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Direct linkSimon Priest; Melinda Martin-Tollette; Sanford Tollette – Schools: Studies in Education, 2025
Students in grades 3, 4, and 5 participated in a monthlong experiential program conducted at a residential camp. The children were deemed "at risk" due to one or more of the following concerns: poor academic performance, behavioral issues, and extremely low self-esteem. The program consisted of tutoring in social issues and academic…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4
Davenport, Teresa L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine if a summer camp utilizing academic and behavioral remediation programming could increase the academic achievement of children with autism spectrum disorders. Academic achievement was measured using the Wide Range Achievement Test-Fourth Edition (WRAT4; Wilkinson & Robertson, 2006) and an Informal…
Descriptors: Sentences, Autism, Informal Reading Inventories, Word Lists
Churchill, Ward – 1978
The All-Indian Long Distance Runner's Training Camp, predicated upon the fact that the Native American community has produced an inordinate number of long distance runners due to historical/environmental/sociological factors, has as its operational philosophy that academic achievement is stressed as a correlate to athletic success; that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, American Indians, Athletes
Kaplan, Jay Bernard – 1974
Fifth and sixth grade students from the State College Area School District (Pennsylvania) participated in a 5-day resident outdoor education program to investigate the effectiveness of such a program on the development of cognitive learning processes. Students were divided into experimental and control groups of one fifth and one sixth grade class…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Comparative Testing, Data Analysis
