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Direct linkChristina Weiland; Rebecca Unterman; Susan Dynarski; Rachel Abenavoli; Howard Bloom; Breno Braga; Anne-Marie Faria; Erica Greenberg; Brian A. Jacob; Jane Arnold Lincove; Karen Manship; Meghan McCormick; Luke Miratrix; Tomás E. Monarrez; Pamela Morris-Perez; Anna Shapiro; Jon Valant; Lindsay Weixler – Grantee Submission, 2024
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. The authors' collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education settings and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
Download full textChristina Weiland; Rebecca Unterman; Susan Dynarski; Rachel Abenavoli; Howard Bloom; Breno Braga; Anne-Marie Faria; Erica Greenberg; Brian A. Jacob; Jane Arnold Lincove; Karen Manship; Meghan McCormick; Luke Miratrix; Tomás E. Monarrez; Pamela Morris-Perez; Anna Shapiro; Jon Valant; Lindsay Weixler – AERA Open, 2024
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. The authors' collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education settings and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
Christina Weiland; Rebecca Unterman; Susan Dynarski; Rachel Abenavoli; Howard Bloom; Breno Braga; Anne-Marie Faria; Erica Greenberg; Brian Jacob; Jane Arnold Lincove; Karen Manship; Meghan McCormick; Luke Miratrix; Tomás E. Monarrez; Pamela Morris-Perez; Anna Shapiro; Jon Valant; Lindsay Weixler – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. Our collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next context: (1) available…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
Weinstock, Phyllis; Tseng, Fannie; Humphrey, Daniel; Gillespie, Marilyn; Yee, Kaily – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2011
In 2001, Congress established the Teaching American History (TAH) program, which seeks to improve student achievement by improving teachers' knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of traditional American history as a separate subject within the core curriculum. Under this program, grants are awarded to local education agencies (LEAs), which…
Descriptors: United States History, History Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Grants
Tuttle, Christina Clark; Teh, Bing-ru; Nichols-Barrer, Ira; Gill, Brian P.; Gleason, Philip – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2010
In this set of four supplemental tables, the authors compare the baseline test scores of the treatment and matched control group samples observed in each year after KIPP entry (outcome years 1 to 4). As discussed in Chapter III, the authors used an iterative propensity score estimation procedure to calculate each student's probability of entering…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Middle Schools, Student Characteristics, Tables (Data)
Carnoy, Martin – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2009
The third-year evaluation of the federally funded Washington, D.C. voucher program shows that low-income students offered vouchers in the first two years of the program had modestly higher reading scores after three years but showed no significant difference in mathematics. Students were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups, and the…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Private Schools, Program Effectiveness, Scoring
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1979
This report presents results of analyses of factors affecting reading achievement of students in grades one through sex in District of Columbia schools as measured by the percentage of objectives mastered on the Prescriptive Reading Test (PRT) and by students' interest in reading for the year 1977-78. It also contains descriptive information about…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Program Evaluation, Reading Achievement, Reading Programs
Peer reviewedPatterson, Blossom H.; And Others – Evaluation Review, 1992
Based on a complex time series evaluation, a 2-year intervention in 40 supermarkets in Washington (DC) and Baltimore (Maryland) indicates that a nutrition education program could produce small but positive changes in consumers' food purchasing behavior. Limitations of the study and its implications for future evaluations are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Eating Habits, Food Stores, Health Education
Food and Nutrition Service (USDA), Washington, DC. – 1993
A 1-year demonstration project was conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to help remove or reduce barriers to the participation of low-income family day care homes in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). FNS funded six grantees to conduct a demonstration of three different strategies.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education, Family Day Care
SEASHORE, CHARLES N. – 1966
THIS RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM PROVIDED FOR NINE REGIONAL MEETINGS FOR STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PERSONNEL WHO WERE ASSOCIATED WITH EVALUATION RESEARCH SECTIONS OF PROPOSALS FROM LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS FOR FUNDS UNDER PUBLIC LAW 89-10 (ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965). THE MEETINGS WERE STAFFED BY FOUR-MAN TEAMS OF CONSULTANTS…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Legislation, Educational Programs, Educational Research
