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| Evaluation Review | 7 |
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| Journal Articles | 7 |
| Reports - Research | 4 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 3 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
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Peer reviewedLongshore, Douglas; Wellisch, Jean B. – Evaluation Review, 1982
Human relations services funded under the Emergency School Aid Act were found to have had favorable but generally weak effects on student intergroup relations. Process and impact evaluation should be combined and individual effects should be examined. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs, Human Relations Programs
Peer reviewedNewman, Dianna L.; Brown, Robert D. – Evaluation Review, 1992
Survey items representing 30 standards of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation were used to examine violations in program evaluations. Twenty-nine novice graduate students, 57 graduate students with moderate knowledge about evaluation, and 61 expert evaluators viewed propriety and accuracy standards as suffering the most…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Ethics, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedMcKillip, Jack; Baldwin, Kimm – Evaluation Review, 1990
A multimedia sexually transmitted disease (STD) education campaign was evaluated for 8 weeks on a college campus. Subjects who were interviewed included 560 Southern Illinois University students. The program and evaluation covered condom use, moderate alcohol use, and regular exercise. Results indicate increased power for a control construct…
Descriptors: College Students, Drinking, Exercise, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSantee, Richard T.; Davis, Barbara Gross – Evaluation Review, 1980
Entering college freshmen who voluntarily participated in a summer college-introduction program were compared to other freshmen. Results of the study indicated no differences in grades or attitudes between the two groups; however, threshold students took more academic credits and had less academic attrition than nonparticipating students. (CP)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Attitude Change, College Freshmen, Expectation
Peer reviewedHarmon, Michele Alicia – Evaluation Review, 1993
DARE's effectiveness in Charleston County (South Carolina) was studied by comparing 341 DARE to 367 non-DARE fifth-grade students. DARE teaches students to recognize and resist social pressures to use drugs. DARE has positive impacts on anti-substance abuse attitudes, assertiveness, positive peer association, association with drug-using peers, and…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Comparative Testing, Drinking, Drug Abuse
Peer reviewedSussman, Steve; Stacy, Alan W. – Evaluation Review, 1994
The following methods of estimating school-level experimentation with drugs by adolescents at 20 California continuation high schools are compared: (1) self-reports; (2) prevalence estimates from students; (3) prevalence estimates from school staff; (4) naturalistic observation; and (5) refuse (garbage) analysis. Advantages of refuse analysis are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Continuation Students, Drinking, Estimation (Mathematics)
Peer reviewedDukes, Richard L.; Stein, Judith A.; Ullman, Jodie B. – Evaluation Review, 1997
The long-term effectiveness of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) was assessed by contrasting drug use and other D.A.R.E.-related attitudinal latent variables among 356 12th graders who received the program in 6th grade with 264 students who did not receive the program. Results suggest a possible sleeper effect for the program. (SLD)
Descriptors: Drug Education, Followup Studies, Grade 12, Grade 6
