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Download full textPaeplow, Colleen – Wake County Public School System, 2015
In 2013-14, Letterland had strong implementation, with moderate to high fidelity within approximately 90% of Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) K-1 classrooms. The impact of Letterland on students' reading achievement was neutral to positive. A significantly higher percentage of WCPSS kindergarten students were at or above benchmark mid-year…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Program Descriptions, Program Implementation
Sass, Tim R. – National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools (NJ1), 2012
The core work of the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools consists of four stages: identifying practices of highly effective high schools, designing interventions and transfer of practices, evaluating the intervention's implementation and effects, and evaluating implementation at scale. The purpose of this report is to describe the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Change, High Schools, Research Methodology
Kober, Nancy; McMurrer, Jennifer; Silva, Malini R. – Center on Education Policy, 2011
Title I provides extra instructional services designed to raise achievement for low-performing students in schools with relatively high poverty rates, and for all students in many of the nation's highest-poverty schools. To learn more about how well Title I students are performing academically, the Center on Education Policy (CEP) compared…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating, African American Students
Mosbaek, E.J.; And Others – 1968
The results of compensatory education (CE) were evaluated in 5 school districts distributed across the nation. These 5 districts represented a subsample of an earlier evaluation involving 11 districts. Data were gathered on the amount and type of CE and the achievement scores of the pupils participating in CE during the 1965-66 and 1966-67 school…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Gibboney (Richard A.) Associates, Inc., Kensington, MD. – 1978
These technical appendices give the following information: a comparison of RENP and non-RENP mean Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS) Fall 1976 pretest scores; evidence of the existence of an achievement gap between Washington, D.C. and large city norms; number and percentages of students in each of three pretest achievement levels;…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness
Mosbaek, E.J.; And Others – 1968
Detailed case studies of each of the 5 school district participating in an evaluation of compensatory education (CE) programs under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 are contained in this volume. Technical features and the methodology used in the 1965-66 and 1966-67 school year programs are described. The description…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Blacks, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Rogers, Donald D. – 1977
The Response to Educational Needs Project (RENP) is a federally supported compensatory education program. In this paper the following questions are addressed: (1) Is the Response to Educational Needs Project (RENP) worth Federal support? (2) Would the Federal government be better able to achieve similar educational objectives by supporting other…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness
Purl, Mabel C.; Dawson, Judith – 1970
Four years after the inception of a school desegregation busing program, the average reading achievement test scores of the bused pupils showed the same trends as those among the receiving pupils and pupils at unaffected schools. Tests scores among all kindergarten pupils showed an upward trend, as well as scores in the first, second, and third…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bus Transportation, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Michaud, Bob – 1994
After 3 years of dramatic gains, the average Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores for the Wake County (North Carolina) Public Schools stayed essentially level for 1994 graduates. The scores did reflect a one point drop in the average total score, which is not considered significant. The leveling off matches a similar trend for the entire state.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations
Williams-Robertson, Lydia – 1990
The achievement of students at the Science Academy of Austin, an academy located within a high school, is profiled. A study was conducted to compare Science Academy students to other high-achieving students in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District (AISD) and to predict levels of achievement. The results of this study indicate that Academy…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, College Bound Students, Comparative Analysis
Brasel, Michael D. – 1991
An analysis and summary are presented of the 1989-90 test results of New Mexico students on the Enhanced American College Testing Program (Enhanced ACT) and the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Data were provided by the American College Testing Program, the Educational Testing Service, and the New Mexico High School Graduates Survey. The Enhanced…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis
California State Univ., Los Angeles. National Dissemination and Assessment Center. – 1978
A summary report is presented of the program that was begun in 1970 in three elementary schools located in a predominantly Hispanic area of the city. The study is divided into four main headings: program description, evaluation design, findings and limitations. The description of the program includes the cultural and social context; the project…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools
