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Grossman, Jean Baldwin – Public/Private Ventures, 2009
This methodological brief is designed to provide both program operators and researchers with practical advice about how to assess a program's implementation and impact. Adapted from an article that first appeared in "The Handbook of Youth Mentoring" (DuBois and Karcher, ed. 2005), the brief focuses on the evaluation of mentoring programs, but the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Evaluation, Program Implementation, Intervention
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Mayhew, Matthew J.; Caldwell, Rebecca J.; Hourigan, Aimee J. – NASPA Journal, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of curricular-based interventions housed within first-year success courses on alcohol expectancies and high-risk drinking behaviors. Specifically, we longitudinally assessed 173 students enrolled in one of ten first-year success courses, including five that received the alcohol intervention and…
Descriptors: College Students, Intervention, Grade Point Average, Scores
Walstad, William B.; Soper, John C. – 1988
A study of over 3,000 U.S. high school students who took the Test of Economic Literacy (TEL) in 1986 reveals a lack of basic understanding in the four basic TEL concept clusters of fundamental economics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, and international economics. The TEL was administered pre- and posttest where students were enrolled in one of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Economics, Economics Education, High Schools