Assessment
Results Fall 2002 Session
Letters, Sounds and Words Program
The success of the 10-week program is reflected in the information on these pages. The results are shown by strand (i.e. letters, sounds, words) and the children have been organized in three categories.
Summary
- Overall 98% of the children were successful in making significant to excellent gains!
- 75%-83% of the children (depending on the strand) made excellent gains.
- 15%-23% of the children (depending on the strand) made significant gains.
- 0%-4% of the children (depending on the strand) made little or no gain.
- Of the children who knew very few of the letters, sounds and words before the program, 25%-48% (depending on the strand) made outstanding gains.
- 25 schools are included in this summary with an average of 9.4 students per school
- 234 students are represented in the data
- 55% of the students are thought to be the type of child for whom the program was written i.e. the “Target Group”
- 14% of the students are included in the “English as a second language factor” group
- 31% of the students included in the group are being monitored as possibly having a learning challenge that will result in their needing ongoing support in their early educational career.
- Over 170 volunteers worked for over 3,400 hours to implement this session.
Notes
- It is to be remembered that some children participated in only 2 of the 3 strands and that some children knew all their letters before the program, but did the activities in this strand as a review and to build confidence as they worked through the other two strands.
- In this session 45% of the children did not meet the criteria originally used to determine the Target Group that the program was written to help. The Target Group was children who just needed an extra boost at this time in their educational career. Originally the program was not written to address the needs of children with learning challenges that might necessitate ongoing support in their education or for children who have English as a second language factors. During this session, however, many children in these special categories were included in the program. The good news is that, to our delight, these children did benefit to a greater degree than we had anticipated. In fact, they did as well as the Target Group!
For
more detail see Fall 2002 session
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