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Download full textMerkel-Keller, Claudia – 1987
In preparation for the mandatory administration of the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) that was to begin with ninth graders in 1986, a pilot program was conducted with ninth graders who had done poorly on the HSPT during its second, nonmandatory administration in 1985. Approximately 125 students were selected (25 in each of five…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Employment Programs
Anderson, Betty N.; Bower, JoAnn C. – 1986
The Louisiana Department of Education provides formalized preschool programs for handicapped children in 65 public schools, with 40 of those programs serving sparsely populated areas. The statewide program was evaluated from January 1985 to June 1986 using a multiple-model research design that included data collection via 39 program visits, 59…
Descriptors: Child Development, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Educational Benefits
Wilson, James L. – 1986
This report describes how successful statewide programs of educational standards and assessment are established and briefly discusses causes of program failure. Four key stages characterize effective program establishment: (1) planning, (2) development, (3) implementation, and (4) monitoring. Planning involves interaction among all parties, for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Responsibility, Board of Education Role, Cooperative Planning
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1988
The statewide overview of Texas bilingual and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) programs for limited-English-speaking public school students reports results of a survey concerning program and student characteristics and successful instructional practices. Data for bilingual and ESL programs are considered separately. Student characteristics…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Classroom Research, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Iowa State Univ. of Science and Technology, Ames. Dept. of Industrial Education. – 1982
The Iowa High School Curriculum Project was initiated to improve secondary industrial arts programs in Iowa. Phase I of the project addressed the following objectives: (1) completion of a review of courses, topics, concepts, skills, and attitudes currently taught and considered desirable to teach in secondary industrial arts programs; (2)…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives
Foth, Lawrence; Dunlap, Joyce – 1984
This report on vocational education in Kansas covers the following four areas: evaluation of programs, services, and activities proposed in the state plan for the year under review; analysis of policies for distribution of Federal funds; review of the state's evaluation activities; and assessment of the extent to which employment and training…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Annual Reports, Education Work Relationship, Educational Finance
Robertson, James M. – 1983
In Fiscal Year 1983 Louisiana's allotment for the education of children of migratory workers ($6,111,277) was used to conduct 37 regular school term programs and 15 summer school programs. An estimated 13,800 migrant children were served during the 1982-83 school year. Of all migrant children enrolled in Louisiana schools, 52.6% received services…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agency Cooperation, Compensatory Education, County School Districts
Evans, Donald E.; Easter, Glen W. – 1981
A project was designed to help beginning and experienced teachers of vocational agriculture learn and/or become current in the practice of present paravetical competencies that are needed to teach adult students. Specific objectives of the project included providing teachers with the skills necessary to teach students via laboratory demonstrations…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Animal Husbandry, Competency Based Teacher Education
Jones, Earl; And Others – 1980
Designed to assist California policy and decision makers with planning to meet the future educational needs of limited-English speaking (LES) and non-English speaking (NES) students, this study was undertaken: (1) to describe and analyze the implementation of all areas of the legislatively required services to LES/NES children, and the structures…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Ancillary School Services
DuVall, Charles R.; And Others – 1980
A study examined the educational benefits and costs of the adult general education/basic education mobile van project designed to provide access to adult basic education and general education programs for citizens of Indiana. An evaluation team interviewed all available persons (including Indiana Office of Occupational Development directors;…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education
Tyler, Ralph W.; And Others – 1978
The panel which conducted this study was invited by the Florida Teaching Profession--National Education Association (NEA) and the NEA to assess the educational soundness of implementation of the Florida Accountability Act. The panel felt that the overall purpose of the accountability program was praiseworthy, but that the minimum competency…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Basic Skills
ROBY, WALLACE – 1967
THIS REPORT SUMMARIZES EVALUATION OF PROGRAMS FOR DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUNDED UNDER CONNECTICUT PUBLIC ACT 523 IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN TOWNS NOT SERVED BY TITLE I OF THE 1965 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT. IN GENERAL, THE PROGRAMS ATTEMPTED TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS' READING, LANGUAGE ARTS, AND BASIC SKILLS AND TO CHANGE THEIR…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Ancillary Services, Attitude Change, Basic Skills
National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Washington, DC. – 1979
One- to four-page summaries are presented of fifty-seven of the 1978 annual reports of the State Advisory Councils of Vocational Education. Most of the reports, which are arranged alphabetically by state, address the effectiveness of vocational education programs, services, and activities in meeting the objectives as set forth in the state plan…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Vocational Education, Advisory Committees, Annual Reports
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1975
Adult basic education programs in California, Illinois, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia were reviewed to assess the progress made by the programs in reducing illiteracy. The programs' management was also evaluated. It was found that although some positive achievements have been made, the program successfully reaches only a small fraction of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (DOT), Washington, DC. – 1975
A nationwide systematic approach to assess the developments and achievements of highway safety activities was conducted to measure program outputs from 1969 through 1974 using key indicators of performance such as ratios and percentages. A sample of 10 states was selected with overall sample of 105 local jurisdictions which would provide estimated…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Alcoholism, Driver Education, Law Enforcement
