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ArticlePolicy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences2016

Individualizing Student Instruction in Reading: Implications for Policy and Practice.

Carol McDonald Connor, Frederick J Morrison

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Article in Policy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05133479 (Translating Research Into School-based Practice Via Small-group, Language-focused Comprehension Intervention), which is not on this map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05133479 naactive not recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2021, after this paper: background citation

Translating Research Into School-based Practice Via Small-group, Language-focused Comprehension Intervention

TypeinterventionalSponsorMGH Institute of Health ProfessionsRan2021 to 2026Enrolled241ConditionsLanguage Disorders in ChildrenArmsLet's Know! small-group or TierL 2 Intervention
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Speech Enabled Reading Fluency Assessment: a Validation Study.International journal of artificial intelligence in education · 2025
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  2. Understanding Heterogeneity in the Impact of Public Preschool Programs.Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · 2023
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  9. Examining the Efficacy of Targeted Component Interventions on Language and Literacy for Third and Fourth Graders Who are at Risk of Comprehension Difficulties.Scientific studies of reading : the official journal of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Carol McDonald ConnorUniversity of California - Irvine, School of Education, 3200 Education, Irvine, CA 92697-5500.
Frederick J MorrisonDepartment of Psychology and Combined Program in Education and Psychology., University of Michigan, 530 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043.

Funding

THE FLORIDA LONGITUDINAL STUDYP50HD052120 · NICHD · FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI TIFFANY P HOGAN · 2006 to 2026
$31.7M
Child-Instruction Interactions Causal Effects on ReadingR01HD048539 · NICHD · FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI CONNOR, CAROL MCDONALD · 2005 to 2010
$2.4M
NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD052120NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD048539
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite three decades of scientific and public attention on efforts to improve literacy in America, little progress has been made in closing achievement gaps across racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. This article argues that one major reason is failure to take into account the mosaic of strengths and weaknesses individual children bring to school. With this comes the failure to develop personalized instruction for each child. We briefly review the research available, and then describe how research, ours and others, supports the efficacy of individualizing or personalizing student instructional (ISI) and illustrate how society might close achievement gaps. ISI, and other regimes, offer a systematic instructional program, incorporate child assessment, and personalized small-group instruction. In ISI, this is aided by computer-generated recommendations and planning tools, coupled with extensive, ongoing professional development. ISI has been shown to be highly effective from preschool through third grade in improving children's literacy skills. The practical and policy implications of implementing effective instruction are discussed.

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flexible learning groupsindividualized instructionliteracypersonalized instructionsmall-group instruction

Identifiers

PMID29732399
PMCPMC5935258

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