Students who met the promotional cutoffs, including after Summer Bridge, maintained positive test trajectories two years after promotion¶

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q2 i? Students who passed after Summer Bridge gained 3.0 GEs over three years versus 2.7 GEs for 1995 social promotes, suggesting Summer Bridge produced a one-time increase that kept them on track. → Roderick 2000

Evidence¶

Roderick 2000¶

Roderick, M., Nagaoka, J., Bacon, J., & Easton, J. Q. (2000). Update: Ending Social Promotion: Passing, Retention, and Achievement Trends Among Promoted and Retained Students 1995-1999. Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://www.consortium-chicago.org

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Three-year tracking of the additional 13 percent of 1997 sixth graders who met cutoffs after Summer Bridge. The brief interprets this as "a one time increase in their test scores that allowed these students to remain on track."

"Over the three years between fifth and eighth grade, these students also increased their ITBS scores 3.0 GEs, compared to 2.7 GEs for students in 1995 who were socially promoted."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Sixth graders promoted in 1997 without meeting the test cutoff fared poorly at the eighth-grade gate, while Summer Bridge passers did relatively well — related
• Summer Bridge produced only small sustained effects: slightly larger two-year gains than comparable non-attendees, without changing learning trajectories — reports the opposite
• Summer Bridge produced short-term test-score gains and allowed more students to meet promotion cutoffs, particularly among sixth and eighth graders — related