Descriptor
Program Evaluation | 3 |
Achievement Tests | 2 |
Compensatory Education | 2 |
Research Methodology | 2 |
Scores | 2 |
Academic Achievement | 1 |
Accountability | 1 |
Achievement Gains | 1 |
Beliefs | 1 |
Cognitive Development | 1 |
Cognitive Processes | 1 |
More ▼ |
Source
Publication Type
Reports - Research | 2 |
Speeches/Meeting Papers | 2 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Elementary and Secondary… | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
California Achievement Tests | 3 |
Comprehensive Tests of Basic… | 1 |
Leiter International… | 1 |
Peabody Picture Vocabulary… | 1 |
Stanford Binet Intelligence… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Estes, Gary D. – 1979
Normative data reported by publishers of the California Achievement Test, the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills, and the SRA Assessment Survey were used to illustrate a procedure for specifying goals for Title I programs in terms of normal curve equivalent (NCE) gains. The procedure was based on the amount of growth reflected in student reading…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Educational Objectives
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
The Perry Preschool Project assessed longitudinal effects of a 2-year program consisting of a daily 3-hour cognitively oriented nursery, a weekly 90-minute home visit, and less frequent group meetings of the pupils' parents. Subjects consisted of 3- and 4-year-old Negro disadvantaged and functionally retarded children, whose pretest scores on the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Compensatory Education, Developmental Tasks
Uslick, JoAnn; Walker, Carole – 1994
An overview is provided of the evaluation of the Lighthouse Project, an education enhancement project that began in one urban and two suburban districts. Its methodology was the context for showing how the focus on the results of a standardized achievement test in mathematics inhibited the implementation of mathematics reform in the elementary…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Tests, Beliefs