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The Effects of Summer Vacation on Achievement Test Scores: A Narrative and Meta-Analytic Review

Overview of attention for article published in Review of Educational Research, September 1996
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#2 of 1,022)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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news
109 news outlets
blogs
10 blogs
policy
23 policy sources
twitter
61 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
wikipedia
7 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
10 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
411 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
The Effects of Summer Vacation on Achievement Test Scores: A Narrative and Meta-Analytic Review
Published in
Review of Educational Research, September 1996
DOI 10.3102/00346543066003227
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 6 1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 402 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 65 16%
Student > Master 52 13%
Researcher 48 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 34 8%
Student > Bachelor 29 7%
Other 79 19%
Unknown 104 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 113 27%
Psychology 48 12%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 25 6%
Arts and Humanities 15 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 3%
Other 72 18%
Unknown 125 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1046. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 September 2026.
All research outputs
#18,904
of 34,590,055 outputs
Outputs from Review of Educational Research
#2
of 1,022 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4
of 41,379 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Review of Educational Research
#1
of 7 outputs
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