24012 Calle De La Plata, Suite 400
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
Email: janice.frechette@parentishealth.com
Here are the results…
- Over 7,000 one-to-one tutoring sessions provided
- Older Adult Volunteers: 100 older adult volunteer tutors
- Students: At-risk readers K- 6th grade
- Mentoring: Tutor/Student paired for entire school year
- Program: Structured 30 min. tutoring session. 1:1 tutoring, 2x’s week for entire school year. Approx. 35 reading tutoring sessions per student.
- No Cost to families
- Experience Corps OC operating in 7 Boys & Girls Club locations throughout Orange County.
Pre- and post-tutoring assessments collect measures of academic performance, behavior, and other indicators and are completed by ECOC reading specialist or site supervisors at the beginning of the school year and again at the end of the school year or whenever a student exits the program.
Experience Corps Orange County site supervisors completed both the pre and post-tutoring assessment survey for 118 participating students.
• The Experience Corps program model positively impacts overall reading ability of students and measures growth in fluency as a proxy for growth in overall reading ability.
• ECOC improves the reading ability of students by building their fluency, accuracy and comprehension skills.
• Fluency is highly predictive of overall reading ability on comprehensive state and national measures for students in grade 1 through 3.
Graph: Beginning of Year (BOY) – Dark shade | End of Year (EOY) Light Shade
