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    Student Mobility: Academic Achievement and the Effect of an Intervention Plan
    (2009) Kourieh, Elias
    This study is initiated to determine if students' mobility has a negative effect on the academic achievement in Math and English. It discusses findings based on interviews with families. It also covers the impact of an intervention program aiming to minimize mobility's effect on students. The study extends throughout two years. In 2006-2007 the total number of students is 389, and in 2007-2008 the total number of students is 367. The sample comprises of students of grade 6, 7 and 8 who are divided into two groups: mobile and no mobile students. Their results of the year 2006-2007 are taken and compared. The comparison shows that the no-mobile (stable) students performed better than the mobile ones in Math and English. The intervention program comprises a set of strategies used to lessen the effect of mobility. The analysis shows that these strategies are effective, and they helped the students to overcome some of the academic problems in English but not in Math.