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Petrosino, Anthony; Guckenburg, Sarah; Fronius, Trevor – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2012
Background: Schools experience a wide range of crime and disorder, victimizing students and staff, and undermining attempts to create a safe and orderly environment for student learning. Police have long established programs with schools, but there has been no systematic review of evaluations of these programs, outside of police-led prevention…
Descriptors: Evidence, Quasiexperimental Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Effectiveness
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Justice, Christopher; Rice, James; Warry, Wayne – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2009
This paper examines whether a single first-year inquiry-based seminar can have a lasting impact on students' academic skills. Fifty-four Inquiry students and 71 comparable students participated in three performance tests: a research skills exercise; an evaluation of oral presentation ability; and a test of critical reasoning and teamwork skills.…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Inquiry, Quasiexperimental Design, Evidence