Students in higher-achieving schools had larger Summer Bridge gains, so the program did not ameliorate quality differences across schools¶
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q3 i? Summer Bridge students in schools with higher school-year achievement had larger test-score gains than students in lower-performing schools, with differences most pronounced in third grade. → Melissa Roderick 2003
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Melissa Roderick 2003¶
Melissa Roderick, Mimi Engel, Jenny Nagaoka, with Brian A. Jacob, Sophie Degener, Alex Orfei, Susan Stone, Jen Bacon. (2003). Ending Social Promotion: Results From Summer Bridge. Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/ending-social-promotion-results-summer-bridge
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The report's analyses of gains by school characteristics found teachers in higher-performing schools were more positive about the learning environment and reported more attention to individual needs, practices associated with larger adjusted test-score increases.
"Students who at tended Summer Bridge in schools with higher achievement during the school year had larger test-score gains than students in lower perform ing schools. These differences were most pro nounced in the third grade."
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Related Claims¶
- Summer Bridge gains were relatively uniform across demographic and achievement groups, with highest-risk third graders benefiting most — 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
- Summer Bridge produced only small sustained effects: slightly larger two-year gains than comparable non-attendees, without changing learning trajectories — related
- Mandatory summer curricula are not teacher proof: individualizing instruction and quality of teacher-student interactions were associated with larger gains — related
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Students in higher-achieving schools had larger Summer Bridge gains, so the program did not ameliorate quality differences across schools |
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Students in higher-achieving schools had larger Summer Bridge gains, so the program did not ameliorate quality differences across schools |
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