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If You Build It, Will They Come and Will It Matter? The Unrequited Dream of a Summer Reading Program
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Direct linkDeborah K. Reed; Huibin Zhang – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2025
The present study evaluated the effectiveness of a non-randomized summer reading program offered by a school district meeting or exceeding all National Summer Learning Project recommendations. The district had 10 years of experience delivering the program to Grades 1-5 students with or at risk of reading disabilities. Voluntary participation had…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Elementary School Students, Reading Difficulties
Dengkang Chen; Yi Zhang; Heng Luo; Zhimin Gao; Lufang Yu; Yuru Lin – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2026
Promoting computational thinking (CT) through programming activities is crucial for cultivating talent in today's digital landscape. However, recent research have revealed that students often face significant CT challenges during actual programming tasks. While it is widely recognized that additional scaffolding should be provided to support…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Programming, Computation, Thinking Skills
Kaitlyn G. O'Hagan; Leanna Stiefel – Remedial and Special Education, 2025
Research increasingly seeks to answer the question: does special education work? This is different than asking if specific interventions have positive effects and instead aims to identify system-wide impacts. We systematically review published quantitative research on the impact of receiving special education services on student outcomes using…
Descriptors: Special Education, Program Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Educational Research
Wen-Ta Tseng; Yeu-Ting Liu; Yi-Ting Hsu; Hsi-Chin Chu – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study set out to re-examine the effectiveness of study abroad programs in second language (L2) acquisition through a multi-level meta-analysis. Overall, 42 primary studies published between 1995 and 2019 were identified, and in total 283 effect sizes were meta-analysed. This study implemented a three-level random effects model to account for…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Program Effectiveness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Emily N. Cyr; Kathryn M. Kroeper; Hilary B. Bergsieker; Tara C. Dennehy; Christine Logel; Jennifer R. Steele; Rita A. Knasel; W. Tyler Hartwig; Priscilla Shum; Stephanie L. Reeves; Odilia Dys-Steenbergen; Amrit Litt; Christopher B. Lok; Taylor Ballinger; Haemi Nam; Crystal Tse; Amanda L. Forest; Mark Zanna; Sheryl Staub-French; Mary Wells; Toni Schmader; Stephen C. Wright; Steven J. Spencer – Child Development, 2024
Girls and women face persistent negative stereotyping within STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). This field intervention was designed to improve boys' perceptions of girls' STEM ability. Boys (N = 667; mostly White and East Asian) aged 9-15 years in Canadian STEM summer camps (2017-2019) had an intervention or control…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, STEM Education, Summer Programs
Cheyeon Ha; Makana Craig; Alysia D. Roehrig – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2025
This study explored students' prosocial efficacy and reading outcomes in a culturally relevant summer reading program for underrepresented students. From a positive developmental approach, the reading program focuses on topics rooted in multicultural education, with books organized according to themes such as making a difference for oneself, one's…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Prosocial Behavior, Reading Achievement, Summer Programs
Adrienne D. Woods; Paul L. Morgan; Yangyang Wang; George Farkas; Marianne M. Hillemeier – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2025
The extent to which reading achievement is causally impacted by eligibility for special education services due to a learning disability (LD) or speech or language impairment (SLI) is currently unclear. In this registered report, we analyzed U.S. national data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten Cohort of 2010-2011 (ECLS-K:…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Speech Impairments
Download full textHartman, Ellie C.; Jones, Weneaka; Friefeld Kesselmayer, Rachel; Brinck, Emily A.; Trainor, Audrey A.; Reinhard, Alicia; Fuller, Rita K.; Schlegelmilch, Amanda; Anderson, Catherine A. – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2021
Racially and ethnically diverse youth with disabilities receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits were randomly assigned to usual services, including available school and vocational rehabilitation (VR) transition services, or enhanced case management and transition services through the Wisconsin Promoting Readiness of Minors in SSI…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Disabilities, Youth Programs, Predictor Variables
Kun Lei – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The paper examines the effectiveness of special apps for online piano lessons and measures the apps' impact compared to the control group that studied without the use of additional software. The study involved 350 students. The effect of Skoove and Simply Piano apps on the learning of piano skills has been analyzed. First-year students from small…
Descriptors: Musical Instruments, Music Education, Online Courses, Computer Oriented Programs
Baris Bulunmaz; Ramazan Bilge – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2024
During the pandemic period, there have been such upheavals from production methods to distribution strategies, and from supply methods to corporate functioning. Accordingly, it would not be wrong to say that all companies and sectors, regardless of national or international, are part of this fundamental transformation. When the education sector…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education, Program Effectiveness
Herring, Caryn; Millager, Ryan A.; Yaruss, J. Scott – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: Self-help and support activities are often recommended for people who stutter, and there is growing interest in understanding whether and how such experiences might be beneficial for children who stutter. The purpose of this study was to explore the potential impact of participation in Camp SAY, an overnight support-based summer camp…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Camps, Stuttering, Children
Erickson, Joy Dangora – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
Although it is widely accepted that reading motivation erodes over the elementary years and school experiences shape motivation, few have examined young readers' motivation for their reading intervention programs. This two-year qualitative case study probed the motivation-related perceptions of four young children specific to their involvement in…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Kindergarten
Petersen, Jennifer – Educational Gerontology, 2023
This is the first meta-analysis to examine the outcomes of nonfamilial, intergenerational programs (IGP) on youth and older adults. Relevant studies were identified by screening the abstracts from five systematic reviews on the impact of intergenerational programs on psychosocial outcomes. After all studies were screened 23 independent studies…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Program Effectiveness, Older Adults, Youth
Van Drunen, Molly; Packard Tucker, L.; Dworsky, A. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2022
This brief describes the relationship between placement stability and youth engagement in the Youth Transitions Partnership (YTP), a program developed and implemented by the Alameda County Social Services Agency (SSA) for 14- to 20-year-olds in foster care who have multiple risk factors for experiencing homelessness. The authors used program data…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, At Risk Persons, Foster Care
Ensar Yildiz; Özge Koca; Senel Elaldi – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2025
Early intervention includes approaches to responding to young children may profit from targeted services. This study aims to synthesize recent evaluations of intervention programs of Big Math for Little Kids, Building Blocks, and Prekindergarten Mathematics Intervention Program in preschool and kindergarten children to determine the effectiveness…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
