Acceleration programs

Overview

Influence: Acceleration programs
Domain: Curricula
Sub-Domain: Curricula for gifted students
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
Influence Definition: These programs allow students to reduce the time spent on a year's curriculum expectations by skipping a year, telescoping the curriculum coverage, and going deeper on fewer curriculum topics. Three types of achievement goals have been recommended: a learning or task involvement goal focused on the development of competence and task mastery (an approach orientation), a performance or ego involvement goal directed toward attaining favorable judgments of competence (also an approach orientation), and a performance or ego involvement goal aimed at avoiding unfavorable judgments of competence (an avoidance orientation).

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	First Author's Country	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Review of Educational Leadership	Kulik & Kulik	USA	Effects of Accelerated Instruction on Students	1984	Acceleration on gifted	26	0	13	0.88
Book	Kulik	USA	Meta-Analytic Studies of Acceleration	2004	Acceleration with same age controls on gifted	11	4,340	11	0.87
Book	Rogers	USA	Meta-analysis of 26 forms of academic acceleration: Options for elementary (primary) and secondary learners with gifts and talents	2019	Different methods of accelerated on gifted	42	0	297	0.45
Journal of Educational Psychology	Steenbergen-Hu	USA	A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of intelligent tutoring systems on college students' academic learning	2014	Acceleration on gifted	38	0	141	0.29
TOTAL/AVERAGE						117	4,340	462	0.62