Research in Adolescent Literacy, Elementary School Math, and English Language Learners

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The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) has released nine new reports this week that review the research on education programs, curricula, and strategies.

Adolescent Literacy

Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) is a program that aims to prepare middle and high school students for enrollment in four-year colleges. The program targets underserved, middle-achieving students and provides increased access to advanced courses and ongoing academic support. The WWC reviewed 66 studies that investigated the effects of AVID on adolescent learners.

See how WWC rated the research on AVID and its effects on comprehension for adolescent learners at
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/reports/adolescent_literacy/avid/

Corrective Reading is a program designed to promote the reading accuracy, fluency, and comprehension skills of students in grades 4–12 who are reading below their grade level. A total of 129 studies reviewed by the WWC examined the effects of Corrective Reading on adolescent learners' alphabetics, reading fluency, and comprehension.

Read the full report


Reading Plus® is a web-based reading intervention that uses technology to provide individualized, scaffolded, silent reading practice for students in grade 3 and higher. The WWC reviewed 18 studies that examined the effects of Reading Plus® on adolescent learners. One study that meets WWC evidence standards with reservations included 13,128 students, ranging from grade 5 through grade 9, who attended schools in Miami-Dade County in Florida.

Read all the details and the effect that Reading Plus® had on comprehension for adolescent learners.


Reciprocal teaching is an interactive instructional practice that aims to improve students' reading comprehension by teaching strategies to obtain meaning from a text. The WWC reviewed 164 studies that investigated the effects of reciprocal teaching on adolescent learners.

Find out how WWC rated the research on reciprocal teaching and its effects on comprehension for adolescent learners.


Book clubs provide a reading framework designed to supplement or organize regular classroom reading instruction for students in grades K–8. The WWC identified 284 studies of book clubs for adolescent learners.

Read the results of the WWC review in the full report.


Elementary School Math

Accelerated Math™ is a software tool used to customize assignments and monitor progress in mathematics for students in grades 1–12. The WWC reviewed 32 studies that investigated the effects of Accelerated Math™ on elementary school students. Three studies included 2,179 students from grades 2–5 in more than 60 schools across multiple states.

See the full report and the results of the studies.


Everyday Mathematics® is a core curriculum for students in prekindergarten through grade 6. The WWC reviewed 72 studies that investigated the effects of Everyday Mathematics® on elementary school students. One study that meets WWC evidence standards with reservations included 3,436 elementary students in third through fifth grades in a large urban school district in Texas.

Read all the details and what effects the curriculum had on students' math achievement.


Saxon Elementary School Math is a core curriculum for students in kindergarten through grade 5 that uses a distributed approach – which spreads practice and instruction for any single math content strand across the course of the entire instructional year – as opposed to a chapter-based approach. The WWC reviewed 20 studies that investigated the effects of Saxon Elementary School Math on elementary school students. Three studies the meet WWC evidence standards with or without reservations included students in grades K–5 from 325 schools in 19 states.

See what effects these studies show for this elementary school math curriculum.


English Language Learners

ClassWide Peer Tutoring is a teaching strategy that uses a team-focused game format to engage students in the learning process. A classroom is divided into two competing teams, and the students in each team then pair off and take turns tutoring each other, earning points for correct answers. For this review of the research, the WWC identified eight studies that examined the effects of ClassWide Peer Tutoring on English language learners.

Read the WWC assessment of the research.

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