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Download full textGROSS, F.P.; MACLEARIE, ELIZABETH C. – 1966
SURVEYS OF PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE INDICATED THAT INTENSIVE CYCLE SCHEDULING FOR SPEECH AND HEARING THERAPY MIGHT YIELD BETTER RESULTS THAN MORE TRADITIONAL METHODS. EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMS USING THIS NEW METHOD WERE ESTABLISHED IN FIVE SCHOOL SYSTEMS AS A FIELD TEST OF EFFICIENCY. THE 4 YEARS OF RESEARCH IN INTENSIVE CYCLE SCHEDULING IN THESE FIVE…
Descriptors: Experimental Programs, Program Development, Program Evaluation, Program Improvement
Gordon, Jesse E. – 1969
Since the passage of the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 (MDTA), the Department of Labor has funded over $30 million worth of experimental and demonstration (E and D) projects in an effort to discover some new directions for dealing with the unemployment problems of disadvantaged youth. To evaluate the effectiveness of these and…
Descriptors: Counseling, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Innovation
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1975
This report points out that although Follow Through, an experimental program designed to find more effective approaches to teaching young children from low-income families, achieved differences in outcome between Follow Through and non-Follow Through children, problems in its initial design and implementation will limit reaching statistically…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Experimental Programs, Federal Programs
Peer reviewedGallagher, Karen S. – Planning and Changing, 1984
Examines why an elementary school, set up as a model school promoting learning effectiveness, was not working as predicted. Concentrates on staff assessments of principal's role. (JW)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Demonstration Programs, Experimental Programs, Models
Eastwood, Kenneth W. – 1991
In 1984 the State of New York mandated participation in the Comprehensive School Improvement Program (CSIP) for elementary schools that ranked in the bottom 9 percent on statewide student competency exams. To discern the overall effectiveness of the program and identify why it appeared to succeed in some schools and fail in others, the changes in…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Improvement, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Education
COOPER, RUSSELL M.; FRENCH, SIDNEY J. – 1967
TEACHERS IN BIOLOGY, ENGLISH, HUMANITIES, MATHEMATICS, PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AT THE UNIVERSITY AND AT VARIOUS JUNIOR COLLEGES IN FLORIDA TESTED THE VALUE OF ORIENTING COURSES TOWARD STUDENT PARTICIPATION AND AWAY FROM LECTURES. EACH INSTRUCTOR CONDUCTED ONE CONVENTIONAL COURSE AND ONE EXPERIMENTAL, LESS STRUCTURED COURSE COVERING…
Descriptors: Discussion, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Experiments, Experimental Groups
Fleischman, Howard L.; Willette, JoAnne L. – 1980
The purpose of this monograph is to assist project personnel in improving and measuring the effectiveness of vocational education demonstration projects. The first of four chapters discusses how the monograph is organized and why and how it was developed. Chapter 2 presents an evaluation model containing criteria, standards, and documentation…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs
Karl, Marion C. – 1970
The inappropriateness of standard experimental research design, which can stifle innovations, is discussed in connection with the problems of designing practical techniques for evaluating a Title III curriculum development project. The project, involving 12 school districts and 2,500 students, teaches concept understanding, critical thinking, and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Concept Formation, Critical Thinking, Cultural Awareness
Blair, George E. – 1970
The Street Academies discussed in this evaluation report are considered to represent outstanding attempts to develop positive culturally different instructional models, rather than the compensatory deficit disadvantaged models that are utilized by regular school programs. Seven chapters discuss the background of the Academies, purposes and…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Tisdel, Linwood E. – 1976
The Piedmont Schools Project (PSP) was one of the Experimental Schools Projects awarded grants by the National Institute of Education (NIE). The PSP is located in the Piedmont region near Greer, South Carolina and serves approximately 5,000 K-12 students from eight schools. The students in this region have historically performed at one or more…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Innovation, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC. – 1968
This report, required by section 233 of the Manpower Development and Training Act, opens with the chapter, "Adapting to Economic Change," which comments on major program changes during 1967, all of which relate to increasing the proportion of hard-core unemployed in the program. The chapters, "The Range of Training," and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Business Cycles, Economic Factors, Educational Innovation
Council for Cultural Cooperation, Strasbourg (France). – 1977
An evaluation of twenty-five national pilot experimental projects in permanent education conducted in European countries was done to provide a foundation for theoretical work, to update prior studies, and to create an awareness of the problems of permanent education. Three- to five-day evaluation visits were made to each of the project sites by a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrative Policy, Adult Education, Adult Programs
Bird, Thomas E., Ed. – 1968
Included in this volume are the reports on foreign language research and development produced by the three working committees of the fifteenth annual Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Discussions of (1) the Indiana and Washington State programs, (2) "Artes Latinae," a complete project of programed learning…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Conference Reports, Experimental Programs
