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Download full textRapp, M. L.; And Others – 1969
An evaluation design for the San Jose Unified School District compensatory education program is presented in this memorandum. Implementation of the design is intended to determine the effects of the compensatory components and of family and cultural background on the achievement gains and attitude changes of students, thus providing a firmer basis…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Cultural Background, Economic Factors
Houston Independent School District, TX. Dept. of Research and Accountability. – 1997
Covenant House Texas (CHT) is a nonprofit corporation that provides emergency shelter and related services for children and youth in crisis situations. The Texas Education Agency requires an annual evaluation of all programs receiving state compensatory education funds, and the On-Site School program of CHT was evaluated under this provision. The…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Homeless People
Bergeth, Robert L. – 1975
The objectives of the Minneapolis summer school program, which was aimed at those youngsters showing the greatest need as determined by the fall 1974 needs assessment, were to maintain and/or improve the reading skills; math skills; attitudes toward school, reading, math, and self of Title I students. This study is based on randomly selected…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Objectives
RMC Research Corp., Arlington, VA. – 1976
Selected results from a study of compensatory reading programs sponsored by Title I and by other sources are presented and discussed. Various phases of the study included a questionnaire survey of a nationally representative sample of elementary schools, pre- and posttesting of students in grades two, four, and six of a subsample of the original…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Mack, Faite R-P. – 1978
This is an evaluation of the Title I Program of the Michigan Training Unit, a program designed to provide compensatory education in basic skills for young adult male prisoners. The evaluation provides information to enable decision-makers to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of the program and considers whether the program fulfilled…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education
Guy, Marilyn Jean Walter – 1976
Forty-nine sophomore students identified from reading and nonverbal IQ scores received remedial reading instruction, based on individual, diagnostic reading evaluations, in small classes of 10 to 15 students for one hour each day of the school year. Thirty-four received remedial instruction for the full academic year; 15 received instruction for…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Compensatory Education, Doctoral Dissertations
Teaching and Learning Research Corp., New York, NY. – 1971
This report evaluated 17 different guidance or guidance-related projects funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act and carried out during the 1970-71 school year throughout the five boroughs of New York City. In general, evaluation procedures included the following: (1) Numerous site visits during observations were made…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, Compensatory Education, Guidance Programs
Peer reviewedBiggs, Barbara E.; Felton, Gary S. – Journal of Negro Education, 1973
Evaluates a program offered by the Los Angeles Student-Development Center as part of an intensive study skills curriculum for collegiate low achievers who had decided to continue their education, which focused on specific variables related to test anxiety. (JM)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attitude Change, College Bound Students, College Preparation
Scheiner, 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
Addy, Polly; Turner, Wayne – 1973
This report presents evaluations of the supplementary programs at Austin T. Walden Middle School, partially funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act. The Instructional Assistance Program had such goals as: to develop lasting materials that provide a more integrated learning experience for the pupil from the inner city;…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Diagnosis, Inner City
PDF pending restorationForster, Fred; Carpenter, James – 1973
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of the CO-Plus project by organizing data to utilize the classroom as the basic unit of analysis. The study employed classroom observations, a variety of questionnaire responses from staff and pupils, achievement test scores, and related data. Questionnaire data were summarized using factor…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Classroom Observation Techniques, Compensatory Education, Program Effectiveness
NTS Research Corp., Durham, NC. – 1980
The goals of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I program operated by the Public Schools of the District of Columbia were to provide disadvantaged children with supplemental instructional services to improve their performance in reading and mathematics and to support their affective and psychomotor development. This volume of the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Emotional Development
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1975
Designing and Implementing Programs for the Little School Component is a program funded under Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III and designed to develop, implement, and disseminate a program of individualized instruction at the Howard D. Woodson Senior High School. This program is a third year continuation of the program initiated in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Records, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development
Lauchner, Jan – 1973
The Ed. S. Cook Elementary School, located near the Capitol Homes Housing Project, the Martin Luther King Village, and a six to eight block deteriorating inner-city neighborhood, served 666 pupils in grades kindergarten through seven in the main building and an additional 80 infants, toddlers, and kindergarten-age children in the Title IV-A Child…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Schools
Rodosky, Robert J. – 1970
The Intermediate and Secondary Language Development Component, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, has the following objectives: (1) to help the underachieving pupil, grades four to 12, improve his reading achievement; (2) to help the intermediate level (grades four to six) underachieving pupil to become more…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Educational Diagnosis, Intermediate Grades
