EBP Compendium: Summary of Systematic Review
Determining an Effective Intervention within a Brief Experimental Analysis for Reading: A Meta-Analytic Review
Burns, M. K., & Wagner, D.
(2008).
School Psychology Review, 37(1), 126-136.
Indicators of Review Quality:
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The review addresses a clearly focused question
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Criteria for inclusion of studies are provided
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Search strategy is described in sufficient detail for replication
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Included studies are assessed for study quality
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Quality assessments are reproducible
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Description: This is a systematic review of experimental studies investigating the effect of reading fluency interventions in elementary school-aged children.
Question(s) Addressed:
- “What magnitude of effect was needed to identify an effective intervention within BEA [brief experimental analysis]?” (p. 130).
- “What effects were associated with interventions used within BEA?” (p. 131).
- “Were effects moderated by passage type?” (p. 131).
Population: Children in grades two through six.
Intervention/Assessment: Interventions investigated in this review included: incentives, performance feedback, student passage preview, listening passage preview, repeated reading, and phrase drills.
Number of Studies Included: 13
Years Included: Not further specified
Findings:
Conclusions:
Treatment
Language
Reading
"The data for the individual interventions and intervention combinations suggest that there is a relatively extensive list of effective interventions from which to select interventions for BEA" (p. 133).
The interventions with the largest effects were the combination of listening passage, repeated reading, and performance feedback with and without incentives.
Further investigation is warranted to further examine combined and single interventions.
Keywords: Literacy
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Added to Compendium: December 2011