Degree Name
Education Specialist (EdS)
Semester of Degree Completion
1979
Thesis Director
Paul D. Overton
Abstract
A study was made of the Decatur Public Schools basic skills summer school program to determine if paying students to attend the summer school session had any effect on the student.
Two areas considered in the study were:
1. Was there any improvement in the attendance records the following school year for the fifty-three junior and high school students involved.
2. Was there any decrease in the suspension rate of the twenty-two high school students.
Student attendance and suspension records were compared for the 1977-78 school year and the 1978-79 school year. A t-test was used to determine if there was any signficant difference in attendance or suspension rates for the two years.
There was no significant difference at the .05 level of confidence for any of the groups studied. The students involved in the study showed no signficant change as a result of compensation to attend the summer school program.
Recommended Citation
Buckles, Barbara, "The Relationship Between Compensating Students to Attend Summer School and the Students' Attendance and Suspension Rates the Following School Year" (1979). Masters Theses. 3149.
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/3149
