Activated Reader™
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Click to download an Interview with Vocabulary-Reading Expert Professor Andrew Biemiller (Univ of Toronto):
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2009: Reading, Math Software Found to Have Little Effect On Scores!
Old School Reading Software (emphasizing reading strategies, incorrectly leveling reading texts, incorporating little—or one-size-fits all—vocabulary, using ineffective motivation systems) does not boost reading scores.
"For the second year in a row, a controversial $14.4 million federal study testing the effectiveness of reading and math software programs has found few significant learning differences between students who used the technology and those taught using other methods..." Read complete article here
Why Post this here? We want you to FIND OUT HOW Activated Reader!™ is different!
Research Summaries • News of Ongoing Pilots (Coming)
- Activated Reader!™ was originally created to try to reduce high school dropout rates by boosting at-risk readers' vocabulary-reading comprehension scores.
- Our data showed that ninth graders who entered high school 3 to 4 years behind grade level in reading were at high risk of dropping out by 11th grade due to frustration and poor grades.
- Later studies focused on Elementary and Middle Schools where Activated Reader!™ can help close the Vocabulary-Reading Gap before it conspires to rob students of their love of learning.
Test Instrument Used: Wordware Online Reading Assessment (Scores reported as percent improvement); Woodcock Reading Mastery (hand-administered; scores reported as change in reading grade level)
Length of Trial: 5 weeks, 45 min/day of computer aided vocabulary-reading acceleration + 15 min/day hands-on reading
Average Starting Reading Score: Woodcock Grade Equivalent: 6.5
Average Ending Reading Score: Woodcock Grade Equivalent: 8.8
Summary: The entering 9th graders who were identified as at-risk for reading showed an average increase of 10.8 percentage points on the Wordware test and an average jump in reading grade-level of 2.3 years on the Woodcock. 100% of entering students completed the entire five week intensive 7-Step Vocabulary-Powered Reading program, 86% of students reached and in fact far exceeded the “high school success” reading grade-level target.*
* our studies show that entering 9th graders with at least a 7.0 reading grade level have a better chance of graduating
Test Instrument Used: New Century Reading Assessment
Length of Trial: 5 Pilot Trials: 10 weeks each: 45 min/day of computer aided Vocabulary-Reading Acceleration
Average Starting Reading Score: New Century Reading Assessment: 5.9
Average Ending Reading Score: New Century Reading Assessment: 7.0
Summary: The entering 9th graders who were identified as at-risk
for reading showed an average jump in reading grade-level of 1.1 years
on the New Century Reading Assessment. 100% of entering students completed the intensive 7-Step Vocabulary-Powered Reading program in addition to taking their full freshman course load. 60% of students reached and or exceeded the “high school success” reading grade-level target.*
Test Instrument Used: G.R.A.D.E.
Length of Trial: One Semester: 30 minutes Computer Aided Vocabulary Acceleration 3X/week.
Average Starting Reading Score: Scores coming soon
Average Ending Reading Score: Scores coming soon
Summary: The goals of this pilot were to see a school-wide jump in vocabulary and reading scores on state mandated assessments and to prepare eighth grade graduates to for the large jump in academic vocabulary in high school textbooks. 100% of entering students completed the intensive 4-Step Vocabulary Acceleration program and vocabulary and reading comprehension gains doubled expectations. Details coming soon!
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