Study on Knowledge Retrieval and Inference-making in Struggling Readers
This study is looking at how learning new information and being able to remember it quickly helps students who struggle with reading understand what they read better. Researchers are testing two approaches: one called "Role of Knowledge Retrieval" where students learn new information to mastery and then read passages and answer questions, and another called "Inference Intervention" where students learn specific facts about Egypt and practice using text clues to understand texts. This study is for children aged 8 to 14 years who have difficulty reading, specifically those who score below 93 on a specific reading test. You cannot join if you have a significant cognitive or behavioral disability. The main goal is to see how these interventions change reading comprehension, measured by tests like the Gates-MacGinite Reading Test. The study is currently unclear about its recruitment status and plans to enroll 316 participants.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study involving 316 struggling readers in grades 4-6. It is not specified if it's randomized or blinded.
- What's involved
- Participants will learn new knowledge, read passages, and answer questions. They will also take reading and language tests before and immediately after the intervention.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- The study assesses changes immediately after the intervention, but long-term follow-up is not specified.
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The Role of Knowledge Retrieval in Inference-making
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Amy E Barth, Ph.D · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · William Jewell College
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What this trial measures
- Gates-MacGinite Reading Test-4th Edition; Change is being assessedpre-intervention
a standardized, group-administered, multiple-choice assessment of reading comprehension.
- Gates-MacGinite Reading Test-4th Edition; change is being assessedimmediately after the intervention
a standardized, group-administered, multiple-choice assessment of reading comprehension
- Test of Language Competence-Expanded; Change is being assessedpre-intervention
Inference Task asks students to read three sentences and form an inference
- Test of Language Competence-Expanded; change is being assessedimmediately after the intervention
Inference Task asks students to read three sentences and form an inference
- Bridge-IT; change is being assessedpre-intervention
asks students to read a five-sentence text, form an inference, and determine if the next sentence provided continues the story.
- Bridge-IT; change is being assessedimmediately after the intervention
asks students to read a five-sentence text, form an inference, and determine if the next sentence provided continues the story.
- Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-5; change is being assessedpre-intervention
Metalinguistics, Making Inferences subtest, an individually administered assessment, measures students' ability to make gap-filling inferences on the basis of causal relationships or event chains depicted in short narratives that are presented both orally and in print form.
- Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-5; change is being assessedimmediately after the intervention
Metalinguistics, Making Inferences subtest, an individually administered assessment, measures students' ability to make gap-filling inferences on the basis of causal relationships or event chains depicted in short narratives that are presented both orally and in print form.