Instrumentation Critique
Two important reasons why the Tenmarks program is important to investigate are:
What is international use by students and 85% school district use as well as, low cost.
First, all parents completed a registration form before their child began to program to include_____________ and ______________.
What is demographic information and whether the family had home internet access.
The three groups that were analyzed in this research study were: ______, ______, and _______.
What are control group, program treatment group and program plus laptop treatment group.
A future suggestion to increase low income summer that participation
What is developing curricula and intervention?
Summer learning loss contributes to gaps in ____ and ____.
What is Achievement & Attainment
Students in these neighborhoods were selected purposely due to being the most at risk for summer learning loss.
What is highest poverty neighborhoods.
Second, in the last week of school, prior to random assignment, teachers administered a pre-survey to include _____________, _____________, ___________,and _______________.
What is students’ academic effort, intrinsic motivation for doing math, math confidence, and parent supervision.
The most intensive variant in the intervention was comprised of ___________ and ___________.
What is an offer to a free online summer program plus a free laptop
One way to strengthen the study from student perspective
What is explore children's attitudes and orientations toward mathematics and STEM?
Alexander et al., concluded that low-SES children’s cumulative summer deficits contributed substantially to which three outcomes?
What is high school course “tracking,” completion and 4 year college attendance.
The control group of students were allowed to select a summer activity of their choosing. This amount selected to attend summer school _____%
What is 16%?
Third, district administrators were used to collect __________ and _______________.
What is students’ demographic data and scores on district curriculum-based mathematics assessments administered before and after summer vacation.
Program only condition had a positive effect on national assessment based math scores for _______ children.
What is older children
A recommendation from this study
What is future research to improve understanding of effective strategies to reduce low income students summer learning math loss
Two cost effective alternatives to summer school.
What are computer-based and home-based interventions.
The most notable reason for the math gap that exists for low SES students is based on this aspect _____________.
What is computer use for summer educational activities.
What is students’ demographic data and scores on district curriculum-based mathematics assessments administered before and after summer vacation.
What is a 30-item national assessment based math test and measures of student engagement/participation.
What is the the relationship between summer vacation and children’s intrinsic motivation for doing mathematics?
What is children experience a loss in intrinsic motivation for doing mathematics
Important hallmark fact about the study
What is the first study to examine home-based summer math intervention
Over 1 million students in all 50 states use this program.
What is Tenmarks.
The Tenmarks intervention participants and the control group received similar outcomes due to this variant.
What is teacher instruction during control group activities (summer school, camps etc.).
Last, program usage data was collected from Tenmarks to include _____________ and _________________.
What is number of times each child logged into the program and how many online math worksheets each child completed.
The overarching findings of the research study was:
What is Tenmark was effective with increasing mathematics engagement with access to a computer, access to internet and parent supervision, but had no impact on distal learning (academic achievement).
A possible longitudinal study based on this study
What is examine whether and how summer vacation contributes to STEM motivation losses later in children’s academic careers
Proximal and distal outcomes
What are increased summer home math engagement and test score gains in math.