ERIC Number: EJ384324
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1988
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Summer Academies for Basic Skills.
Murphy, Ellen Rae; Smith, Richard Alan
Computing Teacher, v16 n2 p20-23 Oct 1988
Describes summer school sessions developed by Houston schools to improve performance of academically at-risk eighth graders on the Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS). Highlights include content area lessons in language arts and mathematics; study and test-taking skills; multimedia instructional materials; and student and teacher attitudes. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 8, Improvement Programs, Instructional Materials, Junior High Schools, Language Arts, Mathematics Instruction, Student Attitudes, Study Skills, Summer Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Test Wiseness
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills
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