Improving Fraction Outcomes for Students With Math Difficulty: Outcomes From an Efficacy Replication Trial (Poster 40)

• In Event: Saturday Poster Session 3:05 pm
  In Poster Session: Literacy and Mathematics Instruction

Abstract

Schools face unprecedented numbers of students who are experiencing difficulty learning mathematics, even with intensive efforts to regain lost instructional time from the pandemic. Schools urgently need validated interventions that are known to effectively and efficiently ameliorate lost instructional opportunities in foundational math concepts, such as fractions. Only by providing intensive and targeted intervention can schools accelerate learning for these students to support positive outcomes. In this presentation, we report findings from a large-scale efficacy trial of an established fractions intervention for students experiencing mathematics difficulty in Grade 4. We report interventionist- and student-level outcomes from a randomized control trial implemented during the 2022-23 academic year with 59 interventionists delivering intervention to 309 Grade 4 students.

Authors

• Leanne R. Ketterlin-Geller, Southern Methodist University

• Sarah R. Powell, University of Texas at Austin

• Erica S. Lembke, University of Missouri