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Download full textSchwartz, Wendy; Jenkins, Davis – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2007
This report summarizes key findings from the literature on effective developmental education practice. It is designed to promote discussion among community college educators and state agency staff in Connecticut as they consider how to improve outcomes for their many students who are academically unprepared to succeed in college. One common theme…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Improvement, Holistic Approach, Program Effectiveness
Lackey, Alvin S. – 1987
Although this paper identifies the various reasons for project failure, it also highlights the principles and practices related to project success. The paper attempts to strike a positive note concerning steps to take to increase the probability of successful project implementation and to suggest more realistic attitudes and expectations toward…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Databases, Developmental Programs
Pinney, Robert H.; And Others – 1969
Regional laboratories have been charged with serving as the link between so-called educational "research" and educational "practice," a link loosely known as "development." Research generates development and development generates research, with both leading to continued reduction of uncertainty, i.e., effort is…
Descriptors: Development, Developmental Programs, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
Yormack, Ben A. – 1975
Covering the time period from July 1973 to July 1974, the report documents the first year of a project to implement career education in the Highline High School in Seattle. A career alternatives model (CAM) to provide each student with opportunities to consider all alternatives is described as a means for student development in self awareness,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning, Developmental Programs
North Central Technical Inst., Wausau, WI. – 1975
The third party evaluation report focuses on the second year activities of a three-year exemplary project in career education conducted by the North Central Technical Institute (NCTI). The project was designed to provide career education activities to the adult population of an economically depressed rural area in north-central Wisconsin. Job…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Developmental Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Pelkey, Edward L. – 1975
The career education development project presented in the report covers the period from July 1, 1972 through June 30, 1975, with approximately seven percent of the combined school populations of Muskegon and Muskegon Heights, Michigan, participating. The stratified, selected sample was comprised of one experimental group of 202 "target…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Developmental Programs
National Spanish Speaking Management Association, Washington, DC. – 1972
Recognizing the adverse effects of poverty on Mexican Americans, and determined to help narrow the barriers caused by a low socioeconomic status, Aims college, a locally funded institution in Weld County, Colorado, conceptualized and implemented a special needs program designed to provide vocational and occupational training for disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Development, Developmental Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. – 1974
Presenting a description of career education activities in the state of South Carolina, the document contains several separate reports which are organized into four major sections. Section 1 contains summary accounts of the administrative and technical activities accomplished by the South Carolina Department of Education Career Education Office,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Developmental Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Pilot Projects
Peer reviewedBruckner, Sandra T.; Thompson, Charles L. – Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1987
Presents research completed on developmental group guidance meetings. Presents an example of how counselors can document and evaluate the positive reactions their students have to well-organized, weekly group sessions. Provides direction for changes in the group guidance program. (ABB)
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Developmental Programs, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedBarrow, John C. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1980
A potentially useful program-evaluation approach obtains information from program dropouts. This method was applied to university students who dropped out of four developmental programs. Results indicate many students recognize the value of the program for others, yet resist participating themselves. This approach was a useful supplementary…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Programs, Dropout Research, Evaluation Methods
1977
This conference was called to discuss the need for, and the strategies used in, implementing basic skills remediation at the college and university level. All levels of higher education were represented, as well as research professors, elementary, secondary, and post-secondary school administrators and teachers, representatives of the business and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Conference Reports, Developmental Programs, Developmental Studies Programs
Buchanan, Emily; Stevens, Eleanor; Straw, Suzanne – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2014
The SpringBoard Bursary Foundation (SpringBoard) commissioned the National Foundation for Education Research (NFER) to undertake an evaluation of its activities and impacts between 2013 and 2018. This interim and summary report presents the findings of the first year of the evaluation. SpringBoard was established in 2012 to transform the lives of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Disadvantaged Youth, Poverty Programs
SILVER, A.B. – 1967
IN SUMMER 1967, ALL ENTERING STUDENTS WHO SCORED BELOW THE 11TH PERCENTILE ON THE BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, SCAT, AND ENGLISH CLASSIFICATION TEST WERE GIVEN ADDITIONAL READING, ARITHMETIC, AND GROUP NONVERBAL INTELLIGENCE TESTS. FROM THIS GROUP, 27 VOLUNTEERS WERE CHOSEN TO PARTICIPATE IN A 6-WEEK, 4-HOUR DAILY PROGRAM OF REMEDIAL…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Entrance Examinations, Developmental Programs, Low Achievement
West Virginia State Dept. of Education, Charleston. – 1972
Intended as a guide to acquaint interested persons with the facts and developmental efforts surrounding the career education concept, this publication provides: (1) a definition of career education, (2) the goals and objectives of the program, (3) concepts upon which career education is based, (4) suggested action steps for developing a career…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Developmental Programs
Yoon, Ken M. – 1972
As a federally funded year-long exemplary project, Hawaii's first Occupational Information and Guidance Service Center aimed to effect a closer relationship among schools, industry, and government in order to increase vocational awareness in students. Resource materials for school counselors and agencies involved in youth employment were…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
