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ArticlePrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2019

Impact of Experience Corps® Participation on Children's Academic Achievement and School Behavior.

George W Rebok, Jeanine M Parisi, Jeremy S Barron, Michelle C Carlson, Ike Diibor, Kevin D Frick, Linda P Fried, Tara L Gruenewald, Jin Huang, Sylvia McGill and 7 more

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Article in Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Cognitive and Functional Improvement via Novel Skill Learning for Low-Income Minoritized Middle-Aged and Older Adults.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.

George W RebokDepartment of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Room 891, Baltimore, MD, 21205-1901, USA. grebok1@jhu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5371-8767
Jeanine M ParisiDepartment of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Room 891, Baltimore, MD, 21205-1901, USA.
Jeremy S BarronDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Michelle C CarlsonDepartment of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Room 891, Baltimore, MD, 21205-1901, USA.
Ike DiiborOffice of Assessment and Accountability, Baltimore City Public School System, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Kevin D FrickThe John Hopkins Carey Business School, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Linda P FriedMailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Tara L GruenewaldDepartment of Psychology, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA.
Jin HuangCenter on Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Sylvia McGillGreater Homewood Community Corporation, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Christine M RamseyDepartment of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Room 891, Baltimore, MD, 21205-1901, USA.
William A RomaniCenter on Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Teresa E SeemanAARP Experience Corps, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Erwin TanThe University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Elizabeth K TannerCenter on Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Li XingCenter on Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Qian-Li XueCenter on Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Johns Hopkins University · USAARP · USBaltimore City Public Schools · USChapman University · USColumbia University · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · USWilliam Carey University · US

Funding

SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFITS OF EXPERIENCE CORPS PARTICIPATIONP01AG027735 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI REBOK, GEORGE W. · 2006 to 2013
$10.9M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG027735NIA NIH HHS P30-AG02133
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article reports on the impact of the Experience Corps® (EC) Baltimore program, an intergenerational, school-based program aimed at improving academic achievement and reducing disruptive school behavior in urban, elementary school students in Kindergarten through third grade (K-3). Teams of adult volunteers aged 60 and older were placed in public schools, serving 15 h or more per week, to perform meaningful and important roles to improve the educational outcomes of children and the health and well-being of volunteers. Findings indicate no significant impact of the EC program on standardized reading or mathematical achievement test scores among children in grades 1-3 exposed to the program. K-1st grade students in EC schools had fewer principal office referrals compared to K-1st grade students in matched control schools during their second year in the EC program; second graders in EC schools had fewer suspensions and expulsions than second graders in non-EC schools during their first year in the EC program. In general, both boys and girls appeared to benefit from the EC program in school behavior. The results suggest that a volunteer engagement program for older adults can be modestly effective for improving selective aspects of classroom behavior among elementary school students in under-resourced, urban schools, but there were no significant improvements in academic achievement. More work is needed to identify individual- and school-level factors that may help account for these results.

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Academic SuccessChild BehaviorSchoolsVolunteersBaltimoreChildHumansProgram EvaluationAcademic achievementChildhood educationEarly interventionOlder adult volunteersSchool behavior

Identifiers

PMID30627854
PMCPMC6520169
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