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Influence Of An Afterschool Reading Program On Elementary Student Reading Achievement, Chapple Osborne-Arnold
Influence Of An Afterschool Reading Program On Elementary Student Reading Achievement, Chapple Osborne-Arnold
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
AbstractMany elementary school students require and may benefit from supplemental reading support and interventions that can be provided by afterschool programs. The problem addressed in this study was that it was not known if third grade students benefited from an afterschool reading program in one East Tennessee District. The purpose of this quantitative study was to compare end of year scale scores on the Standardized Test for the Assessment of Reading (STAR) of third grade students who attended the afterschool reading program for 30 or more days and those who did not attend the afterschool reading program while controlling for …