The New Jersey Department of Education asked Research for Better Schools, Inc., to design and conduct a study of the Cognitive Pilot Program of the Broad Based Component of the state's Urban Initiative. The purpose was to provide descriptive information about the implementation of the program in all 21 pilot program sites and of promising…

An evaluation was done of three sites (Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Springfield) participating in Ohio's Career Development Program for students in grades K-10 from 1975-1976 to (1) assess leadership characteristics of the individual programs and classroom teaching activities of the program teachers and (2) determine the amount and type of student…

The Pennsylvania Educational Quality Assessment data have consistently shown differences between rural, suburban, and urban schools in terms of performance on goal areas and on important background variables. The most consistent pattern has been demonstrated by achievement on cognitive measures. The analyses reported upon were conducted on the…

The 1969 Virginia Needs Assessment project was conducted in two stages: (1) identification of statewide school program goals, and evidences of programmatic effort and outcomes; and (2) the development of a model that focused on the learner in the school environment, and incorporated cognitive, affective, and facilitative data in the context of the…

Results of 53 studies correlating 113 school based variables and 149 environmental variables were tabulated and compared to the Goals of Basic Education for Alberta, 1978. School-based variables were represented by five categories: school facilities, personnel, teacher characteristics, classroom climate/practices, and curriculum. Environmental…