Making the most of summer school : a meta-analytic and narrative review / edited by Harris Cooper ... [et al.] ; with commentary by Geoffrey D. Borman. - Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2000. - vi, 130 p. ; 23 cm. - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, serial no. 260, vol. 65, no. 1, 2000 0037-976X ; . - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development; v. 65, no. 1. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-117).

Abstract -- Introduction -- Literature search and database construction -- Narrative and vote-count synthesis of comparisons with only directional outcomes -- Meta-analytic procedures used on comparisons with known effect sizes -- Meta-analytic and narrative synthesis of programs for remediation of learning deficiencies -- Narrative and meta-analytic synthesis of programs for acceleration of learning -- Narrative and meta-analytic synthesis of programs with other and multiple goals -- Discussion -- References -- Acknowledgements -- The effects of summer school: questions answered, questions raised.


Child development.
Summer schools.