Assessment
Results Spring 2003 Session
Letters, Sounds and Words Program
Summary
- Overall 89% to 100% (depending on the category) of the children made significant, excellent or outstanding gains!
- 291 students are represented in the data
- 32 schools are included in this summary with an average of 9.1 students per school
- 58% of the students are thought to be the type of child for whom the program was written i.e. the “Target Group”
- 10% of the students are included in the “English as a second language factor” group
- 32% 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 450 volunteers worked for over 9,900 hours to implement this session.
Notes
- This spring session is for Senior Kindergarten students (and the fall session is for grade one students). Twenty percent of these Kindergarten students in the program have been recommended to repeat the program in the fall. They made good gains this spring and it is felt that the program is working for them and that they just need a little longer to get to a high level of achievement.
- The program has 28 words that can be taught using 20 books. The program asks volunteers to work with one book per session and hence only 10 books in the program. The additional books are provided to accommodate children who can advance further. It is left to the discretion of the volunteer to determine how many books beyond ten would be used in the program. This means that many children are not exposed to all 28 words. The assessment, however, is based on 28 words. Therefore it is expected that the results will be lower in Words since most Kindergarten children do not work with all 28 words in the program.
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more detail see Spring 2003
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