WWC Summary of Evidence for this Intervention
Accelerated Middle Schools
Accelerated middle schools are self-contained academic programs designed to help middle school students who are behind grade level catch up with their peers. The program aims to ensure students stay in school and graduate by encouraging them to begin high school with other students their age. The programs serve students who are one to two years behind grade level, giving students the opportunity to cover an additional year of curriculum over 1–2 years in the program. Accelerated middle schools can be structured as separate schools or as schools within a traditional middle school.
July 2008
Outcome domain
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Effectiveness rating
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Studies meeting standards
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Grades examined
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Students
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Improvement index
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Progressing in school
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3 studies meet standards
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6-8 |
848
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Dynarski, M., Gleason, P., Rangarajan, A., & Wood, R. (1998)
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6-8 |
536 |
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Dynarski, M., Gleason, P., Rangarajan, A., & Wood, R. (1998)
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7-8 |
140 |
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Dynarski, M., Gleason, P., Rangarajan, A., & Wood, R. (1998)
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6-8 |
172 |
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Staying in School
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3 studies meet standards
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6-8 |
848
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Dynarski, M., Gleason, P., Rangarajan, A., & Wood, R. (1998)
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6-8 |
536 |
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Dynarski, M., Gleason, P., Rangarajan, A., & Wood, R. (1998)
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7-8 |
140 |
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Dynarski, M., Gleason, P., Rangarajan, A., & Wood, R. (1998)
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6-8 |
172 |
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A group of closely related outcomes.
The number of studies that met WWC design standards and provide evidence of effectiveness. Selecting an item below will display all studies that met WWC design studies in the domain. Selecting a study citation will take you to more information on that study and its findings.
For more, please see the WWC Glossary entry for study rating.
Grades of the students examined in the studies that met WWC design standards, which may not reflect the full range of grades for which the intervention may be used.
The number of students included in the studies that met WWC design standards.
The sample size for the studies that met WWC design standards.
An indicator of the effect of the intervention, the improvement index can be interpreted as the expected change in percentile rank for an average comparison group student if that student had received the intervention.
For more, please see the WWC Glossary entry for improvement index.
The indicator represents the highest level of similarity found between your students and each of the high-quality studies of the intervention. Three filled in ovals indicates that at least one study that met standards was conducted on students very similar to yours. Clicking on the indicator for a study will provide information on the similarity for each of the characteristics you selected.