This module is comprised of four sessions
11.1 How Do We Determine What is Effective?
Learning Intentions
After viewing this module session participants will be able to:- Identify five ways to determine intervention effectiveness and why four
of them are inadequate
- Provide examples of inadequate attempts to determine intervention
effectiveness
- Identify a valid way to determine effectiveness of interventions for word-level reading difficulties
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Watch the session below.
*Please see the Transcripts resource folder located in Module 0 for a text copy of the transcript from this video.
Summary
- There
are five ways of estimating the effectiveness of interventions: informal
assessments, raw score gains, statistical significance, effect sizes, and
standard score gains from nationally normed tests
- The
first four of those five approaches are inherently incapable of telling us if
an intervention is effective
- Only standard score point gains on nationally normed tests can tell us if an intervention approach is allowing struggling readers to catch up with their peers
Reflect & Connect
How have you typically gauged reading improvements? How might this change as a result of this session?