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EJ271993 TM507466

Title: A Follow-up of Follow Through: The Later Effects of the Direct Instruction Model on Children in Fifth and Sixth Grades.
Author(s): Becker, Wesley C.; Gersten, Russell
Source: American Educational Research Journal, v19 n1 p75-92 Spr 1982
Publication Date: 1982
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Evaluative (142); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJMAR1983

Low-income fifth and sixth graders who had completed the full three years of a first- through third-grade Direct Instruction Follow Through program were tested. Students appeared to retain the knowledge and problem-solving skills they had mastered in the primary grades. (Author/BW)

Descriptors: *Academic Achievement; Achievement Gains; *Compensatory Education; *Followup Studies; Grade 5; Grade 6; Low Income Groups; Mathematics Achievement; *Primary Education; Reading Achievement
Identifiers: *Direct Instruction Follow Through Project; Project Follow Through