The document consists of a 125-item evaluation instrument for use in assessing the overall plan and quality of programs in the area of serious emotional disturbance (SED) or behavior disorders. Questions are organized according to the following nine categories (based on identified components of a well-designed SED program): (1) respondent and…

A research investigation on how teachers actually implement team teaching focused upon individual teachers and how they used the innovation. The research was based on the Concerns-Based Adoption Model. The model proposes eight Levels of Use and common to all these Levels are seven categories that represent behaviors a user at any level might be…

The methodology and findings of the Law-Related Education Project's research reports which evaluated the effects on secondary students of law-related education (LRE), are discussed. A response to James P. Shaver's negative critique of the Law-Related Education Project's research studies also is provided. A detailed account of the research results…

Thirteen papers were selected from presentations made at a 1985 multidisciplinary conference on programing for adolescents with behavior disorders. The following papers are included: "Adolescent Needs and Behavior in the Schools: Current and Historical Perspectives" (S. Braaten); "Programs for Adolescents: What Works and Why?" (J. Lipsitz);…

This study, part of the Colorado Science Meta-Analysis Project, was designed to assess the effectiveness of teacher education programs on preservice and inservice teachers having as measured outcomes one or more variables associated with inquiry teaching. Inquiry teaching within the context of the study addresses teacher behaviors facilitating…

A survey was conducted of junior and senior high school area teachers in the Rahway (New Jersey) public school system to determine what effect, if any, the two reading courses required by the state for all prospective teachers have had on the reading skills they teach. The questionnaire was composed of 80 multiple-choice statements and…

The Adolescent Diversion Project, an alternative to court processing for juvenile offenders, employs intervention strategies of behavioral contracting and advocacy. Youth (N=73) were assigned to one of three conditions: (1) the control group receiving usual court treatment; (2) the family condition involving a trained undergraduate volunteer who…

Six months after a public speaking workshop was conducted for 15 business executives, the participants were interviewed to determine the longitudinal effects of the training. The interviews were designed to find out which participants reported the greatest behavioral change, whether the training produced any carry-over effects, and what aspects of…

Bucks County Community College's Department of Basic Studies is a comprehensive developmental education program which involves work for credit in basic academic skills--reading and study skills, writing and mathematics. In addition, special counseling is given to students in order to change negative habits and attitudes, and to develop a more…

This paper describes a portion of the Kennedy Youth Center program concerned with motivating previously intractable sociopathic youths in the academic and industrial arts schools. Male delinquents considered uneducable in traditional education programs, have been advanced two years in the one year they spent as participants in the differential…

The Perry Preschool Project in Ypsilanti, Michigan, is structured so that a group of disadvantaged 3-year-old Negro children begin a 2-year preschool program each year. The program was originally very verbal-learning oriented but has recently been modified to make use of Piaget's cognitive development theories. From the beginning of the program…

An evaluation of the Educational Diagnostic and Planning Center of Cheyenne is presented. Data and summaries report administrator, teacher, and parent opinion and reaction for spring of 1967, summer 1967, and spring 1968. In general, the responses were reported as favorable, but the needs of decreasing the time lag between referral, treatment, and…

The report deals with the program evaluation of the Pierre Indian boarding school located in South Dakota. The evaluation project was concerned with 3 major objectives: (1) an examination of the 1972-73 school program using a 5 stage model; (2) "backup and start over" assessment; (3) possible alternatives which may be derived from the…

Conducted on over 3,000 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade children in six states, this study documents changes in nutrition-related knowledge and behaviors which can be related to participating in the Mulligan Stew television series. This volume is a detailed elaboration of the study findings as well as a description of the study design,…

Traces the effects on young people through age 15 of three well-implemented preschool curriculum models--the High/Scope model, the Distar model, and a model in the nursery school tradition. (HOD)