The Impact of Field Experience on Elementary Students

The purpose of this session is to describe a research project that involved preservice teacher education candidates in a field experience incorporating individualized tutoring for at-risk elementary students. Specifically, do these struggling elementary readers improve their reading? The first and s...

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Main Author Chang, Sau Hou
Format Report
LanguageEnglish
Published 04.04.2008
Subjects
At Risk Students
Elementary School Students
Field Experience Programs
Grade 1
Grade 2
Indiana
Preservice Teachers
Program Effectiveness
Reading Achievement
Reading Difficulties
Reading Instruction
Tutoring
Indiana
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Summary:The purpose of this session is to describe a research project that involved preservice teacher education candidates in a field experience incorporating individualized tutoring for at-risk elementary students. Specifically, do these struggling elementary readers improve their reading? The first and second graders (n = 190) were all given the Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) at the beginning of the Fall 2007 semester. The SMART [Students and Mentors Achieving Reading Together] program shows a tremendous positive effect on struggling primary-level readers. All struggling readers in the SMART program show substantial increase of reading scores.