
Middle Start
An Experiment in the Educational Enrichment of Young Adolescents
Cambridge University Press
Published on 30. September 1977
Book
Paperback/Softback
152 pages
978-0-521-29207-8 (ISBN)
Description
This 1977 book reports on an experimental program that was designed to discover whether a summer of intensive academic work and recreation on a college campus could significantly improve the educational performance of economically disadvantaged thirteen-year-old children. For three successive summers, sixty-five experimental participants and sixty-five control participants were selected randomly from schools in two large cities and three small cities. Experimental and control pairs were carefully matched. The results of this program were assessed in terms of six indicators: persistence in school, junior high school grades, senior high school grades, achievement test scores, assignment to a special school track, and attendance at academic or other special schools. On all six measures the performance of experimental pupils was judged superior to that of their matched control partners. The results of Middle Start indicate that even in the middle years of schooling, inner-city children can be helped significantly by skilful educational intervention.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
231 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-29207-8 (9780521292078)
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Additional editions
J. Milton Yinger | Kiyoshi Ikeda | Frank Laycock
Middle Start
An Experiment in the Educational Enrichment of Young Adolescents
Book
09/1977
Cambridge University Press
€16.75
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Previous edition
J. Milton Yinger | Kiyoshi Ikeda | Frank Laycock
Middle Start
An Experiment in the Educational Enrichment of Young Adolescents
Book
09/1977
Cambridge University Press
€16.75
Article exhausted; check for reprint
Persons
Author
Oberlin College, Ohio
University of Hawaii
Oberlin College, Ohio
Oberlin College, Ohio
Content
List of tables; Preface; 1. The sources of academic achievement: theoretical perspective; 2. Methods of the Middle Start program; 3. Backgrounds of the Middle Starters; 4. Testing a hypothesis by matched pairs; 5. Toward educational enrichment; Appendixes; Notes; References; Index.