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D'Amico, Joseph J. – 1982
Four influential studies on school effectiveness reported by Brookover and Lezotte (1979), Edmonds and Frederiksen (1979), Phi Delta Kappa (1980), and Rutter and others (1979) are limited in their usefulness as recipes for creating effective schools by the following four issues: (1) The four studies differ in their definition of what…
Descriptors: Definitions, Demonstration Programs, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy
Price, M. Gayle – 1989
A study of the Kansas Cooperative Extension's Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) was intended to determine the effectiveness of instruction provided by this federally funded program. The program endeavors to benefit low income families by improving participants' food and nutrition practices, behaviors, and food consumption…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Eating Habits, Extension Education, Federal Programs
Talbert, Marcia – 1988
This paper discusses how developmental programs in Georgia obtain and maintain their status as "Training Center." The establishment in Houston County, Georgia of a "Training Center," an innovative school outreach program that disseminates an early intervention program for high-risk 6-year olds, exemplifies how outreach services…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support
Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City. – 1985
Reports on the current status of public education in Utah's public schools called for educational reform dealing with curriculum, instruction, student activities, preparation of teachers, inservicing administrators, and modes for improving teacher pay. A series of meetings held by educators, conferences, and visits throughout the state provided…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Educational Objectives
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Hinrichsen, Gregory A.; And Others – 1981
The purpose of this study was to determine what kinds of people are motivated to join a medical self-help group and whether and in what areas of psychological and social functioning such self-help groups have positive benefits for adolescents and their families. Extensive survey questionnaires were sent throughout the United States to all former…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Disabilities, Group Membership
Bolland, Kathleen A.; And Others – 1981
Teachers can take on the additional responsibility of inservice leadership and can be trained in the processes of curriculum development. Through implementation of those procedures, teachers can initiate an ongoing system of needs-based inservice education. Steps in initiating this process include: (1) Teachers take the major responsibility for…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Needs Assessment
Covert, Robert W.; Fang, Wei Li – 1981
The Joint Dissemination Review Panel (JDRP) examines educational interventions and determines their effectiveness. This study's purpose was to assess this review process and identify common characteristics of submittals and ways in which approvals and rejections differed. A locally-developed instrument which collected data on the intervention's…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Practices, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Hatcher, Elizabeth; And Others – 1978
This study was concerned with the validation of the Oklahoma Curriculum and Instructional Materials Center's agricultural mechanics curriculum manual and the development of a model whereby future manuals can be validated. Five units in the manual were randomly selected from a list of units to be taught during the second semester of the 1977-78…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Auto Mechanics
Apker, Wesley – 1979
Vocational education programs cannot and should not serve all the population groups targeted by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Rather, they should and must collaborate and cooperate with the manpower community. In order to do that five major policy issues need to be dealt with: getting agreements to collaborate, prime…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Federal Programs
Nebraska Univ., Omaha. Center for Urban Education. – 1977
A shift in the priorities set down in the Teacher Corps' rules increases the amount of time and attention paid to local projects rather than to large programs. Three Teacher Corps task forces convened to study the implications of the new rules and the realities of local project operation. The reports of the task forces are contained in this…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Demonstration Programs, Educational Needs, Evaluation Methods
Finn, Peter – 1977
This report records the development and validation by Abt Associates, Inc. of utilization materials developed to accompany the two U.S. Office of Education film series, Jackson Junior High and Dial A-L-C-O-H-O-L. The first section describes the process by which the nine project products were developed. These products include the following: (1) a…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Driver Education, Drug Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Hill, Richard; And Others – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1977
This review of a previous article (TM 503 836), concludes that: (1) the evaluation methodology was straightforward; (2) simpler data analysis would have yielded the same conclusions; and (3) exclusion of many experimental schools from data analysis and use of post hoc matching and covariance produced misleading results. (CP)
Descriptors: Bias, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Primary Education
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Thomas, Lutricia; And Others – Reading Improvement, 1978
Demonstrates the criterion validity of the "Oral Language Manual" that is part of the Cultural Linguistic Approach, a component of the National Follow Through Program. (RL)
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Disadvantaged Youth, Language Acquisition, Language Arts
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Karnes, Merle B. – Educational Horizons, 1977
Briefly summarizes the development of programs for young handicapped children primarily through the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (BEH), surveys seven nationally validated models for educating young, handicapped children, reviews characteristics of exemplary programs, and discusses the replication of one exemplary program, particularly…
Descriptors: Demonstration Centers, Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education, Handicapped Children
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LeMahieu, Paul G.; Wallace, Richard C., Jr. – Educational Leadership, 1985
Responding to doubts about the validity of test results that showed the Pittsburgh School District's school improvement project to be highly successful, the district validated its results by administering a different test to a representative sample of students in secure conditions. (MCG)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educational Testing
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