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Appendix B: Annotated Bibliography
Appendix B: Annotated Bibliography
Pages 121-143
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1977. The parent's perspective on school volunteer programs is presented by an education consultant with the League of Women Voters and a concerned parent.
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San Francisco School Volunteers, San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco, Calif. r An independent evaluation of a program designed to increase a group of high school students' oral proficiency in a foreign language by using volunteer college students to lead students in conversation found that the high school students were more confident and fluent in the foreign language at the end of the program and the college students were more likely to enter a career of foreign-language teaching.
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Final Evaluation Report, Project Math in Action. San Francisco, Calif.: San Francisco Unified School District.
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This report provides a general program and location description, a review of the literature on volunteer tutoring programs, a discussion of program objectives, and interpretation of the data. The findings indicate that tutoring did not effect significant differences between tutored and nontutored students in reading achievement, absenteeism from school, attitude toward school, or grades.
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the effect of volunteer programs on student achievement; and (5) the costeffectiveness of the program.
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The author discusses what motivates parents toward school volunteer work: concern for quality education, the need for work experience, and the friendships and personal satisfaction gained from volunteering. Clark, Donald, and James Hughes.
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1982. Criteria for implementation of school volunteer programs include effective incentives, resources, and political and administrative feasibility.
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Several programs using volunteers are mentioned: the kindergarten screening project, listener program, primary classroom volunteers, and secondary school volunteers. The importance of teacher support is stressed.
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Federal City Council. Scientists in the Classroom: One School District's Experience with Science and Mathematics Volunteers in Elementary and Secondary Schools.
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With such significant gaps in scholarship, the authors cannot help but reserve judgment on the worth of volunteer programs; more than plaudits are needed to demonstrate the value of parental involvement in the schools. The study includes an eight-page bibliography.
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1986. The need for and benefits of school volunteer programs are examined.
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1987. The article describes current use of peer and cross-age teaching; expected benefits to tutees, tutors, teachers, and society; and research on educational outcomes.
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Another lists the different kinds of work volunteers can do and appraises volunteer programs in general. '~Whatever the paths may be that the School Volunteer Program will follow," Tamer says, "it Grill continue to be true, as many teachers are now aware, that a volunteer can enrich the day for a child and that good must accrue whenever a good adult gives added attention to a child."
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Extensive planning by group process is important for establishing successful volunteer programs, as demonstrated by the process developed and tested in a number of demonstration programs nationwide. Katz, Douglas S
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1986. The manual uses the 12-step process for program development, which sets forth a systematic approach to planning, implementing, and evaluating school volunteer programs.
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1979. Criticisms of school volunteer programs are discussed.
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1986. The article describes the benefit of parent volunteer programs in schools, including maximizing teacher effectiveness and broadening parents' knowledge and appreciation of the educational process.
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1975. This is a handbook for coordinators of volunteer programs, with chapters on funding sources and proposal preparation, organizing and developing a volunteer program, administering a program, recruiting volunteers, interviewing and assigning them, providing volunteer orientation and training as well as orientation and training of professional personnel, using students as volunteers, maintaining volunteer morale, and evaluating volunteer programs.
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Paper prepared for a symposium of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois, 1985. Seeley says most public school systems operate on the "delegation/ service delivery,' model, in which teachers are the lowest-rung bureaucratic functionaries.
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1979. Increasing expenditures for education and a desire to more directly involve the public in the education of children have led many school districts to seek the assistance of school volunteers.
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The researcher asked whether a tutoring program utilizing volunteer tutors can raise the reading achievement level of disadvantaged pupils. In the study, no control was exerted over the type of tutoring done; tutoring and reading sessions were limited to one 45-minute period per week for 8 weeks.
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1982. A survey of coordinators of volunteer programs examined functions and tasks of secondary school volunteers and coordinators' perceptions of the difficulties, strengths, and domains for improvement of secondary volunteer programs.
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1977. In this editorial director's report on a 1977 National School Volunteer Program conference, Wyckoff notes that the very success of volunteer projects has unsettled many professionals.
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