The purpose of this study was to evaluate the change in oral reading fluency among a sample of students (N = 44) who were randomly assigned a summer school placement. A second goal was to identify relationships between student background characteristics, student learning engagement, and reading fluency outcomes among those students who participated in summer school. Results indicated that students who were assigned to or participated in summer school did not achieve statistically greater summer learning outcomes than students who did not participate. However, summer school participants showed substantial growth in fluency outcomes during the summer intervention period. Implications for summer programs are discussed.

The math achievement of students is low in a small rural district in Colorado. The purpose of this study was to explore the efficacy of a summer third through fifth grade math program in improving math scores. Piaget's theory of cognitive development was used as the theoretical foundation for the math instructional resource delivered to the struggling students in the program. A quasi-experimental design was used to address whether the math scores improved for the participating students (n = 145) and whether the participating students experienced a smaller summer loss in academic achievement than the students who did not participate (n = 457). Ex post facto data included pre- and post- math assessments. The math instruction and assessments were administered to third through fifth grade students as part of the school district's academic program during the 2012, 2013, and 2014 summer schools. A dependent samples t test was used to analyze the data to determine if the students' achievement scores improved for those attending summer school. The results did not indicate any significant improvement. An ANOVA was then used to determine if the summer math program decreased summer loss of learning in participating students. Participating students experienced significantly less summer loss than did non-participating students. Therefore, recommendations for the summer math program include more instructional time and moving the program closer to the beginning of the school year to avoid any summer loss. This study will have a positive social impact as it influences decisions made by the school district to improve the summer math program and produce students who are better prepared for postsecondary school options.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1991. / Title from title page screen, viewed December 16, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Susan F. Amster (chair), Barbara S. Heyl, Jack A. Hobbs, Eugene R. Irving, Patricia H. Klass, Fred A. Taylor. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-115) and abstract. Also available in print.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the benefit accrued to fifth-grade students who participated in a summer school accelerated instruction program utilizing accelerated instructional practices in a Texas school district. The secondary intent was to determine the program's effect on student regression or retention as measured by Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) scores and State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) tests in reading and mathematics. The district provided summer accelerated instruction to fifth-grade students who did not pass reading and/or mathematics portions of STAAR for the May administration. For this study, I focused on the 2018 summer accelerated instruction offered by the district, using a mixed methods design to analyze the effectiveness of accelerated instruction for the students who participated in the summer program. A paired samples t-test was conducted to evaluate if students who failed the May STAAR in either reading or mathematics increased their scores on the June STAAR. Also, a paired samples t-test was conducted to determine if these same students increased their fall MAP test when compared to the spring MAP test. Teachers were interviewed to determine their perceptions of the most beneficial parts of summer school for students who attended. The results showed that attending the 2018 summer accelerated instruction program had a statistically significant effect on STAAR reading and mathematics scores and a statistically significant effects on the MAP reading and mathematics scores. Three themes emerged from the teacher interviews as being benefits of accelerated instruction: administrative support, a growth focus, and social and emotional health.

This mixed-method study explored the culturally responsive practices of a midsized, Southern California school district that used Expanded Learning Opportunities Program (ELOP) state funding to implement a voluntary summer program accessible to TK–6 grade students district-wide. Qualitative data gathered from semistructured interviews with the principal on special assignment (POSA), three upper-grade summer school teachers, and three school outreach liaisons (SOLs) highlighted the culturally responsive practices of the school district to address student and family needs, focusing specifically on English learners (ELs). Quantitative data from the school district examined included the summative test scores for EL students in Grades 4–6. Although EL summer school students did not score significantly higher than EL students who did not attend summer school, the findings demonstrated EL students increased their scaled scores in English language arts (ELA), math, and English Language Proficiency Assessments for California (ELPAC). A promising finding was the significant change in scores from before to after the summer school program for EL students. Although the study demonstrated funding alone did not address educational inequity as seen in test scores, the qualitative data highlighted powerful educational practices to help address the needs of students and families. Thus, the culturally responsive design features and practices of the summer school program are an initial start to supporting EL students and shifting the education system toward equity.

Práce analyzuje segment zahraničních studentů jako skupinu ?návštěvníků?, která patří se svými specifiky k obtížené klientele, o kterou je třeba patřičným způsobem pečovat a poskytovat jí kvalitní univerzitní služby a pomoc. Práce také demonstruje obecné přínosy těchto hostů a trendy, se kterými se setkáváme na univerzitách. Větší pozornost byla zaměřena na vhodné doplnění programu letní školy pořádané na JU. Ve spojení s tímto doplněním programu se velká pozornost ubírala směrem ke zvolené atraktivitě - Stezce korunami stromů Lipno. Projektem diplomové práce je navržení a realizace projektu zatraktivnění této turistické atrakce v podobě aplikovaného nočního osvětlení, které přineslo provozovatelům nové možnosti využití a výhody. Druhá část projektu se pak zabývá prosazením tohoto místa do programu a to hledáním vhodné varianty pro reciproční spolupráci, které nakonec bylo úspěšně dosaženo. Stezka tak byla úspěšně prosazena do následujících programů letních škol pořádaných Jihočeskou univerzitou.

The problem of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a guidance-structured summer session for entering university freshmen. The performances of students entering this type of program were compared with those of students entering a traditional type of summer school. Inferences made relating to the contributions of a guidance-structured summer session to entering university freshmen were based on analyses of the following characteristics: (1) performance on standardized tests; (2) certain aspects relating to high school background; (3) academic achievement and retention at Texas A. and M. University; (4) fathers' attendance at Texas A. and M. University; and (5) fathers' occupations.

O estudo propõe-se a discutir a recuperação escolar enquanto estratégia pedagógica de apoio e auxílio aos alunos que não aprendem, tomando como referencial teórico a Psicologia Histórico-Cultural. Como principais objetivos desta pesquisa destacam-se: a) estabelecer uma análise crítica, a partir dos conceitos da psicologia escolar, sobre a trajetória histórica da implantação de programas de recuperação na rede pública paulista e concepções de aprendizagem subjacentes, b) compreender repercussões dessa prática por meio dos sentidos pessoais atribuídos à recuperação escolar por educadores, pais e alunos. De cunho qualitativo, essa pesquisa, em moldes etnográficos, utilizou-se dos seguintes procedimentos: análise de documentos oficiais do estado de São Paulo e das Leis de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional (1961; 1971; 1996); observações participantes em duas salas de recuperação; entrevistas individuais com professoras, coordenadora, diretora e mães de alunos; entrevistas coletivas com dois grupos de alunos e análise de seus desenhos sobre a classe de recuperação, sendo todos os participantes vinculados regularmente a uma escola da rede estadual situada na zona sul da cidade de São Paulo. O levantamento documental realizado com o objetivo de compilar publicações oficiais revelou que inúmeros planos de recuperação escolar vêm sendo apontados como \"remédios\" aos problemas educacionais ao longo da história, tendo a investigação conduzido ao documento oficial do primeiro programa de recuperação escolar elaborado por Antonio D\"Ávilla, em 1936. A pesquisa de campo revelou grande distanciamento entre as propostas oficiais e sua concretização no cotidiano escolar. A busca do sentido da recuperação conduziu à conclusão de que esta prática configura-se muito mais como um espaço de impossibilidades do que de potencialidades. As classes de recuperação exercem em alunos e professores o pernicioso efeito de cristalização do \"não saber\" - professores destituídos de sua função de ensinar e alunos desistentes de suas possibilidades de aprender. A prática da recuperação indica camuflagem e pretensa compensação diante do não cumprimento, nas classes regulares, do principal objetivo da escola, o processo de ensino e aprendizagem. Foi consensual entre os participantes da pesquisa a concepção sobre a fragilidade e descrédito da função da recuperação, apontando o esvaziamento do sentido dessa prática pedagógica para todos os seus atores: professores, gestores, pais e alunos. Esta pesquisa põe-se como mais uma denúncia na direção da luta por educação de qualidade na escola pública brasileira e um anúncio da possibilidade de que a recuperação paralela e a recuperação contínua, propagadas pelos discursos oficiais como soluções, dêem lugar a outro processo que a autora se aventura a denominar de aprendizagem contínua, buscando por meio da mediação superar as dificuldades e possibilitar o desenvolvimento dos alunos dentro dos espaços das salas de aula regulares, não em espaços à parte, como as classes de recuperação. / This study has the purpose to examine Summer School as a pedagogical strategy to support and help students that do not learn, based on Cultural-Historical Psychology theory. We highlight as the main aims of this research: a) establish a critical analysis, grounded on the concepts of school psychology, on the historical course of the implantation of Summer school programs on the public system in São Paulo and underlying learning conceptions and b) understand the repercussion of this action through the personal sensations of educators, parents and students, attributed to Summer school. With a qualitative characteristic, this research, in ethnographic patterns, used the following procedures: analysis of official documents of the State of São Paulo and of the Law for National Education Guidelines and Basis (LDB) (1961; 1971; 1996); participative observations in two Summer school classrooms; individual interviews with teachers, coordinators, principal and the mothers of the students; collective interviews with two groups of students and analysis of their drawings about Summer School, being all the participants regularly connected to the state system placed in the south of the city of São Paulo. The documental research accomplished with the purpose of compiling official publications, revealed that numberless Summer school plans have been pointed as \"medicine\" to educational problems along the history, and the investigation led us to the official document of the first Summer school program elaborated by Antonio D\"Avilla, in 1936. The field research showed a huge distance between the official proposal and its fulfillment in school quotidian. The search for a meaning to the Summer School guided us to conclude that this practice configures more as a space of impossibilities than of potentialities. Summer school classrooms can cause in students and teachers, the harmful effect of the \"do not know\" crystallization, it results in teachers deposed from its function to teach and students that renounce their possibilities to learn. The Summer School practice indicates a camouflage and intended compensation before the non-accomplishment, in regular classrooms, of the main school purpose: the teaching and learning process. The conception about the fragility and discredit of the Summer School function was consensual among the participants of the research, pointing the annulling of the meaning of this pedagogic practice to all its actors: teachers, directors, parents and students. This study aims to be one more denunciation in the direction of the fight for quality education in the public Brazilian system and also an announcement of the possibility that parallel summer school and continuous recuperation, declared by official speeches as solutions, will give place to another process that the author ventures to call continuous learning, aiming, through mediation, to overcome difficulties and make possible the development of students inside regular classrooms, not in separate spaces, such as Summer School classrooms.

O estudo propõe-se a discutir a recuperação escolar enquanto estratégia pedagógica de apoio e auxílio aos alunos que não aprendem, tomando como referencial teórico a Psicologia Histórico-Cultural. Como principais objetivos desta pesquisa destacam-se: a) estabelecer uma análise crítica, a partir dos conceitos da psicologia escolar, sobre a trajetória histórica da implantação de programas de recuperação na rede pública paulista e concepções de aprendizagem subjacentes, b) compreender repercussões dessa prática por meio dos sentidos pessoais atribuídos à recuperação escolar por educadores, pais e alunos. De cunho qualitativo, essa pesquisa, em moldes etnográficos, utilizou-se dos seguintes procedimentos: análise de documentos oficiais do estado de São Paulo e das Leis de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional (1961; 1971; 1996); observações participantes em duas salas de recuperação; entrevistas individuais com professoras, coordenadora, diretora e mães de alunos; entrevistas coletivas com dois grupos de alunos e análise de seus desenhos sobre a classe de recuperação, sendo todos os participantes vinculados regularmente a uma escola da rede estadual situada na zona sul da cidade de São Paulo. O levantamento documental realizado com o objetivo de compilar publicações oficiais revelou que inúmeros planos de recuperação escolar vêm sendo apontados como \"remédios\" aos problemas educacionais ao longo da história, tendo a investigação conduzido ao documento oficial do primeiro programa de recuperação escolar elaborado por Antonio D\"Ávilla, em 1936. A pesquisa de campo revelou grande distanciamento entre as propostas oficiais e sua concretização no cotidiano escolar. A busca do sentido da recuperação conduziu à conclusão de que esta prática configura-se muito mais como um espaço de impossibilidades do que de potencialidades. As classes de recuperação exercem em alunos e professores o pernicioso efeito de cristalização do \"não saber\" - professores destituídos de sua função de ensinar e alunos desistentes de suas possibilidades de aprender. A prática da recuperação indica camuflagem e pretensa compensação diante do não cumprimento, nas classes regulares, do principal objetivo da escola, o processo de ensino e aprendizagem. Foi consensual entre os participantes da pesquisa a concepção sobre a fragilidade e descrédito da função da recuperação, apontando o esvaziamento do sentido dessa prática pedagógica para todos os seus atores: professores, gestores, pais e alunos. Esta pesquisa põe-se como mais uma denúncia na direção da luta por educação de qualidade na escola pública brasileira e um anúncio da possibilidade de que a recuperação paralela e a recuperação contínua, propagadas pelos discursos oficiais como soluções, dêem lugar a outro processo que a autora se aventura a denominar de aprendizagem contínua, buscando por meio da mediação superar as dificuldades e possibilitar o desenvolvimento dos alunos dentro dos espaços das salas de aula regulares, não em espaços à parte, como as classes de recuperação. / This study has the purpose to examine Summer School as a pedagogical strategy to support and help students that do not learn, based on Cultural-Historical Psychology theory. We highlight as the main aims of this research: a) establish a critical analysis, grounded on the concepts of school psychology, on the historical course of the implantation of Summer school programs on the public system in São Paulo and underlying learning conceptions and b) understand the repercussion of this action through the personal sensations of educators, parents and students, attributed to Summer school. With a qualitative characteristic, this research, in ethnographic patterns, used the following procedures: analysis of official documents of the State of São Paulo and of the Law for National Education Guidelines and Basis (LDB) (1961; 1971; 1996); participative observations in two Summer school classrooms; individual interviews with teachers, coordinators, principal and the mothers of the students; collective interviews with two groups of students and analysis of their drawings about Summer School, being all the participants regularly connected to the state system placed in the south of the city of São Paulo. The documental research accomplished with the purpose of compiling official publications, revealed that numberless Summer school plans have been pointed as \"medicine\" to educational problems along the history, and the investigation led us to the official document of the first Summer school program elaborated by Antonio D\"Avilla, in 1936. The field research showed a huge distance between the official proposal and its fulfillment in school quotidian. The search for a meaning to the Summer School guided us to conclude that this practice configures more as a space of impossibilities than of potentialities. Summer school classrooms can cause in students and teachers, the harmful effect of the \"do not know\" crystallization, it results in teachers deposed from its function to teach and students that renounce their possibilities to learn. The Summer School practice indicates a camouflage and intended compensation before the non-accomplishment, in regular classrooms, of the main school purpose: the teaching and learning process. The conception about the fragility and discredit of the Summer School function was consensual among the participants of the research, pointing the annulling of the meaning of this pedagogic practice to all its actors: teachers, directors, parents and students. This study aims to be one more denunciation in the direction of the fight for quality education in the public Brazilian system and also an announcement of the possibility that parallel summer school and continuous recuperation, declared by official speeches as solutions, will give place to another process that the author ventures to call continuous learning, aiming, through mediation, to overcome difficulties and make possible the development of students inside regular classrooms, not in separate spaces, such as Summer School classrooms.

The requirements of various educational reform movements such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top have left public education systems searching for ways to make sure students are reaching their highest potential. Because of the importance of accountability issues to school systems, it is important to examine ways to help students reach their potential. One tool school districts use to aid in improving student achievement is summer school. This qualitative study provides an overview of the history of summer school. Additionally, it offers a synopsis of various types of summer programs and populations often targeted by summer school. The researcher also offers a review of literature on student learning loss over the summer months. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of pre-K through third grade summer school teachers’ about the summer program in which they taught. The study emphasis was on preparation for summer school, analysis of teacher effectiveness, evaluation of the program, and teacher attitudes toward students. The participants in this study were 10 summer school teachers from a school system in northeast Tennessee. The analysis of data collected in this study introduced several themes and common patterns. Participants expressed the importance of being able to see changes in students over the course of their time in school. The value of participating in a summer school program that is different from the regular school year was found to be important to the teachers. Emphasizing that flexibility in pedagogy and fun for the students was important in making summer school successful. Participants reported that small class size aided in their ability to help the students reach their potentials. Summer school teachers in the study were found to value not just the academic activities but also enrichment activities for students during the summer program. Participants also related antidotal stories and shared situations in which summer school was helpful for particular students. These responses illustrate the significance of seeking teachers’ perceptions of the work they are doing.