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Evaluating Social Cognitive Theory in Action: An Assessment of the Youth Development Program's Impact on Secondary Student Retention in Selected Mississippi Delta Communities
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Dooley, T. Price; Schreckhise, William D. – Youth & Society, 2016
This study evaluates the Youth Development Program (YDP), a component of the federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA). We examine whether the YDP reduced dropout rates among youth in secondary schools in seven school districts in the impoverished Mississippi River Delta in southeast Arkansas. Initially, the program seems to have an impact. Students…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Comparative Analysis
Research and Development Project in Career Education. Evaluation Report. Russellville, Arkansas, 1973-1975.
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Roberts, Lawrence H.; Andrew, Larry Dean – 1975
The extent to which specific program objectives were achieved is the focus of the third party evaluation report of the Russellville (Arkansas) two-year K-12 career education project. A brief description of the background, personnel variables (students and staff), and process variables (organization, activities, and objectives) are presented.…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Community Involvement, Developmental Programs
Standardized Evaluation for Multi-National Development Programs.
Farrell, W. Timothy – 1989
This paper takes the position that standardized evaluation formats and procedures for multi-national development programs are not only desirable but possible in diverse settings. The key is the localization of standard systems, which involves not only the technical manipulation of items and scales, but also the contextual interpretation of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Developing Nations, Developmental Programs, Evaluation Methods
Program Evaluation and Educational Research in Developmental Studies. "A Systems Model".
McFadden, Ronald – 1979
Flow charts, tables, and lists are used to illustrate a program evaluation model to be used in evaluating compensatory studies in higher education. Student progress is followed along an identification/selection/admission chart, incorporating program goals and student need measurement. Measures of individual and collective student progress are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Admission, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Research
Entry Level Skills Program Implementation Guide.
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Institute for Services to Education, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1980
A guide to the implementation of the Entry Level Skills Program (ELSP) and a conceptual framework for evaluation research is presented. Attention is directed to strategies for the attainment of goals and management of the ELSP project, which is a developmental program for freshmen students who have not acquired the full range or level of cognitive…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Criterion Referenced Tests, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Research
Progress Report on ELSP Program, 1979-80.
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Institute for Services to Education, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1980
Implementation of the Entry Level Skills Program (ELSP) during 1979-80 at Huston-Tillotson College and Wiley College, both historically black institutions in Texas, is described. The ELSP, which is a developmental program for freshman students who have not acquired the full range or level of cognitive skills needed for college, is part of the…
Descriptors: Biology, Black Colleges, College Freshmen, Criterion Referenced Tests