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Part of Project: Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT)
Description: In the 2013-14 school year, two PACT social studies RCTs were conducted, both with Grade 8 students. One study focused on schools with a higher percentage of English learners. The second study focused on struggling readers and provided a more intensified version of the PACT program.
Special Populations: English Language Learners [ELL], Reading Disabilities [Dyslexia] [RD]
Constructs: English/ Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Social Studies
Assessment(s) Used: Assessment of Social Studies Knowledge, Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests [GMRT]
Part of Project: Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT)
Description: Students were in Grades 11 enrolled in general education social studies or in Grades 7-12 and enrolled in general education English/language arts classes. Data were collected using measures of reading and other academic skills, attitudes, and student characteristics. All students participated for one school year only.
Constructs: English/ Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Social Studies
Assessment(s) Used: Assessment of Social Studies Knowledge, Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests [GMRT]
Part of Project: Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT)
Description: Students were in Grade 11 enrolled in general education social studies or in Grades 7-12 and enrolled in general education English/language arts classes. Data were collected using measures of reading and other academic skills, attitudes, and student characteristics. All students participated for one school year only.
Constructs: English/ Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Social Studies
Assessment(s) Used: Assessment of Social Studies Knowledge, Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests [GMRT]
Part of Project: Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT)
Description: The Vocabulary and Comprehension (VoCo) project was a small study involving 44 struggling readers in Grade 9. The treatment was a multicomponent reading intervention delivered over 80 sessions during one school year. Data on measures of reading comprehension and fluency were collected at pre-test and post-test.
Special Populations: Reading Disabilities [Dyslexia] [RD]
Constructs: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency
Assessment(s) Used: Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests [GMRT], Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement [WJ3]
Part of Project: Project KIDS
Description: These data are for each item on all achievement and behavioral assessments completed during the original intervention projects. The dataset is wide, with separate variable names for each wave of assessment. All participants (n= 4,038) are included. These data can be linked to the "total level" data using the PK_ID variable.
Constructs: Academic Knowledge [AK], Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [ADHD], Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Early Reading, Language Development, Phonemic Awareness, Phonological Awareness, Vocabulary
Assessment(s) Used: Test of Language Development-Primary: Fourth Edition, Test of Preschool Early Literacy [TOPEL], Test of Silent Reading Efficiency and Comprehension [TOSREC], Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement [WJ3]
Variable Types: Item level data
Part of Project: Project KIDS
Description: This data set includes all total scores, demographics, home literacy environment, etc. for Project KIDS. Data are in wide format, with separate variables for each wave of assessments. All 4038 participants are represented in the data.
Constructs: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Emotional Behavior Disorder [EBD], Home Literacy Environment, Intelligence, Language Development, Phonemic Awareness, Phonological Awareness
Assessment(s) Used: Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing-Second Edition [CTOPP], Conners' Teacher Rating Scale (CTRS), Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test [KBIT], Social Skills Rating System (SSRS), Test of Language Development-Primary: Fourth Edition, Test of Preschool Early Literacy [TOPEL], Test of Silent Reading Efficiency and Comprehension [TOSREC], The Strengths and Weaknesses of ADHD symptoms and Normal behavior scale (SWAN), Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement [WJ3]
Data Collection Location(s): In person: in schools
Part of Project: Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT)
Description: This document serves as a codebook for all related project datasets. Project years and subtests are separated as distinct worksheets within the document. This codebook spans 4 years and contains information on a large variety of tests and measures, and as a result is quite long.
Document Type: Codebook
Description: The Colorado Learning Disabilities Research Center (CLDRC; P50 HD27802) is a long-standing interdisciplinary, multisite research program that is supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Developmental Design: Individual Differences
