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Achilles, C. M.; And Others – 1987
The Knoxville City Schools (KCS) Proficiency Project ran from fall 1984 to spring 1987 in three Knoxville, Tennessee, middle schools and three high schools. Students in three of the eight KCS high schools were scoring consistently lower than pupils in the other schools on the grade 9 State Proficiency Test, especially in math (M) and language arts…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Educational Improvement, Grade 9
Download full textCohen, Arthur M.; Brawer, Florence B. – 1981
After providing evidence of the decline of student academic ability and identifying some of the factors influencing this decline, this paper examines the role of community colleges in providing compensatory education for the growing population of students who are underprepared for college-level work. This examination begins by tracing the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, College Faculty, College Role
Lieberman, Janet E. – 1979
Designed as an alternative program to reduce absenteeism in four high schools in the Bronx, a career education and academic upgrading experiment placed sixty ninth graders in a special area of Bronx Community College. The students, recruited from among disadvantaged potential dropouts (mostly blacks and Hispanics), attended half-day sessions at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Basic Skills, Blacks
CONNERS, C. KEITH; WALLER, DAVID A. – 1966
IN A STUDY TO ASSESS THE VALUE OF A 1965 SUMMER HEAD START PROGRAM IN BALTIMORE, 83 PARTICIPATING CHILDREN WERE TESTED ON THE PEABODY PICTURE VOCABULARY TEST (PPVT) AND THE DRAW-A-PERSON (DAP), AND THEIR SCORES WERE COMPARED WITH THOSE OF A MATCHED GROUP OF CONTROL NON-HEAD START CHILDREN. ALL WERE TESTED IN SEPTEMBER 1965 (AT THE BEGINNING OF THE…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement Gains, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
Turner, W. E.; Bare, Janet – 1972
The Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I program described in this paper served 1550 educationally deprived pupils in 82 Kansas elementary and junior high schools during the 1971-1972 academic year. The primary goals of the reading program were to improve and upgrade word recognition and reading skills and to improve pupils' attitudes. The…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Primary Education
Peer reviewedKraska, Marie F.; And Others – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1990
Compares the grade point averages (GPA's) in mathematics and English of community college freshmen who completed developmental courses with those of students who took no remedial courses. Developmental students had significantly higher GPA's in college-level math than non-developmental students, and somewhat higher GPA's in college-level English.…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Course Evaluation
Garza, Nora R.; Gibbs, Linda – 1994
Findings of two doctoral research studies analyzing the organizational and instructional characteristics of successful reading and mathematics developmental programs in Texas community colleges are presented in this report. The first paper describes a 1989-90 analysis of developmental reading test scores to determine the characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Black Students, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Hispanic American Students
Clough, Dick B. – 1991
School reform efforts today have a personal focus that emphasizes attending to the problems faced by individual at-risk students. After outlining the impact of student dropouts, this document uses information from a review of 150 at-risk student programs described in related professional literature to describe six basic weaknesses in current…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Dropout Prevention, Early Intervention, Educational Administration
Illinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1983
As part of a review of policies and procedures regarding postsecondary remedial education, the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) administered two surveys in fall 1982. The first survey sampled 10% of the students who had transferred to the state's public universities from a community college in fall 1979 to determine why transfer students…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
LaPaglia, Nancy – 1990
In response to statewide reductions in funding for remedial college programs, the English and speech faculty at Daley College (DC) developed and implemented a special block program in fall 1988 for remedial/developmental students. The goal of the program is to prepare remedial students for college-level work within the 30 hours of remediation…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Awareness
Bengis, Laraine – 1986
The Prefreshman Summer Program for academically and economically handicapped students at the City University of New York (CUNY) was evaluated in 1985 and compared to previous evaluations. The voluntary, 6-week transitional program provides intensive basic skills instruction, tutoring, counseling, and financial aid to incoming students who fail to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, College Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs
Scorza, Margaret H.; And Others – 1988
In its first year under Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act funding, the Chinese Bilingual Career Awareness Program served 265 Chinese-speaking students with limited English proficiency in two New York City junior high schools. The project's main goals were to improve student skills in English, increase content-area achievement…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Career Exploration, Chinese Americans, Computer Literacy
Opperman, Prudence; And Others – 1983
The Promotional Gates Program was initiated in the New York City Public Schools in order to set and maintain citywide curriculum and performance standards, identify students unable to meet the minimum standards, and provide remedial instruction. Under this program, the promotional policy sets "gates" at grades 4 and 7; students unable to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade Repetition, Grade 4
Beitler, Lorraine – 1976
In an effort to bring entering allied health students to college-level reading ability, a Science Reading Program based on the theory that adult learners will be more motivated to improve reading skills if material is related to career preparation was designed, implemented, and evaluated. After pre-testing on the Nelson-Denny Reading Test (Form…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Colleges, Content Area Reading, Developmental Programs
Scott, Elois M. Skeen – 1978
This paper presents a random sampling of responses to a questionnaire that was sent to teachers in the program. The organization of this report is developed around a statement of each question followed by an analysis of the responses. Taken into consideration are respondents' attitudes toward student selection, inservice programs, materials and…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Compensatory Education, Cooperating Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
