Russell Savage
Biographic Data
| ID | 94704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell Savage |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell |
| FAMILY NAME | Savage |
| SIGNATURE | SAVAGE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5645-6002 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Effect Size Thresholds in Early Literacy
Effect size (ES) helps assess intervention effectiveness, often interpreted using Cohen’s thresholds for small (0.20), medium (0.50), and large effects (0.80). However, these thresholds must be contextualized. This study derived new ES thresholds in early literacy research, focusing on phonemic awareness (PA). Data from three recent meta-analyses on the effects of PA instruction and intervention on PA and reading outcomes in pre-K through Grade 1…
Pre-service teachers’ knowledge of language and literacy concepts
Efficacy of Small-Group Reading Intervention for Grades 2 and 3 Children With Reading Difficulties
We examined whether a Phonics + Set for Variability (S f V) reading intervention would lead to better irregular word reading compared to Phonics + Morphology within a cluster randomized control trial (RCT) design with a follow-up measurement. The participants were 273 Grades 2 and 3 students with reading difficulties (139 in the Phonics + S f V and 134 in the Phonics + Morphology) who received intervention in small groups (2–4 children), 4 times …
Contrasting Direct Instruction in Morphological Decoding and Morphological Inquiry-Analysis Interventions in Grade 3 Children With Poor Morphological Awareness
We report on a school-based randomized control trial study comparing two morphological interventions with untaught controls: one focusing on direct instruction targeting print morphological decoding (direct decoding condition) and the other on inquiry-focused pedagogy using oral morphological analysis (inquiry-analysis condition). We identified 63 Grade 3 children with below-average morphological awareness following screening (from N = 163). This…
Teacher Professional Development and Student Reading in Middle and High School
This systematic review investigates the effect of teacher professional development (TPD) on adolescent students’ reading achievement in middle and high school. A systematic search of TPD and student reading achievement studies (1975–2020) identified 15 medium-quality articles meeting this study’s inclusion criteria. A meta-analysis of 14 of these studies corrected by Hedges’ g showed that TPD on student reading was associated with a small overall…
Decoding and comprehension skills mediate the link between a small-group reading programme and English national literacy assessments
BackgroundDespite the fact that literacy instruction is a main focus of primary education, many children struggle to meet nationally set standards.AimsWe aimed to test which components of a comprehensive reading programme (ABRACADABRA: https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1186%2FISRCTN18254678&data=04%7C01%7Cjanet.vousden%40ntu.ac.uk%7C880280e0b00749df855308d94068a0bb%7C8acbc2c5c8ed42c78169ba438a0dbe2f%7C…
Examining the effects of Structured Word Inquiry on the reading and spelling skills of persistently poor Grade 3 readers
Background The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Structured Word Inquiry (SWI; an orthography intervention with a focus on morphology and how morphology interrelates with phonology and etymology) and Simplicity intervention (a novel phonics intervention) on the reading and spelling skills of persistently poor Grade 3 readers. Methods Forty‐eight English‐speaking Canadian children (19 females, M age = 8.73 years) with persistent …
Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary impact of telemedicine-administered cognitive behavioral therapy for adherence and depression among African American women living with HIV in the rural Sout…
Women living with HIV are disproportionally affected by depression and mental healthcare access. A pilot feasibility trial using videoconferencing compared cognitive behavioral therapy for antiretroviral therapy adherence and depression ( N = 11) to supportive psychotherapy ( N = 11). Participants completed 10-12 weekly therapy sessions and 6-month follow-up. Retention at 6 months was 95 percent. Depression symptoms significantly decreased in bot…
Similarities and dissimilarities in the teaching of English and French in a dual language instructional setting
This study investigates the relationships between the observed quality of classroom teaching assessing Atmosphere, Instruction, Management and Student Engagement, (AIMS, Roehrig, A. D., and E. Christesen. 2010. ‘Development and Use of a Tool for Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness in Grades K-12.’ In Innovative Assessment for the 21st Century, edited by V. J. Shute, and B. J. Becker, 207–228. New York, NY: Springer), and growth in reading and listen…
Linguistic and reading comprehension in simultaneous dual language instruction
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: This paper describes a study investigating the relationships between reading and listening comprehension in a simultaneous dual language instruction context. We explored whether listening and reading comprehension are unitary constructs across the first language (L1) and the second language (L2). Design/Methodology/Approach: Listening comprehension and reading comprehension measures were administere…
The Simple View of Reading as a framework for national literacy initiatives
The Simple View of Reading ( SVR ) describes Reading Comprehension as the product of distinct child‐level variance in decoding (D) and linguistic comprehension ( LC ) component abilities. When used as a model for educational policy, distinct classroom‐level influences of each of the components of the SVR model have been assumed, but have not yet been demonstrated in basic research. Hierarchical linear modelling ( HLM ) of the SVR is thus explored…
Holocene footprints in Namibia
We report a Holocene human and animal footprint site from the Namib Sand Sea, south of Walvis Bay, Namibia. Using these data, we explore intratrail footprint variability associated with small variations in substrate properties using a “whole foot” analytical technique developed for the studies in human ichnology. We demonstrate high levels of intratrail variability as a result of variations in grain size, depositional moisture content, and the de…
Is a cerebellar deficit the underlying cause of reading disabilities
This study investigated whether children with dyslexia differed in their performance on reading, phonological, rapid naming, motor, and cerebellar-related tasks and automaticity measures compared to reading age (RA)-matched and chronological age (CA)-matched control groups. Participants were 51 children attending mainstream English elementary schools in Quebec. All participants completed measures of IQ, word and nonword reading fluency, elision, …
The Alabama Coalition for a Healthier Black Belt
Using computer-based instruction to improve Indigenous early literacy in Northern Australia
The effectiveness of a web-based reading support tool, ABRACADABRA, to improve the literacy outcomes of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students was evaluated over one semester in several Northern Territory primary schools in 2009. ABRACADABRA is intended as a support for teachers in the early years of schooling, giving them a friendly, game and evidence-based tool to reinforce their literacy instruction. The classroom implementation of ABRACADABRA…
Moving forward in inclusive education research
This paper aims to address conceptual and methodological challenges of doing research in the field of inclusive education and revisit school effectiveness research literature to inform future research. First, we present the rationale for inclusive education and briefly review the evolution of special needs education. Then, we discuss limitations of current research on inclusive education. Next, we present school- and classroom-level findings of s…
Individual differences in second language reading outcomes
This study examined whether individual variance in letter-name knowledge and phonological processing assessed in English (L1) in kindergarten French immersion students predicts their French (L2) decoding and reading comprehension scores at the end of grade 1; whether L2 oral language factors also contribute significantly to predictions of variability in L2 reading outcomes beyond knowledge of the alphabet and phonological processing; and whether …
Is Ageism in University Students Associated With Elder Abuse
Research indicates that in comparison to middle aged adults, young adults exhibit higher levels of ageist attitudes toward older persons and that elder abuse is increasing. This study examines proclivity of elder abuse by young adults enrolled in a postsecondary institution. A total of 206 university students completed questionnaires on attitudes toward older persons and their proclivity to elder abuse. Results indicate that student attitudes are…
Revisiting the simple view of reading
Background Reading component models such as the Simple View of Reading (SVR; Gough & Tunmer, 1986; Hoover & Gough, 1990) provide a concise framework for describing the processes and skills involved when readers comprehend texts. According to the Independent Review of the Teaching of Early Reading (Rose, 2006) strong evidence for the SVR comes from Factor Analysis of datasets on different measures of reading showing dissociation between decoding s…
The Price of Monotheism
In The Price of Monotheism, Jan Assmann argues that the monotheistic religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-represent not an advance in religious evolution but a counterrevolution. They introduced an element of intolerance and violence into the world that threatened the pluralistic and tolerant polytheisms of the ancient world. Assmann traces the origins of this counterrevolution to the Mosaic distinction between true and false-a distinction …
The impact of early reading interventions delivered by classroom assistants on attainment at the end of Year 2
Previous research has shown that training teaching assistants to deliver early phonic reading interventions can have measurable effects at immediate post‐test. This study explored whether the effects of interventions delivered by classroom assistants (CAs) were still evident at the end of the first phase of schooling, 16 months after the early intervention finished. Children were divided into ‘treatment responder’ and ‘treatment non‐responder’ gr…
Pulped Dreams
The decade Ernst Bloch devoted to his magnum opus, Das Prinzip Hoffnung (The Principle of Hope), from 1938 to 1947, coincided almost exactly with the so-called "Golden Age" of American pulp sf. Yet, despite his enthusiasm for such older popular forms as the colportage novel, the circus, and the fairy tale, the pulps themselves rate no mention in his study. Bloch's world never collided with Gernsback's or Campbell's, an omission this essay attempt…
Effective early reading instruction and inclusion
It is argued that attention to effective evidence‐based early reading interventions are a co‐requisite to genuinely inclusive education, with implications not only for reading acquisition, but also for a range of other social and academic domains. This paper briefly describes some of the recent developments in reading research that have the potential to promote the maximally effective reading interventions, and their consequences for inclusive pr…
Cognitive processes in children's reading and attention
Children experiencing attention difficulties have documented cognitive deficits in working memory (WM), response inhibition and dual tasks. Recent evidence suggests however that these same cognitive processes are also closely associated with reading acquisition. This paper therefore explores whether these variables predicted attention difficulties or reading among 123 children with and without significant attention problems sampled from the schoo…
My Own Private Swabia. On the Idiocy of Heidegger's Nationalism
The mechanical effectiveness of erect and "bent-hip, bent-knee" bipedal walking inAustralopithecus afarensis
The Price of Monotheism
In The Price of Monotheism, Jan Assmann argues that the monotheistic religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-represent not an advance in religious evolution but a counterrevolution. They introduced an element of intolerance and violence into the world that threatened the pluralistic and tolerant polytheisms of the ancient world. Assmann traces the origins of this counterrevolution to the Mosaic distinction between true and false-a distinction …
Stature-at-death of KNM-WT 15000
Comparison of inverse-dynamics musculo-skeletal models of AL 288-1 Australopithecus afarensis and KNM-WT 15000 Homo ergaster to modern humans, with implications for the evolution of bipedalism
Revisiting the simple view of reading
Background Reading component models such as the Simple View of Reading (SVR; Gough & Tunmer, 1986; Hoover & Gough, 1990) provide a concise framework for describing the processes and skills involved when readers comprehend texts. According to the Independent Review of the Teaching of Early Reading (Rose, 2006) strong evidence for the SVR comes from Factor Analysis of datasets on different measures of reading showing dissociation between decoding s…
Holocene footprints in Namibia
We report a Holocene human and animal footprint site from the Namib Sand Sea, south of Walvis Bay, Namibia. Using these data, we explore intratrail footprint variability associated with small variations in substrate properties using a “whole foot” analytical technique developed for the studies in human ichnology. We demonstrate high levels of intratrail variability as a result of variations in grain size, depositional moisture content, and the de…
Moving forward in inclusive education research
This paper aims to address conceptual and methodological challenges of doing research in the field of inclusive education and revisit school effectiveness research literature to inform future research. First, we present the rationale for inclusive education and briefly review the evolution of special needs education. Then, we discuss limitations of current research on inclusive education. Next, we present school- and classroom-level findings of s…
Predicting curriculum and test performance at age 7 years from pupil background, baseline skills and phonological awareness at age 5
Background: Phonological awareness tests are known to be amongst the best predictors of literacy; however their predictive validity alongside current school screening practice (baseline assessment, pupil background data) and to National Curricular outcome measures is unknown.Aim: We explored the validity of phonological awareness and orthographic measures, the Infant Index baseline assessment (Desforges & Lindsay, 1995), gender, free school dinne…
Cognitive processes in children's reading and attention
Children experiencing attention difficulties have documented cognitive deficits in working memory (WM), response inhibition and dual tasks. Recent evidence suggests however that these same cognitive processes are also closely associated with reading acquisition. This paper therefore explores whether these variables predicted attention difficulties or reading among 123 children with and without significant attention problems sampled from the schoo…
Effective early reading instruction and inclusion
It is argued that attention to effective evidence‐based early reading interventions are a co‐requisite to genuinely inclusive education, with implications not only for reading acquisition, but also for a range of other social and academic domains. This paper briefly describes some of the recent developments in reading research that have the potential to promote the maximally effective reading interventions, and their consequences for inclusive pr…
Decoding and comprehension skills mediate the link between a small-group reading programme and English national literacy assessments
BackgroundDespite the fact that literacy instruction is a main focus of primary education, many children struggle to meet nationally set standards.AimsWe aimed to test which components of a comprehensive reading programme (ABRACADABRA: https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1186%2FISRCTN18254678&data=04%7C01%7Cjanet.vousden%40ntu.ac.uk%7C880280e0b00749df855308d94068a0bb%7C8acbc2c5c8ed42c78169ba438a0dbe2f%7C…
The impact of early reading interventions delivered by classroom assistants on attainment at the end of Year 2
Previous research has shown that training teaching assistants to deliver early phonic reading interventions can have measurable effects at immediate post‐test. This study explored whether the effects of interventions delivered by classroom assistants (CAs) were still evident at the end of the first phase of schooling, 16 months after the early intervention finished. Children were divided into ‘treatment responder’ and ‘treatment non‐responder’ gr…
Pulped Dreams
The decade Ernst Bloch devoted to his magnum opus, Das Prinzip Hoffnung (The Principle of Hope), from 1938 to 1947, coincided almost exactly with the so-called "Golden Age" of American pulp sf. Yet, despite his enthusiasm for such older popular forms as the colportage novel, the circus, and the fairy tale, the pulps themselves rate no mention in his study. Bloch's world never collided with Gernsback's or Campbell's, an omission this essay attempt…
Adorno's Philopolemology
This article argues that the polemic(al) plays a crucial mediating role in Adorno's philosophy. As a theoretical category, it describes the resistance to thought which inevitably frustrates attempts to reconstruct the world in the image of reason. As a political and rhetorical strategy, it contributes in large measure to Adorno's self-understanding as a public intellectual in post-war Germany. The article attempts to chart the interrelationship a…
Adorno's Family and Other Animals
The role of scaffolding errors in reading development
Background. Identification of patterns of early reading behaviour that predict later reading success is clearly important. Reading errors of 6-year-olds represent a source of such early assessment information, but their significance as predictors of later reading is unknown. Aims. The relationship between word reading errors at age 6 and accurate word reading at age 8 is investigated here. Samples, Methods, Results. In study 1, 44 children comple…
The Assessment of Reading and Arithmetic Retardation in the School
Dimensions of responsiveness to women's policies in the fifty states
The mechanical effectiveness of erect and "bent-hip, bent-knee" bipedal walking inAustralopithecus afarensis
The role of scaffolding errors in reading development
Background. Identification of patterns of early reading behaviour that predict later reading success is clearly important. Reading errors of 6-year-olds represent a source of such early assessment information, but their significance as predictors of later reading is unknown. Aims. The relationship between word reading errors at age 6 and accurate word reading at age 8 is investigated here. Samples, Methods, Results. In study 1, 44 children comple…
Reconstructing the mechanics of quadrupedalism in an extinct hominoid
Traditionally, analogising comparative anatomical approaches, working on features of individual bony elements, have led to the Miocene hominoids Proconsul heseloni and P. nyanzae being described as arboreal, with a variety of possible locomotion modes. Whilst most researchers seemingly agree that quadrupedal was one of the most frequently adopted modes, any deeper knowledge about the kinematical characteristics of such quadrupedalism is very limi…
Pathways to Long-Term Recovery
Recovery from addiction is a lifelong process. While there is a large body of empirical data on the short-term effectiveness (one to two years) of various treatment modalities, very little is known about the processes of recovery over time. This is particularly unfortunate as treatment gains are often short-lived and even multiple treatment episodes do not always succeed in breaking the addiction cycle. Further, treatment represents only one of t…
Stature-at-death of KNM-WT 15000
Brief Report
Comparison of inverse-dynamics musculo-skeletal models of AL 288-1 Australopithecus afarensis and KNM-WT 15000 Homo ergaster to modern humans, with implications for the evolution of bipedalism
Predicting curriculum and test performance at age 7 years from pupil background, baseline skills and phonological awareness at age 5
Background: Phonological awareness tests are known to be amongst the best predictors of literacy; however their predictive validity alongside current school screening practice (baseline assessment, pupil background data) and to National Curricular outcome measures is unknown.Aim: We explored the validity of phonological awareness and orthographic measures, the Infant Index baseline assessment (Desforges & Lindsay, 1995), gender, free school dinne…
Adorno's Family and Other Animals
Adorno's Philopolemology
This article argues that the polemic(al) plays a crucial mediating role in Adorno's philosophy. As a theoretical category, it describes the resistance to thought which inevitably frustrates attempts to reconstruct the world in the image of reason. As a political and rhetorical strategy, it contributes in large measure to Adorno's self-understanding as a public intellectual in post-war Germany. The article attempts to chart the interrelationship a…
Effective early reading instruction and inclusion
It is argued that attention to effective evidence‐based early reading interventions are a co‐requisite to genuinely inclusive education, with implications not only for reading acquisition, but also for a range of other social and academic domains. This paper briefly describes some of the recent developments in reading research that have the potential to promote the maximally effective reading interventions, and their consequences for inclusive pr…
Cognitive processes in children's reading and attention
Children experiencing attention difficulties have documented cognitive deficits in working memory (WM), response inhibition and dual tasks. Recent evidence suggests however that these same cognitive processes are also closely associated with reading acquisition. This paper therefore explores whether these variables predicted attention difficulties or reading among 123 children with and without significant attention problems sampled from the schoo…
My Own Private Swabia. On the Idiocy of Heidegger's Nationalism
The impact of early reading interventions delivered by classroom assistants on attainment at the end of Year 2
Previous research has shown that training teaching assistants to deliver early phonic reading interventions can have measurable effects at immediate post‐test. This study explored whether the effects of interventions delivered by classroom assistants (CAs) were still evident at the end of the first phase of schooling, 16 months after the early intervention finished. Children were divided into ‘treatment responder’ and ‘treatment non‐responder’ gr…
Pulped Dreams
The decade Ernst Bloch devoted to his magnum opus, Das Prinzip Hoffnung (The Principle of Hope), from 1938 to 1947, coincided almost exactly with the so-called "Golden Age" of American pulp sf. Yet, despite his enthusiasm for such older popular forms as the colportage novel, the circus, and the fairy tale, the pulps themselves rate no mention in his study. Bloch's world never collided with Gernsback's or Campbell's, an omission this essay attempt…
Revisiting the simple view of reading
Background Reading component models such as the Simple View of Reading (SVR; Gough & Tunmer, 1986; Hoover & Gough, 1990) provide a concise framework for describing the processes and skills involved when readers comprehend texts. According to the Independent Review of the Teaching of Early Reading (Rose, 2006) strong evidence for the SVR comes from Factor Analysis of datasets on different measures of reading showing dissociation between decoding s…
The Price of Monotheism
In The Price of Monotheism, Jan Assmann argues that the monotheistic religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-represent not an advance in religious evolution but a counterrevolution. They introduced an element of intolerance and violence into the world that threatened the pluralistic and tolerant polytheisms of the ancient world. Assmann traces the origins of this counterrevolution to the Mosaic distinction between true and false-a distinction …
Individual differences in second language reading outcomes
This study examined whether individual variance in letter-name knowledge and phonological processing assessed in English (L1) in kindergarten French immersion students predicts their French (L2) decoding and reading comprehension scores at the end of grade 1; whether L2 oral language factors also contribute significantly to predictions of variability in L2 reading outcomes beyond knowledge of the alphabet and phonological processing; and whether …
Is Ageism in University Students Associated With Elder Abuse
Research indicates that in comparison to middle aged adults, young adults exhibit higher levels of ageist attitudes toward older persons and that elder abuse is increasing. This study examines proclivity of elder abuse by young adults enrolled in a postsecondary institution. A total of 206 university students completed questionnaires on attitudes toward older persons and their proclivity to elder abuse. Results indicate that student attitudes are…
Using computer-based instruction to improve Indigenous early literacy in Northern Australia
The effectiveness of a web-based reading support tool, ABRACADABRA, to improve the literacy outcomes of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students was evaluated over one semester in several Northern Territory primary schools in 2009. ABRACADABRA is intended as a support for teachers in the early years of schooling, giving them a friendly, game and evidence-based tool to reinforce their literacy instruction. The classroom implementation of ABRACADABRA…
Moving forward in inclusive education research
This paper aims to address conceptual and methodological challenges of doing research in the field of inclusive education and revisit school effectiveness research literature to inform future research. First, we present the rationale for inclusive education and briefly review the evolution of special needs education. Then, we discuss limitations of current research on inclusive education. Next, we present school- and classroom-level findings of s…
Is a cerebellar deficit the underlying cause of reading disabilities
This study investigated whether children with dyslexia differed in their performance on reading, phonological, rapid naming, motor, and cerebellar-related tasks and automaticity measures compared to reading age (RA)-matched and chronological age (CA)-matched control groups. Participants were 51 children attending mainstream English elementary schools in Quebec. All participants completed measures of IQ, word and nonword reading fluency, elision, …
The Alabama Coalition for a Healthier Black Belt
Psychology (22 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (19 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Mathematics education (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Reading (process) (9 works) · Literacy (8 works) · Reading comprehension (8 works)