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Download full textChamberlain, Ed – 1994
The program, which lasted 136 days, was designed to provide classroom or tutorial services in the area of language development for pupils served in Chapter 1 eligible facilities for the neglected or delinquent. The evaluation of the program was based on standardized achievement test information (grades 2-12). Data were collected for the period…
Descriptors: Delinquent Rehabilitation, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Schools
PDF pending restorationPoblete, Patricia – 1990
This report describes a 3-year project (1987-1990) implemented to assist migrant families and their children in transition to public school kindergarten and developmental kindergarten classes. The project served 30 children and 24 families in Ft. Pierce, Florida, approximately 75 percent of whom were Hispanic and 25 percent were Haitian. Goals…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Ethnic Groups, Kindergarten, Migrant Education
Johnson, Christine; Johnson, Ray Lee – 1988
The Valued Youth Partnership of San Antonio (VYP) has been dramatically successful in improving educational opportunities for the highest risk students. In school districts with dropout rates of over 40%, the highest risk students over a 4-year period averaged dropout rates of 2.5%. This booklet provides program results for VYP for the period 1984…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Ronacher, Karl; And Others – 1990
The Required Academic Proficiency (RAP) program was established by the Houston (Texas) Independent School District to reduce and remediate the academic failure of students. The purpose of the RAP program was twofold: (1) to provide supplemental instruction to students identified as being at risk of failing academic subjects; and (2) to provide…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Covariance, English (Second Language)
Simpson, William M.; Koehler, C. Russell – 1984
The pilot project described and evaluated in this report was conducted at Olympic College to test the assignment of volunteer classroom assistants under the supervision of Adult Basic Education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) instructors to help individualize classroom instruction. Section I introduces the project, the college and its…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Colleges, English (Second Language), Program Descriptions
Portland Public Schools, OR. – 1982
At the request of the Curriculum Department and the Chapter I program coordinators of the Portland Public Schools, three different instructional programs were evaluated during the 1981-82 school year. (1) The Help One Student to Succeed (HOSTS) program provided a person-to-person structured tutorial program in reading using volunteer tutors. (2)…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Curriculum Evaluation
Anderson, Ronald D. – 1988
One of the significant aspects of the experimental, problem-based teacher education program described in this report is the selection of students who have completed a bachelors degree with a major in an appropriate teaching field, have had three or more years of work experience in addition to their college degree, and who exhibit an acceptable…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Demonstration Programs, Experiential Learning, Graduate Study
South Oklahoma City Junior Coll., OK. – 1978
Reports of two studies conducted at South Oklahoma City Junior College are presented. In the first study, a questionnaire was used to evaluate the new on-line enrollment process from the student's point of view. Eighty-eight of a sample of 221 students who enrolled during March 1978 responded; 51 were returning students, while 37 were new. When…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment, Institutional Research, Online Systems
HAZARD, WILLIAM R. – 1967
TO EXPLORE THE POTENTIAL OF A TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR FRESHMEN EDUCATION MAJORS WHICH EMPHASIZES DIRECT TEACHING EXPERIENCE RATHER THAN THE LECTURE-DISCUSSION FORMAT, THIS EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM WAS BEGUN IN 1964. ITS STUDENTS COMBINE A FULL ACADEMIC SCHEDULE WITH CLINICAL EXPERIENCES AS TEACHER AIDES, TUTORS, OBSERVERS, AND STUDENT TEACHERS.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Program Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Student Teacher Relationship
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
In a study to determine whether or not culturally deprived children develop at progressively greater deficits in intellectual functioning during the ages of 15 months to 3 years, tutors provided 15-month-old infants with intellectual and verbal stimulation one hour daily, five times a week until they were 36 months old. The subjects consisted of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Individual Development, Infants
Literacy Volunteers, Inc., Syracuse, NY. – 1974
A demonstration project established eight self-supporting, volunteer-staffed adult basic reading tutorial programs in Connecticut, seven in Massachusetts, and one in central New York city. Literacy Volunteers of America (LVA) tutors also helped adult basic education students, tutored inmates and trained inmate tutors in correctional institutions,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Community Involvement, Demonstration Programs
Operations Research, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1972
Project Upswing is a pilot study sponsored by the Bureau of Educational Personnel Development, U.S. Office of Education, designed to determine whether first grade children with minimal learning difficulties can be aided by volunteer tutors. A major goal is to determine whether children receiving this personalized assistance make more progress than…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Grade 1, Learning Problems, Primary Education
Griffith, Albert R.; And Others – 1973
This report reviews 13 programs funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act. The Bilingual-Bicultural Program was also funded under Title VII of the ESEA. The Elementary bilingual program promoted academic achievement, English competence, and exposure to cultural heritage. The Chinese bilingual program served pupils in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, Chinese Americans, English (Second Language)
Von Harrison, Grant; Cohen, Arthur M. – 1969
The increasing use of upper-grade students as tutors for younger children has been viewed as a means of reducing the achievement gap that exists among culturally-disadvantaged children. However, research has indicated that the potential of such a tutorial arrangement is linked closely to the tutoring techniques used, and unless student tutors are…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students, Experimental Programs
Wofford, Joan; Ross, Joanne – 1973
The Parkway Program is the prototype school-without-walls created by the School District of Philadelphia in 1967. The program presently consists of four units of approximately 200 students (chosen by lottery from throughout the city), ten teachers, ten to 12 interns, and a Unit Head and administrative assistant housed in four separate non-school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Curriculum Development, Educational Administration
