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1967
PROJECT AND PROGRAM EVALUATION REPRESENT TWO BROAD STRATEGIES FOR EVALUATION. PRODUCT EVALUATION OF A PROJECT DETERMINES THE EXTENT TO WHICH OBJECTIVES ARE ACHIEVED. THE EVALUATOR'S ATTENTION IS FOCUSED ON CHANGE IN THE TARGET PUPIL OR SCHOOL ON A PRE-PROJECT TO A POST-PROJECT BASIS. IN THEIR EVALUATION OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Evaluation Methods, Federal Aid, Program Evaluation
Direct linkGreenberg, David H.; Michalopoulos, Charles; Robin, Philip K. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2006
This paper uses meta-analysis to investigate whether random assignment (or experimental) evaluations of voluntary government-funded training programs for the disadvantaged have produced different conclusions than nonexperimental evaluations. Information includes several hundred estimates from 31 evaluations of 15 programs that operated between…
Descriptors: Males, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Meta Analysis
Download full textNational Commission on Resources for Youth, Inc., New York, NY. – 1969
The results of a study conducted by the National Commission on Resources for Youth, Inc., (NCRY) to demonstrate the feasibility of a Youth Tutoring Youth program (designed to put 14- to 15-year-old disadvantaged underachievers to work as paid tutors of similar elementary school children) for possible implementation as a project of the Neighborhood…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Strategies, Program Evaluation
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Bureau of Planning and Evaluation. – 1971
This review of the literature from higher education concerning compensatory education focuses on those programs and practices that help disadvantaged students enter institutions of higher education as well as those designed to help them succeed once enrolled. Recruitment, admission, and financial aid practices to help disadvantaged students enter…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation
Gordon, Edmund W. – 1970
In this brief discussion of the evaluation of compensatory education, the author analyzes why it has been difficult to discover whether compensatory education has succeeded; in addition, why the causes of success or failure are difficult to assess. In particular, the author points out that the political and economic circumstances of programs make…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Program Evaluation, Research Design
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1971
This is the fourth in a series of reports comprising a nationwide review of the Teacher Corps program; it assesses the program at the University of Southern California and participating schools in Los Angeles and Riverside counties. The program focused on the special educational needs of Mexican-American and black children living in the Los…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Needs, Program Evaluation, Teacher Interns
Peer reviewedHodges, Walter L. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1973
Implications for research and leads for the evaluation of programs for the early education of disadvantaged children can be derived from the analysis of various models of early intervention. (ST)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Objectives, Intervention, Models
Gross, Beatrice; Gross, Ronald – Saturday Rev, 1970
The activities in an infant school in Great Britain are conducted in an unorganized fashion on the theory that children will learn best when they are learning what most interests them. (CK)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Innovation, Primary Education
Gunn, Thelma M.; Chorney, David W.; Poulsen, John C. – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2009
Since 1999, the Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI) has provided funding to provincial school authorities for projects designed to improve student learning and performance. Conducted in three-year cycles, this unique approach has successfully helped to initiate approximately 1,600 grassroots projects led by school districts, teachers,…
Descriptors: High Schools, At Risk Students, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, DC. – 1968
This interim report presents operational and evaluational concepts and results and plans of the Teacher Corps from 1966 to 1968 in five sections. Section 1 capsules the objectives of the program: to broaden programs of teacher preparation and to strengthen educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth. The Teacher Corps program is overviewed…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Internship Programs, Models, Program Evaluation
Smith, Merle
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)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedFuller, Bruce – Evaluation Review, 1981
Five causal metaphors running throughout youth employment and education programs are reviewed: (1) the functionalist economic model; (2) the institutional socialization model; (3) a psychosocial view of youth development; (4) the subcultural model; and (5) a self-determined community development vision. (Author/GK)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Evaluation Methods, Models, Program Evaluation
Melhuish, Edward; Belsky, Jay; Anning, Angela; Ball, Mog; Barnes, Jacqueline; Romaniuk, Helena; Leyland, Alastair – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2007
Background: An area-based initiative, Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs), was established by the UK government to reduce social exclusion through improving the well-being of children aged 0-3 years and their families in disadvantaged communities; a true community intervention in that all children under four and their families in specified areas…
Descriptors: Community Services, Early Intervention, Child Rearing, Social Isolation
Black, Sally; Washington, Ericka – ERS Spectrum, 2008
The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (BPP) is an internationally recognized school-based bullying prevention program. This project sought to evaluate pilot implementation of the program in one urban district using fidelity of implementation, bullying incident density (BID), student surveys, and serious incident reports as process and outcome…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Bullying, Prevention, At Risk Students
Olsen, Robert; Seftor, Neil; Silva, Tim; Myers, David; DesRoches, David; Young, Julie – US Department of Education, 2007
To help address continuing disparities in academic achievement and under-representation of disadvantaged groups in math and science majors and careers, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) established a math and science initiative in 1990 within Upward Bound, a federal grant program known as Upward Bound Math-Science (UBMS) designed to provide…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Mathematics Education, Science Education, Program Effectiveness
