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Podcast: The Reading Instruction Show
Episode: SCIENTIFICALLY BASED READING RESEARCH: WHAT IS IT?
Description: We want reading instruction for all students to be based on “scientifically based research”. In RTI students are identified for special education services based on how they respond to interventions that are supported by scientifically based research. As well, at our Universities, we are required to make sure preservice teachers receive instruction in reading methods that are supported by scientifically based research. It cannot be just any old kind of research; it must be scientifically based research. So, what exactly does this term mean? What does it take to be scientifically based research? Can only scientists do scientifically based rese...