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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"summer school"”.
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Summer School: Perceptions of Summer School Teachers in a Northeast Tennessee School District
… of the importance of accountability issues to school systems, it is important to examine ways to help students reach their potential. One tool school districts use to aid in improving student achievement is summer school. This qualitative study provides an overview of the history of summer …
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Summer school safety net: a chance for all to achieve
… this study was to determine the effectiveness of summer school in raising the reading, writing, and mathematics achievement level of 41 "at risk" incoming third and fourth graders in a middle class suburban school district.</p> <p>The study was conducted using modified case study methodology, …
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An Individualized Summer School Program as an Alternative to Retention
… of grade level retention has been used by schools for many years as a method to require higher achievement from students and to increase individual student performance. This practice has been advocated by both the educational community and society as a whole. However, previous research …
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Understanding the Effects of Summer School, Technology, and 21st Century Skills on Student Academics
<p>District XYZ has hosted traditional summer school for more than 20 years to assist students not quite ready to advance to the next grade. The district has become more diverse, and many students end the school year without solid mastery of that grade’s objectives. Therefore, summer school is a …
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A Pilot Study of a Summer School Food Backpack program for Students and Their Caregivers
… interventions have been conducted that include school-based nutrition education and food preparation classes that are paired with a backpack of food. <br /><strong>Objective</strong>: Determine if the program ingredients were used at home, if the necessary cooking tools were available and if the …
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Evaluation of a six week elementary summer school program and a study of its effects on the achievement of third, fourth, and fifth grade pupils
… of the study was to evaluate a six weeks pilot summer elementary school program as a basis for making decisions and modifications regarding future elementary summer programs in the Marion (Indiana) Community Schools. As a related part of the research, the study attempted to determine if pupils …
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An Investigation of a Self-Determining Curriculum
… areas at times they preferred within the school day; (2) determine what proportion of time children with academic deficiencies (identified by their pre-summer session teachers) spent in the curricular area of their deficiency; (3) present the attitudes (as revealed through a questionnaire …
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A Summer Reading Program And Its Impact On Summer Reading Loss
… Problem: This study was designed to evaluate a summer reading program to determine if it had impact on preventing summer reading loss for students entering second grade. Procedure: The methodological approach for this proposed study was a descriptive study using Basic Reading Inventory (BRI) …
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A Survey of Small School Districts’ Junior High School Summer Program Offerings
… the purpose of this study to obte.in details of summer school programs, including practices which were considered by the districts to be innovative.
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The Effect On Cumulative Language Acquisition Increase For English Language Learner Students In Kindergarten Through Third Grade Who Attended Multiple Years Of Summer Remediation Programs
… Third Grade Who Attended Multiple Years Of Summer Remediation Programs. Major Professor: Marilyn A. Hirth</p> <p>Already academically at risk, students in the rapidly growing English Language Learner (ELL) student population in the United States face additional challenges due to regression …
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Education Through Camping
… States, an account of the Auburn, Washington School District’s elementary summer school pilot and first year camping program, the first in Washington State, and to present the education benefits of such a program.
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The Women's Technology Program : EECS outreach for high school students
… Technology Program (WTP) is a new residential summer school for high school students to live at MIT and study electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). In this thesis I present background research evaluating the state of the current gender imbalance in EECS as well as research …
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The Use of Readability Formulas By Classroom Teachers in Southwest Missouri
… graduate level education courses during the summer school session at Southwest Missouri State University. A total of 95 teachers responded to the survey. Analysis of the data indicated that two-thirds of the teachers surveyed had some knowledge of a readability formula. However, it was found …
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