The Evaluation of Enhanced Academic Instruction in After-School Programs: Final Report

Title:	The Evaluation of Enhanced Academic Instruction in After-School Programs: Final Report
Description:	The report, The Evaluation of Enhanced Academic Instruction in After-School Programs: Final Report, includes two parallel impact studies, a math program study ("Mathletics" developed by Harcourt School Publishers) and a reading program study ("Adventure Island" developed by the Success for All Foundation) in which students attending an afterschool program are assigned by lottery to either receive the structured academic programming or the after-school programming regularly offered. For each academic program, the evaluation design allows for information about the one-year impact in the first and second years of operation as well as the two-year impact in which the program was offered to students for two consecutive years. Data on after-school staff characteristics, program implementation, and student outcomes were collected in the first and second years in 27 centers (12 providing the reading program and 15 providing the math program).
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Cover Date:	September 2009
Web Release:	September 29, 2009
Print Release:	September 29, 2009
Publication #:	NCEE 20094077 General Ordering Information
Center/Program:	NCEE
Authors:	Alison Rebeck Black, Marie-Andrée Somers, Fred Doolittle, and Rebecca Unterman: MDRC. Jean Baldwin Grossman Public/Private Ventures; Project Officer: Elizabeth Warner Institute of Education Sciences
Type of Product:	Intervention Report
Keywords:	Before and After School Care Curriculum • elementary school Mathematics Randomized Control Trials Reading
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