Project III — Remediation

Principal Investigator

Dr. Sharon Vaughn, The University of Texas at Austin

Additional Investigators

Dr. Jack M. Fletcher, University of Houston

Dr. Carolyn Denton, Children’s Learning Instutute, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Description of the Project

Project III involves a study of multitiered instruction and intensive intervention with students in Austin-area and Houston middle schools who do not respond to enhanced reading instruction (moderate intervention). One cohort of students will be followed for three years (2006–2009).

1. Year 1: Beginning in the fall of 2006, at-risk sixth-grade students will be identified by examining the previous year’s scores from the state-mandated assessment. These students will be provided with either (a) intervention provided by research staff or (b) typical instruction provided by the school. In addition, content area teachers with students identified as at risk in their classrooms will receive professional development.
2. Year 2: Students who are low responders after one year of intervention will then receive more intensive intervention — either (a) low-inference instructional intervention or (b) individualized, high-inference intervention — in seventh grade.
3. Year 3: The first cohort of students will be followed through the end of eighth grade.

Population/Participants

Follows one cohort of students with reading difficulties from sixth to eighth grade.

Sites

Middle schools in Round Rock, Manor, and Houston, Texas.

Timeline

2006–2010

Findings/Publications

Research is ongoing.