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Direct linkDooley, T. Price; Schreckhise, William D. – Youth & Society, 2016
This study evaluates the Youth Development Program (YDP), a component of the federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA). We examine whether the YDP reduced dropout rates among youth in secondary schools in seven school districts in the impoverished Mississippi River Delta in southeast Arkansas. Initially, the program seems to have an impact. Students…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Comparative Analysis
Download full textPontiac City School District, MI. – 1971
The World of Manufacturing is an Industrial Arts Curriculum Project designed to acquaint junior high school students with all the major phases of the manufacturing industry. This publication reports the evaluation of a World of Manufacturing program implemented into the Pontiac School District during the 1970-1971 school year. During the summer of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Curriculum Evaluation, Demonstration Programs, Developmental Programs
Olson, LeVene A. – 1972
This document presents an evaluation of an exemplary project in career education limited to students in Grades 1 through 6 in the schools of Lincoln County, West Virginia. The project's objectives were to compare two groups of students on language achievement, mathematics achievement, and occupational awareness, an experimental group who had…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Analysis of Covariance, Career Awareness, Career Education
Doyle, Terrence J., Comp. – 1989
Ferris State University's (FSU's) Collegiate Skills Program assists academically underprepared students in their transition to college. The program was initiatied in fall 1985 in response to increasing numbers of entering freshmen with inadequate reading and writing skills and subsequent high rates of attrition. Focusing initially on students with…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Achievement Tests, Competency Based Education, Developmental Studies Programs
Hartford Public Schools, CT. – 1984
Higher Horizons 100 (HH 100) is a compensatory program in the Hartford, Connecticut public schools designed to provide underachieving and undermotivated secondary school students with an integrated program of academic, cultural, and counseling services. HH 100 services were designed to develop and improve the basic skills of language and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Attendance
Reap, Margaret C.; Covington, Helen C. – 1980
A study was conducted at North Harris County College to determine the extent to which its Developmental Studies Program (DSP) was meeting stated goals and to assess the predictive reliability of the screening tests used to place incoming students in DSP courses. The study involved: (1) an assessment of the need for the DSP program as evidenced by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Age, Community Colleges
Hunter, Jacqueline; And Others – 1980
The implementation and evaluation of a project at Xavier University of Louisiana that was designed to increase performance and academic persistence in entry-level mathematics and science courses are described. The University's CAUSE Project was a cooperative effort by the departments of biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics. Strategies of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Achievement Tests, Biology
