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Download full textQuint, Janet – MDRC, 2011
Professional development--formal in-service training to upgrade the content knowledge and pedagogical skills of teachers--is widely viewed as an important means of improving teaching and learning. While many interventions "include" professional development, professional development was the central intervention of the two recent research and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Test Results, Correlation, Scores
Management and Evaluation Associates, Highstown, NJ. – 1988
This report is designed to provide New Jersey Congressional legislators with current information on the effectiveness of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA) Chapter 1 Program in New Jersey. Data on the reading and mathematics performance of ECIA Chapter 1 students in grades 2 through 8 from participating districts were…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Kimball, George H.; And Others – 1984
This study was conducted to determine whether the Chapter 1 instruction provided to low-achieving students in the Oklahoma City Public Schools had a detectable effect on student academic growth. Reading and math achievement test scores of Chapter 1 students in grades 2 to 8 were compared with those of a matched group of low-achieving non-Chapter 1…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Covariance
