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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1983
The Army's Basic Skills Education Program (BSEP) was studied to consider whether it was properly designed to determine the basic skills needed in Army jobs and to be effectively implemented. Information and reports on BSEP were reviewed, and three major commands were selected for evaluation. In designing the program, the Army did not identify the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
Clariana, Roy B.; Smith, Lana J. – 1989
This study was conducted to determine the effect on achievement and attendance of providing students with computer assisted instruction (CAI) progress reports. Subjects included 105 at-risk eleventh graders in a remedial program funded by Holiday Inn. In a 5-week period during the summer, subjects were required to attend 5 CAI instructional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Attendance, Computer Assisted Instruction
Reglin, Gary L. – 1988
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a computer assisted remediation program on basic skills mathematics achievement, academic self-concept, and locus of control of students in a dropout retrieval program. A nonrandomized pretest-posttest experimental design was used to compare students from urban settings in two groups.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Locus of Control, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Skills
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. – 1988
This curriculum guide describes the language arts portion of the Occupational Entrance Course, a course designed for junior and senior high school-aged students who have not functioned successfully in the traditional academic setting. The guide outlines a curriculum which focuses on developing students' receptive and expressive communication…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Skills, Curriculum Guides, Foreign Countries
Keimig, Ruth Talbott – 1984
Successful college instruction programs have two features that are associated with increased grade point averages and retention: (1) they are comprehensive and meet student needs, and (2) they are better institutionalized into the academic mainstream of the college or university. Several program characteristics are crucial to learning improvement,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, College Instruction, College Students
Holcombe, Bettye Pulliam; Shelton, Aubrey W. – 1990
As a result of the Educational Reform Act in 1982, the Mississippi State Board of Education adopted accreditation levels from 1 to 5, with 1 being the lowest level. In 1988, 17 school districts were assigned to the Level 1 status by the Commission on School Accreditation, based on results of the following performance standards: Basic Skills…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accreditation (Institutions), Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing
Berrum, Phyllis – 1990
This report describes 11 effective compensatory education programs in Oregon schools funded under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. One high school, four middle school, and six elementary school programs are profiled. Each profile includes the following information: (1) demographics; (2) staffing; (3) parent…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Demonstration Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged
Orange County Public Schools, Orlando, FL. – 1986
The Orange County, Florida, public schools have developed a Chapter 1 program of individualized learning for reading and mathematics underachievers in grades 1, 2, and 4. The program is described in terms of the following: (1) district information; (2) program and project information; (3) goals and objectives; (4) coordination with regular and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Orange County Public Schools, Orlando, FL. – 1986
The handbook contains documents that the teacher will need to implement the Orange County, Florida, public schools Chapter 1 program. Included are the following: (1) lists of Chapter 1 schools, staff, and staff assignments; (2) job description of teachers; (3) duties clarification; (4) a fact sheet about Chapter 1; (5) letter to parents advising…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Lewis, Jack L. – 1985
The Growth in Academic Performance Project, the major component of the Cincinnati Public Schools' ECIA (Education Consolidation and Improvement Act) Chapter 1 Program, operated supplementary reading classes in 51 public and 26 nonpublic schools involving 4,891 elementary school students during 1984-85. The four objectives established for that…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Schools, Inservice Teacher Education, Parent Participation
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1986
In the summer of 1985, New York City's High School Preparation for Raising Educational Performance (PREP) Program included an English as a second language (ELS) component. The ESL component was designed to help recent immigrant students develop the listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in English necessary for success in the mainstream…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, English (Second Language), High School Students, High Schools
Marcotte, James – 1986
Since 1974, Cincinnati Technical College (CTC) has offered a Developmental Education (DE) program designed to upgrade students' skills in mathematics, reading, English, and basic sciences, as well as study and interpersonal skills. The DE program offers students, particularly those with low combined Differential Aptitude Test (DAT) scores, a…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Basic Skills, College Graduates, Community Colleges
McDaid, Janet L.; Baca, Christina – 1987
This evaluation report contains descriptive information about the population of students retained during the 1985-86 school year under a new policy in San Diego City (California) Schools. The courses failed by at-risk secondary school students were analyzed in terms of course content and student outcomes. Intervention strategies attempted with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Course Content, Educational Policy, Failure
Latham, Glenn; Barcas, Carolyn – 1986
This study assessed the educational status of 284 students displaced by the closure of the Intermountain Inter-Tribal School (IIS), a majority of whose students had been referred because they were difficult to serve. Educational status was gauged by the holding power of the schools to which the students were sent, dropout and expulsion rates, and…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Access to Education, Alcoholism, American Indian Education
Costin, Barbara Wei-hao Shen – 1986
A survey conducted at the Hong Kong Baptist College gathered information about first-year remedial reading instruction in English as a second language (ESL). The study focused on the kinds and purposes of reading assignments, the levels of cognitive processes related to reading assignments, the cognitive ability levels of weak students, the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
