The Success By 6® (SB6) initiative is designed to support early care and education centers in improving and sustaining quality in Pennsylvania's Keystone STARS Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS). The SB6 evaluation report examines implementation and outcomes. The findings have implications for SB6 continous quality improvement process…

Findings from the ninth triennial administration of the National Survey of First-Year Seminars, describing the nature and extent of first-year seminars on American college campuses. Drawn from a broad sample of colleges and universities from every institutional type, control, and size, the survey addresses topics including seminar characteristics…

In this set of four supplemental tables, the authors compare the baseline test scores of the treatment and matched control group samples observed in each year after KIPP entry (outcome years 1 to 4). As discussed in Chapter III, the authors used an iterative propensity score estimation procedure to calculate each student's probability of entering…

This study was an attempt to examine the effects of experiential group training on populations that differ on various dimensions. (Author/RK)

This paper describes an experiment in classroom moral education and reports its results. (Author)

Attempts to test objectively one of the most prominent criticisms--that television programming is imitative and restrictive of viewer choice--in an effort to determine whether that criticism is legitimate. (Author/RK)

Assesses the effectiveness of a short-term, but intensive physical training program with a group of adult retardates at a sheltered workshop. (Author/RK)

This study illustrated the information that organizational documents can provide on the effectiveness of educational planning. (Author)

Responses to a self-esteem measure and feelings of acceptance scale and an aloofness and independence questionnaire were collected from 134 randomly selected grade 5 and 6 students attending public school in a small Saskatchewan city. (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to examine the differences in two delivery systems of instruction for graduate business programs. (Editor)

The effectiveness of the Management Review and Analysis Program (MRAP) of the Association of Research Libraries, an "assisted self study" involving administrators, librarians, and staff in an internal study of management procedures and practices, was evaluated in 1976/77 by research measuring its impact on 22 participating academic and…

In this paper data are presented on the initial validation of the Educational Forces Inventory, a technique which charts the educational setting considered as the teacher's work-space. (Author/RK)

This study investigated the effect of a program designed to prepare teachers for integration of handicapped students into the regular class. (Editor)