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Direct linkHayes, Christian R.; Matthews, Allison M.; Song, Yiqing; Linden, Sean T.; Wilson, Robert F.; Finn, Molly; Huang, Xiaoshan; Johnson, Kelsey E.; McAlister, Anne M.; Prager, Brian; Seifert, Richard; Liss, Sandra E.; Burkhardt, Andrew M.; Troup, Nicholas – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
This paper presents the first results from draw-a-scientist tests (DASTs) over five years that were used to measure the effect of 8-10 week long astronomy clubs and week long summer camps on 3rd-5th grade elementary school students' perceptions of scientists. We facilitated these DASTs prior to these clubs or camps, which provide a baseline for a…
Descriptors: Clubs, Astronomy, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Download full textLawrence, Joshua F.; Hinga, Briana M.; Mahoney, Joseph L.; Vandell, Deborah Lowe – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2015
This paper examines the relation between children's summer activities before fourth through sixth grade and their vocabulary knowledge in fifth grade and at age fifteen using the NICHD SECCYD dataset (N = 1,009). We used OLS regression and propensity score analyses to understand how children's summer reading, library visits, participation in…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Vocabulary
Fiore, Carole; Roman, Susan – School Library Journal, 2010
Based on the findings of a recent three-year study by Dominican University's Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, the authors can confirm what many librarians have long suspected: students who take part in their local library's summer reading program significantly improve their reading skills. This article describes the results of…
Descriptors: Test Results, Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Tests
