Shibolet Kindergarten
Almost never - down by 64% in the post-assessment tests.
Sometimes - down by 9% in the post-assessment tests.
Almost always - went up by 73% in the post-assessment
tests.
Grade 1
Almost never - down by 39% in the post-assessment tests.
Sometimes - down by 23% in the post assessment tests.
Almost always - went up by 62% in the post-assessment
tests.
Grades 2 & 3
Almost never - down by 31% in the post-assessment tests.
Sometimes - down by 14% in the post-assessment tests.
Almost always - went up by 45% in the post-assessment
tests.
Conclusions:
(1) In all three levels, there was an improvement in learning and
behavior, with the greatest improvement in the kindergarten group.
This clearly reflects the difference in daily practice, throughout
the course of the school day, as against the 1st through 3rd graders,
who meet a few times a week, and for only two hours at a time.
(2) The 1st graders, and even more so the 2nd and 3rd graders,
started the test from a better score, according to the results, than
the kindergartners. This would seem to be the resulting impact of
their previous years of training in the program -- and the
improvement it affected in the children, which can still be seen.