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Ku, Earl J. – 1984
This paper focuses generally on student non-cognitive improvement before and after a Newark Chapter 1 program implementation; and specifically, on demonstrated growth in the non-cognitive areas over the year from pre-assessment to post-assessment as part of the Chapter 1 intervention. The evaluation was conducted, based on classification in terms…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Needs Assessment
Download full textJohnson, Charmaine; Syropoulos, Mike – 1996
The High School Intervention Centers Program (HSICP) of the Detroit (Michigan) Public Schools was developed to provide an alternative for high school students who were identified as performing below grade level in English and mathematics and who exhibited the self-defeating behavior of truancy. The program provided an opportunity for ninth graders…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Grade Point Average, Grade 9
Pollock, John S. – 1991
The purpose of the 1990-91 Reading Recovery Program in the Columbus, Ohio public schools was to provide early intervention to underachieving first-grade pupils who appeared unlikely to read successfully without intensive instruction. The program featured individualized one-on-one lessons provided by specially trained teachers. The lessons were…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Compensatory Education, Early Intervention, Family Involvement
Anderson, Richard B. – 1976
The Follow Through experience is beginning to provide compelling evidence bearing upon important policy issues in compensatory education. This evidence, coming as it does from a naturalistic quasi-experiment, cannot draw its plausibility from the conventional statistical inference appropriate to probabilistically-constructed true experiments. The…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
Pollock, John S. – 1991
The Early Literacy Program in the Columbus, Ohio public schools provided early intervention to underachieving first- and second-grade pupils who appeared unlikely to read and write successfully without additional reading instruction. The program featured small group instruction for 40-45 minutes daily. During 1990-91, 65 teachers served 1477…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Compensatory Education, Early Intervention, Emergent Literacy
Goolsby, Thomas M., Jr.; Frary, Robert B. – 1969
Two hundred first grade children participated in an experimental program involving innovative curricula and instructional techniques. A pretest-posttest method of instruction, employing sequenced and structured learning activities, enabled each child to progress at an individual rate and was supplemented by a readiness program. Evaluation of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Demonstration Programs, Desegregation Effects
