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Download full textDade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. Dept. of Planning and Evaluation. – 1975
This interim evaluation report presents an overview of Dade County (Florida) systems programs--instructional assessment and management structures which provide for the acquisition of reading and mathematics skills by individual students. A survey of the programs reveals that, as of 1974, 1660 installations had accommodated approximately 50,000…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Mathematics Instruction, Program Content, Program Costs
Bliss, Sam W.; Foster, Scott – 1973
The primary objectives of the study were to determine the effectiveness of sixteen selected career education instructional units in five school districts in Coconino County, Ariz., to determine their implementation costs, and to provide for them cost/effectiveness analysis while they are still in the pilot stage. Each unit encompassed goals,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials
Smith, Mary Lee; Glass, Gene V. – 1975
In designing the evaluation of year round schools (YRS) in Cherry Creek, four questions dealing with major concerns in determining the effectiveness of YRS were posed: What are the characteristics of school programs associated with YRS? What is the reaction of parents to the YRS, its inconveniences and conveniences? What are the effects of YRS on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Parent Attitudes, Program Costs
Paden, Jon S. – 1977
This report summarizes the responses of principals of elementary schools participating in the I/D/E/A Change Program to a survey questionnaire that focuses on program implementation and selected efforts that may be associated with Individually Guided Education (IGE). Survey data are presented for the school years 1973-74, 1974-75, 1975-76, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction, National Surveys
Peer reviewedConnell, David B.; And Others – International Journal of Educational Research, 1986
This monograph represents a major nationwide study on the efficacy of teaching health education and its effects on learning outcomes. The School Health Education Evaluation examined effectiveness of the School Health Curriculum Project and three additional health instruction programs in grades 4 through 7, from May 1981 to January 1985. (LMO)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Health Education, Models
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. Office of Instructional Services. – 1969
Approximately 288 programs conducted in various counties of Georgia during the regular school year or summer of 1969 and funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act are here reported in summary fashion. The following information is provided concerning each program: name of system, name of project, regular or summer…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Programs, Elementary Education, Federal Aid
Hendrickson, Les; And Others – 1977
This report was prepared in response to a request by the Eugene (Oregon) school board for an assessment of reading instruction in the school district. The report first examines how well Eugene students are learning to read. Special areas discussed are the number of students with reading problems, the techniques of collecting and analyzing test…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria
LINGER, BERNARD L. – 1967
TO IMPROVE ELEMENTARY MUSIC INSTRUCTION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 19 SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY TEACHER-AIDES ATTENDED AN INSTITUTE IN MUSIC HELD AT UNION COLLEGE (BARBOURVILLE, KENTUCKY) FOR TWO WEEKS, JUNE 19-30, 1967. FOR TWO HOURS EACH DAY THEY STUDIED THE USE OF PHONOGRAPH RECORDS, GROUP SINGING, CLASSROOM INSTRUMENTS, RHYTHMIC DANCE, AND THE…
Descriptors: Audiodisc Recordings, Budgets, Dance, Elementary Education
Fischer, Michael – 1990
This report describes the current spending priorities of the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Public Schools (MPS) and suggests how the same amount of money could be better spent on educating children. The report's major findings include the following: (1) of an average $6,451 expenditure per MPS pupil in 1989-90, only 26 percent finds its way into the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bureaucracy, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Equity (Finance)
Sumner, Gerald C.; And Others – 1979
This report on Compensatory Education (CE) examines the cost effectiveness of instructional programs and outcomes for reading and mathematics. Included are a description and comparison of services for elementary school students in Title I programs, other CE programs and regular instruction programs. Also reported are the results of student…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness
McBain, Susan L.; Lipe, Dewey – 1978
One of seven career education programs chosen for nationwide dissemination by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's Joint Dissemination Review Panel (JDRP), a Project Equality is being conducted for grades K-6 in Seattle, Washington. For the years 1973-78, it received both federal and state funding. Intended to reduce sex-role…
Descriptors: Career Education, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Evaluation. – 1973
Learning problems of 392,317 students in Texas were diagnosed as being severe enough to require special treatment under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Title I Regular, during the 1972-73 school year. This number, 14 percent of the 2.8 million students enrolled in public schools in Texas, represented a concentrated effort to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Mathematics Instruction
Gibboney (Richard A.) Associates, Inc., Kensington, MD. – 1978
This report describes the major outcomes of the Response to Educational Needs Project (RENP), a compensatory education program implemented by the Anacostia district of Washington, D.C. The problem of students falling further and further behind is discussed with particular reference to reading and mathematics achievement, training teachers to cope,…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness
Hess, Richard T.; Shore, Marietta Saravia – 1972
This content analysis schedule for the Bilingual Education Program of Espanola, New Mexico, presents information on the history, funding, and scope of the project. Included are sociolinguistic process variables such as the native and dominant languages of students and their interaction. Information is provided on staff selection and the linguistic…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development, Content Analysis
McGinley, Gerry P.
This document provides a step-by-step guide to assist administrators in implementing a career awareness development program on the elementary level. First the program is described by the four basic attitudes and ten overall objectives which underlie all the program activities. Then the administrative responsibilities are presented under the…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Articulation (Education), Career Awareness
