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			A comparative study of after school programs in Fresno County: Search for factors related to high effectiveness Catania, Kathryn J.H., 2005 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Alliant International University, Fresno, CA An investigation of after-school program factors related to Fresno County students' academic outcomes	Reports & Papers
			A day in third grade: A large scale study of classroom quality and teacher and student behavior NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 Elementary School Journal, 105(3), 305-323 A study evaluating the quality of 780 third grade classrooms observed as part of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (NICHD SECCYD)	Reports & Papers
			Effects on multiracial awareness by an anti-bias curriculum implemented with first graders Gonzalez, Monica M., January 2001 Unpublished master's thesis, California State University, Long Beach A study of the degree to which multiracial awareness is present among first graders who have been exposed to an anti-bias curriculum	Reports & Papers
			Enhancing the educational achievement of at-risk youth Schinke, Steven P., 2000 Prevention Science, 1(1), 51-60 A study of an educational enhancement program, administered outside of school, offered to at-risk early adolescents living in public housing	Reports & Papers
			Evaluation of The Electric Company Summer Learning Program McCarthy, Betsy, October, 2011 San Francisco: WestEd. 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	Reports & Papers
			The Evaluation of Enhanced Academic Instruction in After-School Programs: Final report Black, Alison R., September 2009 (NCEE 2009-4077). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance. Impacts after the second year of implementation of the Evaluation of Enhanced Academic Instruction in After-School Programs, a two-year intervention and random assignment evaluation of structured math and reading instruction in after school programs for children in second through fifth grade, on student reading and math proficiency and academic performance in programs that participated for both years	Reports & Papers
			Launching literacy in after-school programs: Early lessons from the CORAL initiative Arbreton, Amy, 2005 Philadelphia: Public/Private Ventures. A study of the implementation and early child outcomes of the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) initiative, an after school initiative in five California cities focusing on literacy achievement, based on child surveys and assessments, program observations, parent focus groups, and staff interviews	Reports & Papers
			Learning about technology in a non-instructional environment Schustack, Miriam W., Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami, School of Education and Allied Professions. An evaluation of the effect of participation in the Fifth Dimension, an after-school computer club for elementary school students, on word recognition and recall	Reports & Papers
			Learning when school is not in session: A reading summer day-camp intervention to improve the achievement of exiting first-grade students who are economically disadvantaged Schacter, John, 2005 Journal of Research in Reading, 28(2), 158-169 A longitudinal, randomized study of the effects at three and nine months post-intervention of a seven-week summer reading day camp on the reading achievement of low-income first grade children, based on direct child assessments	Reports & Papers
			Rethinking welfare school-attendance policies Campbell, David, 2005 Social Service Review, 79(1), 2-28 A profile of the Merced County Attendance Project (MerCAP), which used attendance monitoring, communication with parents, and financial sanction of welfare benefits to encourage the school attendance of children whose families were receiving public assistance	Reports & Papers
			Socially shared cognition: System design and the organization of collaborative research Brown, Katherine, 2000 In D.H. Jonassen & S.M. Land (Eds.), Theoretical foundations of learning environments (pp. 197-214). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. An evaluation of a system designed to enhance collaborative research with undergraduates working with individual children as well as the effectiveness of group collaborative games relating to literacy	Reports & Papers

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