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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 quartiles. Those whose Fifth Grade scores were below the 25th percentile were designated in the fourth quartile. Those who scored below the 50th percentile were in the forth quartile and those the 50th percentile were the second quartile, and those above the 80th percentile were in the first 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.
These comparative studies were conducted from September 1999 to January 2000 by Teresa Ceja with her twenty at risk Second Graders participating in CreatureLand, an adaptation of City Building Education.
Attendance: Measured for all the Second Graders found that CreatureLand students have the highest level of attendance.
High Frequency Words: Measrued 300 words which the students must immediately recognize. They were tested one on one for accuracy at the beginning of the year and again in January.
Johnstons Spelling Words: Measured knowledge of 25 words the Second Graders need.
BPST: A comprehensive reading test done one on one.
Tracy Elementary School, Baldwin Park Unified School District, 2007-2008
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Pleasant View Elementary School, Baldwin Park Unified School District, 2006-2007 and 2007-2008
Results (MS Word doc.)
Tracy Elementary School, Baldwin Park Unified School District, 2007-2008
Results (MS Word doc.)
