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Petrosino, Anthony; Guckenburg, Sarah; Fronius, Trevor – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2012
Background: Schools experience a wide range of crime and disorder, victimizing students and staff, and undermining attempts to create a safe and orderly environment for student learning. Police have long established programs with schools, but there has been no systematic review of evaluations of these programs, outside of police-led prevention…
Descriptors: Evidence, Quasiexperimental Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Effectiveness
Eastwood, Kenneth W. – 1991
In 1984 the State of New York mandated participation in the Comprehensive School Improvement Program (CSIP) for elementary schools that ranked in the bottom 9 percent on statewide student competency exams. To discern the overall effectiveness of the program and identify why it appeared to succeed in some schools and fail in others, the changes in…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Improvement, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Education
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Kaufman, Arthur; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1989
The University of New Mexico established an innovative learner-centered, problem-based, community-oriented medical education program that runs parallel to the traditional program. The programs both fostered acceptance of the experiment and permitted comparison of results. The innovation resulted in higher achievement and reinforced interest in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Educational Change