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Download full textSchochet, Peter Z.; Puma, Mike; Deke, John – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2014
This report summarizes the complex research literature on quantitative methods for assessing how impacts of educational interventions on instructional practices and student learning differ across students, educators, and schools. It also provides technical guidance about the use and interpretation of these methods. The research topics addressed…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Educational Research, Intervention
Portales, Jaime; Heilig, Julian Vasquez – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
Findings from this study show that educational and mobility opportunities for families and students participating in the Chilean voucher system are not homogenously distributed. Some families and students use and benefit from the system, while others will remain marginalized. The quantitative results in this study demonstrate that students of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Vouchers, School Districts, Enrollment Influences
Myint-U, Athi; O'Donnell, Lydia; Phillips, Dawna – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2012
This technical brief describes updates to a database of dropout prevention programs and policies in 2006/07 created by the Regional Education Laboratory (REL) Northeast and Islands and described in the Issues & Answers report, "Piloting a searchable database of dropout prevention programs in nine low-income urban school districts in the…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Databases, Maintenance
Riccio, James; Dechausay, Nadine; Miller, Cynthia; Nuñez, Stephen; Verma, Nandita; Yang, Edith – MDRC, 2013
Opportunity NYC-Family Rewards, an experimental, privately funded, conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to help families break the cycle of poverty, was the first comprehensive CCT program in a developed country. Launched in 2007 by New York City's Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO), Family Rewards offered cash assistance to low-income…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Experimental Programs, Incentive Grants, Poverty Programs
Jackson, Russell; McCoy, Ann; Pistorino, Carol; Wilkinson, Anna; Burghardt, John; Clark, Melissa; Ross, Christine; Schochet, Peter; Swank, Paul – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2007
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 created the Early Reading First (ERF) program to enhance teacher practices, instructional content, and classroom environments in preschools and to help ensure that young children start school with the skills needed for academic success. This report to Congress describes the impacts of the Early Reading…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Early Reading, Teaching Methods
PEARCE, FRANK C. – 1966
THIS IS AN EVALUATION REPORT ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE ADULT BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS AT THE NEW HOPE SCHOOL INITIATED BY MODESTO JUNIOR COLLEGE UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT. EVALUATION MEASURES WERE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT (TESTED ACADEMIC PROGRESS THROUGH VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL TESTS), ATTITUDE MODIFICATION…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Attitude Change, Employment Potential
Direct linkSpringer, Matthew G.; Lewis, Jessica L.; Podgursky, Michael J.; Ehlert, Mark W.; Taylor, Lori L.; Lopez, Omar S.; Peng, Art – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2009
The Governor's Educator Excellence Grant (GEEG) program was federally- and state-funded and provided three-year grants to schools to design and implement performance pay plans from the 2005-06 to 2007-08 school years. GEEG was implemented in 99 high poverty, high performing Texas public schools. This report builds on the previous GEEG evaluation…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, State Aid, Poverty, Teacher Characteristics
Stanford Research Inst., Menlo Park, CA. – 1971
To evaluate the Follow Through portion of the Planned Variation program (1967-1970) eight distinct approaches were studied. The approaches rest on differing philosophical and psychological premises and employ a variety of pedagogical strategies. A battery of 14 existing and specially developed measures were used to cover the cognitive area.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Educational Strategies, Measurement Instruments
Cervero, Ronald; Cunningham, Phyllis M. – 1977
To determine the efficacy of instructional television for adults in GED (General Educational Development) programs in large urban areas, a study was conducted using Kentucky Education Television's (KET) newly marketed GED preparation series (which was instituted with the help of the Chicago Public Library and local colleges). The study was guided…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Media, Educational Television, High School Equivalency Programs
MANLEY, CHARLES A. – 1961
A STUDY ATTEMPTED TO IDENTIFY CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EXTENDED DAY PROGRAM AT SAN FERNANDO VALLEY STATE COLLEGE AND EVALUATE THIS PROGRAM IN COMPARISON WITH THE REGULAR DAY PROGRAM. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM COLLEGE RECORDS AND THREE QUESTIONNAIRES COMPLETED BY EXTENDED DAY STUDENTS AND FACULTY. EXTENDED DAY STUDENTS WERE DIVIDED ACCORDING TO…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Assignments, College Credits, College Faculty
Asmar, Samir S. – 1966
A study was made in Wisconsin of knowledge gains by participants in two Cooperative Extension Service educational activities (soil management and cooking for many) organized and presented by the in-depth teaching approach, and of selected factors thought to have an effect on the amount of knowledge gained. Gains were categorized as low (1%-49%…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Cooking Instruction, Doctoral Dissertations
Oakland Unified School District, CA. – 1966
A FIRST-YEAR EVALUATION WAS MADE OF SEVEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SET UP TO PROVIDE REMEDIAL INSTRUCTION IN BASIC EDUCATION AND IN METHODS OF SEEKING AND APPLYING FOR EMPLOYMENT, OFFERED UNDER THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT. PARTICIPANTS RANGED WIDELY IN AGE, (21-76) WITH A GREAT NUMBER IN THE ADVANCED AGE GROUP. THEIR…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Arithmetic
Redd, Zakia; Cochran, Stephanie; Hair, Elizabeth; Moore, Kristin – 2002
Based on the view that programs with a strong academic component may reduce the substantial educational disparities for American students from disadvantaged backgrounds or in chronically underperforming schools and school districts, this synthesis of research on academic achievement programs describes how such programs may help children and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Child Health
Okech, Anthony; Carr-Hill, Roy A.; Katahoire, Anne R.; Kakooza, Teresa; Ndidde, Alice N.; Oxenham, John – 2001
This report evaluates the outcomes and cost effectiveness of adult literacy programs in Ugandan villages and compares government programs with those provided by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Part 1 describes evaluation objectives, government and NGO literacy programs and the rural socioeconomic context, and evaluation design. About 100…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cost Effectiveness
California Univ., Los Angeles. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1971
The report is an evaluation of a project designed to provide first year high school participants with core knowledge related to the field of health care. Additionally, its intent was to prepare them to make a career choice of an allied health occupation and to continue in an advanced training program and/or to be employed. Data concerning grade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Choice
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