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Park, Leslie D. – Rehabilitation Literature, 1979
The article reports follow-up results of a research and demonstration program undertaken by the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission with 150 delinquent youths who had appeared before two juvenile courts in Massachusetts. (SBH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Demonstration Programs, Emotional Disturbances
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Fewell, Rebecca R.; Oelwein, Patricia L. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1991
Preschool children (n=194) with special needs enrolled in the Model Preschool Program for Children with Down Syndrome and Other Developmental Delays exhibited significantly higher rates of development during intervention than when the children entered the program. Effects were mixed for the 92 children with Down syndrome, with higher rates of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Demonstration Programs, Developmental Disabilities, Downs Syndrome
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Rusch, Frank R.; And Others – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1994
This investigation identified purposes, activities, outcomes, and barriers reported by 45 postsecondary model demonstration projects funded by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS). Outcomes reported most frequently at the individual, program, organizational, and community levels included student assessment, materials…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Educational Innovation, Federal Programs
Louis, Karen Seashore; And Others – 1981
Based on two papers presented at the American Educational Research Association meeting in 1981, this report provides an overview and major outcomes of a three-year study of the Research and Development Utilization (RDU) program. The RDU program tested and assessed a comprehensive model for assisting schools to use results of educational research…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Demonstration Programs, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Goldman, Barbara; And Others – 1986
This report presents the findings from a three-year study of two San Diego demonstration projects designed to increase unsubsidized employment and reduce welfare dependency and costs. One involved a job search requirement, while the other combined that requirement with a short-term work obligation. Overall, compared to the few earlier studies on…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Employment Opportunities, Job Search Methods
Covert, Robert W.; Fang, Wei Li – 1981
The Joint Dissemination Review Panel (JDRP) examines educational interventions and determines their effectiveness. This study's purpose was to assess this review process and identify common characteristics of submittals and ways in which approvals and rejections differed. A locally-developed instrument which collected data on the intervention's…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Practices, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Nebraska Univ., Omaha. Center for Urban Education. – 1977
A shift in the priorities set down in the Teacher Corps' rules increases the amount of time and attention paid to local projects rather than to large programs. Three Teacher Corps task forces convened to study the implications of the new rules and the realities of local project operation. The reports of the task forces are contained in this…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Demonstration Programs, Educational Needs, Evaluation Methods
Hoeltke, Gary M.; Toker, Mary Lou – 1977
The document contains technical papers on the Pilot Models for Mainstreaming Students with Behavior Disorders project which served 124 secondary students. The first paper presents the results of a factor analysis of the Student Referral Form used in the project which revealed six basic factors (socialization, anxiety, authority, activity level,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Diagnostic Teaching, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
Klaas, Alan C. – 1978
This evaluator's report of a career education project for the Detroit Public Schools is divided into two sections. Section 1, process evaluation, provides a summary of the activities reported by the project personnel for the eight deliverables collected and analyzed by the evaluator staff: (1) curriculum infusion, (2) career…
Descriptors: Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Formative Evaluation, Program Evaluation
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Orwin, Robert G.; And Others – Evaluation Review, 1994
Evaluation findings of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Community Demonstration Program show few clear indications of the effectiveness of case management approaches. This article identifies phenomena that explain the lack of positive effects and suggests that evaluation problems may explain apparent negative…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Community Programs, Demonstration Programs, Evaluation Methods
Smilansky, Moshe; Nevo, David – 1979
This book reports on compensatory education in Israel and presents results of a 10-year evaluation of the Boarding School Fostering Program, a secondary school project in the education of culturally disadvantaged gifted students. The book is divided into two parts. Part One, "General Orientation to Compensatory Education in Israel," is…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Case Studies, Compensatory Education, Demonstration Programs
Weiss, Heather B.; And Others – 1990
This report focuses on the formulation and implementation of family support and education policies in four states, all of which have established programs that provide the core services of parenting education, early childhood development activities, parent support groups, and information about other community agencies. The initiatives are…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy
McNeal, Barbara – 1980
The activities described in this report were part of a demonstration project designed to test the feasibility of using electronic messages to support information and resources exchange among professionals who serve the developmentally disabled (DD). The one year demonstration included the participation of 26 university based centers across the…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Developmental Disabilities, Higher Education, Human Services
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1980
The project involving one elementary and one junior high school in each of the six regions of the District of Columbia School System was designed to service approximately 300 socioeconomically disadvantaged students who have been identified as demonstrating or having potential for superior academic achievement. Evaluation of the project focused on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Attendance, Demonstration Programs
Louis, Karen Seashore; And Others – 1981
These technical appendices are bound separately from the report "Strategies for Knowledge Use and School Improvement" which evaluates the National Institute of Education's Research and Development Utilization (RDU) program. Appendix A contains a preliminary report on the statistical quality of the quantitative data, focusing primarily on…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Demonstration Programs
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