Follow-Through began in 1967 under president Lyndon Johnson. The reading portion of this study involved over 15,000 students and was designed to test the effectiveness of three major models of reading instruction. Three specific reading programs were studied under each of the three major models. This model holds that the objective of education is to induce certain behaviors, all behaviors are learned, and that carefully designed instruction must be employed in order to induce those behaviors. Social praise and tokens are given to children for correct responses and tokens are traded for desired activities.
Teachers use scripts, and instruction is provided incrementally.
Sponsored by the University of Kansas. The reading curriculum here is essentially the same SRA Reading Mastery curriculum that we are using. Sponsored by the University of Oregon. Sponsored by the Southwest Educational Developmental Laboratory. This model holds that cognitive growth should be emphasized over the learning of specific content.