7/8/2020
An Investigation of Blended Learning to Support Reading Instruction in Elementary Schools
PURPOSE: Administrators in a charter school network were concerned about low reading scores in their elementary schools. They decided to change to their English Language Arts curriculum and adopt Core5 in some of the lower performing schools.
METHOD: For this quasi-experimental study, three schools used Core5 and three schools continued with their traditional curriculum and served as control schools. Students in Core5 and non-Core5 schools were similar in their demographic characteristics. The MAP Reading Test was used as a pre- and posttest measure in this study.
KEY FINDINGS
- At pretest, students in Core5 schools performed significantly below students in non-Core5 schools on the MAP Reading Test.
- At posttest, students in Core5 schools showed significantly greater gains on the MAP Reading Test than non-Core5 students, so that the pretest difference between groups disappeared.
- Gains on the MAP Reading Test did not differ across grades and ethnic backgrounds, indicating that Core5 was equally beneficial for students across grades and ethnicities.
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