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Huerta, Jeffery J.; Watt, Karen M.; Butcher, Jennifer T. – American Secondary Education, 2013
This study examines the impact that Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) in middle school has on middle school course rigor and students' high school performance and college readiness. The study compares students who took AVID in middle school and high school with students who only took AVID in high school. The changes in middle school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Readiness, College Preparation, Program Effectiveness
Goodman, Robert M.; And Others – Health Education Quarterly, 1993
Responses from 322 (71%) health promotion program administrators tested a level of institutionalization scale. Results support four factors for routinization of program in each subsystem (production, maintenance, support, management) and four on degree of program saturation in subsystems. Routinization correlated more highly with program…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Health Promotion, Measurement Techniques, Organizational Change
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1980
Results from a study conducted by the project staff of the Amherst Elementary School in Amherst, Wisconsin, during the fall of 1980 to determine which of three types of kindergarten programs would be most advantageous to the School District of the Tomorrow River are reported. The programs investigated were full-day daily, full-day alternate day,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Kindergarten, Parent Attitudes, Primary Education
Beran, Robert L.; Kriner, Richard E. – 1978
The reduction of traditional medical curricula from four to three years by many medical schools in the U.S. since approximately 1969--a major experiment in medical education--was studied. The effects on the institutions and medical programs were examined by analyzing the information regarding: (1) the school's decision to convert to a three-year…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Administrator Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development