Links to the Research Conducted & the Research Proposed by the AVKO Foundation

Summary of Research by AVKO Educational Research Foundation

97% Literacy in 25 years: An achievable Goal if Set.
 A Challenge to Universities, NICHD,  and The U.S. Department of Education

A Quick and Painless Reading Assessment Tool.  University Researchers are encouraged to replicate or disprove the accuracy of this very simple test.

A Short Summary of Traditional Spelling Research

Project Spelling : It has been more than 50 years since a comprehensive baseline study has been made on student spelling grades 2-8.  This is AVKO's  Research Proposal to NICHD, The U.S. Department of Education and those Universities who consider themselves to be leaders in the field of education.  AVKO challenges them to help gather the essential statistics so that researchers, publishers, school systems, and yes, classroom teachers, can determine what is and what isn't caught and what is needed to be taught as well as what methods work best to teach spelling.

Spelling Research Survey (Attn: University Graduate Students)

A Challenge to University Researchers

Word Difficulty Survey  Easily replicable.  Mode & Median are 100%! Only the Mean is less despite the "mathematically obvious" results should be 50/50 by chance.

Research on Learning Styles: Request for Rebuttal by Cathy Shank.

If you have comments about this website or additional summaries of specific spelling research along with citations, questions concerning spelling, phonics, learning disabilities, homeschooling, etc., you are encouraged to e-mail DonMcCabe@aol.com.  We appreciate any comments that will help us make this website even more useful. 

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