Middle School Students Show Significant Growth in Long Beach Learning Center on Campus

California, High Impact Tutoring, Learning Center on Campus (LCOC), Middle School Results, Reading, Response to Intervention, RtI, Seeing Stars

Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) in Long Beach, California, serves a high percentage of students who are at risk of reading failure. During the second half of the 2022-23 school year, LBUSD implemented a Lindamood-Bell® Learning Center on Campus to address the specific needs of this student population. Nineteen students received an  average of 70.1 hours of Seeing Stars instruction to develop symbol imagery for reading. Instruction was delivered by  Lindamood-Bell clinicians, and student gains were measured with a battery of reading assessments. 

RESULTS: 

On average, Seeing Stars students achieved significant improvements in reading. They made large standard score  changes in symbol imagery, phonemic awareness, word attack, accuracy, fluency, and comprehension, with pre- to  posttest results that were statistically significant on all reading measures. The results of this study illustrate that  Lindamood-Bell instruction in the Seeing Stars program leads to improved reading, which is essential to achieving  success with school curricula. 

PROFILE: 

Number of Students: 19
Average Age: 13.0
Average Hours of Instruction: 70.1
Lindamood-Bell Programs Implemented: Seeing Stars®
Outcome Measures:
• Symbol Imagery Test
• Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Test-3rd
• Woodcock Reading Mastery Test-3rd (word attack)
• Wide Range Achievement Test-5th (reading)
• Gray Oral Reading Tests-4th (accuracy, fluency, and comprehension)