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Download full textSomers, Marie-Andrée; Garcia, Ivonne – MDRC, 2016
Ninth Grade Academies (NGAs)--also called Freshman Academies--have attracted national attention as a particularly intensive and promising approach for supporting a successful transition for high school freshmen. An NGA is a self-contained learning community for ninth-graders that operates as a school within a school. NGAs have four core structural…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Transitional Programs, High School Freshmen, Student Adjustment
Heinlein, Ken B. – 2001
This final report presents findings of a Wyoming research project designed to test the possibility of using interactive technology in the assessment, at a distance, of infants and toddlers in rural or frontier areas. The project compared the quality of reports developed when a transdisciplinary assessment team conducted assessments either in…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Disabilities, Early Identification, Early Intervention
Messina, Susan; White, Diane – 1992
In fall 1991, Solano Community College (California) undertook a study comparing the writing skills of students in an integrated course combining history and freshman English composition with students in unpaired history and English classes. Students were divided into three groups: the integrated class and two control groups, one taking history…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Freshman Composition, Integrated Activities
Forest, Sue; And Others – 1995
Project CLASS (Cooperative Learning: Acquiring Specialized Skills) was designed to develop, demonstrate, evaluate, and disseminate an inservice training model to enhance the early intervention competencies of professionals in rural states who are delivering Public Law 99-457 (Part H) community and home-based services to infants and toddlers with…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Competency Based Education, Compliance (Legal), Cooperative Learning
ACT, Inc., 2010
This report presents the findings for private four-year colleges that participated in ACT's 2010 What Works in Student Retention survey. The report contains information pertinent to only these institutions. Appended are: (1) Data for Private Four-Year Colleges and Universities; and (2) What Works in Student Retention: Instrument. (Contains 15…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, College Students
ACT, Inc., 2010
This report presents the findings for public four-year colleges and universities that participated in ACT's 2010 What Works in Student Retention survey. The report contains information pertinent to only these institutions. Appended are: (1) Data for Public Four-Year Colleges and Universities; and (2) What Works in Student Retention: Instrument.…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, College Students
