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New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1987
The 1985-86 Chapter 1 Reading Skills Center Program which provides supplementary individualized instruction in reading and writing to eligible students in grades four through eight attending nonpublic schools in New York City is the subject of this evaluation report. The Chapter 1 Reading Skills Center Program aims to enable students to achieve…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Program Evaluation, Reading Centers, Reading Programs
Bartelo, Dennise M. – 1979
A study examined the success of a university based reading clinic conducted in the summer of 1979. Twenty-one students, in grades two through nine, participated in the clinic. Each student was pretested using the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test (WRMT) and then assigned to one of four graduate students. An individual educational plan was prepared for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction, Program Evaluation, Reading Achievement
Bergera, James G. – 1976
The effects of a model resource program on the reading skills of handicapped children were assessed in comparisons between handicapped students who participated in the model program and similar students who participated in the resource center program before the model was implemented. Reading skills were assessed at the beginning and end of the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Handicapped Students, Inservice Teacher Education
Pyper, John R. – 1979
A two-phase investigation of characteristics associated with student achievement in elementary and secondary reading centers in the Houston (Texas) Independent School District is described and evaluated in this paper. After presenting background information about the centers, the paper describes the first phase of the investigation, which revealed…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Observation
Crawford, June Justice – 1983
The reading program developed at Niagara University in New York has undergone a number of changes in response to long term evaluation. In the early 1970s, the only program evaluation tools used were pretests and posttests. These were misleading, as they measured only short term gains, not retention after completion of the course. Based on ideas…
Descriptors: College Programs, Higher Education, Program Content, Program Development
Brightbill, Mary – 1971
The long-term effects (after 3 to 5 years) of remedial reading instruction were examined. Comparison was made on reading achievement scores and on achievement ratios between a group of 16 former remedial reading clinic students, aged 12 to 20, and a matched group which did not receive remedial instruction. In addition, 45 former remedial readers…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Followup Studies, Program Evaluation, Reading Centers
Shaver, James P. – 1970
To test the long-range effectiveness of its ESEA Title III-sponsored program, officials of the Logan-Cache County Tutorial Center tested students served by the program 1 and 2 years after participation. The students, originally identified as underachievers, had been tutored in one-to-one or one-to-three tutoring situations or had been part of a…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Federal Programs, Grade 10, Grade 4
Rodwick, John; Grady, Michael J. – 1976
This summary contains instructors' discussions of an independent research report which evaluated the compensatory education program at El Paso Community College, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Because of open admissions policies, many students enter this college without the prerequisite basic skills necessary to understand their texts. Over 75% of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, English Curriculum
Heerman, Charles E. – 1983
To compare the effects of two different comprehension treatments on the reading of university students enrolled in a developmental reading laboratory, 74 students were administered pretests measuring reading achievement and reading attitudes and were given five weeks of instruction in text organizing strategies and vocabulary development. After…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Critical Thinking, Developmental Programs, Higher Education