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Kansas City Freedom Schools Initiative

Posted on January 10, 2012 by admin

In the spring of 2011 the Kansas City Freedom Schools Initiative (KCFSI) contracted with the Kansas City Area Education Research Consortium (KC-­‐AERC) to assess whether the Freedom Schools summer program had a positive impact on its scholars, both academically and socially. The leadership of Freedom Schools and KC-­‐AERC identified the following objectives for the Freedom Schools Assessment and Evaluation:

  1. Design and facilitate the administration of instruments to pre -­‐assess attitudes and behavior of scholars participating in the program in summer of 2011
  2. Design and facilitate the administration of instruments to post-­‐assess attitudes and behavior of scholars participating in the program in summer of 2011
  3. Design a model to test academic and behavioral changes in scholars using a treatment group and comparison group based on participation in the program in summer of 2011

The first report was submitted to Freedom Schools Leadership in August 2011. The final report on the project is expected to be completed in July 2012.

Read Kansas City Freedom Schools Initiative: Evaluation of Summer 2011 (.pdf)

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