Karine Angélica Cintra, Marcos Carvalho Borges, Maria Paula Panúncio-Pinto, Luiz Ernesto de Almeida Troncon, Valdes Roberto Bollela
The impact and the challenges of implementing a faculty development program on health professions education in a Brazilian Medical School: a case study with mixed methods
BMC medical education
study investigates reading profiles rural grade 5 6 students n 262 sample high proportion english language learners administered battery reading cognitive assessments classify students reading profiles evaluate performance cognitive measures predicted membership particular profiles data analyzed using latent profile analysis latent profile analysis showed four distinct reading profiles sample students severe reading disabilities 2 students high risk reading disability 14 students somerisk reading disability 46 students typical readers 38 lower performance cognitive measures associated group membership severe reading profile group compared group students somerisk reading failure contrast higher performance cognitive measures associated group membership typical reader group compared students somerisk reading failure keeping findings past studies documenting reader profiles found heterogeneity reading profiles rural upperelementary grade students discuss need multicomponent interventions target areas reading flexibility dosage reading component dependent reader profiles established prior intervention