Descriptor
Source
Publication Type
| Reports - Research | 3 |
| Dissertations/Theses -… | 1 |
| Speeches/Meeting Papers | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| California Achievement Tests | 3 |
| Indiana Statewide Testing for… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Mueller, E. Jane – 1989
A study examined the cost effectiveness of a summer school for failed first grade students and the long-term effects of first grade reading failure on reading achievement. Subjects, 361 students who were enrolled in the Cincinnati Public Schools' first grade in 1981, were given the California Achievement Test. Students who failed were denied…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Grade 1, Longitudinal Studies, Primary Education
Robbins, Edward L.; Thompson, Linda W. – 1989
A study investigated the reading achievement of participants in the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library's incentive-based summer reading program. Subjects, 44 first, second, and third grade students from 23 different local public schools who had participated in the summer reading program at 4 inner-city brances of the public library,…
Descriptors: Incentives, Library Research, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness
Fanfulik, Marge – 1986
Evidence concerning compensatory education programs (designed to overcome educational deficits associated with adverse environmental circumstances) and their impact was sought in a study that investigated the progress made by students in such programs for reading over a six-year span, from middle school and through high school. Data were obtained…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Developmental Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
