Summer school

Overview

Influence: Summer school
Domain: School
Sub-Domain: Types of schools
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a small positive impact
Influence Definition: Remedial summer school programs for students who have not made adequate progress toward meeting grade-level expectations

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development	Cooper, Charlton, Valentine, Muhlenbruck, & Borman	Making the Most of Summer School: A Meta-Analytic and Narrative Review	2000	Remedial summer programs	41	26,500	385	0.28
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development	Cooper, Charlton, Valentine, Muhlenbruck, & Borman	Making the Most of Summer School: A Meta-Analytic and Narrative Review	2000	Acceleration summer programs	7	2,200	60	0.23
Dissertation	Kim	A meta-analysis of academic summer programs	2002	Academic summer programs	57	NA	155	0.17
Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning	Lauer, Akiba, Wilkerson, Apthorp, Snow, & Martin-Glenn	The effectiveness of out-of-school-time strategies in assisting low-achieving students in reading and mathematics: A research synthesis.	2004	Summer school programs on reading and math	22	15,277	26	0.07
Conference paper	Xie, Neitzel, Cheung, & Slavin	The effects of voluntary summer programs on K-12 students' reading and mathematics achievement: A meta-analysis.	2022	Summer programs on reading & math	19	NA	19	0.23
Conference paper	Lynch, An, & Mancenido	The Impact of Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Children's Mathematics Achievement: A Meta-Analysis.	2021	Summer programs on math	37	NA	164	0.09
TOTAL/AVERAGE						183	43,977	809	0.18