This report reviews California's Child Support Enforcement program (CCSEP) and prospects for increasing support payments. Chapter I describes the structure of the CCSEP, recent collection experience, and prospects for growth in collections under current practices. Chapter II describes recent revisions in federal law concerning the program and the expected effect of the changes on collections of support payments in California. Chapter III presents an analysis of county collections in 1982-83 and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Federal Legislation, Program Development, Program Effectiveness, State Programs
Peace education refers to formal school-based and informal community education programs that teach about the dangers of violence and alternatives to violence. This paper explains some problems associated with the evaluation of peace education programs. These problems include analyzing the multifaceted causes of violence and the complexities of strategies geared to reduce violence. Difficulties in constructing rigorous followup studies with participants in peace education programs make it hard...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Violence, Harris, Ian M.
This paper lists and briefly describes principles that were used to conduct a successful parenting workshop on building strong families. Principles described are those that lay the groundwork for the workshop, pertain to the operation of an effective workshop, and relate to follow-up and evaluation. The principles were used to conduct a five-session parenting workshop attended by 90 percent of the 53 participants. Adolescent children of participating parents consistently rated their parents...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Principles, Parent Education, Program Effectiveness, Workshops
This article focuses on group counseling as a re-education and training effort for people who are abusive and violent. The analysis presented examines the effectiveness of one approach to this problem, in which a group format was adopted, fourteen 8-week group sessions were conducted, and a post-group survey was given to participants to obtain their perceptions of change. The article begins with a literature review focused primarily on group intervention strategies for working with abusers....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aggression, Criminals, Family Violence, Group Counseling, Program Effectiveness
The report summarizes a study of the individualization process for teaching handicapped students. Relationships were examined among three forms of the individual plan: the contractual plan, as written in the individualized education program (IEP) document; the phenomenological plan, the teacher's intent for the program; and the empirical plan, the program as experienced by the child. Data were collected via analyses of IEPs, teacher interviews, and child observations. Results showed congruence...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disabilities, Individualized Education Programs, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Role
This document describes the 10 Exemplary Programs in alcohol and other drug abuse prevention selected in 1990. The programs included provide models of state-of-the-art alcohol and drug abuse prevention programs that may be replicated or adapted by others. Illustrating a wide variety of approaches that are effective in diverse communities, the programs reflect practical plans of action that are yielding encouraging results in the ongoing effort to eradicate the abuse of alcohol and other drugs....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, Models, Prevention, Program Effectiveness
This compilation focuses chiefly on the impact of afterschool programs on student academic achievement. Although afterschool programs for children have been operating for many years in some communities, the afterschool movement is just a few years old. As public demand for afterschool has grown, so has the demand for accountability. That is particularly true in afterschool programs that spend public dollars. This updated evaluations backgrounder includes new data from ongoing evaluations of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Program Effectiveness, After School Programs, Academic Achievement, Accountability
This study is an examination of an attempt within the Adult Basic Education Department at College of the Mainland to reduce the anticipatory test fear in normal adult students preparing for the General Educational Development (GED) Test. The experiment covered a time span of 16 weeks and made application of systematic desensitization, a therapeutic technique proper to the writings and practice of Dr. Joseph Wolpe. There is no indication, from the pre-post testing of the control group, that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Anxiety, Desensitization, Equivalency Tests, Program Effectiveness, Therapy
A 2-day seminar, attended by 35 physicians and others concerned with graduate physician education, was held to review the state-of-the-art of evaluation, current techniques, and effectiveness of programs. Presentations during the opening session were: (1) "The State of the Art of Evaluation" by Ray Elling, (2) "Defining Objectives in Evaluation" by George E. Miller, (3) "Contemporary Activity in Program Evaluation" by John P. Hubbard, (4) "Judgement...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Evaluation Methods, Medical Education, Physicians, Program Effectiveness, Seminars
A quality circle (QC) is a group of workers from the same work area who voluntarily meet on a regular basis to identify, analyze, and solve various work-related problems. While management support has been a variable frequently cited as critical to the success of QCs in organizations, very little research has empirically documented the relationship between management support and QC effectiveness. This study was conducted to examine the relationship between top-, middle-, and lower-management...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, Attendance, Middle Management, Program Effectiveness, Quality Circles
The "Houghton Mifflin Reading"[c] system is a reading program for instruction in grades K-6. It uses Big Books (authentic literature), anthologies, Read Alouds, and audio compact discs to provide step-by-step instruction in reading. According to the developer's website, "Houghton Mifflin Reading"[c] was developed based on the findings of the National Reading Panel. The product is designed to be used as a full-year curriculum program with instruction on developing oral...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Beginning Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Program Effectiveness,...
Alcohol is all too often seen as an accepted part of college life, but there are programs that can significantly reduce students' risky drinking, according to a series of studies in a special college drinking supplement of the "Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs." Fourteen studies detail results of projects funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's (NIAAA's) Rapid Response to College Drinking Problems initiative. Between 2004 and 2005, NIAAA selected 15...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Alcohol Abuse, Drinking, Prevention, College Students, School Community Programs,...
This Brief reviews evidence on students who enter community college with weak academic skills, and it summarizes study findings on the effectiveness of developmental education. It suggests that, on average, developmental education is not very effective in overcoming student weaknesses. The report concludes with recommendations for a reform agenda based on a comprehensive approach to assessment, more research that tracks students through their early experiences at college, a blurring of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Program Effectiveness,...
Neyland Stadium, located on the University of Tennessee (UT) campus in Knoxville, is home of the UT Volunteers football team. With a seating capacity of 104,079, it is the largest football stadium in the South, and the third-largest college stadium in the country. Since 1993, the stadium has collected more than 50 tons of materials for recycling. The recycling efforts at UT's Neyland Stadium are spearheaded through "Good Sports Always Recycle"[TM] (GSAR), a recycling program...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Recycling, Programs, Recreational Facilities, State Universities, Sanitation, Program...
Two community college presidents present their views of the worth of master planning. D. H. Smith, president of Brookdale Community College, describes the origin and development of the original master plan for Brookdale, the implementation of that plan, and the current proposed project to review the past and plan for the future through 1990. Smith's position is that every community college must have an ongoing master planning effort, since "a college without a plan may not have a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, College Planning, Community Colleges, Master Plans, Program...
This paper discusses the results of a study involving data gathered from a heterogeneous sample of organizations within a four-states region of the Midwestern United States. The main objective of this research was to determine the frequency and prevalence of career development practices and their perceived effectiveness among human resource executives. The results of the study show the demographics, status, and selected practices of the organizational career development systems utilized by the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Program Effectiveness, Human Resources, Career Development, Organizational Climate,...
The efficacy of a multiple treatment smoking cessation program and three maintenance strategies was evaluated. Phases I and II of the study involved 51 subjects who participated in a five-day smoking cessation project consisting of lectures, demonstrations, practice exercises, negative smoking, and the teaching of self-control procedures. At the program's termination Phase III commenced and all subjects were randomly assigned to one of three maintenance conditions: (1) a four-week support group...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Behavior Modification, Maintenance, Program Effectiveness, Program...
VisionQuest is one of the largest and most controversial private sector corrections programs designed to handle serious juvenile offenders in the country. Most chronic delinquents referred to VisionQuest by the juvenile court had failed under prior placements and were candidates for commitment to the California Youth Authority. VisionQuest programs consisted of rustic wilderness camps, wagon trains, and extended sailing and bicycling expeditions. All programs emphasized physical conditioning,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Correctional Rehabilitation, Delinquency, Delinquent Rehabilitation, Program...
The history and current status of Indochinese Mutual Assistance Programs (MAAs) is reviewed in the newsletter issue, and a description is provided of the six kinds of MAAs that are found in the United States. They include the following: (1) cultural preservation/social activities; (2) religious services; (3) special constituency groups; (4) resettlement/social services; (5) business and economic development; and (6) advocacy and political action. Additional articles discuss the MAA's search for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Buddhism, Culture Conflict, Indochinese, Land Settlement, Program Effectiveness,...
This document presents descriptions of nine United States Office of Education-sponsored career education projects selected on the basis of effectiveness by the Joint Dissemination Review Panel of the Educational Division of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The project descriptions are arranged in an order which proceeds from broad and comprehensive career education programs for grades kindergarten through twelfth, through programs which are comprehensive in scope but more...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Program...
In 1986, the United States Department of Education contracted with Pelavin Associates to conduct a study of the dropout problem in the United States. The research project was undertaken to provide a national overview of the dropout problem, focusing specifically on gender differences; and to identify successful or effective strategies for serving dropout-prone youth and school dropouts. The research was conducted in two phases, consisting of a research review and site visits to nine dropout...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Design,...
"Singapore Math" is a collection of math curricula originally developed by Singapore's Ministry of Education and private textbook publishers for use in Singapore schools. "Singapore Math" curricula were developed under a national framework centered on problem solving that emphasizes computational skills as well as conceptual and strategic thinking processes. Compared to many U.S. textbooks, "Singapore Math" textbooks, particularly those intended for earlier grades,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Curriculum, Research Design, Middle Schools,...
This report analyzes the literature on the issues involved in providing summer school services to handicapped students (3-21 years old) in Illinois. Introductory sections examine the state legislative history regarding summer school and judicial decisions from across the country on the topic. A review of the literature is presented followed by analysis of the benefits resulting from summer school programs. Positive outcomes in academic, personal, and social achievement areas are reported...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility, Literature Reviews,...
This report re-evaluates evidence on the issue of age ranges served of handicapped children in Illinois schools, analyzes additional research on the issue, and estimates the cost that would be incurred if the current 3-21 year range were to be lowered to birth. A literature review addresses two broad areas: the identification and effectiveness of services provided to children from birth to 3 years of age (including studies of prevention and early intervention) and special education costs and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Age, Cost Effectiveness, Disabilities, Infants, Intervention, Literature Reviews,...
The study investigated the effect of instruction on basic number fact mastery of 123 learning disabled (LD) students, 8 to 13 years old. Mastery of basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication facts was seen as an important component of overall arithmetic competence and represents a particular area of performance deficit among LD students. The intervention study compared two treatment approaches containing parallel program features, but with differences in the sequential clusters of facts...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Education, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Mastery Learning,...
The purpose of this study was to compare "expert" and "practitioner" evaluations of research questions in health education. The "expert" respondents consisted of 21 health educators identified by a panel of experts as significant contributors to the field of health education. The "practitioners" consisted of 722 health educators. The respondents were asked to rate the research questions on the Likert scales of Importance, Desirability and Feasibility....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Health Education, Health Programs, Program Effectiveness, Research Needs, Research...
An evaluation of a state-wide alcohol and substance abuse education project covering the years 1983 through 1986 is provided in this document. The project was designed to provide continuing education opportunities for counselors and other staff working in the field of alcoholism and substance abuse. Much of the training provided is technical in nature, assigned to upgrade participants' knowledge concerning the treatment of alcoholism and substance abuse, improve their interpersonal...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Alcohol Education, Alcoholism, Counselor Training, Drug Abuse, Drug Education,...
The "Wyman Teen Outreach Program" (TOP) is a life skills curriculum for 12- to 17-year-olds that aims to prevent negative youth behaviors, such as school failure and early pregnancy. Trained facilitators deliver the curriculum in weekly classes throughout the school year. Participants discuss topics such as goal-setting, peer pressure, relationship dynamics, values, and communication skills. The program can be integrated with a school's existing curriculum, offered as an in-school...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Outreach Programs, Youth Programs, Adolescents, Daily Living Skills, Educational...
The orientation program of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education at The University of Georgia for nontraditional students has two primary goals. The first goal is to provide information that will help students make a successful transition to college; second, to provide opportunities for students to meet each other and campus personnel in an environment which fosters a sense of community and belonging. This is very important for nontraditional students, many of whom are apprehensive about...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students, Program Content, Program...
A review of the literature reveals that the knowledge professors of educational administration disseminate is not used in administrator preparation programs. This holds true both in the design of programs and in the use of specific methodologies in the management of the programs. The implementation of a range of management technologies, preferably by students within the programs, is one means of increasing the use of research knowledge in training programs. This would also increase program...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Education, Educational Programs, Educational Research, Higher...
The way in which the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) is or is not serving the agricultural community is the focus of these proceedings. This record contains presentations and/or written testimony given by senators and representatives, by the directors of JTPA service delivery areas, by a representative from the Job Service in Iowa, by several Federal administrators of the JTPA, and by several farmers and former farmers from Iowa. The speakers and papers make the point that JTPA assistance...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs, Farmers, Federal Programs, Hearings, Job...
The Drug Infusion Project, sought to Discretionary Fund of the Secretary of Education, sought to infuse drug education into ongoing subjects at all grade levels and to promote thinking of drug education as being done at the same time, rather than in addition to, ongoing subjects. The background of the project came from the Department of Education monograph, "Schools Without Drugs," which discusses themes such as the danger of drugs, the negative consequences of drugs on the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Drug Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Program...
This article summarizes all of the Mode Deactivation Therapy, (MDT) articles published to date. MDT has shown to be more effective than Cognitive Behavior Therapy, (CBT), Social Skills Training, (SST), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, (DBT), Apsche, Bass, Jennings, Murphy, Hunter, and Siv, (2005); Apsche & Bass, (2005); Apsche, Bass & Murphy, (2004). This article suggests that MDT is a viable clinical Evidenced Based Psychotherapy. (Contains 3 tables and 13 figures.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Aggression, Sexuality, Behavior Modification, Psychotherapy, Program...
A study of the effectiveness of the Vocational or Vital Information for Education and Work (VIEW) information system was conducted in 10 school districts in Region 3, Kentucky. VIEW utilizes a microfilm aperture card approach with each card containing information on a particular occupation localized to a specific region in the State. The evaluation of VIEW was based on a comparative study of an experimental group and a control group of eighth grade students from each school district. A pre-post...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Microfilm, Occupational Information,...
The report presents findings of an examination and followup of language intervention for language delayed preschoolers. Three objectives were addressed: to develop and use a strategy for assessing the long-term outcomes resulting from language training programs, before, during, and after the transition period from special preschool programs to the public schools; to determine what communication skills are needed in public school classrooms; and to develop auxiliary procedures to teach needed...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Followup Studies, Generalization, Intervention, Language Acquisition, Language...
Eighteen studies (1952-1982) evaluating early therapeutic intervention for children with cerebral palsy are reviewed. Studies are explained to feature provisions of some type of traditional, neurophysiological/sensorimotor, or eclectic therapy and to have excluded pharmacological, dietary, or other specialized treatment procedures. Analysis is purported to reveal that as research paradigms become more rigorous in terms of reseach design and statistical analysis, empirical documentation of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cerebral Palsy, Infants, Intervention, Literature Reviews, Program Effectiveness,...
BASIC PREMISE OF THIS REPORT IS THAT INSTRUCTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS MUST BE JUDGED FOR EACH PROGRAM ACCORDING TO ITS DEMONSTRATED MERITS. GENERAL AND SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS ARE LISTED FOR POTENTIAL PROGRAM USERS AND PUBLISHERS. SUPPLEMENTS CONTAIN INFORMATION ON PROGRAM MANUALS AND TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION. THIS REPORT WAS PREPARED BY THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION AND TEACHING MACHINES OF THE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOICATION, AND...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Program Guides, Programed Instruction,...
Project About Face is a joint effort on the part of the Memphis-Shelby County Juvenile Court, Youth Services, Inc., the Naval Air Station at Millington, Correctional Counseling, Inc., and the Bureau of Educational Research Services at Memphis State University. The goals of the project were to implement a program of education and training that is correctional in nature and reduces juvenile recidivism rates. To date 233 male juvenile offenders have entered the program. Participants spend 8 weeks...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Correctional Rehabilitation, Delinquency, Interdisciplinary Approach, Juvenile...
Because of increasing concern about drug use in the work place and its impact on public safety, an urban mass transit agency formed a collaborative treatment link with Daytop Village to provide treatment for "impaired" transportation workers. Effective counseling approaches in the residential setting were adapted for ambulatory use and combined with urinalysis and monitoring by Daytop and the employing agency. Records of 111 randomly selected workers admitted to the program were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Processes, Drug Abuse, Drug Rehabilitation, Employee Assistance Programs,...
An assessment of vocational education service to the population in principal United States cities, this report was based on data received from U.S. cities having a population of over 250,000. Analyzed in regard to enrollment, teachers, expenditures, and program completions and placements, information from 45 of the 58 biggest cities is included. (SN)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Programs, Enrollment, Expenditures, Municipalities, Program...
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO IDENTIFY THE CHARACTERISTICS WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO SUCCESSFUL SECONDARY SCHOOL INDEPENDENT STUDY PROGRAMS (ISPS). THE METHOD CHOSEN TO ACCOMPLISH THIS PURPOSE INVOLVED THREE STEPS--(1) THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE INDEPENDENT STUDY PROGRAM CHARACTERISTICS RECOMMENDED IN THE LITERATURE, (2) CASE STUDIES OF THREE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL AND SIX LESS SUCCESSFUL ISPS, AND (3) COMPARISONS OF THE CHARACTERISTICS IDENTIFIED IN THE FIRST TWO STEPS. OF THE 18 MAJOR CONCLUSIONS...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Independent Study, Individual Instruction, Program Effectiveness,...
A consortium involving Brigham Young University (Utah) and five public school districts was formed in April 1984. The five common interests of the cooperating institutions were to: (1) improve educator preparation and inservice programs; (2) develop ways to make educational practice more congruent with research and theories about learners, the learning process, and teaching effectiveness; (3) explore the use of key schools; (4) develop strategies for attracting highly capable students into the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Higher Education, Preservice...
This report presents results from an internal evaluation conducted between September 1981 and August 1982 of abstracts published by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system. A brief introduction describes the study methodology and reviews limitations, indicating that 526 evaluations of 349 abstracts were conducted by personnel at each of the 16 ERIC Clearinghouses. Next, results of the evaluations prepared by each Clearinghouse are presented, with Clearinghouses being...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Abstracting, Abstracts, Indexing, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Writing...
To examine the effectiveness of a maternal intervention curriculum, 40 mothers and children with varying degrees of language delay were assigned to one of two intervention groups matched on child characteristics. Program impact was assessed through standardized tests (the Sequenced Inventory of Communicative Development to measure whether intervening with mothers appreciably affected children's overall receptive and expressive language levels, the Bayley Mental Scale or the Pictorial Test of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Disorders, Delayed Speech, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps,...
This report is designed to help policymakers, parents, reporters, and foundation officials better understand what has been learned about voucher programs and why some key questions remain unsettled. It is based on an analysis of voucher programs in Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Florida State. Four basic questions are addressed: (1) What do we know from current studies of publicly funded voucher programs? (2) What more could we learn with additional research on these programs? (3) What key questions...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education, Program...
The Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP) is a standards-based program that embeds opportunities to learn key ideas and understandings in learning to teach. This study investigated whether the teaching practice of STEP graduates reflects the STEP vision of good teaching. Participants were 10 STEP graduates from the classes of 1999 and 2000, chosen to reflect, roughly, the gender and cultural backgrounds of the larger STEP population. Data came from four sources: repeated interviews with the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Beginning Teachers, Educational Practices, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Education,...
The federal Drug-Free Schools and Communities (DFSC) Act of 1986 provides funding to school districts to help eliminate drug and alcohol use on their campuses. In 1992-93, the Austin Independent School District (AISD) received $467,362 from the act. The funds supported a wide assortment of preventative and educational programs regarding the illegal and harmful use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Student programs included the Conflict Resolution Program, Drug Abuse Resistance Education...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Alcohol Education, Drug Abuse, Drug Education, Elementary Secondary Education,...
Community-based prevention efforts to curb substance abuse problems in the United States have led to significant reductions in substance use and abuse. Many of these efforts have been carried out under the leadership of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) as well as State alcohol and drug abuse agencies. These prevention efforts are rooted in the belief that communities themselves offer the most effective approach...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Alcohol Abuse, Community Programs, Drug Abuse, Prevention, Program Descriptions,...
Graduates (N=54) of a program for profoundly hearing impaired infants and their families were assessed from 1 to 6 years after leaving the program to determine the longitudinal effectiveness of the early intervention. Effects of five variables (sex, parents' educational levels, birth order, parents' hearing status, and age of intervention) on the Ss' early language functioning were measured, and later functioning was examined through teacher rating scales combined with the results of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Deafness, Family Relationship, Infants, Intervention, Language Acquisition, Mothers,...
To determine the extent to which findings from studies with learners with high-level entry proficiency might apply to other learners, a group of 80 senior education majors were assigned to the Aircraft Instrument Comprehension Program under a variety of combinations of incentive, instruction, and feedback. In general the present study supports the contention that instruction is the predominant variable also had some effect on posttest results. Feedback was not found to enhance learner...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Feedback, Instruction, Learning, Motivation, Program...
This paper proposes an alternative means by which to produce improvement in the quality of professional convention programs. This method is one in which concern for professional relatedness supersedes a concern for individual competition. Dialogue as the first essential element in relatedness would encourage varied perspectives on research methodologies and interpretation of data. Discussion among presenters as well as audience perceptions would also be considered of importance. All aspects of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitudes, Educational Researchers, Meetings, Professional Associations, Professional...
Approximately 700 teenagers in Nassau County, New York become mothers every year. Most of these young mothers fail to finish high school, thereby embarking on marginal, nonproductive lives characterized by low earning power, long-term welfare dependency, more unplanned-for babies, and high-risk infants. In 1982 the Board of Cooperative Educational Services of Nassau County established the Teenage Pregnancy Program (TAP) to address the problems which put these young people at risk. TAP was a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Early Parenthood, High School Students, High Schools, Intervention, Parenthood...
The second annual roundtable represents an on-going effort to share knowledge and information and to develop a common agenda and measure the achievement outcomes in child welfare. This roundtable's goals included: (1) reviewing and selecting appropriate outcomes for children and families in child welfare systems; (2) building understanding of a conceptual framework for identifying key outcomes; and (3) building agency and community consensus regarding outcomes. Following acknowledgements and an...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Children, Family Programs, Program Effectiveness,...
This report examines 10 years of data analyzing the effectiveness of correctional boot camps in reducing the likelihood that inmates will commit another crime after release from prison and reducing prison populations and costs. Each boot camp studied had a different design, and each study used a different method to evaluate the program. Results indicated that participants reported positive short-term changes in attitudes and behaviors and had better problem solving and coping skills. With few...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Correctional Institutions, Criminals, Delinquency, Prisoners, Program Effectiveness,...
This guide is for superintendents, principals, staff developers, teachers and professional development providers--in short for anyone who has a stake in ensuring that professional learning has greater impact on improving practice and increasing student learning. The purpose of this guide is to help schools, districts, and SU/LEAs put in place processes and supports needed to make professional development more effective to meet key student learning and school improvement goals. The guide defines...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Faculty Development, Worksheets, Program Evaluation, Program Implementation,...
A description and evaluation of Project PA-I, URRD/ECI Pilot Program for dropouts is provided in this document. This program was funded by the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction under the Urban, Rural, Racial Disadvantaged Education Program (URRD) and conducted by Educational Consultants, Inc. in Everett, Washington from February 2, through June 30, 1976. The program was for hard core school dropouts, under 19 years of age, not enrolled in any school program, and who met at...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Dropout Programs, Program Descriptions, Program Effectiveness,...
The final report describes activities of Project First Chance, Interactive Outreach Project, a program to stimulate the development of improvement of educational services to preschool handicapped children and their families. The project was also designed to provide outreach to culturally diverse populations (primarily Navajos) and to programs in Arizona and other states. Indicators (in table form) depict the project's impact in the areas of awareness, training, product development, and state...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cultural Differences, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Navajo, Outreach...
Through the leadership of the Mississippi Board of Education, the Mississippi Department of Education conducted two separate studies of the reading programs offered in the state. The first study examined statewide trends in reading achievement and compared selected school districts' data with data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Data were then compiled into profiles in which school district achievement scores were grouped into 3 categories: high, mid-range, and low....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education, Low Income, Program Effectiveness,...
The Interim Committee on Teacher Evaluation and Dismissal was established by (Colorado) Senate Joint Resolution 97-14 to study the state's teacher evaluation and dismissal laws and explore alternatives. The committee was directed to study the relationship between education reform and employment protections for teachers; the effectiveness of adding "unsatisfactory performance" to grounds for teacher dismissal; the effectiveness of the teacher evaluation system; the balance between...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Contracts, Elementary Education, Program Effectiveness, State Legislation, Teacher...
This report summarizes the findings of the first phase of a study designed to provide an evaluation of the NDEA Title IV Graduate Fellowship Program in regard to its stated objective of increasing the number of college and university teachers by assisting doctoral students preparing for academic careers. It is based entirely upon secondary analysis of available data and consists primarily of statistical tables with only a brief summary of the major findings. These data suggest that while the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Fellowships, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness, Tuition...
This report is an evaluation of the Head Start Program conducted for a period of 32 weeks within the Pontiac School District. A description of the program is followed by the results of a pre-post administration of a preschool inventory. (Author)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Program...
A case is made for maintaining teacher education at the undergraduate level. This paper outlines the core arguments used by contemporary proponents of extended teacher preparation programs, and identifies which of these arguments are recurrent themes from earlier rationales. The validity of the arguments is also assessed. Some of the hidden costs of mandating extended teacher preparation programs as the sole approach to the preparation of teachers are identified and evaluated. It is argued that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Program...
This interim evaluation report presents an overview of Dade County (Florida) systems programs--instructional assessment and management structures which provide for the acquisition of reading and mathematics skills by individual students. A survey of the programs reveals that, as of 1974, 1660 installations had accommodated approximately 50,000 second-grade through sixth-grade pupils. Discussion also provides a description of evaluative procedures used; conclusions with regard to program...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Education, Mathematics Instruction, Program Content, Program Costs,...
Each school's version of a partnership with parents is unique, and no generic model exists. Designated in 1988 as one of 14 model schools in the New Jersey State Department of Education "Parents as Partners in Learning" project, the Mildred Magowan school in Edgewater Park has followed a systematic approach that has consistently led to increased involvement of parents in their young children's education. Though historically Magowan had welcomed parents in traditional ways, an 8-step...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Primary...
Careers guidance in Scotland is about to undergo major structural change with the creation of Careers Scotland which will provide a national, all-age careers guidance service. Among its aims, Careers Scotland seeks to establish national quality standards for careers provision. This briefing draws on a recently completed study of the effectiveness of careers services in Scotland to consider some of the issues involved in assessing the quality and effectiveness of careers guidance work. (Author)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Guidance, Foreign Countries, National Programs, National Standards, Program...
One of the most difficult challenges to effective substance abuse prevention is finding the right balance between maintaining the fidelity of a science-based model prevention program and promoting adaptation of that program to reflect the circumstances of the community where it is being implemented. This state-of-the-art review, prepared for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), surveys 125 published and unpublished studies related to fidelity and adaptation balance, spanning more...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Prevention, Program Design, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Scientific...
In recent years, different researchers and research agencies, teacher associations, national education organizations, and the U.S. Department of Education have published lists of the characteristics of "effective professional development." This study analyzed 13 of the better known of these lists to determine if they were derived through similar procedures, based on similar frames of reference, and included the same elements or characteristics. Results showed that individual...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Program Content, Program...
A study explored the socialization process of beginning teachers participating in formal teacher induction programs. The focus was on perceived sources of influence on classroom practices. The findings suggest that a wide array of features compete for the attention of the first year teachers as they make instructional decisions. Over the course of the year, beginning teachers sort out these forces and attend to some more than others. The perceived sources of influence are similar at the end of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Beginning Teachers, Program Effectiveness, Socialization, Staff Development, Teacher...
A brief examination of research on the relationships among the training of teachers, their classroom behavior, and the learning of children suggests a general framework for studying both the intermediate and ultimate effects of teacher training. The idea behind this model is that such effects are more plausibly demonstrated if the argument is broken down into several intermediate steps between training activity and child growth. Each step is claimed to affect the next, and the demonstration...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Learning Strategies, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Education, Teaching Methods,...
"Open Court Reading"[c] is an elementary basal reading program for grades K-6 developed by SRA/McGraw-Hill. The program is designed to systematically teach decoding, comprehension, inquiry and investigation, and writing in a logical progression. Part 1 of each unit, Preparing to Read, focuses on phonemic awareness, sounds and letters, phonics, fluency, and word knowledge. Part 2, Reading and Responding, emphasizes reading for understanding with literature, comprehension, inquiry, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Basal Reading, Reading Programs, Elementary Education, Educational Research, Program...
High stress levels experienced by child protection workers have been well documented. This study examined the effectiveness of a stress management program in a child protection agency. Subjects were case workers, immediate supervisors, and clerical staff; 320 subjects participated in pretesting and 279 subjects participated in posttesting. Subjects participated in one of three groups: a stress intervention program for an extended time; a stress intervention program for a short time; or a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Child Welfare, Program Effectiveness, Service Workers, Social Agencies, Stress...
Interest in guidance in the elementary school appears to be growing. Eight exemplary guidance programs were examined in order to identify effective approaches and strategies that could be replicated. A literature review suggested that counselors should spend less time modifying individual student behaviors and more time improving the learning environment. Interview and observation instruments were designed to collect data specifically pertaining to 10 ideal guidance practices identified in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools, Program...
This study was undertaken to evaluate a training program on understanding Alzheimer's disease for nursing home caregivers of those with the disease. A pretest/posttest design control group methodology was used to evaluate 81 staff members. Results of the study showed that: (1) staff satisfaction with working with mentally impaired and demented residents improved significantly after training; (2) the kind of knowledge required to care for Alzheimer's disease afflicted persons also increased; (3)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Alzheimers Disease, Caregivers, Employee Attitudes, Employees, Nursing Homes, Program...
CRITERIA FOR THE EVALUATION OF SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL LANGUAGE COURSES ARE DISCUSSED IN THIS PAPER. EXAMPLES ARE BASED ON A RUSSIAN COURSE DEVELOPED BY THE AUTHOR UNDER THE CONTACT CONTRACT. TEN CRITERIA ARE IDENTIFIED, THE THREE MOST BASIC OF WHICH ARE THE FOLLOWING--ARE THE TERMINAL OBJECTIVES MET, DO THE STUDENTS IN THE EVALUATION STUDY REPRESENT THE POTENTIAL STUDENT BODY FOR THE COURSE, IS THE COURSE COMPLETELY SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL. THE OTHER CRITERIA ARE CONSUMER-DIRECTED AND INVOLVE SUCH...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Evaluation Methods, Language Instruction, Program Effectiveness, Programed...
The digest presents the background and reasons for early intervention with children at risk for handicaps. Early intervention is defined, and three primary reasons for intervention are cited: (1) to enhance the child's development, (2) to provide support and assistance to the family, and (3) to maximize the child's and family's benefit to society. Research on the effectiveness of intervention is briefly reviewed, and it is stated that despite research problems, qualitative and quantitative data...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cost Effectiveness, Disabilities, Infants, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Young...
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