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Title: Evaluating the QuickSmart Numeracy Program: an Effective Australian Intervention that Improves Student Achievement, Responds to Special Education Needs, and Fosters Teacher Collaboration
Contributor(s): Graham, Lorraine (author); Pegg, John E  (author)
Publication Date: 2011
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/8706
Abstract: QuickSmart is a long-running intervention and research project originating in Australia. It is a structured intervention program designed for middle-school students (10 to 13 years) with significant learning difficulties in basic literacy and numeracy. The program aims to increase fluency in the most basic skills that underpin proficient performance in reading and in mathematics calculations and problem solving. The guiding principle is that building fluency and confidence in basic skills enables students to devote much more cognitive effort to the higher-order processes involved in reading for meaning and in solving mathematics problems. The QuickSmart project also includes a research component that investigates the effectiveness of the intervention and observes the effect of improved fluency on students' performance on standardised achievement tests. A professional training and support component is an essential component of QuickSmart for those involved in delivering the program in schools. This paper reports data from the ongoing evaluation of the numeracy component from 2001 to 2008. The data indicate that, so far, the intervention has improved the numeracy performance of more than 2,000 students with learning difficulties from over 90 schools in Australia. Data from the literacy component are still undergoing analysis.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: The Journal of Educational Administration, 29(2), p. 87-102
Publisher: Korean Society for the Study of Educational Administration
Place of Publication: Republic of Korea
ISSN: 1226-8755
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 130303 Education Assessment and Evaluation
130208 Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy
130106 Secondary Education
130105 Primary Education (excl Maori)
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 930102 Learner and Learning Processes
930202 Teacher and Instructor Development
930301 Assessment and Evaluation of Curriculum
HERDC Category Description: C2 Non-Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Appears in Collections:Journal Article
School of Education
The National Centre of Science, Information and Communication Technology, and Mathematics Education for Rural and Regional Australia (SiMERR)

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