The impact of the elementary school year-round (YRE) pilot program on student achievement and behavior in the Harlandale Independent School District /
The study was designed to measure the effect Harlandale's
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | The study was designed to measure the effect Harlandale's year-round education program had on 160 economically disadvantaged elementary school students during one to three years of instruction. Research determined the degree to which Harlandale's year-round education program had fostered academic achievement, discipline, and attendance in students, as measured by tests, discipline referral, and attendance rates. Study results were: Achievement test data were analyzed through doubly multivariate repeated measures analysis of variance using the Texas Learning Index (TLI) scores from the Spring administration of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS). No effects attributable to year- round education were discerned in reading and mathematics achievement over the three years in the study. discipline data, analyzed by frequency distribution, indicated a decrease in disciplinary referrals and most types of offenses at the year-round campus for the two or three years with extant data. However, inconsistencies in the sources of data and the dramatic nature of the campus changes in administration over time, deemed it impossible to make a satisfactory evaluation of the year-round program and inadvisable to attribute these findings to the implementation of a year-round program at the campus. Log-transformed attendance data were analyzed through doubly multivariate repeated measures analysis of variance using the base-10 logarithm of the difference of 101 1 and the actual percentage attendance. A significant campus effect indicated that, averaged across three years, the year-round campus attendance was higher for the given samples of students. Recommendations were that the Harlandale Independent School District investigate the benefits of a single calendar concept district wide since there were no differences in overall achievement over the past three years attributable to the YRE program. Harlandale should investigate whether or not the decrease in discipline referrals and offenses at the YRE campus is attributable to the year-round calendar or inconsistencies in the sources of the data and administrative changes over time at the YRE campus. Student attendance at the YRE campus was higher than that of the traditional campus across the three years of the study. Harlandale should continue to investigate whether the attendance increase was attributable to the year-round calendar. |
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| Item Description: | Vita. "Major Subject: Educational Administration". |
| Physical Description: | x, 134 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilms Inc. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references: pages 79-86. |