Success for All (SfA) is a comprehensive school reform program designed to support schools serving many students of disadvantaged backgrounds to increase students’ achievement. SfA includes daily 90-min reading lessons with extensive use of cooperative learning, tutoring for struggling readers, and an emphasis on parental involvement. School teams receive coaching and training, and each school has a facilitator appointed who supports program implementation. SfA has shown positive results in the US, and has been translated to the Dutch context.
Effects on students’ reading achievement were evaluated in this study with a total sample size of 1,011 students from three cohorts.
The authors found a significant positive effect on reading fluency of first-grade students (Cohen’s d = +0.40). The effect for the subgroup of low-socioeconomic-status students was even somewhat higher (Cohen’s d = +0.63). The authors did not find significant effects in Grade 2 and Grade 3 and found no effects of SfA on reading comprehension.
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