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Exploring the Relationships between LA's BEST Program Attendance and Cognitive Gains of LA's BEST Students. CRESST Report 757
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Huang, Denise; Leon, Seth; Harven, Aletha M.; La Torre, Deborah; Mostafavi, Sima – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2009
The purpose of this report is to examine the extent to which participation in the Los Angeles Better Educated Students for Tomorrow (LA's BEST) afterschool program leads to positive achievement outcomes in math and English-language arts. A quasi-experimental design is utilized, and hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) is employed to examine the…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Language Arts, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness