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Download full textBryant, Fred B. – 1984
Because research synthesis enables one to determine either the overall effectiveness of a particular treatment or the relative effectiveness of different types of treatments, it is becoming increasingly popular as a tool in program evaluation. Numerous methodological problems arise, however, when research synthesis is applied to studies conducted…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Effect Size, Evaluation Methods, Intervention
Walther, Regis H. – 1968
The experience of a research group in studying Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) programs provides the framework for a discussion of the methodological difficulties of conducting research on disadvantaged groups. However, the report does not deal with the programs and operations of NYC itself. Four problem areas are described: (1) criterion, program,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Data Collection, Disadvantaged, Experimental Groups
Greene, Jay P.; Peterson, Paul E. – 1996
In August 1996 Jay P. Greene, Paul E. Peterson, and Jiangtao Du, with Leesa Boeger and Curtis L. Frazier, issued a report called "The Effectiveness of School Choice in Milwaukee." The report, referred to as GPDBF, presented data that indicated that low-income minority students in their third and fourth years of participation in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Participant Characteristics
Jacobson, Louis; Petta, Ian – 2001
The utility of a quasi-experimental evaluation design for estimating benefits derived from a program to match job-seekers to openings listed by employers was examined in three studies of Job Service referrals and placements in Washington and Oregon. Data examined included a mail survey of a sample of 587 Washington residents referred to job…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Cost Effectiveness, Dislocated Workers, Employment Experience
Linn, Robert L. – 1978
The three RMC models endorsed by the U.S. Office of Education for the evaluation of Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I programs are based on narrowly conceived approaches to evaluation--the measurement of cognitive achievement gains. Each model requires the comparison of observed student performance with an estimate of what level of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Control Groups
PDF pending restorationIrvine, David J.; And Others – 1978
The New York State Experimental Prekindergarten Program (PreK) evaluation studied successive waves of children while they were in PreK, and as they progressed through the third grade. For each wave, two control groups were obtained: (1) A waiting-list control group, children in districts offering PreK programs who were identified as eligible for…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups
