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Dedeoglu, Hakan; Erbasan, Ömer – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2023
The study was carried out to determine whether Turkish primary school 1st graders experienced reading loss during the summer holidays and whether giving book support to disadvantaged students during the summer holidays was effective in preventing this loss. The research was conducted with 26 students at a rural primary school. The pretest-posttest…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains, Elementary School Students
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Palardy, Gregory J. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This study examines the effects of the summer period on value-added assessment (VAA) of teacher and school performance at the early grades. The results indicate that 40-62% of the variance in VAA estimates originates from the summer, depending on the outcome. Furthermore, when summer is omitted from the VAA model, 51-61% of the teachers and 58-61%…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Performance Based Assessment, Teacher Effectiveness, School Effectiveness