Competency 6: Search 2

In this quest for information I will be searching the ERIC database for more information on Reading Renaissance or Accelerated Reader using the Specific Facet First Model for retrieval.
Specific Facet means that you are searching for the facet or term, that is most likely to retrieve the fewest items first. If the first search provides 30 or fewer hits, you can stop, examine the information, and decide whether you need to search for more information or not.



Database: ERIC


Search Strategy: Specific Facet

Facet 1: Reading Renaissance = 12 hits

• The first screen shot shows the Database and the facet I entered.
• The second screen shot shows the 12 results that were produced.

This is the first Hit I received and the abstract follows:
Accelerated Reader/Reading Renaissance. What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Report . What Works Clearinghouse. 2007 14 pp. (ED496196)Full Text from ERIC
Abstract:
The Accelerated Reader/Reading Renaissance program (now called Accelerated Reader Best Classroom Practices) is a guided reading intervention in which teachers direct student reading of text. It involves two components. Reading Renaissance, the first component, is a set of recommended principles on guided reading (or teachers' direction of students' interactions with text). Accelerated Reader (AR), the second component, is a computer program that facilitates reading practice by providing students and teachers feedback from quizzes based on the books the students read. The program gives students opportunity to practice reading books at their level, provides feedback on student comprehension of books, and helps students establish goals for their reading. One study of Accelerated Reader/Reading Renaissance met the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) evidence standards. The study included 910 students from grades K to 3 attending 11 schools in a southern school district in the United States. The WWC considers the extent of evidence for Accelerated Reader/Reading Renaissance to be small for comprehension and for general reading achievement. No studies that met WWC standards with or without reservations addressed alphabetics or fluency. Accelerated Reader/Reading Renaissance was found to have potentially positive effects on comprehension and general reading achievement. [This publication was produced by the What Works Clearinghouse. The following study is reviewed in this intervention report: Ross, S.M., Nunnery, J., & Goldfeder, E. (2004). "A randomized experiment on the effects of Accelerated Reader/Reading Renaissance in an urban school district: Preliminary evaluation report." Memphis, TN: The University of Memphis, Center for Research in Educational Policy.]

Results:

• After reviewing the results I was able to find relevant information for my topic. In this case, I can stop my search and work from what I have found. I decided to go ahead and try two other facet queries to show those results. After reviewing the results you can see that stopping with the first facet would be more manageable to read through for relevant information.

Facet 2: Accelerated Reader: 75 hits
Facet 3: Reading Programs: 9,127