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Welch, Doug – 2001
As part of its Jobs Initiative (JI) program in six metropolitan areas Denver, Milwaukee, New Orleans, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Seattle the Annie E. Casey Foundation sought to develop and test a method for establishing benchmarks for workforce development agencies. Data collected from 10 projects in the JI from April through March, 2000,…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Comparative Analysis, Employment Programs, Enrollment
Bloom, Dan; Scrivener, Susan; Michalopoulos, Charles; Morris, Pamela; Hendra, Richard; Adams-Ciardullo, Diana; Walter, Johanna – 2002
An evaluation of Jobs First (JF) compared the experiences of JF participants who were subject to welfare reform policies with those of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) participants who were subject to prior welfare rules. It collected information for four years about JF's impacts on participants' children and analyzed its financial…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Adults, Children
Miller-Whitehead, Marie; Abbott, Gypsy – 2001
The efficacy and outcomes of a U.S. Department of Agriculture Nutrition Education Training (NET) project designed to increase awareness of health risk and wellness factors for grade 9 students were studied. This paper comments on results from a survey of 125 ninth graders about the NET curriculum and results from a study of program impact on…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Community Attitudes, Community Change, Curriculum
McConnell, Sheena; Glazerman, Steven – 2001
A benefit-cost analysis of the Job Corps program compared groups randomly assigned to either enroll in the program or to constitute a control group that did not enroll. Youth who participated in the study were those found eligible for Job Corps nationwide between November 1994 and February 1996. Interviews with participants and the assignment of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cost Effectiveness, Crime, Crime Prevention
Herrera, Carla – Public/Private Ventures, 2004
With traditional mentoring programs working hard to attract new kinds of volunteers and schools facing increased pressure to help students succeed, school-based mentoring is a promising--and increasingly popular--approach. According to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the number of school-based matches grew from 27,000 in 1999 to 90,000 in…
Descriptors: Mentors, Surveys, Evaluation Methods, Predictor Variables
Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, 2005
The purpose of this Guide is to provide Mathematics and Science Partnership (MSP) project officials and evaluators with clear, practical advice on how to conduct rigorous evaluations of MSP projects at low cost. Specifically, this is a how-to Guide designed to enable MSP grantees and evaluators of MSP projects to answer questions about the…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Science Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Science Teachers
Frankel, Carole N. – 1994
To address the special second language learning needs of deaf college students, a project was undertaken at Gallaudet University (District of Columbia), the world's only four-year liberal arts university for the deaf, to create 36 videotaped lessons in grammar, signed in American Sign Language, for first-year French and Spanish instruction. The…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, College Second Language Programs, Communication Problems, Deafness
Foucar-Szocki, Diane; Erno, Susan; Dilley, Sarah; Grant, Suzanne Poore; Hildebrandt, Nancy; Leonard, Mimi Stout; Smith, Greg – 1997
A study examined the extent to which Virginia Professional Development System (VPDS) components met practitioner needs and the degree to which they constituted an inquiry-based professional development system. Interviews with over 50 Virginia Institute for Lifelong Learning (VAILL) participants focused on their use of the Centers for Professional…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Adult Education, Adult Educators
Woloszyk, Carl A. – 1997
A cross-cutting analysis and examination of programs and services offered to at-risk students in the Michigan School-to-Work (STW) system used data from the STW Progress Measures Survey and Local Partnership Survey. Qualitative data were collected through focus group and individual interviews in seven Michigan Workforce Development Board (WDB)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Advisory Committees, Advocacy, Education Work Relationship
Bounds, Betsy; Gould, Albert – 1997
A model program was developed and implemented by the Tucson Unified School District in Arizona to establish a family-school partnership to improve the educational achievement of at-risk preschool students. Program participants included 411 at-risk students, 405 families, and 25 staff members. The program, entitled Families First, provided…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Demonstration Programs, Family Programs, Family School Relationship
Arlington County Public Schools, VA. REEP, Arlington Education and Employment Program. – 1994
The Arlington (Virginia) Adult Learning System (AALS), a program designed to link resources and enhance services of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) providers, is described. The AALS is a consortium in which an adult education provider (the public school system) coordinates efforts of its own organization with a community-based organization, a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Community Organizations, Consortia
Hopp, Mary Ann; Horn, Cheryl L.; McGraw, Kelleen; Meyer, Jenny – 2000
When elementary and middle level students lack effective problem-solving skills, they may make poor behavior choices in social conflicts, contributing to a negative learning and instructional environment. This action research project evaluated the impact of using social skills instruction to improve students' ability to solve problems related to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Children
University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo. – 1997
This report describes the Productivity Training Project (PTP), a partnership between the University of Southern Colorado and Latino Chamber of Commerce (LCC) of Pueblo. The project provided "new economy skills" training to employees of LCC member businesses and basic skills training to the unemployed or underemployed. The report explains…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Inplant Programs, Job Skills
Hornback, Marguerite A. – 2001
This final report describes the activities and outcomes of a federally funded program that was designed to address the shortage of qualified early intervention personnel in rural areas of Kansas and adjacent states. Forty-seven early childhood special education (ECSE) students were supported with stipends during the three years of the project.…
Descriptors: Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention
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Easton, Peter A. – 1996
This book is designed to assist evaluators of nonformal education (NFE) and adult education programs in their continuing professional education and in the task of improving their capacities for genuinely formative, informative, and participatory assessment of educational practice. Fourteen chapters are organized into five sections. Section 1…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment
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