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Promises, Pitfalls, and Tradeoffs in Identifying Gifted Learners: Evidence from a Curricular Experiment. EdWorkingPaper No. 22-603
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Angel H. Harris; Darryl V. Hill; Matthew A. Lenard – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
Disparities in gifted representation across demographic subgroups represents a large and persistent challenge in U.S. public schools. In this paper, we measure the impacts of a school-wide curricular intervention designed to address such disparities. We implemented Nurturing for a Bright Tomorrow (NBT) as a cluster randomized trial across…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Talent Identification, Academically Gifted, Gifted Education
Choice of Personal Assistance Services Providers by Medicare Beneficiaries Using a Consumer-Directed Benefit: Rural-Urban Differences
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Meng, Hongdao; Friedman, Bruce; Wamsley, Brenda R.; Van Nostrand, Joan F.; Eggert, Gerald M. – Journal of Rural Health, 2010
Purpose: To examine the impact of an experimental consumer-choice voucher benefit on the selection of independent and agency personal assistance services (PAS) providers among rural and urban Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities. Methods: The Medicare Primary and Consumer-Directed Care Demonstration enrolled 1,605 Medicare beneficiaries in 19…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Rural Urban Differences, Counties, Probability
Implementation and Design Issues in Group-Randomized Prevention Trials: Lessons from the Youth Matters Public Schools Study
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Jenson, Jeffrey M.; Dieterich, William A.; Rinner, Jenifer R.; Washington, Felicia; Burgoyne, Kathleen E. – Children & Schools, 2006
Group-randomized trials (GRTs)--studies that evaluate the efficacy or effectiveness of interventions occurring at the group level--are increasingly used to assess the effects of school-based prevention programs on behavioral outcomes of children and adolescents. These designs pose many implementation and design challenges for school…
Descriptors: Prevention, Research Problems, Program Design, Program Effectiveness
Linking Program Implementation and Effectiveness: Lessons from a Pooled Sample of Welfare-to-Work Experiments
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Bloom, Howard S.; Hill, Carolyn J.; Riccio, James A. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003
This paper addresses the question: How does implementation influence the effectiveness of mandatory welfare-to-work programs? Data from three large-scale, multi-site random assignment experiments were pooled; quantitative measures of program implementation were constructed; and multilevel statistical modeling was used to examine the relationship…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Welfare Recipients, Welfare Services
When Push Comes to Shove: Enacting Demonstration Programs at the Local Level.
Kagan, Sharon L. – 1978
This paper explores, from the perspective of a local practitioner, phases and effects of implementing a national education demonstration project at the local level. The pivotal role of the locality, its history and its economic realities, is emphasized. Drawing from her experience in planning and implementing a demonstration effort in a…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Characteristics, Demonstration Programs, Educational Innovation
The Block Plan. An Alternative Approach to the Needs of Junior High School Students. Final Report 1981.
Sigurdson, Sol E. – 1981
The effectiveness of the Block Plan, developed and implemented by the seventh grade students at Edith Rogers Junior High School in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) was investigated. The Block Plan uses the concept of a pair of teachers assigned to two classes of students for the homeroom period plus a pair of teachers assigned for each of four academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Attendance, Curriculum Development