Keywords
Summer school, reading camp, eighth grade, reading program, curriculum alignment, knowledge voids, student performance, program analysis, reading curriculum, determining program alignment
Abstract
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 determined to not be aligned with the performance deficiencies of the students.
Notes
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Graduation Date
2013
Semester
Summer
Advisor
Murray, Barbara A.
Degree
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)
College
College of Education and Human Performance
Department
Teaching, Learning, and Leadership
Degree Program
Educational Leadership; Executive
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0005264
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0005264
Language
English
Release Date
February 2014
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Doctoral Dissertation (Open Access)
Subjects
Dissertations, Academic -- Education and Human Performance, Education and Human Performance -- Dissertations, Academic
STARS Citation
Sochocki, Eric, "An Analysis Of A Large Urban School District's Eighth-grade Summer Reading Camp Curriculum And Student Performance Knowledge Voids" (2013). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2806.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/2806