Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Doctor of Education
Major
Educational Practice
Date of Defense
3-12-2020
Graduate Advisor
Dr. Charles Granger
Committee
Dr. Keith Miller
Dr. Helene Sherman
Abstract
Summer learning loss affects students to different degrees across curriculum areas. Traditional content review methods have often included workbooks or practice packets that lacked real-time feedback to the student. This study provided optional weekly online math and science review lessons to rising sixthgraders in two midwestern schools over the ten-week summer break. Students received both automated feedback from the online environment and teacher feedback in response to student questions or information students needed to acquire mastery. Students also had the opportunity to revise and edit their work. A test group, summer computer-based intervention group (SCBI), and a control group, completed a spring semester pre-assessment and a fall semester post-assessment to measure the change in math and science knowledge over the summer. The successful performance of the SCBI group on the post-assessment was statically significant when compared to the control group.
Recommended Citation
Osborne, Scott and Shaw, Robert, "Using Online Interventions to Address Summer Learning Loss in Rising Sixth-Graders" (2020). Dissertations. 931.
https://irl.umsl.edu/dissertation/931
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Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Educational Methods Commons, Elementary Education Commons, Online and Distance Education Commons, Other Education Commons