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Direct linkAlati, David K. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
No significant differences in beginning eighth-grade pretest compared to ending eighth-grade posttest California Achievement Test Normal Curve Equivalent Scores were found for youth at risk who completed a pre-eighth-grade summer academic enrichment program where comparisons for reading vocabulary t(19) = 0.46, p = 0.33 (one-tailed), d = 0.107,…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Pretests Posttests, Grade 8, Summer Programs
Movsesian, Edwin A. – Todays Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Listening Skills, Music Education, Music Reading
Download full textNew York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1990
A study evaluated the Chapter 1 Reading Skills Center program which provided supplementary, individualized instruction in reading and writing to 176 eligible students in grades four through eight from four nonpublic schools in New York City. Major goals were to enable students to develop competency in reading and to integrate reading skills into…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Private Schools, Reading Improvement, Reading Programs
Fanfulik, Marge – 1986
Evidence concerning compensatory education programs (designed to overcome educational deficits associated with adverse environmental circumstances) and their impact was sought in a study that investigated the progress made by students in such programs for reading over a six-year span, from middle school and through high school. Data were obtained…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Developmental Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Minneapolis Public Schools, MN. Program Evaluation Services. – 1989
A preliminary report on the California Achievement Tests (CAT) performance of students attending the Public School Academy (PSA) in Minneapolis (Minnesota) in 1988-89 is presented. The performance of students in grades 2-4 on the CAT reading comprehension and mathematics computation subtests and the performance of students in grade 4 on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Mathematics Tests
Gastright, Joseph F. – 1983
This study tested the hypthesis that the reading gains of compensatory education pupils in grades one and four exposed to intensive test wiseness instruction would not differ significantly from the reading gains in a randomly assigned control group. Schools offering ESEA Title I classes (N=48) were randomly assigned to the treatment and control…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Intentional Learning
Brandt, David E. – 1975
This document describes and evaluates the Reading Skills Laboratories Optional Assignment Program for the school year 1974-75. The purpose of this program was to improve the reading skills of high school students (grades 9-12) whose reading fell two or more years below their grade level. The program was conducted in 8 alternative independent mini…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, High School Students, Individual Instruction
