Are summer programs effective in improving learning and educational outcomes in students?

Summer holidays break the rhythm of instruction for children and adolescents and in many cases, this can represent a setback in students’ learning.

Download document

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd).

Pages 23
Date 29/06/2016
ISBN 978-84-945263-5-0

Summer holidays break the rhythm of instruction for children and adolescents and in many cases, this can represent a setback in students’ learning.

In a context such as ours, where a long summer holiday period overlaps with education indicators that, in general, show considerable scope for improvement, summer learning programs seem the ideal initiative to take centre stage in advancing learning opportunities. This review of the evidence examines to what extent summer learning programs can address this issue.

Miquel Àngel Alegre

Project Manager

Doctor in Sociology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has worked as an analyst at the Institut Català d’Avaluació de Polítiques Públiques, coordinating evaluations of educational, social and labour policies and programmes. He was previously a Ramón y Cajal researcher and directo…