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The Effects of an After-School Tutoring Program on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment

Carbone, Peter M.

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2009, Doctor of Education (Educational Leadership), Youngstown State University, Department of Teacher Education and Leadership Studies.

Due to the challenges of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, many schools and school districts are implementing after-school tutoring programs to provide students additional instruction to score proficient or better in reading and mathematics. This doctoral study analyzed the effects of the ABC Middle School Educational Assistance Program After-School Tutoring Program that was implemented in the ABC School District for the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 school years.

Student proficiency scores were collected from the 2006 and 2007 Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA). The data collected determined eligibility for students to participate in the program. The students that participated in the program were compared with students who did not participate in the program but had the same eligible data. The Pearson Chi-Square test was performed to analyze the data comparing PSSA and 4Sight scores. The 4Sight is a periodic benchmark assessment.

Based on the analysis of the study, the after-school tutoring program had no effect on student performance on the PSSA in reading and mathematics for both school years. Also, the after-school tutoring program had no effect on student performance on the 4Sight in reading for both school years. There was no positive effect on the 4Sight in mathematics for the 2006-2007 school year. The lone positive effect was tutored students performed better on the 4Sight in mathematics for the 2007-2008 school year.

Recommendations for the future would be to have a program coordinator, have periodic data analysis of student work by the student, tutor, homeroom teacher, parent(s), program coordinator and principal along with an evidence-based curriculum, instruction and assessment techniques.

Robert Beebe, EdD (Committee Chair)
Richard Baringer, EdD (Committee Member)
Guang-Hwa Andy Chang, PhD (Committee Member)
Howard Pullman, PhD (Committee Member)
112 p.

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  • Carbone, P. M. (2009). The Effects of an After-School Tutoring Program on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment [Doctoral dissertation, Youngstown State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1265923716

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Carbone, Peter. The Effects of an After-School Tutoring Program on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment. 2009. Youngstown State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1265923716.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Carbone, Peter. "The Effects of an After-School Tutoring Program on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment." Doctoral dissertation, Youngstown State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1265923716

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)