What Works for Children with Literacy Difficulties? - Digital ...
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SOMERSET (2)<br />
Main reference: Lawrence (1973,pp.56-65)-some details of interventions derived from<br />
Lawrence (1972)<br />
Date: not stated (1970?)<br />
Age-range: Y4 (average ages of groups at beginning ranged from 8:10-9:6)<br />
Type of children: Low attainment (‘considered to be retarded in reading’)<br />
N of experimental group: 14, 7 in each of 2 schools (received counselling provided by nonprofessionals,<br />
plus remedial teaching)<br />
N of control group: (no no-intervention control group)<br />
N of alternative intervention group: 14, 7 in each of same 2 schools (received remedial<br />
teaching only)<br />
Equivalence of groups: Matched on age, sex, mental age and reading age, <strong>with</strong>in schools<br />
Length of intervention in weeks: 18 (but 26 between pre- and post-test)<br />
Reading test: Schonell Word Recognition Test<br />
Pre- and post-test average scores (r.a’s), pre-test s.d’s (post-test s.d’s not given), gains (in<br />
months of r.a.), and ratio gains:<br />
pre-test post-test gain RG<br />
average (s.d.) average<br />
(yrs & months) (months)<br />
experimentals 7:0 (1:9) 8:0 12 2.0<br />
AI 6:10 (1: 11) 7:8 10 1.7<br />
Effect size: was not given and could not be calculated because there was no no-intervention<br />
control group<br />
Statistical significance: ns<br />
Counselling by non-professionals plus remedial teaching was no better than remedial teaching<br />
alone<br />
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