Enhanced Reading Opportunities Study: Early Impact and Implementation Findings

摘要

This report presents early findings from the Enhanced Reading Opportunities (ERO) study, a demonstration and rigorous evaluation of two supplemental literacy programs that aim to improve the reading comprehension skills and school performance of struggling ninth grade readers. The U.S. Department of Educations (ED) Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) is funding the implementation of these programs, and its Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is responsible for oversight of the evaluation. MDRC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research organization, is conducting the evaluation in partnership with the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Survey Research Management (SRM). The present report focuses on the first of two cohorts of ninth-grade students who will participate in the study and discusses the impact that the two interventions had on these students reading comprehension skills through the end of their ninth-grade year. The report also describes the implementation of the programs during the first year of the study and provides an assessment of the overall fidelity with which the participating schools adhered to the program design specified by the developers.