Halle Kahlenberg, Delaney Williams, Miranda A L van Tilburg, Michael R Jiroutek
Vaccine hesitancy for COVID19: what is the role of statistical literacy?
Frontiers in public health
growing body research suggests growth early literacy skills including letter sound fluency predictive later reading outcomes turn educators school psychologists use measures letter sound fluency monitor student response early reading instruction limited research evaluated whether decisionmaking frameworks educators apply early reading time series data make instructional decisions eg continue change intervention yield accurate recommendations unclear long data need collected type decision rule eg data point trend line produce accurate recommendations conducted series simulations investigate impact data collection duration 4 16 weeks decisionrule type data point trend line median accuracy databased decisions using early literacy data results suggest median trendline rules produced recommendations sufficiently accurate identifying students making adequate progress sensitivity 12 weeks data collected week however median trendline rules produce recommendations sufficiently accurate continue intervention specificity across progress monitoring durations opposite pattern observed datapoint rule outcomes suggest recommendations developed progress monitoring measures eg oral reading fluency extrapolated measures without empirical investigation research needed identify appropriate decision rules evaluate early literacy progress monitoring data psycinfo database record c 2019 apa rights reserved