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Nelson, Michael C.; Cordray, David S.; Hulleman, Chris S.; Darrow, Catherine L.; Sommer, Evan C. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
An educational intervention's effectiveness is judged by whether it produces positive outcomes for students, with the randomized controlled trial (CRT) as a valuable tool for determining intervention effects. However, the intervention-as-implemented in an experiment frequently differs from the intervention-as-designed, making it unclear whether…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Experimental Programs
Byram, Harold M. – 1971
In a proposed five-state demonstration, the four states of Arkansas, Minnesota, Mississippi and Nevada implemented a local system of directing evaluations of vocational/technical education programs in public schools. The emphasis was on both the training of local leaders by state leaders and direction of evaluation programs by local leaders. Using…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Demonstration Programs, Evaluation Methods, Generalization
Owens, Thomas R. – 1977
This final evaluation report describes and summarizes the evaluation findings for the 1976-77 school year of the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory (NWREL) Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) Program. Following an executive summary, the report is organized into five chapters, plus a separate volume of appendixes. Chapter I summarizes the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Community Involvement, Cooperative Education
Storlie, Theodore R.; And Others – 1978
A two-stage model for early identification and selection of gifted children in kindergarden through grade 3 was successfully developed for the Walker Full-time Gifted Program in the Flint, Michigan Community Schools. Using the Nominative Group Process of interactive decision-making, project participants, school administrators, school…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Advanced Programs, Check Lists, Community Involvement
Collett, Dave – 1978
A longitudinal study was undertaken in Alberta to pilot an evaluation model which was devised by Robert E. Stake and which could provide feedback on the merit and effectiveness of vocational education in the provincial high school curriculum. Using both student records and questionnaires administered to the students, information was gathered over…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Planning, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Sanders, James H.; Bertram, Charles L. – 1973
The evaluation summary covers the first year's operation of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program. The report's first section describes the student, employer-related, and parent-related goals of the program; program operation and costs; and replication concerns (transportation, costs per…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Educational Programs
Colon, Jesus M.; Gonzalez, Jose R. – 1975
In this evaluation of the first year of the Exemplary Career Education Project for K-12 in Puerto Rico, the results of testing and interviewing school personnel and students in grades 1-2 and 7-9 at six regional pilot sites are reported. Six areas of student development are recognized by the evaluation questions: self awareness, basic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Development, Career Education, Decision Making Skills
Lipe, Dewey; Justiz, Tom – 1978
This description of career education activities in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was prepared as part of a study conducted to identify evaluated, exemplary career education activities which represent the best of the current career education programs and practices referred to in Public Law 93-380. (See CE 018 212 for the final report of this study.)…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Involvement, Demonstration Programs, Educational Assessment
Monaghan, Anne Coolidge – 1976
To clarify the relationship between an educational innovation and its setting, a pilot study was conducted in three schools which housed the Follow Through Program. Personal interviews were conducted with approximately fifteen Follow Through and non-Follow Through administrators, teachers, and associates who had some contact with the program.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Compensatory Education
Eberts, Randall W. – Employment Research, 2001
In January 1998-March 2000, a new statistical assessment and referral system to improve the job retention of welfare recipients participating in welfare-to-work programs was piloted in the welfare-to-work program serving two counties in southwestern Michigan. The assessment and referral system is based on statistical methods and uses…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Data Analysis, Decision Making, Demonstration Programs
Hamilton, Jack A.; Ross, John D. – 1978
This description of career education activities in the Highline Public Schools (Seattle, Washington) was prepared as part of a study conducted to identify evaluated, exemplary career education activities which represent the best of the current career education programs and practices referred to in Public Law 93-380. (See CE 018 212 for the final…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Community Involvement, Curriculum Development
Office of Inspector General (DOL), Washington, DC. – 2001
The Department of Labor (DOL), Employment and Training Administration (ETA), awarded its final round of Job Training Partnership Act, Title IV, Pilot and Demonstration Grant Program funds for the Youth Opportunity Area Out-of-School Youth (YOA OSY) program in April 1999. Four of the 5 programs were audited in 2000. This audit is a follow-up to the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Accountability, Adult Education, Audits (Verification)