Discusses two evaluation models used to assess primary school programs. (SB)

A recently developed methodology for evaluating published materials was used to evaluate the objectives of the Distar Language I program, a language skills program for educationally disadvantaged children. (BRT)

Hawaii's experiment with the 3 on 2 plan in which three teachers are assigned to two classes has been judged not worth the cost because students in the program do not do any better on math and reading tests than do students in regular classrooms. (IRT)

The use of increasingly more informative evaluations of a single innovation are documented. The innovation, The New Primary Grades Reading System (NRS), was implemented in a variety of settings, and the evaluations track the implementation from the early stages of pilot testing through large-scale adoption of the program. NRS is characterized as…

Program evaluation uses hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to evaluate 99 ethnically diverse second-graders' growth in oral reading fluency using curriculum-based measurement (CBM). Results reveal that first-grade reading performance significantly predicted initial second-grade reading performance. Argues that the use of HLM with normative CBM…

This paper describes the experiences of Colorado Springs School District Eleven in using multiple measures to determine if third graders were reading at "grade level." The use of multiple measures may be threatened by the rapidly increasing pressures about assessment and accountability in Colorado that teachers are beginning to feel that…

This report presents a technical history of the national evaluation study of the Follow Through Planned Variation Model. The last in a five volume series dealing with Follow Through evaluation activities, this volume is devoted to examining the major issues confronting the evaluation and the attempts made to resolve these issues. Chapter I…

Congress authorized Follow Through in 1967 under the Economic Opportunity Act to provide developmental and educational services for poor children in primary grades who had experienced Head Start or equivalent pre-school. A large scale service program was envisioned originally. Appropriations were not sufficient, however, so Follow Through was…

An overview of the function of observation systems within the context of program evaluation is illustrated by summarizing observation systems used in evaluations of primary education, compensatory education, and Follow Through programs. (Author/CM)

This evaluation report is one of 17 planned for the longitudinal pilot study of the implementation in kindergarten and grade 1 of the Comprehensive School Mathematics Program (CSMP). In this report an overview of the CSMP curriculum for grades K-3 is provided. The goals of evaluation, including specific questions concerning intrinsic merit,…

This review of a previous article (TM 503 836), concludes that: (1) the evaluation methodology was straightforward; (2) simpler data analysis would have yielded the same conclusions; and (3) exclusion of many experimental schools from data analysis and use of post hoc matching and covariance produced misleading results. (CP)

An independent statewide study of 4,735 elementary schools, conducted after three years of the Early Childhood Education Program (ECE) in California, indicates that ECE schools have lower reading scores in grades 2 and 3 when compared to non-ECE schools. Five potential causes for this discrepancy are discussed. (CP)

A three-year evaluation of the Learning Research and Development Center's program of individualized instruction was conducted in seven Follow Through sites and three Pittsburgh area schools. To improve such empirical evaluation studies, researchers should gather data according to a theory, increase the number of classrooms surveyed, and gather…

The "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" (PL 107-110) established the Reading First (RF) Program (Title I, Part B, Subpart 1), a major Federal initiative designed to help ensure that all children can read at or above grade level by the end of third-grade. The legislation (Section 1205 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) requires…