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AUGUSTINE, AND JENNIFER McCOMBS  \nAs many educators and parents know  \nall too well, the summer is a key time in students’ social and cognitive development, and it plays an important role in the development of achievement gaps.  \nAs a result, summer interventions have the potential to not only mitigate summer learning loss but also reduce persistent achievement gaps.  \nIn our chapter from The Summer Slide: What We Know and Can Do About Summer Learning Loss, from which this article is drawn, we reviewed a foundational meta-analysis of summer learning programs conducted by researchers as well as evidence from 25 studies of such programs since 2000. The programs covered in our review included voluntary at-home summer reading programs, voluntary classroombased summer programs, and mandatory summer programs that students must attend to avoid in-grade retention.  \nThe evidence suggests that many types of summer learning programs have the potential to reduce summer learning losses and perhaps create learning gains. However, implementing a summer program does not guarantee positive effects on students’ learning. A key question then is:  \nWhat factors make a summer learning program effective?  \nComponents of Quality Summer Learning Programs  \nSmall Class Sizes  \nResearch has found that small class size is associated with summer program effectiveness. One study found that summer programs with class size capped at 20 students were more effective than others in  \nAndrew McEachin is a policy researcher in the economics, statistics, and sociology department at the Rand Corporation. Catherine H. Augustine is a senior policy researcher and quality assurance manager at Rand. Jennifer McCombs is a senior policy researcher and the director of the behavioral and policy sciences department at Randand a professor at the Pardee Rand Graduate School. This article was reprinted by permission of the publisher from Karl Alexander, Sarah Pitcock, and Matthew Boulay (eds.), The Summer Slide: What We Know and Can Do About Summer Learning Loss (New York: Teachers College Press). Copyright © 2016 by Teachers College, Columbia University. All rights reserved.  \nproducing achievement gains.1 In another study, researchers found no statistically significant relationship between class size and program quality, but they found positive effects when small classes were combined with significant program resources (defined as class sizes of no more than 13, at least four hours of participation per day, and at least 70 hours of total participation).2 They analyzed 12 studies with enough detail to investigate whether program resources mediated students’learning. Of those 12,  \nthe five studies that met these criteria had large statistically significant, positive effects on students’ learning, and the seven studies that did not meet the criteria had no statistically significant effect on students’ learning.  \nOther researchers similarly combined instructional hours with class size to test whether more individual attention offered due to smaller classes might improve results.3 Although they found a  \npositive relationship between the number of hours of instructional time and math achievement, they did not find a relationship when it was further combined with class size. This may be because prevailing class sizes across the five studied districts were all small, ranging from an average of eight to 14 students per teacher. Furthermore, researchers found large positive effects of an intense summer literacy program on students’ reading outcomes.4 The program used daily small-group (three to five children), research-based instruction.  \nTo sum up, programs with small classes and significant resources provide teachers with more time to work individually with students and to create greater opportunities to differentiate instruction based on student needs. Such programs ma","cbCaie30Rtpu3u86","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaie30Rtpu3u86","pdf",98701,"English","# Effective Summer Programming\n## Components of Quality Summer Learning Programs\n### Small Class Sizes\n### Aligned to Student Needs","[{\"question\":\"Why are summer interventions important for students’ learning and achievement gaps?\",\"answer\":\"Summer is a key period for students’ social and cognitive development, and it influences achievement gaps. 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