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Sacramento City Unified School District, CA. – 1992
The long-term effects of state compensatory education (SCE) and Chapter 1 programs on the development of basic skills and academic achievement of Sacramento (California) were studied for a sample of over 6,000 SCE and Chapter 1 students in grades 2 through 5. Follow-up and retroactive approaches were used to ascertain the degree to which thinking…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Black Students
Testing Achievement in Basic Skills. Volume I: Executive Summary and Research Reports. Final Report.
Singer, Harry; And Others – 1982
This comprehensive evaluation of basic skills testing in California's elementary and secondary schools is divided into an executive summary and a collection of research reports. The summary evaluates current testing conducted by the state, school districts, and classroom teachers; describes experimental studies on new ways of testing and reporting…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educational Research
Bengis, Laraine – 1986
The Prefreshman Summer Program for academically and economically handicapped students at the City University of New York (CUNY) was evaluated in 1985 and compared to previous evaluations. The voluntary, 6-week transitional program provides intensive basic skills instruction, tutoring, counseling, and financial aid to incoming students who fail to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, College Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs
Oglesby, Cynthia Hall – 1986
This proposal for the creation of a computer-assisted instructional (CAI) laboratory in a middle school in Oklahoma City emphasizes the need for such facilities to provide remedial instruction and improve student motivation as a means of reducing the number of students in the district dropping out of school before graduation. Intended for use by…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software
Download full textNorth Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Support Programs. – 1988
An evaluation project determined the effectiveness of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) 8 percent programs operated during the 1987-88 school year in North Carolina. Data were reported by 19 JTPA 8 percent program sites. Five different JTPA project activities were evaluated: Extended School Day (ESD), Pre-Employment Skills Training,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Guidance, Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship
Maryland State Board for Higher Education, Annapolis. – 1985
Results of a study of remedial education at all Maryland public colleges and universities, except for three campuses, are presented. Findings include: (1) by fall 1985 all institutions will have in place a systematic screening process to identify students lacking in one or more basic skill areas; (2) while all campuses collect some evaluative data…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1987
During 1985-86 the School Community Education Program (also known as the Umbrella Program), funded by the New York State Legislature, provided a variety of educational and training experiences to some 25,871 participants, including pre-kindergarten children and their parents; and students, teachers, and supervisors from kindergarten through grade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Basic Skills, Computer Literacy
Defino, Maria E.; Jenkins, Vivian – 1985
This report documents the purpose, procedures and results for each information source used in the evaluation of the 1984-85 State Compensatory Education (SCE) program in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District. The majority of this document presents seven appendices, each devoted to an aspect of the program: (1) Management Information…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Bilingual Education Programs
PDF pending restorationMangino, Evangelina – 1985
This publication summarizes the achievement results of the Austin (Texas) Independent School District (AISD) for grades 1-12 in reading and mathematics for 1975 through 1985. In 1975, the California Achievement Tests (CAT) were administered to students in grades 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9. However, in 1976, the testing program was expanded to all…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Black Students
Smith, Janet D.; And Others – 1981
In the summer of 1979, Cuyahoga Community College (CCC) introduced the PLATO computer-based individualized instruction system as a supplemental teaching tool in remedial English and mathematics courses. As part of a comprehensive evaluation of the system, surveys of the attitudes of students, faculty, and administrators towards PLATO were…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Basic Skills, College Faculty
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1982
The 1981-82 Austin (Texas) Independent School District Title I Migrant Program consisted of seven components: three instructional components--prekindergarten, communication skills, and summer school; and four support components--health services, parental involvement, migrant student record transfer system (MSRTS), and evaluation. The major…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1982
This volume summarizes the results of the evaluation of the Austin (Texas) Independent School District 1981-82 State Compensatory Education Program. This technical report is organized into eight appendixes. Each appendix reports the information collected by a specific measure. Each appendix consists of (1) an instrument description, (2) purpose of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Bilingual Students
Pasch, Marvin – 1980
Techniques and procedures used to evaluate the outcomes of the student development program, and to use the evaluation results, are presented. Specific evaluation questions are posed that address overall outcomes, not individual student outcomes, and quantitative measures are suggested to accompany the questions. The measures include statistical…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Academic Persistence, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education
Van Dusseldorp, Ralph A. – 1978
The third-party evaluation of the second year of the Iowa Central Community College Experience Based Career Education (EBCE) Project was based on examination of project records, interviews with project staff, student and resource persons, questionnaires completed by students, parents and resource persons, and test data collected on students at the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Education, Career Planning, Educational Testing
Salmond, Lowell; And Others – 1978
The annual reports of five subcommittees of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges' Developmental Mathematics Curriculum Committee (AMATYC-DMC) are preceded by a statement of goals for a remedial mathematics curriculum. The Hand-Held Calculator Subcommittee reported the results of a 12-item questionnaire distributed to college…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Calculators, College Mathematics, Community Colleges
