Reading First And Its Effects On Third Grade Crct Reading Scores

Download or read book Reading First and Its Effects on Third Grade CRCT Reading Scores written by Dorothy Young Crimes and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This quantitative research study evaluated CRCT reading achievement of students in third grade who received reading instruction with the guidance of the Reading First Program and students who received reading instruction without the guidance of the Reading First Program. The study included CRCT reading scores for third grade students in the spring of 2004, at the time the Quality Core Curriculum (QCC) Standards were used. By the spring of 2008, Georgia was following the Georgia Performance Standards (GPS). The third grade students tested in spring 2004 did not receive reading instruction with the guidance of the First program. The students who were tested in spring 2008 received reading instruction with the guidance of the Reading First Program from kindergarten through third grade. The data was collected from a small, rural public school in southwest Georgia. To analyze the data, a chi square statistic was calculated across the categories “did not meet” standards, “met” standards and “exceeded” standards. The researcher examined 79 third grade CRCT reading subtest scores. The researcher concluded that there is no statistical difference in CRCT reading scores for the two groups researched.