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Download full textGibbons, Michael – 1989
Achievement in reading and mathematics of students at elementary schools participating in the Columbus (Ohio) 1989 School Improvement Program (SIP) has improved for the seventh year in a row, but achievement of low income students remains below that of other students. The goal of SIP, an effective schools project, is to improve the academic…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educationally Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedThompson, Bruce – Third Education Group Review, 2006
Value-added models, which rate schools for effectiveness while taking into account the poverty and other socioeconomic status of the students, are generating increased interest. This paper describes the use of one such model to evaluate whether school ratings changed when three new programs were introduced: the "Target Teach" curriculum…
Descriptors: Class Size, Program Evaluation, Academic Achievement, School Effectiveness
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
Olsen, Scott A. – 1979
When a program evaluation is conducted on the basis of gains made in standardized achievement test scores between a pretest and a posttest, serious bias can result where a floor effect exists on one or both of the test levels. Based upon the expanded standard scores on the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills from three successive regular spring…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Gibble, Jacques; Masters, James – 1984
The Penn Manor CRT/Curriculum Articulation Project was designed to study the impact of the implementation of four specific interventions on the achievement of elementary school students in mathematics and language arts. The interventions were as follows: (1) classroom teachers were given individual curriculum skill objectives for their grade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Covariance, Behavioral Objectives
Sacramento City Unified School District, CA. – 1992
The long-term effects of state compensatory education (SCE) and Chapter 1 programs on the development of basic skills and academic achievement of Sacramento (California) were studied for a sample of over 6,000 SCE and Chapter 1 students in grades 2 through 5. Follow-up and retroactive approaches were used to ascertain the degree to which thinking…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Black Students
Rosenblatt, Richard D. – 1979
The effectiveness of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I reading and mathematics laboratories were evaluated to assess the improvement of underachieving elementary school students' academic skills. Laboratory students were selected on the basis of academic (rather than socioeconomic) criteria in grades 2 through 5; the control…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Covariance, Compensatory Education
