PROGRAM EVALUATION OF READING PLUS : STUDY OF THE IMPACT ON READING ACHIEVEMENT AT THE SCHOOL LEVEL IN MOORE COUNTY SCHOOLS

Abstract

At the request of the Moore County School district's superintendent a program evaluation was conducted on Reading Plus. Reading Plus is a reading intervention program that places an emphasis on the connection between eye-movements and reading skills that is in use in the school district. The program evaluation focused on the use of Reading Plus at Cameron Elementary School. A full evaluation was conducted using Daniel Stufflebeam's Context, Input, Process, Product (CIPP) model. The purpose of the program evaluation was to determine whether or not the Reading Plus program impacted student academic achievement in reading for those students enrolled in the program in grades four and five based on the student Lexile scores generated from the Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI). Reading Plus was found to be an effective intervention program and cost effective for the school which was evaluated.