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Robinson, Ann; Cotabish, Alicia; Wood, Betty K.; O'Tuel, Fran S. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2014
When well-considered and grounded in current knowledge, program evaluations of services to gifted learners can be a powerful tool for increasing practitioners' knowledge and self-efficacy, and for effecting positive programmatic changes. The Arkansas Evaluation Initiative (AEI) in Gifted Education, a Jacob K. Javits-funded project, was implemented…
Descriptors: Gifted, Program Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Attitude Change
LaRocco, Diana J.; Murdica, Perri – Online Submission, 2009
The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (Hall & Hord, 2006) is one tool educational leaders can use to understand the process of change and teachers' stage-related concerns when implementing innovations. This paper presents select findings from a comparative case study of two urban elementary schools in which changes in teachers' reports of their…
Descriptors: Intervention, Adoption (Ideas), Comparative Analysis, Disability Identification
Hatcher, Catherine W.; Strathe, Marlene I. – 1982
This evaluation study was conducted to determine the impact of the Title I project and its relationship to the district educational program. The achievement gains by grade levels of students who participated in Title I were presented on graphs in normal curve equivalent (NCE) units. The positive impact of the program was illustrated by NCE gains…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Stroble, Elizabeth; Bratcher, Suzanne – 1990
This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the National Writing Project model in a rural setting, specifically the schools served by the Northern Arizona Writing Project in its first 2 years of operation. The evaluation was conducted to determine: (1) the teachers' concerns about writing process instruction before training in the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Process Education