Sentence-combining programs
Overview
- Influence: Sentence-combining programs
- Domain: Curricula
- Sub-Domain: Reading, writing and the arts
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a small positive impact
- Influence Definition: Teaching students to combine simple sentences to form grammatically correct, syntactically complex sentences has been argued to be a key element of developing the stylistic maturity of student writers.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 2
- Number of studies: 35
- Number of students: 0
- Number of effects: 40
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.12
- Robustness index: 1
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Literacy Research and Instruction | Neville & Searls | USA | A meta-analytic review of the effects of sentence-combining on reading comprehension | 1991 | Sentence combining on reading | 24 | 0 | 29 | 0.09 |
| Review of Educational Research | Fusaro | USA | Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Studies of Inquiry-Based Science Teaching A Meta-Analysis | 1993 | Effects of sentence combining | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0.20 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 35 | 0 | 40 | 0.15 | |||||