ERIC Number: ED537733
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 6
Abstractor: ERIC
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Report of the Optional Extended-Day Kindergarten Program for the 2009-10 School Year: Utah Code 53A-1a-902; Enrolled S.B. 49, 2007; Board Rule R277-489
Shumway, Larry
Utah State Office of Education
Optional Extended-Day Kindergarten benefits students above and beyond non-Optional Extended-Day kindergarten. While OEK students began the 2009-10 school year with significantly lower scores than non-OEK students, by the end of the year OEK students had closed this achievement gap and scored similarly to non-OEK students. In some cases OEK students surpassed the achievement of non-OEK students at the end of the year. Thus, this report shows that the program benefits at-risk students. Quick facts include: (1) Approximately 18% of kindergarten students participated in an extended kindergarten program in 2009-10; (2) OEK classrooms gained an average of 54 percentage points over the year; non-OEK classrooms gained an average of 36 percentage points; (3) Significantly fewer OEK students were at risk for falling behind in reading at the end of the year than at the beginning of the year (35% to 13%); (4) A higher percentage of OEK students are able to move up from being at risk compared to non-OEK students (22% compared to 2%); (5) In some districts, OEK classrooms even surpassed the achievement of non-OEK classrooms at the end of the year; and (6) This report finds similar outcomes to the 2009 report on OEK student achievement, and both reports conclude that while OEK students begin the year behind non-OEK students, by the end of the year this gap is closed or surpassed. (Contains 4 figures and 3 tables.)
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, School Schedules, At Risk Students, Kindergarten, Extended School Day, Scores, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement, Racial Differences, Low Income Groups, English (Second Language), Reading Skills, Pretests Posttests, Phonemes, Reading Fluency, Disabilities
Utah State Office of Education. 250 East 500 South, P.O. Box 144200, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-4200. Tel: 801-538-7500; Web site: http://www.schools.utah.gov
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Kindergarten
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City.
Identifiers - Location: Utah
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)
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