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PCEN Math Skills Program Student Outcome Data 1988-89 End-of-Year Report. Evaluation Section Report.
Download full textMei, Dolores M.; And Others – 1990
This report details the overall results for the Pupils With Compensatory Education Needs (PCEN) program, results by superintendency for 1988-89, and school-by-school summary statistics in math and attendance. The PCEN funded Math Skills Program provides remediation in mathematics to eligible high school students. Students enrolled in the Math…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Course Evaluation, Educational Assessment, High Schools
School Community Education Program in New York City, 1984-85. Volume I: OEA Final Evaluation Report.
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1986
In 1984-85, the New York City Public Schools received $2,374,686 from the state legislature to operate the School Community Education Program (also known as the Umbrella Program). The program consisted of 46 different projects designed to provide innovative solutions to local educational and school problems. Thirteen of these projects, providing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Ingle, Judith K. – 1985
Since 1984, the Language Arts Lab at Irmo High School (Columbia, South Carolina) has provided: (1) remediation in reading and writing to students with low standardized test scores; and (2) assistance to other students in the areas of study skills, college entrance exam preparation, term papers, reading and reading assignments, grammar, and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, High Schools, Language Arts, Language Skills
Mangrum, Charles T., II, Ed.; Strichart, Stephen S., Ed. – 1985
A guide to 279 college and universities offering full-service programs for students with dyslexia and other learning disabilities (LDs) is presented. An introductory section discusses what LDs are, what college students with LDs are like, why colleges began providing programs for these students, admissions and support after admission, and how high…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Accessibility (for Disabled), Ancillary School Services, College Admission
Leitner, David; Ingebo, George – 1983
Prescription Learning is a multi-media diagnostic prescriptive program providing individualized instruction using six instructional strategies. Nine elementary schools and four middle schools in the Portland Public School District used Prescriptive Learning to provide supplemental reading and math instruction to low-performing students. Selected…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Computer Assisted Instruction, Diagnostic Teaching
Hansen, Joe B.; And Others – 1986
The evaluation of the Portland (Oregon) Public Schools' Summer Program focused on academic achievement of its students, grades K-8, who participated in 1985. Courses included arts and crafts as well as basic and remedial instruction in reading, mathematics, and language. The achievement gains of summer school students were compared to the whole…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Elementary Education
Barry, Janet – 1986
Presented are numerous ideas for workshop and in-service activities designed to involve parents as team members in the planning and implementation of the Chapter 1, Educational Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) programs of Missouri schools. Also provided are suggestions for parents to use to enhance their children's cognitive skills in…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Glossaries, Guidelines, Home Study
Porter, Al – 1988
This assessment of New Jersey's Mercer County Community College's (MCCC's) remedial program provides a program overview, results of a two-year follow-up of fall 1986 remedial students, and comparative data from previous years. The program overview examines policies and procedures concerning placement criteria, exit standards, program acceptance,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cohort Analysis, High Risk Students, Longitudinal Studies
Fairchild, Miriam E.; And Others – 1988
A cost effectiveness study by the Austin (Texas) Independent School District of its elementary compensatory reading programs, namely, the Chapter 1 Reading Improvement Program (Chapter 1 Regular) and Schoolwide Projects (SWP), found that the Schoolwide Projects cost two to three times as much to achieve the same gains in student achievement as did…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Education
Claus, Richard N.; Quimper, Barry E. – 1988
The School District of the City of Saginaw, Michigan operates a compensatory education delivery system in reading and mathematics consisting of two programs, elementary and secondary Academic Achievement (A2). The program was designed to provide direct instruction to some 2,613 students in grades one through nine. The goal of A2 was to improve the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
Syropoulos, Mike; Leddick, Linda – 1987
The purpose of the High School Development Center, an alternative school in Detroit, Michigan, is to provide educational opportunities for 300 students identified as unsuccessful by principals of five high schools. Students in grades 9 and 10 are selected for the program if they exhibit two of the following: (1) very low academic achievement; (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Experimental Programs, Experimental Schools
Syropoulos, Mike – 1987
The purpose of the High School Development Center, an alternative school in Detroit, Michigan, is to provide educational opportunities for 300 students identified as unsuccessful by principals of five high schools. Students in grades 9 and 10 are selected for the program if they exhibit two of the following: (1) very low academic achievement; (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Experimental Programs, Experimental Schools
Ana G. Mendez Educational Foundation, Rio Piedras, PR. – 1987
Through the Problem Solving and Reasoning Skills Cognitive Development Model for Severely Disadvantaged Puerto Rican College Students, the Ana G. Mendez Educational Foundation developed a model for cognitive skills development for disadvantaged, low-achieving Hispanics. The program incorporates cognitive skills into existing remedial courses in…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Basic Skills, College Curriculum, College Freshmen
Lore, Rosemary; Chamberlain, Ed – 1988
Designed to improve underachieving high school students' reading and communication skills, the Secondary Developmental Reading Program served 741 ninth, tenth, and eleventh graders in 13 Columbus, Ohio, public schools. Funding was made available through the Ohio Disadvantaged Pupil Program Fund (DPPF). Fourteen teachers participated in the 1987-88…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Compensatory Education, High School Students, High Schools
Mitchell, Thomas R. – 1989
Laredo Junior College (LJC) is a comprehensive community college in Texas, serving a student population that is 93% Hispanic and 61% female. In response to evidence that LJC was not adequately preparing students with the basic and academic skills needed to transfer, LJC expanded and restructured its assessment, placement, and remediation programs.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, College Faculty, Community Colleges
