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An Analysis Of A Large Urban School District's Eighth-Grade Summer Reading Camp Curriculum And Student Performance Knowledge Voids, Eric Sochocki
An Analysis Of A Large Urban School District's Eighth-Grade Summer Reading Camp Curriculum And Student Performance Knowledge Voids, Eric Sochocki
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This study sought to determine if the 2012 Eighth Grade Summer Reading Camp curriculum was aligned with the students’ needs. To determine if curriculum alignment existed, the researcher completed a qualitative and quantitative study. The qualitative study consisted of interviewing the school district program development team to ascertain how the curriculum was designed. The quantitative segment involved running descriptive statistics for student performance on the Pre-program Benchmark Examination. The determined student knowledge voids were compared to the amount of instructional time spent taught teaching those individual benchmarks to ascertain if the curriculum was aligned with student need. The curriculum was …