Danielle Dennis
Heterogeneity or Homogeneity
University of South Florida
confluence child left behind national reading panel report five essential components reading instruction forged path struggling adolescent readers supports narrow curriculum designed address gaps constrained skills adolescents large school district state tennessee failed state assessments reading n 94 assessed using measures phonemic awareness decoding fluency orthography vocabulary comprehension factor cluster analysis assessment data revealed heterogeneous population students based three factors meaning rate word knowledge four clusters emerged representing varying abilities