IDARE

The NIH R01-funded research project Integrating Data to Advance Reading Evidence (IDARE) is an active project that focuses on exploring racial differences in the effectiveness of supplemental reading interventions providing intensive, targeted support to students with or at-risk for reading disability (RD). This project aims to curate a variety of data from research projects on this topic area broadly, making said data publicly available, and finally employing advanced quantitative methods to integrate and reanalyze said data. The advantage of this approach and the benefit to the field it will bring lies not only in the curation and posting of the contributing datasets, but additionally in the final, highly powered and extremely diverse integrated dataset that will be produced as a result. By leveraging this newly integrated dataset, we will be able to explore questions related to the effectiveness of these reading interventions based on important contextual factors, including but not limited to a student’s race and ethnicity, that have been impossible to conduct in the past given the power requirements and smaller samples that exist in any of these contributing studies individually. Specifically, IDARE will further identify characteristics of students, interventions, and outcomes that explain potential differences in response to reading interventions that exist for Black students as compared to their White peers, advancing our understanding of the persistent disparities in reading achievement between Black and White students and potential sources of individual difference for these groups.