ED338985 CG023806
Title: Stronger School Transitions Improve Student Achievement: A
Final Report on a Three-Year Demonstration Project "Strengthening
School Transitions for Students K-13".
Author(s): Weldy, Gilbert R., Ed.
Author Affiliation: American Association of Collegiate Registrars
and Admissions Officers, Washington, DC.(BBB10774); National Association
of College Admissions Counselors, Alexandria, VA.(BBB28147); National
Association of Secondary School Principals, Reston, VA.(FGK56325)
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 1991
Sponsoring Agency: William and Mary Greve Foundation, Inc., New York,
NY. (BBB18887)
Available from: EDRS Price MF01 Plus Postage. PC Not Available from
EDRS.
Language: English
Document Type: Reports--Descriptive (141)
Geographic Source: U.S.; Virginia
Journal Announcement: RIEAPR1992
This demonstration
project sought, over a period of 3 years, to improve students' school
achievement by strengthening the transitions that students make
during their years of schooling K-13. These troublesome transition
points, generally acknowledged to be home to school, elementary
to middle school or junior high, middle level school to high school,
and high school to college or career, are fraught with hurdles and
stumbling blocks for many students. Students become anxious and
distraught over the uncertainties of abrupt changes in buildings,
teachers, classmates, and programs. Such needless anxiety and apprehension
interferes with learning and impairs confidence and self-esteem.
Students making transitions need information, support, and guidance,
and should receive it from a variety of sources. The seven demonstration
centers have devised and implemented dozens of programs to strengthen
school transitions for students K-13. All of these efforts have
been in the interest of improving student achievement. This document
presents the experiences and findings of each project. Each section
includes the recommendations which have grown out of the experiences
in the demonstration centers. Although there were plans developed
to assess the results of project efforts, there were no experimental
programs that could be compared in a systematic way with control
programs. Nevertheless, this final report describes what was changed
and improved in these schools. The appendixes provide information
about the development of the project and the demonstration centers,
as well as sample center materials. (LLL)
Descriptors: *Academic Achievement; *Achievement Gains; Demonstration
Programs; *Educational Improvement; Elementary School Students;
Elementary Secondary Education; Program Development; Secondary School
Students; *Transitional Programs
