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An Evaluation of the New Castle County Vocational Technical School District's Integrated Mathematics I Summer Credit Recovery Program
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Leah Anderson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The use of credit recovery as a high school dropout prevention strategy has rapidly increased within the last twenty years. The majority of public schools within the United States of America utilize at least one form of credit recovery. Credit recovery programs include a range of instructional delivery methods and may include various curricula and…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Schools, School Holding Power, Credits
The Big Lift Evaluation: Research Findings Five Years In. Research Report. RR-A1411-1
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Gomez, Celia J.; Cannon, Jill S.; Bongard, Michelle – RAND Corporation, 2021
The Big Lift™ (Big Lift) is a preschool-third-grade collective impact initiative in San Mateo County, California. The initiative is a partnership of the County of San Mateo, the San Mateo County Office of Education, and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Launched in 2012, the initiative aims to boost children's reading proficiency by third…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Preschool Education, Intervention, Reading Programs
The Big Lift Evaluation: Research Findings Five Years In--Technical Appendix. Research Report. RR-A1411-1
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Gomez, Celia J.; Cannon, Jill S.; Bongard, Michelle – RAND Corporation, 2021
The Big Lift™ (Big Lift) is a preschool-third-grade collective impact initiative in San Mateo County, California. The initiative is a partnership of the County of San Mateo, the San Mateo County Office of Education, and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Launched in 2012, the initiative aims to boost children's reading proficiency by third…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Preschool Education, Intervention, Reading Programs
Evaluating Summer School Programs and the Effect on Student Achievement: The Correlation between Stanford-10 Standardized Test Scores and Two Different Summer Programs
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Bottorff, Alicia Kaye – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Educators have been looking for a solution to increasing yearly student achievement while at the same time ensuring that the achievement gap between students of high and low socioeconomic status does not continue to widen each year. Many studies examined show that students experience summer learning loss if not in school during the months of June…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Summer Schools, Reading Comprehension, School Activities
Teachers' Assessments of Professional Development Quality, Value, and Benefits: Results from Seven Annual Surveys of Participants in National Writing Project Summer Institutes
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Stokes, Laura; St. John, Mark – Inverness Research, 2008
The National Writing Project (NWP) is the nation's premier professional development network dedicated to improving the teaching of writing. The NWP network comprises nearly 200 local sites in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. This report presents the results of a seven-year survey study of teachers participating in NWP summer…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Teaching Experience, Faculty Development, Summer Programs
Examining the Relevance of Emotional Intelligence within Educational Programs for the Gifted and Talented
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Bellamy, Al; Gore, David; Sturgis, Judy – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2005
This study explored the relationships between emotional intelligence, locus of control, and self-efficacy among gifted and talented students participating in a two week long summer educational program. Results revealed statistically significant correlations between these variables. Gender was found to moderate the relationships. The study also…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Emotional Intelligence, Summer Programs, Gifted