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Download full textBoatman, Angela – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2012
Exploiting a statewide cutoff point on the placement examination used to assign students to remedial courses in Tennessee, this study employs a regression discontinuity research design to provide causal estimates of the effects on student outcomes of recently redesigned remedial courses at three Tennessee colleges. Moreover, using data on student…
Descriptors: Remedial Programs, Academic Achievement, Remedial Instruction, Teaching Methods
Direct linkLevin, Henry M.; Calcagno, Juan Carlos – Community College Review, 2008
Remediation is the most common approach to preparing students academically and socially during their early stages of college. However, despite its profound importance and its significant costs, there is very little rigorous research analyzing its effectiveness. The goal of this article is to provide a conceptual framework for the evaluation of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Programs, Remedial Instruction, College Students
Peer reviewedRichardson, Ellis; And Others – Reading Improvement, 1978
Concludes that any systematic and well-organized approach addressing basic reading skills will provide reading improvement, since both approaches that were examined (DISTAR and the Integrated Skills Method) show the same degree of success. Considers diagnostic instruments not particularly useful in planning remedial instruction, but recommends…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Program Evaluation, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedZia, Barbara; Larson, John C.; Mostow, Allison – ERS Spectrum, 1999
An evaluation of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools' summer-school program to help raise low-performing students' mathematics achievement showed that students received little benefit. Disappointing results arose from use of teacher-centered instructional techniques. Students had little opportunity for informal thinking, exploration,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving
Prichard, Allyn; Taylor, Jean – Journal of Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 1976
Twenty remedial reading students at Huntley Elementary School (DeKalb County School District, Georgia) were instructed through a teaching methodology employing the basics of the Lozanov system. Available from: Society for Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 2740 Richmond Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50319. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Experimental Programs, Music, Program Evaluation, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedLewellen, James R.; Nagy, Barbara Pashos – NASSP Bulletin, 1981
Students can succeed in remedial programs if such programs are well-planned and systematic, say these writers, who offer some guidelines. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives, Instructional Materials, Program Evaluation
Levin, Henry M.; Calcagno, Juan Carlos – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2007
Remediation is the most common policy designed to prepare students academically and socially during their early stages of college. But despite its profound importance and its significant costs, there is very little rigorous research analyzing its effectiveness. The goal of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework for evaluation of remedial…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Programs, Remedial Instruction, College Students
GORDON, MORTON J. – 1960
A PILOT STUDY WAS REPORTED ON THE USE OF A COMBINED TELEVISION-CLASSROOM GROUP PROGRAM IN REMEDIAL SPEECH INSTRUCTION. THE SAMPLE CONSISTED OF 535 PUPILS FROM THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OF HAWAII WHO WERE DIVIDED INTO THREE GROUPS (1) TELEVISION-CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION, (2) NON-TELEVISION-CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION, AND (3) NORMAL THIRD-GRADE INSTRUCTION IN…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Television, Elementary School Students, Program Evaluation
Gibbons, Maurice – Interchange, 1970
Descriptors: Classification, Correspondence Study, Educational Objectives, Individualized Instruction
PDF pending restorationCook, Jimmie E.; And Others – 1976
The neurological impress approach to remedial reading was investigated in a spring session involving 20 children and in a summer session involving 24 children. Children ranging in age from 7 to 14 were paired according to age and intelligence and then were assigned randomly to experimental or control treatments. All were at least a year behind in…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Program Evaluation
Mei, Dolores M.; Dworkowitz, Barbara – 1990
This report evaluates the use of instructional models in eight New York City high school remediation programs funded in 1988/89 by Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act and the Pupils with Compensatory Educational Needs (PCEN) program. It found that teaching strategies within each of the models were surprisingly similar. The…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Classroom Techniques, Compensatory Education, English (Second Language)
Fram, Ralph D. – 1978
This evaluative report provides information about a remedial reading program in a Canadian school district. Various sections of the report deal with the following areas: the purpose of the evaluation project; procedures and sample; major findings according to remedial reading teachers, two groups of taxpayers, remedial reading pupils, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Program Evaluation
Levy, Marguerite F. – 1976
Presented is an evaluation of a program providing mentally retarded students in two occupational training centers who were two or more years retarded in reading and/or mathematics with individual or small-group instruction supplementing the basic program. It is noted that 110 participants were given 2 hours, 15 minutes a week instructional time by…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Individualized Instruction, Mathematics, Mental Retardation
Yap, Kim Onn – 1985
The paper reports an attempt to evaluate instructional practices in compensatory education by looking at both costs and effects associated with the practices. The study covered some 300 Chapter l projects over a three-year period, focusing on project settings and instructional approaches used in the projects. Results of the study indicated that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Environment
New York Univ., NY. Center for Field Research and School Services. – 1972
This report includes evaluations of four New York City school district educational projects funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The Intensive Reading Program offered concentrated, individual reading instruction to needy open enrollment children as well as some indistrict pupils. The program's objectives…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Ecology, Environmental Education, Individualized Instruction
