Since 1969, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has been the common yardstick for measuring the progress of students' education over time across the country. Teachers, principals, parents, policymakers, and researchers all use NAEP results to assess progress and develop ways to improve education in America. To make the…

Perceptions of interpersonal communication skills of participants in the Women in Community Service (WICS) program, an initiative of Tennessee JOBS, were assessed to examine the relationship between WICS skill blocks training and improvement in communication competence and communicator style flexibility while decreasing communication apprehension.…

A study determined whether computer assisted instruction (CAI) had an effect on students' reading achievement. Subjects were 21 randomly selected fourth-grade students at D. S. Wentworth Elementary School on the south side of Chicago in a low-income neighborhood who received a year's exposure to a CAI program, and 21 randomly selected students at…

An elementary school teacher designed and implemented a program intended to reduce excessive absenteeism among first grade public school students. The program consisted of four basic parts: (1) perusal of attendance cards and grade books prior to treatment; (2) implementaton of treatment; (3) post-perusal of attendance cards and grade books; and…

In September 1984, a questionnaire on safety belt use laws was sent to approximately 25 nations, more than 20 of which responded. Various members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Road Research Program used data from the completed questionnaires in conjunction with existing literature to write a series of…

The change from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation Act raises issues concerning reading programs covered by the act. The purpose of both laws is to meet the special needs of educationally deprived children. The laws are similar in that they (1) promote teacher and parent involvement; (2) contain…

The Drug Abuse Reporting Program (DARP) was initiated in 1969 as a federally supported client reporting system for community-based drug abuse treatment programs. Posttreatment follow-up interviews were conducted with over 4,000 persons from 34 treatment agencies to describe major findings from the drug abuse treatment research of the DARP relating…

The Disabilities Awareness Curriculum was used to teach able-bodied third-grade children about various disabilities in an effort to increase the accuracy of those children's perceptions concerning disabled individuals. Subjects were 140 children from 3 schools (2 classes from each school) representing 3 school districts. Children were randomly…

Through a comparative analysis of nine urban school improvement projects, it illustrates the association between patterns of constituent collaboration in the design of intervention projects and problem solving strategies and the degree of mutual adaptation, incorporation, and sustained project effectiveness. Many of the barriers to school…

This report consists of the descriptions and results of two studies carried out to examine Title I programs in the Newark, New Jersey, public schools. The Sustaining Effects Study focused on two groups of pupils: those who participated in Title I programs for two years (1979 to 1982), and those who received remediation for one year (1979-80) and…

This study compares the mathematics performance of pupils who received no day care experiences with those who received mathematics instruction in a structured day care setting, and those exposed to incidentical learning in day care centers. Eighty-six first, second, third, and fourth grade students who had completed four years in a Title I program…

Research related to the importance of involving parents directly in treatment programming for childhood obesity has provided inconclusive results because of methodological problems and relatively short treatment duration periods. The effectiveness of an extended behavioral weight control program was evaluated during a 10-week treatment phase and…

The therapeutic efficacy of drug therapy and of psychotherapy for improving the condition of the mentally ill was examined. Results were tabulated of clinical drug trials in humans as reported in English language literature between 1954 and 1977, wherein a psychotropic drug was compared to a placebo or no treatment at all. Results of this…

This paper clarifies the distinction between evaluating the effectiveness of student curriculum products and evaluating the effectiveness of administrative training products. Four product evaluation designs are described and critiqued along eight interrelated dimensions: the definition of product effectiveness; criterion measures of effectiveness;…

As a companion to a research report describing the evaluation of a simulation-style instructional package for training in electronic equipment maintenance, this appendix includes: (1) a copy of the instructor's lesson plan; (2) a handout on power supply procedure; (3) samples of troubleshooting simulations; (4) instructor recording forms; (5)…