Title: Support for the Improvement of Practices through Intensive Coaching (SIPIC): Literacy Coaching for Reading Achievement
1Support for the Improvement of Practices through
Intensive Coaching (SIPIC) Literacy Coaching for
Reading Achievement
- Misty SailorsThe University of Texas at San
Antonio - Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness
- March 4 6, 2010
- Washington, DC
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misty.sailors_at_utsa.edu
2Purpose
- The current study is an attempt to document,
measure, and describe the role of one model of
coaching in improving the instructional reading
practices of classroom teachers and in raising
the reading achievement of their students.
New is not always right. (Wilson Berne, 1999,
p. 5)
3Problem
- Discrepancy in reading achievement on NAEP (Lee,
Grigg, Donahue, 2007) - Strategic reading is important in reading
achievement (for example, Paris, Waskik,
Turner, 1991 Pressley, Borkowski, Schneider,
1987 Pressley, 2000) - Students can learn to be strategic readers
(Brown, Pressley, Van Meter Schuder, 1996
Duffy et al., 1986, 1987 Pressley
Wharton-McDonald, 1997) - Teachers are not teaching comprehension
(Pressley, 2002 Pressley, Wharton-McDonald,
Mistretta-Hampston Echevarria, 1998 Sailors
Henderson, 2008) - Teachers CAN learn how to do this! (Brown et al.,
1996 Duffy, 1993a 1993b Duffy et al., 1986
Duffy et al., 1987 Pressley et al., 1997)
4Furthermore
- Traditional one-shot professional development
is not helpful to improving practices (Wayne,
Yoon, Zhu, Cronen, Garet, 2008) - Coaching is the current approach (for example,
Dole, 2005) to supporting teachers - Little or contradictory empirical evidence of
effectiveness (Lovette et al., 2008 Van Keer
Verhaeghe, 2005 Sailors, 2008)
5Findings thus far
- Positive impact on craft (Zwart, Wubbels, Blohuis
Bergen, 2008) and domain knowledge (Brady et
al., 2009) - Teacher efficacy (Cantrell Hughes, 2008)
- Improved practices in special education (Gersten,
Morvant Brengelman, 1995) writing instruction
(Frey Kelly, 2002) and preservice teacher
education (Scantlebury, Gallo-Fox Wassell,
2008)
6Research questions
- Does an intensive model of coaching lead to an
increased use of intentional comprehension
instruction on the part of teachers? - Does the increased use of intentional
comprehension instruction by teachers lead to
increased reading achievement of students from
low-income backgrounds? - Are there aspects of improvement in instructional
comprehension practices positively associated
with increased student achievement, and which
aspects of the model can be attributed to the
coaching model?
7Methods
- Participants
- Teachers
- Regular education (N44)
- Grades 2-8
- Regular education (37) departmentalized reading
(21) social studies (20) ELA (13) and
science (9) - 3 districts (combined 11 elementary and middle
schools) - Average years of teaching 9.9 (SD 7.53)
- Students
- N527
- Low-income, minority families
Assigned to group at the school level to prevent
experimental treatment diffusion
8Content of PD
- Intentional instruction
- Opportunities to engage in cognitive reading
strategies (Dole et al., 2008, p. 348) (Taylor,
Pearson, Clark Walpole, 2000) - Engagements in discussions of the subroutines
involved in these strategies (Anderson, 1992
Brown et al., 1992 Duffy, 2003) - Metacognition of teachers AND students
- Cannot be routinized (NICHD, 2000, p. 4-125)
9Delivery of content of PD
- Workshop PLUS coaching
- Highly qualified external coaches (IRA, 2004,
2006) - Variety of interactions (demos, co-teaching,
feedback, conferences) - Based on individualized principles
- Plus resources
- WORKSHOP
- 2 days
- Focused on making inferences
- Features of effective PD (Garet et al., 2001
Guskey, 2000)
10Fidelity of implementation
- Similarities and degree to which coaches were
implementing most critical components of
intervention (Mowray, Holter, Teague Bybee,
2003) - Observations of coaches
- Monitoring of coaching logs
- Monitoring of weekly coaching meetings
- Visits (average 329 minutes) across period
- Interactions
- 62 classroom based 38 conferences
- Demonstration lessons (50) co-teaching (25)
and feedback (25) - Cognitive reading strategies (98) fix-up (2)
11Data Collection Methods and Procedures
- Group Reading Assessment and Diagnostic
Evaluation (GRADE) (AGS, 2001) - Comprehension Instruction Observation Protocol
System (CIOPS) (Sailors, 2006 - Electronic category observation instrument
(Martin, 1977) - Observational note-taking and quantitative coding
(Herbert Attridge, 1975) - Narrative account of context, materials used,
strategy content, and instructional scaffolding - Units to coded based on the work of Duke (1999
2000), Duffy (1987, 1992, 2004), and Taylor and
colleagues (Taylor et al., 1999)
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13Interrater reliability .80 (Cohens kappa)
14Data Collection Timeline
Teacher post- observations
Teacher pre- observations
Workshops
September
April/May
Intervention
Student pre-assessments
Student post-assessments
15Data Analysis
- Composite variables
- Provided opportunities to engage in cognitive
reading strategies (comp) - Intentional instructional explanations of
cognitive reading strategies (intent_instruct) - Student achievement HLM (Raudenbush et al.,
2004) - Teacher data Conducted between groups (treatment
vs. control) chi-square analyses of change scores
(posttest-pretest) based on frequency counts of
observational data within classrooms
16Findings (1) Does an intensive model of coaching
lead to an increased use of intentional
comprehension instruction on the part of
teachers?
17Findings (2) Does the increased use of
intentional comprehension instruction by teachers
lead to increased reading achievement of students
from low-income backgrounds?
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19Findings (3) Are there aspects of improvement in
instructional comprehension practices positively
associated with increased student achievement,
and which aspects of the model can be attributed
to the coaching model?
Impact by aspect Demonstration Impact by aspect Demonstration Impact by aspect Co-teaching Impact by aspect Co-teaching Impact by aspect Guided reflection Impact by aspect Guided reflection Impact by aspect Guided conversations Impact by aspect Guided conversations
Statistical significance Effect size Statistical significance Effect size Statistical significance Effect size Statistical significance Effect size
No CC.77 No CC.81 No CC.82 No CC.84
20Discussions
- Coaching can support the implementation of
cognitive strategy reading instruction - Teachers teach what they learn in professional
development workshops (Desimone et al., 2002) - When teachers TEACH comprehension, students are
better readers (comprehension) (Beating the Odds
research) - No one component explained changes more research
needed - Limitations
- Small sample size
- No traditional control group
- External coaches
- Volunteers