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Title
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An Analysis of a Large Urban School District's Eighth-Grade Summer Reading Camp Curriculum and Student Performance Knowledge Voids.
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Creator
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Sochocki, Eric, Murray, Barbara, Murray, Kenneth, Taylor, Rosemarye, Baldwin, Gordon, University of Central Florida
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Abstract / Description
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This study sought to determine if the 2012 Eighth Grade Summer Reading Campcurriculum was aligned with the students' needs. To determine if curriculum alignmentexisted, the researcher completed a qualitative and quantitative study. The qualitativestudy consisted of interviewing the school district program development team to ascertainhow the curriculum was designed. The quantitative segment involved runningdescriptive statistics for student performance on the Pre-program BenchmarkExamination....
Show moreThis study sought to determine if the 2012 Eighth Grade Summer Reading Campcurriculum was aligned with the students' needs. To determine if curriculum alignmentexisted, the researcher completed a qualitative and quantitative study. The qualitativestudy consisted of interviewing the school district program development team to ascertainhow the curriculum was designed. The quantitative segment involved runningdescriptive statistics for student performance on the Pre-program BenchmarkExamination. The determined student knowledge voids were compared to the amount ofinstructional time spent taught teaching those individual benchmarks to ascertain if thecurriculum was aligned with student need. The curriculum was determined to not bealigned with the performance deficiencies of the students.
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Date Issued
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2013
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Identifier
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CFE0005264, ucf:50595
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Format
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Document (PDF)
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005264
