Flynn, Robert J.; Marquis, Robyn A.; Paquet, Marie-Pierre; … - In: Children and Youth Services Review 34 (2012) 6, pp. 1183-1189
We conducted a randomized effectiveness trial to test the hypothesis that foster children of primary-school age who … were exposed to an individualized direct-instruction tutoring intervention delivered by their foster parents would … experience significantly greater pre-test to post-test gains in reading and math than would foster children in a wait …