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Longitudinal Achievement Effects of Multiyear Summer School: Evidence from the Teach Baltimore Randomized Field Trial
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Borman, Geoffrey D.; Dowling, N. Maritza – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2006
Employing a randomized field trial, this 3-year study explored the effects of a multiyear summer school program in preventing the cumulative effect of summer learning losses and promoting longitudinal achievement growth, for a total treatment group of 438 students from high-poverty schools. Longitudinal outcomes for the participants were…
Descriptors: School Activities, Summer Programs, Attendance, Attendance Patterns
Families, Schools, and Summer Learning
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Borman, Geoffrey D.; Benson, James; Overman, Laura T. – Elementary School Journal, 2005
In this study we used spring-to-fall reading achievement data to measure summer gains and losses for a sample of over 300 early elementary school students from high-poverty schools. We combined evidence from a randomized experiment of an academically intensive community-based summer school program with parent telephone survey data regarding the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Telephone Surveys, Summer Schools, Reading Achievement
The Effects of Summer School: Questions Answered, Questions Raised.
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Borman, Geoffrey D. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2000
Discusses questions answered and raised by the Cooper et al. study. Summarizes study's methodological contributions and emphasizes the more important lessons that meta-analysts may take from the study. Situates the study within literatures on summer learning and on education for poor/minority children. Discusses the potential for summer school to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Quality