Description: This dataset contains measures from the first wave of data collection of the twins' achievement (collected in 2012). Data was collected via parent assessment using instructions sent in the mail.
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Part of Project: Florida Twin Project on Reading, Behavior, and Environment
Description: This dataset contains results from the wave 3 survey completed by the twins who were 9 and older about themselves, administered in 2016. This contains measures related to the child's home and school environment, attitudes regarding books, home, school, and friends, and several behavioral surveys (PANAS, CADS, etc.).
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Part of Project: Florida Twin Project on Reading, Behavior, and Environment
Description: This dataset contains results from the wave 2 survey completed by the twins who were 9 and older about themselves, administered in 2014. This contains measures related to the child's home and school environment, attitudes regarding books, home, school, and friends, and several behavioral surveys (PANAS, CADS, etc.).
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Part of Project: Florida Twin Project on Reading, Behavior, and Environment
Description: This dataset contains results from the wave 2 survey completed by the twins who were 9 and older about themselves, administered in 2012. This contains measures related to the child's home and school environment, attitudes regarding books, home, school, and friends, and several behavioral surveys (PANAS, CADS, etc.).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Part of Project: Florida Twin Project on Reading, Behavior, and Environment
Description: This dataset contains results from the third wave of surveys sent to parents of twin pairs in 2016.
