What Works for Children with Literacy Difficulties? - Digital ...
What Works for Children with Literacy Difficulties? - Digital ...
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SOMERSET (3)<br />
Main reference: Lawrence (1973, pp.65-74) - some details of interventions derived from<br />
Lawrence (1972)<br />
Date: not stated (1971?)<br />
Age-range: Y3-4 (average ages of the 8 pupil groups at beginning ranged from 7:10 to 9:7)<br />
Type of children: Low attainment (‘considered to be retarded in reading’)<br />
N of experimental group: 24, 6 in each of 4 schools<br />
(received counselling provided by non-professionals, plus remedial<br />
teaching)<br />
N of control group: (no no-intervention control group)<br />
N of alternative intervention group: 24, 6 in each of same 4 schools<br />
(received remedial 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: 17<br />
Reading test: Schonell Word Recognition Test<br />
Pre- and post-test average scores(r.a’s),pre-tests.d’s (post-test s.d’s and s.d’s of gains not<br />
given), gains (in 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 6:11 (1:10) 7:11 12 3.0<br />
AI 6:10 (2:0) 7:1 3 0.8<br />
Effect size: was not given and could not be calculated because there was no no-intervention<br />
control group<br />
Statistical significance: p
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