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Direct linkSanford DeRousie, Rebecca M.; Bierman, Karen L. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012
This study examined the extent to which an evidence-based preschool curriculum (Head Start REDI) was sustained by 20 teachers during the year following a randomized controlled efficacy trial, when teachers were no longer required by the research project to implement the curriculum. Two quantitative measures of sustainability (teacher ratings, REDI…
Descriptors: Evidence, Preschool Curriculum, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
Download full textJoyce, Katherine M.; Breen, Amanda; Ettinger de Cuba, Stephanie; Cook, John T.; Barrett, Kathleen W.; Paik, Grace; Rishi, Natasha; Pullen, Bianca; Schiffmiller, Ashley; Frank, Deborah A. – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2012
America's low-income families struggle to protect their children from multiple threats to their health and growth. Many research and advocacy groups explore the health and educational effects of food insecurity, but less is known about these effects on very young children. Children's HealthWatch, a group of pediatric clinicians and public health…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Health, Child Development, Disadvantaged
National Board for Education Sciences, 2008
Transformation of education into an evidence-based field is a task that will require involvement of federal and state policymakers, local education leaders, administrators, teachers, and parents. Over the past 6 years, a new direction has been set for education research. This report presents the National Board for Education Sciences' evaluation of…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Educational Research, Research Projects, Research Methodology
Burd, Stephen – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1994
Despite key changes in the federal Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) research program, activists and some scientists are frustrated that not enough has been done and the actions taken have not had sufficient impact on the problem. Controversy over basic vs. clinical-trial research persists. (MSE)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Activism, Federal Programs, Higher Education
Peer reviewedMcCullough, James – Evaluation Practice, 1992
Assessing results of grants programs is illustrated with evaluation activities of the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies. Methods considered are ex-ante peer review of proposed work, ex-post peer review of completed work, publications-based methods, and "look-back" methods tracing contributions of past work and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs, Grants, Measurement Techniques
Paisley, William; And Others – 1979
This special study for the Educational Dissemination Systems Support Program (EDSSP) contributes to the conceptualization of information equity in education and provides data bearing on equitable provision of information and equitable opportunity to obtain information. Substantively, the conceptualization is illuminated by two exploratory studies…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Geographic Distribution, Information Dissemination, Information Needs
Taggart, Robert – 1981
The Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 provided more than two hundred million dollars annually for a range of research, evaluation, and demonstration activities intended to increase understanding of the employment problems of youth and to help determine the most effective policies and programs to address these problems. The…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs
Heyneman, Stephen P. – 1974
This report provides an overview of fiscal year 1974 federal and agency research and development activities related to adolescence and summarizes the work done by the Interagency Panel on Adolescence. The purpose of the report is to identify, with empirical authority research gaps and overlaps in currently funded projects. Cataloging and listing…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Coordination
Bond, Emil; And Others – 1969
Objectives of this project were to identify and catalog all existing reports on contracted evaluation studies by the Community Action Program (CAP) evaluation branch and the various program offices; to analyze a sample of contracted evaluation studies in terms of their adequacy as research projects; to assess a sample of CAP inhouse evaluations;…
Descriptors: Agencies, Community Action, Disadvantaged Youth, Evaluation Criteria
Dille, Jeane L.; And Others – 1976
The technical report documents the methodology of a study reviewing the vocational research and exemplary projects in Oregon, so that successful projects or products may be accessible for transportability to other environments. The three stages of research were: (1) Data collection of information on practices, (2) selection of promising practices,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Data Collection, Demonstration Programs
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Information Management and Technology Div. – 1993
High-performance computing refers to the use of advanced computing technologies to solve highly complex problems in the shortest possible time. The federal High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative of the Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) attempts to accelerate availability and use of high performance computers and networks.…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Computer Software Development
Peer reviewedEmery, Judy A.; And Others – SRA Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1992
A study investigated the factor(s) predicting success in receiving National Institutes of Health (NIH) First Independent Research Support and Transition (FIRST) funding. Two analytical models were used with a variety of researcher, methodology, project design, and institutional characteristics as variables. No significant predictor variables were…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Financial Support
Hertz, Thomas W.; And Others – 1978
The major purpose of this report is to analyze early childhood research supported by the member agencies of the Interagency Panel on Early Childhood Research and Development during the most recent fiscal year, in order to chart the directions in which federal research programs are moving, both within individual agencies and within the federal…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Development, Community Services, Coordination
Hertz, Thomas W.; Mann, Ada Jo – 1975
This report provides an overview of the federally-funded early childhood research activities of fiscal year 1975. In order to assess the directions in which federal research programs are moving, ongoing research projects are analyzed both within individual agencies and within the federal government as a whole. The first chapter reviews the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Development, Community Services, Coordination
Battle (Mark) Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1980
This volume is one of the products of the knowledge development effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. It is a report of an assessment study designed to determine the status and results of the implementation of mixed income experiments at 47 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
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