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Download full textHammond School City, IN. – 1970
An ESEA/Title III program designed to expand services to remedial readers through the use of paraprofessional personnel is described. The greater part of the report explains the need for such a program, selection and training of paraprofessionals, materials, project implementation, parental involvement, and inservice training of the professional…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Inservice Education
Stancavage, Fran; Garet, Michael; Wayne, Andrew – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
The PD program evaluated in this study is designed to address the problem of low student achievement in topics in rational numbers. The study focuses on seventh grade, the culminating year for teaching those topics. The study randomly assigned 77 mid- and high-poverty schools from 12 districts to treatment and control conditions and collected…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education
Mulcahy, Robert; And Others – 1993
The Cognitive Education Project conducted a 3-year longitudinal evaluation of two cognitive education programs that were aimed at teaching thinking skills. The critical difference between the two experimental programs was that one, Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment (IE) method, was taught out of curricular content, while the other, the…
Descriptors: Administrators, Cognitive Processes, Criteria, Elementary Education
Wayne, Andrew; Garet, Michael; Taylor, James; Song, Mengli – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
This paper will describe results concerning the impact of the PD on the three primary study outcomes: teacher knowledge of rational number topics, teacher instructional practices, and student achievement in rational number topics. All analyses are completed. However, the results cannot be shared at this time because the report is currently under…
Descriptors: Numbers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education
The Comparative Effects of Three Seventh-Grade Science Programs with Different Laboratory Materials.
Stronck, David R. – 1970
Presented are the procedures, results, and conclusions of an experimental study designed to (1) determine the effects of the 1967-68 science inservice program of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and (2) compare the effects of three seventh-grade science programs utilizing different laboratory materials. The experimental group consisted of 499…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, General Science, Grade 7
Studebaker, Diana P.; Banathy, Bela H. – 1977
A project was conducted during 1974-76 to help meet the career awareness, orientation, and exploration needs of Native American youth in grades 7, 8, and 9. Activities included gathering information on Native American career education needs and surveying existing career education materials. Based on that information, twelve instructional units…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingual Education, Career Awareness, Career Education
