Effects of Immediate Feedback 1 Running head: EFFECTS OF IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK The Effects of Immediate Feedback on Reading Achievement

A 2 (immediate vs. delayed feedback) X 3 (low, moderate, and high reading ability) quasi-experimental study was done to evaluate immediate versus delayed feedback effects on reading performance measures such as sentence and passage comprehension, as well as reading speed. Sixty-seven students in third and fifth grades participated in this study that lasted for six months. The treatment effect showed that students in the immediate feedback condition were significantly superior on measures of passage comprehension and composite comprehension. On the reading ability effect low ability group had significantly higher gain scores than the other two groups on sentence and composite comprehension. However, the moderate group had the greatest gain score in speed of reading compared to the other two ability groups