Intended for use in curriculum planning, course development, and program evaluation, this report contains data from a study of the writing abilities of entering freshman students at the University of Texas at El Paso. The first chapter of the report provides background information concerning the need for systematic assessment of the writing…

Comprehensive Arts Planning Program (CAPP) grants were awarded to 30 school districts in Minnesota to improve their arts education programs. Each district formed a community-based team of eight persons. Each team was then responsible for planning developing, and promoting comprehensive arts education within the district. Following a brief…

Recognizing the necessity of cooperation between human service organizations and schools in dealing with child abuse, a collaborative teacher inservice model has been developed in Calgary, Canada. In addition to staff development mechanisms in the Calgary school districts, the University of Calgary has established an inservice project on treatment…

During the 1980-81 school term, educational services were provided to 2,893 migrant children (pre-K-12) in 34 school districts in 12 counties. Identification and recruitment was conducted by local project schools and recruiters. Services were provided in reading, language arts, and math. Data revealed that 1,039 students received services in…

This report, devoted to the ethnographic study component of the Child and Family Resource Program (CFRP) evaluation, consists of three major sections. The first section outlines the rationale for employing ethnographic research in evaluating the effects and effectiveness of CFRP and describes study methodology, including examinations of the…

A longitudinal evaluation of the Child and Family Resource Program (CFRP) was conducted to describe programs and their operations, identify program models, link family outcomes to participation or nonparticipation, and relate family outcomes to aspects of CFRP treatment and family characteristics. An experimental design supplemented by descriptive…

Four training courses developed under the Job-Oriented Basic Skills (JOBS) program were evaluated to determine whether they could compensate for the skill deficiencies of lower aptitude Navy personnel. The JOBS program was designed for personnel who scored in the lower mental aptitude categories on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery to…

In 1980, the Texas Tech University Teacher Corps offered a professional development program for elementary and secondary school teachers in Lubbock, Texas designed to help teachers gain new research knowledge and skills. The program was patterned after the Interactive Research and Development model, a strategy providing research experience through…

Evaluation results of 1981 compensatory education programs for first through sixth graders in Baltimore, Maryland public and private schools are presented in this report. The program provided compensatory reading, mathematics, and language instruction for educationally disadvantaged students, and made available supportive guidance and health…

Based on information in Department of Education files and further comments from former project directors, this historical review of projects funded from fiscal years 1978 to 1981 under Title II-C of the Higher Education Act (HEA II-C) of 1965, as amended in 1976, looks at projects in collection development, preservation and conservation of major…

The most difficult problems in bilingual education evaluation are disagreement over what evaluation is and how it is done; the debate over what bilingual education is and how a program is planned and operated locally; and the nature of bilingual education itself, which creates problems in assessment and design methodology. General information is…

Three writing projects in the state of Oregon, each of which uses a different approach to the teaching of writing, are described in this report. The first section of the report deals with the Coos County ESD Composition Improvement Project, which focuses on writing as a three-step process involving prewriting, writing, and postwriting. The section…

In 1979, the Teachers' Centers Exchange, working through the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, began a program that provided financial awards for the conduct of collaborative research on exemplary teachers' centers practices. From September 1979 through March 1982, 15 teachers' centers participated in 14 research…

A study hypothesized that there was a general tendency among parents for less positive evaluation of their school or school district than is forthcoming from teachers. Using a revised version of Oaster's Parent and Teacher Attitude Scales, data were collected from 35 teachers and 35 parents in an inner-city elementary school. Opinions were sought…

This summary evaluation report is designed to (1) give an indication of how Oklahoma achieves the goals of Federal programs; (2) increase understanding of various Federal programs; and (3) show the degree of achievement of the goals of the State-Federal Programs Division. The following programs are described: Adult Basic Education; Arts in…