Sector Differences in Student Learning: Differences in Achievement Gains Across School Years and During the Summer

Authors

  • William Carbonaro University of Notre Dame

Abstract

Public and private schools have been the focus of considerable research, comparing student achievement, attendance, dropout rates, graduation rates, disciplinary incidents, and a variety of educational and prosocial outcomes across sectors. Comparative studies of student achievement have tended to concentrate on the high school years and without any effort to measure gains or losses during specific years. This study concludes that sector differences in learning vary across grade levels and that summer learning rates vary by school sector. More study of sector differences in learning is recommended, especially longitudinal studies that examine seasonal gains across school sector over the entire span of a student’s academic career.

Downloads

Published

2003-12-01

How to Cite

Carbonaro, W. (2003). Sector Differences in Student Learning: Differences in Achievement Gains Across School Years and During the Summer. Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 7(2). Retrieved from https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/cej/article/view/487

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2003)

Section

Focus Section

License

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).