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AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM 2006-2007 TEST RESULTS

KINDERGARTEN

Kindergarteners who entered the Reading Team After-School Program in September 2006 were tested at the start and at the end of the 2006-2007 program year. Overall, the children achieved significant gains from fall 2006 to spring 2007, achieving a mean pretest score of the 31st percentile and a mean posttest score of the 92nd percentile. The following graph shows students’ performance from pretest to posttest.

 

Matched Mean Normal Curve Equivalent Scores
Converted to Percentile Ranks
for After-School Program Kindergartners

FIRST GRADE

First graders who entered the After-School Program in September 2006 also were tested at the start and at the end of the program year.  Overall the children achieved significant gains from fall 2006 to spring 2007, achieving a mean pretest score of the 37th percentile and a mean posttest score of the 93rd percentile.  The following graph shows student performance from pretest to posttest.

 

Matched Mean Normal Curve Equivalent Scores
Converted to Percentile Ranks
for After-School Program First Graders

 

SECOND AND THIRD GRADES

Most of the second and third graders who participated in our After-School Program in 2006-2007 also took part in the program the prior year. They already were strong readers when they returned to the program in the fall of 2006 and so there was little room for improvement in their test scores. During 2006-32007, they maintained and solidified their skills as they continued to grow and develop. We are proud of the children’s growing enthusiasm for reading and we are pleased to see them increasingly taking charge of their own learning.