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Bunnaen, Wutthisak; Prasertsang, Parichart; Worapun, Wittaya – Journal of Educational Issues, 2022
The purposes of the study were to investigate the effects of a professional learning community (PLC) on Thai demonstration school students' grade point averages and to study and to study students' satisfaction with the professional learning community to improve their grade point averages. The participants were 107 students in a demonstration…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Demonstration Programs, Foreign Countries
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Augustine, Catherine H.; McCombs, Jennifer Sloan – State Education Standard, 2015
The Wallace Foundation is funding a multiyear demonstration project to determine whether voluntary, district summer learning programs can stem summer learning loss for low-income students. Six districts--Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Duval County (Florida), Pittsburgh, and Rochester, New York--were selected for the demonstration project and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Low Income Groups, At Risk Students, Program Effectiveness
St. John, Mark – Inverness Research, 2014
The Algebra Project DR K-12, funded by the National Science Foundation as a Research and Development Project, addressed the challenge of offering significant STEM content for students to ensure public literacy and workforce readiness. The project's primary purpose was to test the feasibility and effectiveness of a model for establishing four-year…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Algebra, Demonstration Programs, Cohort Analysis
Adamson, David M. – RAND Corporation, 2012
Researchers examined whether rewarding teams of teachers for student performance had an effect on student achievement or teacher practices or attitudes in a demonstration project in Round Rock, Texas. They found that the intervention had no effect in any of these areas. Students taught by teacher teams who were offered incentives scored slightly…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Demonstration Programs, Program Effectiveness
White, Larry J.; Hixson, Nate; Hammer, Patricia Cahape; Smith, Diana L.; D'Brot, Juan – West Virginia Department of Education, 2010
A study examined the impact of the "Closing the Achievement Gap" (CAG schools) program on the academic achievement of students in 30 schools serving high percentages of African American and economically disadvantaged students in West Virginia (WV), 2004-2008. The program assigned experienced educators, "CAG liaisons", to the…
Descriptors: African American Students, School Culture, Focus Groups, Economically Disadvantaged
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Berkeihiser, Mike – Technology Teacher, 2008
After attending a conference session about marketing, the author and his colleagues were inspired to start their own marketing program for the technology education program at Unionville High School in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. When they started, they had no idea how much that simple marketing program would pay off. Over the past seven years,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Marketing, School Counselors, Enrollment
Horowitz, Sandra V. – 1986
An evaluation was made of the implementation of New York City's After-School Program in 5 community school districts, involving 82 elementary schools with 7,474 children who were regularly left without direct adult supervision before and after school. After the Chapter I introduction which provides background information, an overview, and a…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Community Programs, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education
Packard, Richard D.; And Others – 1987
Northern Arizona University's Arizona Career Ladder Research & Evaluation Project for teachers implements a procedure for rewarding teachers based on performance levels rather than on years of teaching experience and college credits. Research data is collected each spring, analyzed and fed back to the districts for improvement of key program…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Demography, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Greenville County School District, Greenville, SC. – 1975
The report documents the activities of the second year of a K-14 career education project in Greenville (Tennessee) city and county schools. The primary goal was to build upon the activities of the first year through the use of workshops and inservice programs to assist in the development of specific activities for the students. Project activities…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Community Involvement
Wentling, Tim L.; And Others – 1991
An evaluation described Tech Prep prototypes as they were implemented in five different Indiana sites and assessed their effectiveness. Evaluation procedures included: (1) collection and analysis of data from students involved in Tech Prep for the first time in 1990-91 and students involved for the second year; (2) analysis of prototype project…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Demonstration Programs, Employer Attitudes, High Schools
Faust, John R. – 1978
A project was conducted to (1) determine the potential for serving more and a greater variety of students in New Hampshire's secondary vocational centers through individualized instruction techniques, (2) clarify associated terminology and concepts, (3) study teacher, student, and administrator attitudes towards individualized instruction, and (4)…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Demonstration Programs, Guidelines, Individualized Instruction
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Haaby, Gary L. – 1976
Covering the period of 1973-76, the Tennessee Exemplary Project in Career Education (TEPCE) was designed to develop a comprehensive career education program, in the Greeneville and Greene County, Tennessee, schools. Objectives for each level in the educational program were established for the awareness (K-5), exploration (6-8), preparation (9-12),…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Career Education, Comprehensive Programs, Demonstration Programs
Shelford, Paul, Jr. – 1976
Included in this final report of the K-14 three-year Penasco, New Mexico, career education project are presentation of the project's goals and objectives, description of general design and implementation procedures, lists of results and accomplishments, the third-party evaluation report, and conclusions and recommendations. General objectives…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education
Sokolow, Jayme A. – Center for Civic Education, 2008
This is school climate study of the Center for Civic Education's School Violence Prevention Demonstration Program at Ritter Elementary School in Allentown, Pennsylvania for the academic year 2006-7. Ritter, like most of Allentown's schools, is a majority-minority school. Hispanic, African American, Middle Eastern, and immigrant students outnumber…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Violence, Educational Environment, Demonstration Programs
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Roessler, Richard T. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1996
Survey of 84 school and agency professionals in 8 school districts in Arkansas showed positive perceptions of demonstration transition programs in their schools. Although all participants indicated transition topics were discussed more frequently and interagency planning and collaboration had improved, special education teachers were less likely…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Program Attitudes
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