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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.
Constructs: English/ Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Social Studies
Assessment(s) Used: Assessment of Social Studies Knowledge, Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests [GMRT]
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.
Constructs: English/ Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Social Studies
Assessment(s) Used: Assessment of Social Studies Knowledge, Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests [GMRT]
Description: Word knowledge is critical for speaking, reading and writing, yet a substantial proportion of children with language impairment demonstrate poor word learning and consequently poor vocabulary. Because vocabulary has a causal relationship with reading comprehension, this presents a significant national health concern.
Educational Environment: Charter schools, Elementary School
Developmental Design: Cross-sectional
Part of Project: Profiles of Working Memory and Word Learning for Educational Research (POWWER)
Description: This dataset incudes data from 248 second graders (7- to 8-year-olds) with typical development from three states. One hundred sixty-seven were monolingual English-speaking and 81 were dual Spanish- and English-speaking.
Special Populations: Dual Language Learners [DLL]
Constructs: Age, Child Language, Demographics, Ethnicity, Gender, Parent Education, Race, Speech, Vocabulary, Word Learning, Working Memory
Assessment(s) Used: ADHD Rating Scale–IV Home Version, Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals–Fourth Edition, Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test–4: Spanish-Bilingual Edition, Expressive Vocabulary Test-2, Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation, Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, Nonword Repetition Task (Dollaghan & Campbell), Spanish Clinical Evaluations of Language Fundamentals, Spanish Clinical Evaluations of Language Fundamentals–Formulacion Oraciones, Test of Word Reading Efficiency-Second Edition [TOWRE], Woodcock Reading Mastery Test
Variable Types: Individual level demographic info, Standard scores, Sum/mean/composite scores
Part of Project: Profiles of Working Memory and Word Learning for Educational Research (POWWER)
Description: This codebook accompanies the POWWER Working Memory and Word Learning Dataset and contains information on variable names, labels, values, and calculations, if applicable.
Document Type: Codebook
