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California State Dept. of the Youth Authority, Sacramento. – 1985
This evaluation of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) Chapter 1 programs in the 16 participating schools and camps of the California Youth Authority presents findings for the year 1983-84. The students enrolled in the program were severely academically disadvantaged teenagers (reading and mathematics abilities five or more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Evaluation
Download full textDeVito, Pasquale J.; Rubinstein, Sherry S. – 1977
Highlights of a followup study involving 1,179 remedial reading students in Rhode Island, grades 2 and 4, were examined. Since the study focused on determining the effect of Title I programs beyond one school year, the sample included students who did and did not continue to receive Title I services. It was not possible to determine whether each…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Followup Studies
Vermont State Dept. of Education, Montpelier. – 1966
PRESENTED ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF 18 TYPICAL PROJECTS IN VERMONT WHICH WERE DEVELOPED WITH ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT TITLE I FUNDS. ARRANGED BY CITY OR TOWN, EACH BRIEF PROJECT RESUME PRESENTS A STATEMENT ABOUT THE NEED AND SUBSTANTIATION (BASELINE DATA), TITLE, PROJECT DESCRIPTION, PROPOSED EVALUATION METHODS, AND COST. OVERALL, THE…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Needs
Roueche, John E.; Kirk, R. Wade – 1972
This study assesses the effectiveness of innovative programs for high risk students at four community junior colleges with somewhat different approaches to remedial education. Each program is described in terms of organizational structure, subject matter content, instructional strategies, counseling services, philosophy and objectives, grading…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Educational Innovation, Educationally Disadvantaged
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1975
A description and evaluation of Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I-funded programs for the state of Oklahoma are reviewed in this report. The project components include the following: remedial reading, speech therapy, learning disabilities, underachievers, remedial math, remedial language arts, remedial science, special education, and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Delinquency, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Vazquez-Nuttall Associates, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1982
This interim process evaluation report focuses on the impact of funding cuts on Boston's 1981-82 Title I program, possible areas for further cutbacks, and several policy issues. Results of questionnaires completed by administrators, teachers, and paraprofessionals as well as interviews and classroom observations were all used in the evaluation.…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Problems
Vazquez-Nuttall Associates, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1983
Boston's Chapter I English as a Second Language (ESL) Program is intended to provide intensified oral/aural instruction in English to students with limited-English-speaking ability who are lagging behind in regular bilingual classes. An ultimate goal of the program is to prepare students from a variety of linguistic backgrounds (including Spanish,…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Ethnic Groups
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1989
The 1989 New York City Pupils with Compensatory Educational Needs (PCEN) Summer Remediation Program met or exceeded each of its objectives. The program comprised basic skills and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) courses, serving 12,785 students in 880 classes in the regular high schools and an unspecified number of students at 73 off-site…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, English (Second Language), High Schools
Edmonton Public School Board (Alberta). – 1977
A primary-level compensatory language arts and reading program for nine inner city schools in Edmonton, Alberta, is described briefly. During 1976-77 the program served 146 students, mostly in their first year in the program. Half of these were recommended to be returned to regular classes for the following year. Children were selected for the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Foreign Countries
Sciara, Frank J.; Patton, Don C. – 1975
The authors advocate the use of a pupil typology in which the variables of sex, race, family status, and I.Q. range are combined to form a pupil classification system. This systematic arrangement of data when combined with change in pupil performance, allows the creation of local norms. A scheme for comparing the change in pupil performance among…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Classification, Comparative Analysis
Trismen, Donald A.; And Others – 1975
Since July 1971, the Educational Testing Service has planned and conducted a study of compensatory reading programs in United States public schools. This volume reports the results of the 1972-1973 school-year study (phase two), which involved pre- and posttesting of all students in the second, fourth, and sixth grades of a subsample of the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, National Surveys, Program Evaluation
RMC Research Corp., Arlington, VA. – 1976
Selected results from a study of compensatory reading programs sponsored by Title I and by other sources are presented and discussed. Various phases of the study included a questionnaire survey of a nationally representative sample of elementary schools, pre- and posttesting of students in grades two, four, and six of a subsample of the original…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
NJEA Review, 1978
This article notes some of the criticisms of government-funded compensatory education programs found in two recent reports: the Rand Report on Federal Programs and the Meissner Report on the status of New Jersey's state-funded remedial programs. (SJL)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Failure, Federal Programs
Zafirau, S. James – 1981
The Reading Strategy Project is designed for intermediate grade students who need assistance in the mastery of basic reading skills. The available data demonstrated that the Title I treatment group enhanced their average reading comprehension scores significantly. The gain exceeded the project objective of four normal curve equivalent points. The…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Compensatory Education, Federal Programs, Intermediate Grades
Knight, Michael E. – 1979
Five hundred twenty-six second through sixth graders were identified as needing supplementary reading instruction, their specific needs were diagnosed, and intensive prescriptive instruction was provided. A lab oriented learning center environment was prescribed which included a listening/viewing center, a decoding center, a game center, a library…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education, Program Descriptions
