Thank you once again to Dr Kerry Hempenstall (member of IFERI's Advisory Group) for the provision of summaries and links to research looking at the validity and reliability of the form of assessment known as miscue analysis or running records : “This article has raised a number of concerns about the...

http://www.gl-assessment.co.uk/lost-girls-report Lost Girls: The overlooked children struggling to understand the written word Unlike the majority of other reports on children’s reading, ‘Lost Girls: The overlooked children struggling to understand the written word’ shines a light on the girls who a...

This must be a soul-destroying turn of events for those who know and understand about the importance of evidence-informed practice: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/noel-pearson-blasts-cut-to-school-lessons-in-aurukun/news-story/d215fd95bbc4c4c57066f527abdaa382?login=1 Noel Pearson blasts...

Find out more about the work of researchED here: http://www.workingoutwhatworks.com About Welcome to researchED, the online home for anyone interested in educational research, what it means, and how it can - or can't - make a difference in the classroom. researchED is a grass-roots, teacher-led orga...

Teacher Tom Bennett has worked wonders in promoting an interest in research findings amongst the teaching profession, researchers/academics, policy shapers - and Old Uncle Tom Cobley. His ideas took off dramatically at breakneck speed in England at first, but then rapidly spread to an interest in ot...

People may want to visit the original thread which led to Dick's initial comment on this thread - see here:

http://www.iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewto ... ?f=2&t=668

I'm linking to another thread which is directly related to this one - which starts with comments from Dick Schutz and includes research summaries and references supplied by Kerry Hempenstall:


http://www.iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewto ... ?f=2&t=669

Dr Kerry Hempenstall commented on 'guided reading' via the DDOLL network - and provided some relevant summaries and research papers on this topic. I have his permission to share them here: Kerry wrote: The issue of guided reading is complicated because it is also often associated with other practice...

Hi Dick - thank you for this further information. I've been following your links to investigate the scheme you've flagged up. I haven't yet found any actual sample material from the books themselves although I found references to research studies and I found some planning. The planning seemed at fac...

For your convenience, I'm linking this thread to other threads featuring the use of Reading Recovery and the Book Bands cataloguing system for levelling school reading books:

http://www.iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewto ... ?f=2&t=410