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Repeated Reading: Testing Alternative Models For Efficient Implementation, Gregory Paul Lewis
Repeated Reading: Testing Alternative Models For Efficient Implementation, Gregory Paul Lewis
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
An investigation was conducted to determine the best criterion for advancement to a new reading passage during the commonly used classroom strategy of repeated reading. Knowing when to move students to a new passage during the repeated reading process was considered of value to teachers in efficiently using student learning time. The study also explored the effect of demographic variables (age, ethnicity, gender, SES, and beginning reading ability) on predicting outcome measures based on repeated reading scores.
A complex multi-level structural equation model was developed to study (a) the growth of student's ability to read words with speed and accuracy …