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Academic Achievement: Grades |
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Most of the experimental studies that measured students’ grades found that programs did not have positive impacts on the grades of their participants. Only BGC’s Educational Enhancement Program was found to have a significant impact on students’ grades—and it is notable that the program compares students who received regular Boys and Girls Clubs services to those who were offered a stronger academic component in addition to these regular Boys and Girls Clubs’ activities; this program had a stronger academic approach than any of the other programs evaluated. BGC participants’ mean grades for reading, spelling, history, science, and social studies improved over time, and their mean grade-point average (GPA) was significantly higher than that of students in the control group. Program and comparison group students (who received regular BGC program services without the additional educational enrichment component) outperformed control group students in math grades. In the long-term evaluation of STEP, no differences in grades were found between program and control groups. QOP was found to improve the academic skills of participants, but these differences did not translate into a significant difference between program and control group students in high school grades. Both of these programs used developmental approaches that included academic remediation and assistance for students, yet improving academic achievement was only one of their program objectives. In addition to being a short program (mainly summer activities), STEP had a major work component, to which control group students were also exposed. Similarly, QOP had two major components outside of its educational services, life skills and development activities, and community service activities. |
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