How Measuring School Effectiveness Is Impacted by Summer ...

Most states include this summer loss when measuring growth, because they commonly look at growth as a spring-to-spring change in summative test performance.

Summer Learning Loss: What We Know and What We're Learning

Concerns about students losing ground academically during summer break go back at least a century, with early evidence suggesting that ...

School Effectiveness, Summer Loss, and Federal Accountability

From a policy standpoint, the study provides evidence of how much ignoring summer loss may impact school ... Summer loss measure: a drop in test scores ...

The effectiveness of summer school in closing achievement gaps

From the abstract: “Summer learning loss has been documented in the United States since early in the 20th century. These early studies measured differences in ...

Summer learning loss: What is it, and what can we do about it?

The authors concluded that: (1) on average, students' achievement scores declined over summer vacation by one month's worth of school-year ...

1 The Implications of Summer Learning Loss for Value-Added ...

... effectiveness and students' summer learning would be systematically biased. ... There are tradeoffs associated with each approach to measuring teacher ...

Measuring the Impact of Your Summer Learning Programs: A Guide

Summer learning programs can play a pivotal role in combating summer slide, accelerating student achievement, empowering students, and fostering engagement. But ...

Examining the Effectiveness of Year-Round School Calendars on ...

... school year during the summer break, with losses greatest for students from low-income families ... In: Measuring the Effects of Education on Health and ...

Measuring Success in Summer School - Agenda Online

tracking spending on summer school, preventing an analysis of cost-effectiveness, or a ... impact of summer school. After matching students and examining ...

Is there any research on the effectiveness of summer school/summer ...

There were no significant changes in CBMs scores, indicating that students did not experience a summer learning loss of literacy skills. This study demonstrates ...

The Impact of Summer Learning Loss on Measures of School ...

McEachin and Atteberry (2017) estimate that 25− 30 per cent of the learning achieved during the school year is lost due to summer vacations in an unidentified ...

Effective Summer Programming - American Federation of Teachers

As many educators and parents know all too well, the summer is a key time in students' social and cognitive development, and it plays an important role in ...

Effective Summer Learning: 'We Already Know How to Do This ...

national longitudinal study of district-led summer learning in Boston and four other major urban districts reveals that high-attending students ...

The Role of Summers in Understanding Achievement Disparities

Using seasonal comparison to evaluate school effectiveness. Sociology of ... The impact of summer learning loss on measures of school performance.

The Dynamic Effects of a Summer Learning Program on Behavioral ...

The Dynamic Effects of a Summer Learning Program on Behavioral Engagement in School ... The evidence that student learning declines sharply (or stagnates) during ...

Achievement, learning, and seasonal impact as measures of school ...

Or is it better to use a new measure, seasonal impact, which is defined as the acceleration in learning rates that occurs when students finish ...

Are “Failing” Schools Really Failing? Using Seasonal Comparison ...

von Hippel Paul T. Forthcoming. “Achievement, Learning, and Seasonal Impact as Measures of School Effectiveness: It's Better to Be Valid than Reliable.” School ...

The effect of summer on value-added assessments of teacher and ...

This study examines the effects of including the summer period on value-added assessments (VAA) of teacher and school performance at the early grades.

THE EFFECT OF SUMMER LEARNING LOSS ON ANNUALLY ...

Summer growth and the effectiveness of summer school. System ... The impact of measurement error on the accuracy of individual and aggregate SGP.

Is Year-Round Schooling an Effective Measure Against Summer ...

Traditional school calendars with long summer breaks can contribute to significant learning loss, particularly in core subjects like math and ...