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Download full textRichburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Patel, Reshma – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
The intention of the program is that conditioning additional financial aid on certain behaviors will lead students to increase their effort towards their studies, which in turn will lead them to perform better in their classes in the short-term and progress through their degree requirements at a quicker rate in the medium-term. The program is…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, College Students, Low Income Groups, Merit Scholarships
Mayer, Alexander K.; Patel, Reshma; Rudd, Timothy; Ratledge, Alyssa – MDRC, 2015
Performance-based scholarships have two main goals: (1) to give students more money for college; and (2) to provide incentives for academic progress. MDRC launched the Performance-Based Scholarship (PBS) Demonstration in 2008 to evaluate the effectiveness of these scholarships in a diverse set of states, institutions, and low-income student…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Performance Based Assessment, Performance Factors, Academic Achievement
Weiss, Michael J.; Visher, Mary; Weissman, Evan – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
Community college stakeholders are searching with increasing urgency for approaches with the potential to improve the success rates for community college students, particularly those in need of developmental education. "Learning communities," which place cohorts of students together in two or more courses for one semester, are a popular…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Community Colleges, Educational Objectives, Developmental Studies Programs
Weissman, Evan; Cullinan, Dan; Cerna, Oscar; Safran, Stephanie; Richman, Phoebe – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2012
The Learning Communities Demonstration is a national research project that is testing the effectiveness of learning communities in six community colleges across the United States: Merced College in California; The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) in Baltimore, Maryland; Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida; Houston…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Credits
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Bureau of Adult/Community Education. – 1992
An impact assessment was conducted of projects funded under the Adult Education Act Sections 310 and 353 in Florida for the fiscal years 1984-1990. The assessment sought to determine the following: how well the projects have increased the knowledge of adult educators in methods, techniques, and materials for adult education; to what degree the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Community Education
Florida State Corrections Commission, Tallahassee. – 2000
The Florida Department of Corrections Distance Learning Program consists of the Corrections Distance Learning Network; offender programming; staff development; and the Agency Strategic Plan. The Corrections Distance Learning Network offers academic, vocational training, and life management skills programs for offenders and staff development and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Computer Uses in Education, Correctional Education
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Applied Tech. and Adult Education. – 1993
During 1992-93, 170,146 secondary and 140,681 postsecondary students were enrolled in secondary-level vocational training (VT) programs throughout Florida. A total of 12,545 single parents, displaced homemakers, and single pregnant women received VT-related services. Nontraditional vocational training programs served 2,995 females and 476 males.…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Community Organizations, Consumer Education
Ball, Joseph; And Others – 1980
A study focused on the implementation of the Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects (YIEPP) in its initial period through September 1978. Program operations at 17 sites--Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Denver, Detroit, King and Snohomish Counties (Washington), Mississippi, Alachua County (Florida), Albuquerque, Berkeley, Dayton, Hillsborough…
Descriptors: Coordination, Demography, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
