RAISE (Reading Apprenticeship Improving Secondary Education) Project
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RAISE (Reading Apprenticeship Improving Secondary Education) Project
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RAISE was a five-year effort funded by the U.S. Department of Education to support large-scale dissemination of Reading Apprenticeship discipline-specific professional development.
RAISE reached more than 1,900 high school subject area teachers and over 560,000 students in five states (California, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Utah).
RAISE was both a larger and more intensive model of successful Reading Apprenticeship interventions already studied. In those federally funded, randomized controlled studies, students experienced Reading Apprenticeship in a single course. RAISE was designed to triple a student’s experience with Reading Apprenticeship.
In the RAISE model, students in a participating school experienced Reading Apprenticeship as freshmen in their English course, as sophomores in biology, and as juniors in U.S. history.
Evaluation of the project included a randomized controlled study to investigate the efficacy of the Reading Apprenticeship approach and a mixed-methods study to illuminate implementation issues in a “scale-up” of this magnitude and complexity.
In a subset of the 300-plus participating schools, the randomized controlled study assessed the impact of the school-based “increased dosage” model on students’ academic engagement and achievement.
Ruth Schoenbach and Cynthia Greenleaf, former Co-Directors of the Strategic Literacy Initiative, directed the RAISE project.
RAISE reached more than 1,900 high school subject area teachers and over 560,000 students in five states (California, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Utah).
RAISE was both a larger and more intensive model of successful Reading Apprenticeship interventions already studied. In those federally funded, randomized controlled studies, students experienced Reading Apprenticeship in a single course. RAISE was designed to triple a student’s experience with Reading Apprenticeship.
In the RAISE model, students in a participating school experienced Reading Apprenticeship as freshmen in their English course, as sophomores in biology, and as juniors in U.S. history.
Evaluation of the project included a randomized controlled study to investigate the efficacy of the Reading Apprenticeship approach and a mixed-methods study to illuminate implementation issues in a “scale-up” of this magnitude and complexity.
In a subset of the 300-plus participating schools, the randomized controlled study assessed the impact of the school-based “increased dosage” model on students’ academic engagement and achievement.
Ruth Schoenbach and Cynthia Greenleaf, former Co-Directors of the Strategic Literacy Initiative, directed the RAISE project.
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RAISE (Reading Apprenticeship Improving Secondary Education). (n.d.). WestEd. Retrieved August 15, 2022, from https://www.wested.org/project/reading-apprenticeshipreg-improving-secondary-education-raise/
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