Question

Give examples of how to manage and monitor the success of the interventions for at-risk and struggling readers.

Answer 1

A strategy that can be employed to manage and monitor the success of interventions for struggling readers includes ratio gains. A ratio gain is the amount of progress a student makes in reading age, divided by the time spent between pre and post intervention. Calculating ratio gains therefore involves using a test that gives age equivalent scores. If a student makes one year’s progress in word reading over the course of one year, then the ratio gain is 12 months (progress) divided by 12 months (time spent) giving a ratio gain of 1.