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Download full textClark, Sara H. – 1974
Two Basic Skill Centers were set up on 1968 to help inner city students improve their reading skills. The Centers were supported mainly by the Minneapolis Public Schools although ESEA Title I funds provided teacher aides. This report covers the sixth year's operation of the project. Substantial changes in the Centers' operations are described. The…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Testing
Clark, Sara H. – 1974
Two Basic Skill Centers were set up in 1969 to help inner city students improve their reading skills. The centers were supported mainly by the Minneapolis Public Schools although ESEA Title I funds provided teacher aides. This report covers the fifth year's operation of the project. Substantial changes made in the centers' operations are…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Testing
Lore, Rosemary; Chamberlain, Ed – 1990
Designed to improve underachieving high school students' reading and communication skills, the Secondary Reading Program, formerly the Secondary Developmental Reading Program; served 597 ninth, tenth, and eleventh graders in 12 Columbus, Ohio, public schools. Funding was made available through the Ohio Disadvantaged Pupil Program Fund (DPPF). For…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Compensatory Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, High School Students
Vazquez-Nuttall Associates, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1981
Boston's Title I Early Childhood/Jackson Mann Developmental Program is discussed in this interim evaluation report (1980-81). The purpose of the Early Childhood component, which serves about 1000 4-year-olds (kindergarten I) and 5-year-olds (kindergarten II) is to raise the level of educational achievement among children identified as needing…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Communication Skills, Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education
McDaniel, Charles, Jr.; Davis, Alta – 1989
The West Virginia Department of Education created and implemented a computer-assisted summer remediation program for Job Training Partnership Act-eligible students who were academically deficient. The curriculum had four components: mathematics computation, reading comprehension, personal guidance, and career exploration. Sites in 12 county school…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Computer Assisted Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
PDF pending restorationLore, Rosemary; Chamberlain, Ed – 1989
Designed to improve underachieving high school students' reading and communication skills, the Secondary Reading Program served 595 ninth, tenth, and eleventh graders in 12 Columbus, Ohio, public schools. Funding was made available through the Ohio Disadvantaged Pupil Program Fund (DPPF). Thirteen teachers participated in the 1987-88 program,…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Compensatory Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, High School Students
Guerrero, Frank; Stevens, Joy – 1990
The Chapter 1 Corrective Mathematics program provided supplementary, individualized instruction in mathematics using both face-to-face instruction and computer-assisted instruction (CAI) for eligible students attending nonpublic schools in New York City. The objective for the 1988-89 Corrective Mathematics Program was that students would achieve…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Mathematics Education
Balmuth, Miriam – 1986
Interviews were conducted with 4 members of the Task Force of the Adult Beginning Reader Project, 6 program officials, and 13 heads of adult basic education (ABE) programs; site visits were made to two ongoing ABE programs; and the literature pertaining to adult literacy programs in this country was reviewed in order to identify factors associated…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Counseling Services
Skinner, Elizabeth Fisk; Carter, Stephen – 1987
A study was conducted of remedial education programs in community and junior colleges and technical institutes in Texas to produce baseline data on the current range of remedial education practices and to assess the outcomes achieved. Every two-year college in the state (N=62) participated in the study, providing information on policies and…
Descriptors: College Credits, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing
Hobbs, Ruby L., Comp. – 1988
This report on the effectiveness of Shelby State Community College's (SSCC) Academic and Developmental Services (A/D) Program consists primarily of statistical tables that describe three cohorts of full- and part-time students; i.e., those currently enrolled students who entered the college in fall 1985, 1986, or 1987. Data are presented on basic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Basic Skills, Community Colleges
Gampert, Richard D. – 1989
The 1982-83 school year was the second year of the New York City (New York) Public Schools Promotional Gates Program. Under this program students in grades four and seven who failed to attain their promotional criteria (in both reading and mathematics) were retained for a year of intensive remedial instruction. This report is the result of a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Grade Placement, Dropout Prevention, Grade Repetition
Briggs, Linda – 1987
The GO Project was created at Sacramento City College (SCC) to help underprepared students achieve success in a transfer-level sociology course, while improving their reading, writing, and study skills. Throughout the fall semester, students in the GO Project engaged in reading, essay writing, and study skills practice which focused on the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Madhere, Serge – 1986
One of the most appropriate quasiexperimental approaches to compensatory education is the regression-discontinuity design. However, it remains underutilized, in part because of the need to clarify the link between the mathematical model and administrative decision-making. This paper explains the derivation of a program efficiency index congruent…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cutting Scores, Effect Size, Elementary Education
Community School District 27, Queens, NY. – 1979
Results of the evaluation of Title I and Impact Aid programs conducted in District 27, Queens, New York, are presented in this report. Program components described include: (1) reading resource centers organized in 14 Title I elementary schools and 4 junior high and intermediate schools as well as the Impact Guidance Program operated in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Compensatory Education, Diagnostic Teaching
Scott, Elois Skeen – 1979
This paper lists the questions presented to and discusses the responses of math teachers, reading teachers, helping teachers, home-school teachers and principals regarding the effectiveness of Title I math and reading programs. Taken into consideration are respondents' attitudes toward student selection, inservice programs, materials and supplies,…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Compensatory Education, Cooperating Teachers, Inservice Education
