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Joseph R. Anthes – ProQuest LLC, 2021
More than a century of research exists on summer learning loss and summer learning programs. However, many schools continue to underutilize the summer as a period of time in which students with academic deficits can catch up to their peers. Few studies have explored the impacts of summer learning experiences on concentrated, school-level…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Urban Schools, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Hollands, Fiona M.; Kieffer, Michael J.; Shand, Robert; Pan, Yilin; Cheng, Henan; Levin, Henry M. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
We review the value of cost-effectiveness analysis for evaluation and decision making with respect to educational programs and discuss its application to early reading interventions. We describe the conditions for a rigorous cost-effectiveness analysis and illustrate the challenges of applying the method in practice, providing examples of programs…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Early Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction
Fancsali, Cheri; Abe, Yasuyo; Pyatigorsky, Mikhail; Ortiz, Lorena; Chan, Vincent; Saltares, Eliana; Toby, Megan; Schellinger, Adam; Jaciw, Andrew – Empirical Education Inc., 2015
The Reading Apprenticeship instructional framework was developed by WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) two decades ago to help teachers provide the literacy support students need to be successful readers in the content areas. It has since reached over 100,000 teachers in schools across the country, at the middle school, high school, and…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Content Area Reading, Metacognition, Program Implementation
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Bean, Rita; Draper, Jason; Turner, Greg; Zigmond, Naomi – Journal of Literacy Research, 2010
This article reports on the student achievement outcomes for third graders in Reading First (RF) schools in Pennsylvania over the five years of implementation for the group as a whole, for disaggregated groups of third graders, and for third graders who received reading instruction in RF schools for one, two, and three years. We also present a…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Grade 3, Outcomes of Education, Reading Programs
Zacamy, Jenna; Gray, Sophia; Jaciw, Andrew; Newman, Denis – Empirical Education Inc., 2013
In October 2010, WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) won an i3 "Validation" grant to scale up and validate the Reading Apprenticeship (RA) model in three core secondary content area classes: U.S. history, biology, and English language arts. SLI's proposal stated two goals. Goal 1: To transform academic literacy teaching and…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement, Content Area Reading
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Bureau of Planning and Evaluation. – 1975
A description and an evaluation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I-funded programs for the state of Pennsylvania are contained in this document. It is in two parts. Part I is the evaluation report and presents data on participants and on activities and services. Part II is the analysis of the evaluation report. Results are…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Mathematics, Program Descriptions
HUNT, LYMAN C. – 1961
A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED ON AN EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION SERIES FOR TEACHERS WHICH DEMONSTRATED PROCEDURES AND PRACTICES OF TEACHING READING. THE INTENT WAS TO BRING TO TEACHERS, WIDELY DISPERSED GEOGRAPHICALLY, SOME NEWER CONCEPTS OF READING INSTRUCTION. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SERIES WAS EVALUATED BY MEANS OF OBSERVATIONS OF TEACHERS, REPORTS FROM…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Comparative Analysis, Educational Television, Instructional Innovation
Inskip, George B. – 1975
Approved under the Migratory Amendment to the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act's Title I, 10 educational programs, designed to allow flexibility in the placement of children as they progressed, were implemented in Pennsylvania during 1974. The 928 children participating in these migrant programs were identified and recruited by social…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Community Involvement, Educational Programs, Inservice Teacher Education
Nickols, Bernice S. – 1976
A survey method was used in conducting this study of the status and direction of reading activity in selected middle schools in Pennsylvania which include grades six, seven, and eight. Among the purposes of the study were to investigate current practices in teaching reading in the middle schools of Pennsylvania and to present recommendations for…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Middle Schools, Program Evaluation
Garberina, Thomas J. – 1976
This administrator's guide is designed to provide a systematic and objective means of evaluating an ongoing reading program. The procedures outlined recognize the important role of the administrator as the change-agent who initiates, encourages, supports, observes, and evaluates programs. The systems approach simplifies the Generic Planning…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Bureau of Curriculum Services. – 1975
These criteria for determining excellence in reading programs were designed to focus attention on the substance rather than the form of reading instruction in Pennsylvania. School district evaluators are directed to apply an evaluation scale of zero, indicating an item is not applicable, to five, indicating a high score, to the criteria. Criteria…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Philadelphia School District, PA. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1974
This document is an annual report issued by the Department of Title I Evaluation Services, evaluating projects funded under Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Assistance in evaluation design, instrument development, data analysis, and editorial matters was provided by members of the Division of Instructional…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Black Studies, Compensatory Education, Counseling Services
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Bureau of Planning and Evaluation. – 1978
This annual report presents information on projects funded with monies from the Elementary Secondary Education Act, Title IV-C, that may help project directors, evaluators, and potential IV-C proposal writers in the management, evaluation, and writing of IV-C programs. Evaluation of each IV-C project was completed by the appointed evaluators…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Annual Reports, Citizenship Responsibility, Community Education