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Houston Independent School District, 2019
The purpose of this evaluation was to determine the effectiveness of the Ascending to Men (ATM) program using ATM students', mentors', and program managers' perceptions and experiences and ATM students' academic performance on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR). ATM is a mentoring-based program designed to support boys of…
Descriptors: Males, Underachievement, Minority Group Students, African American Students
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Culross, Rita R.; Tarver, Emily T. – Journal of School Choice, 2007
This study examined the perceptions of teachers and students during the first year of implementation of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program at a high school. The research team interviewed all IB teachers and students regarding their decision to teach/enroll in IB; how IB differed from teaching/taking regular courses; and other…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Placement Programs, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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Arancibia, Violeta; Lissi, Maria Rosa; Narea, Marigen – High Ability Studies, 2008
The study explores the consequences, for participating schools, of the implementation of a system for the identification and selection of academically talented students, in the context of an extracurricular enrichment program operating at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. The participants were 73 students, 50 teachers, and seven members of…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Interviews
Splaine, Pam; Gross, Susan – 1984
This is a preliminary evaluation on the first year (1983-84) implementation of the expanded senior high school level gifted and talented Honors Program in the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), Maryland. The Honors Program includes Advanced Placement courses, Advanced Level courses, and honors level work in designated MCPS Program of Studies…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Admission Criteria, High Schools, Honors Curriculum
Goldinher, Martin R. – 1984
The 1983-84 Academic Excellence Program (AEP) was a new Dade County Public Schools (Florida) program providing enrichment curriculum for above average kindergarten through sixth grade students at 24 district schools. Instructional activities focused on developing critical thinking, higher level cognitives processes, creative problem solving, and…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Curriculum Enrichment
Malinka, Robert M., Ed. – 1981
The eight studies contained in this volume complete the effort pursued by the National Middle School Association to provide practitioners with some of the research available from the recent past. Research briefs deal with such topics as teacher attitudes; the degree of middle school program implementation; gifted students' and educable mentally…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Administrative Organization, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role