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Download full textGraham, Lorraine; Pegg, John – Online Submission, 2010
This paper reports data from the evaluation of the numeracy component of a long-running educational intervention, covering the period from 2001 to 2008. "QuickSmart" is both an intervention and research project operating in Australian schools. It is a structured intervention program designed for middle-school students (ages 10 to 13…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Intervention, Numeracy, Achievement Tests
Bell, Dennis; And Others – Illinois Journal of Education, 1970
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Basic Skills, Educational Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1976
The state-funded compensatory education program instituted in the Austin Independent School District in Texas in 1975 consisted of a basic skills component (communication skills/reading and math) for students meeting ESEA Title I criteria, and a bilingual component designed to mesh with the ESEA Title VII Bilingual Project. Enthusiasm for the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education
Barnes, Nancy Marie; Gehringer, Jean – 1978
This paper is one in a series of four describing a boy-oriented program for elementary school children. It describes a "boy-oriented" classroom, playground, and extracurricular activities; a staff-development program; and development of a "boy-oriented" program package for dissemination purposes. It presents an evaluation of the program showing…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Educational Research, Low Achievement
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1979
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I evaluations submitted by local education agencies to the Virginia Department of Education are compiled in this report to summarize statewide Title I implementation during the 1977-78 school year and summer. An overall summary of Title I programs is presented in narrative form, as are descriptions…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Marsh, James D. – Ind Arts Vocat Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Interdisciplinary Approach, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation
Vermont State Dept. of Education, Montpelier. – 1966
PRESENTED ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF 18 TYPICAL PROJECTS IN VERMONT WHICH WERE DEVELOPED WITH ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT TITLE I FUNDS. ARRANGED BY CITY OR TOWN, EACH BRIEF PROJECT RESUME PRESENTS A STATEMENT ABOUT THE NEED AND SUBSTANTIATION (BASELINE DATA), TITLE, PROJECT DESCRIPTION, PROPOSED EVALUATION METHODS, AND COST. OVERALL, THE…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Needs
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1978
This source book provides brief descriptions of exemplary Title I, Elementary and Secondary Education Act programs that have been approved for dissemination as of November of 1977. For each project the following sets of data are provided: (1) the target audience of the program, (2) a description, (3) tests administered to program participants and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Innovation
Peer reviewedSyropoulow, Mike – ERS Spectrum, 1996
Discusses research on successful support programs for potential dropouts. Describes a Detroit high school's Ninth Grade Project 96 program, an intervention strategy for high-risk, low-achieving students. The program used a modified block schedule; attendance, academic, and monitoring interventions; incentives and rewards; and team teachers.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Dropout Prevention, Grade 9, High Risk Students
Peer reviewedBaker, Terry L. – Music Educators Journal, 1978
The Open City project of East Harlem in New York City, an early childhood, reading-through-the-arts program reflects ten years of arts in general education theory building. Describes this program and how it has developed the reading ability of young children. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Basic Skills, Decoding (Reading), Early Childhood Education
Peer reviewedChowdhury, A. M. R.; And Others – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, 1994
Describes Assessment of Basic Competencies (ABC), a methodology for measuring writing, arithmetic, and selected life skills that is simple, inexpensive, and easy to reproduce. Provides results of a pilot implementation of ABC among 2,100 children in Bangladesh between the ages of 11 and 12. (35 citations) (MAB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Developing Nations, Early Adolescents
Gold, Ann Meyerson – 1976
This booklet describes and evaluates the Economic Opportunity Atlanta Inc. Reading/Math Basic Skills Learning Center operating in 14 Atlanta public schools for approximately 1,200 low achieving pupils. The basic concept of the Learning Centers was to provide pupils with the opportunity to improve their basic skills in reading or mathematics…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cost Effectiveness, Learning Laboratories, Mathematics
Coons, Daniel E. – 1976
The nationwide problem of declining communication skills is evident in the large numbers of students entering college with deficiencies in reading, writing, and speaking skills. This paper discusses the operation of a communication skills program within a college communication skills center which functions as a supportive resource service and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Higher Education, Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedCarter, C. Douglas; Adams, James A. – Music Educators Journal, 1978
The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools have developed a program called Arts in the Basic Curriculum. Together with five other cities they formed a league committed to developing an arts in general education program. The mission of the schools was to assure students the right to develop their potential through an interdisciplinary approach to…
Descriptors: Art Education, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Curriculum
Presley, John W. – 1981
In 1974, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia created the developmental studies program in response to a growing number of entering freshmen who were inadequately prepared for curricula assuming mastery of the basic skills. Early attempts to evaluate developmental programs in Georgia simply used standard survey techniques to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Developmental Studies Programs, English Instruction
