Research and Evaluation

State Program Evaluation

State Program Evaluation has information on state-wide program evaluation conducted by NDEC and the University of Maine. There are four areas:

• Evaluation Design:
  • Four Approaches to Reading Recovery Evaluation
  • Research Questions
  • Data Creation and Maintenance
• Data Collection:
  • Address Changes
  • Reading Recovery Student Assessment Forms
  • NDEC Data Entry Helper Forms
  • Qualitative Surveys and Response Rate Forms
• Data Interpretation:
  • Descriptive Statistics
  • Maine Stanines
  • Stanines vs. Average Bands: Some Clarification
• Evaluation Reports:
  • State Report 2001-2002
  • State Report 2002-2003
  • State Report 2003-2004
  • State Implementation Report 2003-2004
  • Qualitative Report 2001-2002
  • Qualitative Report 2003-2004
  • A History of Text Reading Levels
  • Average Band Scores for the Observation Survey

School Program Evaluation

• District- or School-level Analysis
• Template for a School Operations Report
• Rubric For Assessing a School's Operation

Scholarly Research

The Scholarly Research link will take you to the completed work of independent researchers, such as Dr. Romei's study of longitudinal outcomes of Reading Recovery innovations with at-risk populations.

Valerie Ruhe, PhD and Paula Moore, Ed.D. (2005) The Impact of Reading Recovery on Later Achievement in Reading and Writing, ERS Spectrum, 23(1), 20-30.

Longitudinal Study - An Assessment of Longitudinal Outcomes of the Reading Recovery Intervention in Maine with At-Risk Populations, by Dr. Gael E. Romei, May 2002