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Download full textRutledge, Stacey; Cohen-Vogel, Lora; Osborne-Lampkin, La'Tara – National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools (NJ1), 2012
The National Center on Scaling up Effective Schools (NCSU) is a five-year project working to develop, implement, and test new processes to scale up effective practices in high schools that districts will be able to apply within the context of their own unique goals and circumstances. This report describes the activities and findings of the first…
Descriptors: Research Design, Educational Change, High Schools, Academic Achievement
Carstens, Ralph, Ed.; Pelgrum, Willem J., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2009
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) has been conducting comparative studies for 50 years. SITES 2006 is the fifth wave of surveys related to information and communication technology (ICT), a wave that IEA started with its Computers in Education Study (two studies with data collection in 1989 and 1992),…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Information Technology, Databases, Comparative Analysis
Direct linkBrock, Thomas; LeBlanc, Allen; MacGregor, Casey – MDRC, 2005
This report describes the background, objectives, and design of the Opening Doors evaluation. It begins below with a brief review of the research on community college students and their experiences. Chapter 2 then provides a general description of the six colleges that are participating in the demonstration and the four interventions that are…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Research Design, Intervention, Student Characteristics
Calhoun, Emily F. – 2001
Staff members at the Iowa Department of Education are involved in a 3-year initiative (1998-2001) to strengthen school improvement efforts at the local school, district, and intermediate service agency levels. Papers presented at a symposium of the American Educational Research Association annual meeting describe the multiple purposes and design…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Hackbert, Peter H. – 1978
Objectives of the National Indian Management Service of America's (NIMA) workplan for a two-year survey investigating the need for educational services among adult American Indians in the U.S. include the following: to provide for a basic survey to define accurately the extent of the problems of illiteracy and lack of high school completion; to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, American Indian Education, American Indians
Royster, Eugene C.; And Others – 1978
This study examined the benefits of Head Start to children entering elementary school, assessed Head Start benefits to their parents, and described the characteristics and services of the Head Start program. Data were collected from a sample of Head Start graduates located in 32 sites selected to represent Head Start programs throughout the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Interpersonal Competence
Royster, Eugene C.; Larson, John C. – 1978
This report is the executive summary of a study examining the benefits of Head Start to children entering elementary school, assessing Head Start benefits to their parents, and describing the characteristics and services of the Head Start program. The data presented in this report were collected from a sample of Head Start graudates located in 32…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Interpersonal Competence
Griggs, Mildred Barnes; McFadden, Joan Robertson – 1980
Existing data are reviewed and synthesized that speak to the extent to which Consumer and Homemaking Education (C&HE) programs at secondary and postsecondary levels contribute to student knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. Differences in program design that were found in the research literature are described before findings about effectiveness…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Consumer Education, Evaluation Methods, Home Economics
Shaycoft, Marion F. – 1977
In 1959, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and the University of Pittsburgh selected a stratified random probability sample of all secondary schools (public, parochial, and private) in the United States, tested all their students in grades 9-12 with a two-day battery of aptitude tests, information tests, tests of ability and achievement,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude, Biographical Inventories, Career Choice
Doyle, Walter; And Others – 1985
This report contains a description of the conceptual background and methodology for a study concerning how academic tasks are managed in senior high school classrooms. This high school study is Phase 2 of the Managing Academic Tasks (MAT) study. The MAT study is focused on understanding how curriculum experiences are shaped by the classroom…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques
Kirst, Michael W., Ed.; Venezia, Andrea, Ed. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2004
This book reveals why so many students are entering college unprepared for college level work and often unable to complete a degree. This important book presents the findings of the Bridge Project, a major national research study conducted by Stanford University and funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the U.S. Department of Education. The…
Descriptors: Research Design, Educational Change, Graduation Rate, College Admission
Barnett, Don C.; Dyer, Aldrich J. – 1983
The volume on University of Saskatchewan graduate theses related to Canadian native peoples (Indian, Inuit, Metis) contains a brief introduction, followed by abstracts of 62 thesis projects (1912-1982), and a final section of statistics, charts, summaries, and discussions related to the abstracted research. Each research abstract consists of three…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Administrator Attitudes, American Indian Education
