Evaluation of The Electric Company Summer Learning Program

Author(s): McCarthy, Betsy; Michel, Lisa; Tiu, Michelle; Atienza, Sara; Rice, John; Nakamoto, Jonathan; Tafoya, Armando;
Date Issued: October, 2011
Publisher(s): WestEd
Description: A study of the implementation of The Electric Company Summer Learning Program, a transmedia curriculum for summer programs with a focus on math and literacy skills, and of the relationship of participation in the program to teaching outcomes and to children's math and literacy outcomes, based on surveys from and interviews with 152 6- to 8-year-old children and 16 teachers at 12 summer programs
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Source: San Francisco: WestEd. Retrieved June 27, 2012, from http://www.wested.org/online_pubs/resource1236.pdf
Topics: Children & Child Development > Child Development & School Readiness

Programs, Interventions & Curricula > Programs > Out-Of-School Time

Programs, Interventions & Curricula > Interventions/Curricula > School Age
Country: United States
States: CALIFORNIA, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO, OHIO, UTAH
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