Authors: Ariane Baye (University of Liege, Belgium), Robert E. Slavin Cynthia Lake Amanda Inns (Johns Hopkins University, USA), and Jonathan Haslam (Institute for Effective Education, England.

This review of the experimental research on secondary reading programmes focuses on 69 studies that used random assignment (n=62) or high-quality quasi-experiments (n=7) to evaluate outcomes of 51 programmes on widely accepted measures of reading.