Title |
The Effectiveness of a 2‐year Supplementary Tutor‐assisted Computerized Intervention on the Reading Development of Beginning Readers at Risk for Reading Difficulties: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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Published in |
Dyslexia (10769242), October 2013
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DOI | 10.1002/dys.1465 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Anne Regtvoort, Haytske Zijlstra, Aryan van der Leij |
Abstract |
Children with low (pre-)literacy skills may benefit from individual tutoring during the early phases of learning to read. Dutch at-risk students from 13 schools received in first and second grade a computerized reading intervention, delivered by non-professional tutors at school. Digital logs indicated that treatment integrity was lower than intended; therefore, the intervention group was subdivided using a completion criterion. Third grade assessments revealed that the subgroup that had finished the program successfully (IF, N = 40) was able to read as fluent as the average reader, outperforming the subgroup that had not completely finished the program (InF, N = 31) as well as the group that had not worked with the program (controls, N = 66) on all reading measures. This study demonstrates that a well-implemented tutoring model can serve as a (cost-)effective complement to the classroom practice for beginning readers. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Netherlands | 1 | 33% |
United States | 1 | 33% |
Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Scientists | 2 | 67% |
Members of the public | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
United States | 1 | <1% |
Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
Denmark | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 153 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Student > Master | 32 | 21% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 13% |
Researcher | 19 | 12% |
Student > Bachelor | 16 | 10% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 5% |
Other | 23 | 15% |
Unknown | 38 | 24% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Psychology | 38 | 24% |
Social Sciences | 31 | 20% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 7% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 6% |
Arts and Humanities | 5 | 3% |
Other | 20 | 13% |
Unknown | 41 | 26% |