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Download full textScheiner, Louis – 1969
This study tested the Modern English Infant School Approach to teaching as a partial solution to the problem of properly educating the ghetto child. It was hoped that the approach could (1) improve achievement in reading and arithmetic, (2) improve ability in written composition, (3) improve students' attitudes toward self, the school, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Creative Thinking, Experimental Programs
Way, Joyce W. – 1984
The effect of computer assisted instruction (CAI) in Kansas City, Missouri Schools on selected achievement measures and perceptions about the CAI experience collected from students, teachers, and CAI lab aides was examined. At the secondary school level, the evaluation examined the effects of CAI mathematics and social studies lessons on eighth…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Computer Assisted Instruction
The Longitudinal Effects of SEED Instruction on Mathematics Achievement and Attitudes. Final Report.
Webster, William J.; Chadbourn, Russell A. – 1989
Project Special Elementary Education for the Disadvantaged (SEED) is a nationwide program in which professional mathematicians and scientists from universities and research corporations teach conceptually oriented mathematics to full-sized classes of disadvantaged elementary school students as a supplement to their regular mathematics instruction.…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Control Groups, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Webster, William J.; Chadbourn, Russell A. – 1990
Project Special Elementary Education for the Disadvantaged (Project SEED) is a nationwide program in which mathematicians and scientists from academia and industry teach abstract, conceptually oriented mathematics to full-sized classes of elementary school students as a supplement to their regular arithmetic classes. A Socratic group-discovery…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Control Groups, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Webster, William J.; Chadbourn, Russell A. – 1992
Project Special Elementary Education for the Disadvantaged (SEED) is a national program in which professional mathematicians and scientists from universities and industry teach abstract, conceptually oriented mathematics to full-sized classes of elementary school children as a supplement to their regular mathematics instruction. In the Dallas…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Control Groups, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Tompkins, John F. – 1986
This report describes an evaluation of the Chapter 1 Mathematics Program for 1,008 students in grades 1 through 8 in the Des Moines (Iowa) Independent Community School District. Four comments summarize results of the evaluation: students in grades 2-8 surpassed the criterion for gains in the total mathematics score on the Iowa Tests of Basic…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Behavioral Objectives, Budgets, Compensatory Education
