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Shannon, Patrick – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2019
Online programs are often viewed as a cost-efficient strategy for increasing revenue for shrinking university budgets but this may not be an accurate assessment. Responsibility Centered Management (RCM) is a budgeting model that is purported to increase efficient delivery of academic programs. As RCM budgeting models have been embraced, many…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Social Work, Cost Effectiveness, Budgeting
Burnside, Omari; Wesley, Alexa; Wesaw, Alexis; Parnell, Amelia – NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, 2019
Traditionally seen as a way for institutions to help students alleviate some of the financial demands placed on them, on-campus student employment has several additional benefits institutions can leverage to assist students along their collegiate journey. If designed and operationalized effectively, institutions can use their on-campus student…
Descriptors: Student Employment, College Students, Paying for College, Federal Programs
Rudd, Timothy; Rodriguez, Jonathan; Greenberg, David – MDRC, 2016
Family Rewards was an innovative approach to poverty reduction in the United States that was modelled on the conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs common in lower- and middle-income countries. The program offered cash assistance to poor families to reduce immediate hardship, provided they met certain criteria related to family health care,…
Descriptors: Rewards, Poverty, Employment, Family Programs
Houston Independent School District, 2014
This report provides a summary of the Home Instruction of Parents with Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program activities and its effectiveness for HISD student participants. A total of 577 students and their parents participated in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) HIPPY program during the 2013-2014 academic year, which was more than…
Descriptors: Home Instruction, Parent Participation, Preschool Children, Program Descriptions
Ratanasiripong, Paul; Sverduk, Kevin; Hayashino, Diane; Prince, Judy – College Student Journal, 2010
The increasing prevalence of stress and anxiety on college campuses along with limited resources and budget reductions for many campuses has prompted the need for innovative approaches to help students effectively manage their stress and anxiety. With college students becoming more and more technology-savvy, the authors present an innovative…
Descriptors: Stress Management, College Students, Campuses, Biofeedback
Carney, Kevin – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2011
Many students are capable of reading a chapter, doing the end-of-chapter questions, studying a little bit, and passing the chapter test. Many teachers are in the habit of using a textbook as a crutch to fall back on when creativity is lacking. Others are capable of teaching incredibly creative lessons based on state standards but are bound by the…
Descriptors: Textbooks, State Standards, Educational Practices, Alignment (Education)
Blazer, Christie – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2010
Response to Intervention (RtI) is a process that addresses both the identification of learning disabilities and the design of early intervention and instruction. RtI provides a framework upon which to structure high quality instruction for all students and a means by which to identify those in need of more intensive intervention. The process is…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Early Intervention, Disability Identification, Program Descriptions
Usher, Alexandra; Kober, Nancy – Center on Education Policy, 2011
This report examines a decade's worth of research on school vouchers and concludes that vouchers have had no clear positive effect on student academic achievement, and mixed outcomes for students overall. Effects on graduation rates, parental satisfaction, public school achievement and cost to taxpayers are discussed. The report also notes that…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement, Educational Vouchers, Cost Effectiveness
Islam, Tofazzal – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
This paper examines how this mega-university offers increasing access to cost-effective, equitable and flexible higher education by analyzing data from primary and secondary sources, identifies challenges impacting the continued growth of enrollment in distance education, and outlines opportunities for increasing access to higher education through…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
Ready, Douglas D. – Campaign for Educational Equity, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2008
Over the past several decades, researchers, politicians, and corporate leaders have focused reform efforts on the size of educational contexts. Hundreds of billions of public and private dollars have been invested to reduce the size and scope of both classrooms and schools (Lee & Ready, 2007). Unlike many education reforms, these downsizing…
Descriptors: Class Size, Equal Education, Minority Group Children, Educational Change
Picus, Lawrence O. – NASSP Bulletin, 2004
In the standards-based education reforms of today, an important question is how much it will cost for all--or almost all--students to reach state-determined proficiency levels? School finance adequacy seeks to determine that cost. Four models have been developed to estimate the costs of adequacy. Two of them--the professional judgment and the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Principals, Educational Change, Funding Formulas
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1983
The Austin (Texas) Independent School District presents its third and final report to the Texas Education Agency concerning the Summer School Pilot for 1982. This program was designed to provide additional basic skills instruction so that elementary school retainees would not fall further behind during the summer and would be better prepared to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Education

Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1992
This document presents effectiveness charts that demonstrate the impact of various programs of the Austin (Texas) Independent School District (AISD) on strategic objectives of the district and executive summaries of all reports produced by the AISD's Office of Research and Evaluation in 1990-91. The programs described in the effectiveness charts…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
Thompson, Fred A. – 1978
The Teaching Information Processing System (TIPS), a computer-augmented instructional aid, provides individualized instruction for large numbers of students. The TIPS procedure involves the following: (1) instructor preparation of a detailed course outline; (2) delineation of course concept areas and objectives; (3) creation and weekly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs
Maloney, Catherine; Sheehan, Daniel; Rainey, Katharine – Texas Center for Educational Research, 2010
The evaluation of the Texas Rural Technology (R-Tech) Pilot sought to understand how districts implemented R-Tech grants, the effects of implementation on student and teacher outcomes, as well as the cost effectiveness and sustainability of R-Tech. The Texas legislature (80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, 2007) authorized the creation of…
Descriptors: Time Factors (Learning), Outcome Measures, Student Participation, Online Surveys
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