Chaparral
Middle School - Walnut Valley Unified School District
This comparative
study was conducted in 1999 by Sixth Grade teachers Leslie Stoltz
and Mark Lantz. For one year their students participated in Civilization
Building, an adaptation of City Building Education.
Their Stanford
Achievement Test-9 Math, Reading and Language scores showed highly
significant gains from the fifth to Sixth Grade.
Students' Fifth
Grade scores were divided into four quarties. Those whose Fifth
Grade scores were below the 25th percentile were designated fourth
quartile. Those who scored below the 50th percentile were second
quartile and those above were the fifth quartile. Each student within
each of the Fifth Grade quartiles were averaged and then compared
to their own Sixth Grade scores to measure their levels of improvement.
