Using cooperative learning to close the reading attainment gap for students with low literacy levels for Grade 8/Year 9 students

Allen Thurston; Maria Cockerill; Nicole Craig

doi:10.1016/j.ijer.2019.02.016

Using cooperative learning to close the reading attainment gap for students with low literacy levels for Grade 8/Year 9 students

Allen Thurston, Maria Cockerill, Nicole Craig

School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work

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Abstract

A randomized controlled trial of peer tutoring was undertaken in 60 Grade 6/Year 7, and 60 Grade 8/Year 9 classrooms (1299 Grade 6/Year 7 students and 1275 Grade 8/Year 9 students). Grade 8/Year 9 students acted as reading tutors to Grade 6/Year 7 students. Reading attainment was measured with an independent commercially available standardized reading attainment test with two sub-scales, sentence completion and passage comprehension. Results of multi-level modeling indicated significant gains in sentence completion for students acting as tutors in the bottom decile of reading, with no gains, nor deficits observed in the sample as a whole.

Original language	English
Number of pages	10
Journal	International Journal of Educational Research
Volume	94
Early online date	12 Mar 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2019.02.016
Publication status	Early online date - 12 Mar 2019

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peer tutoring,
paired reading,
schools,
cooperative learning

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