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Download full textHarrell, Betsy – Running Record, 2000
After the first year, funding for the Reading Recovery program in the Muscogee County School District in Georgia was to be contingent upon getting results that would document the success of Reading Recovery in the system. The following measures were used for program evaluation: An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement (Clay, 1993); Iowa…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Outcomes of Education, Primary Education
PDF pending restorationOklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1999
This report contains state and school district student testing results for the Oklahoma Testing Program for the 1998-99 school year. Several benchmarks are reported, including the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS), Oklahoma Core Curriculum Tests (OCCT), and American College Test Assessment (ACT) results. The National Assessment of Educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Benchmarking, Elementary Secondary Education
New Mexico State Dept. of Education, Santa Fe. Assessment and Evaluation Unit. – 1995
Results from the component tests of the New Mexico Statewide Articulated Assessment System, an elementary-level assessment, are presented. The New Mexico Achievement Assessment, uses the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills to assess the achievement of students in grades 3, 5 and 8. Score increases were seen for students in grade 3 in mathematics, in grade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups
Tompkins, John F. – 1986
This report describes an evaluation of the Chapter 1 Mathematics Program for 1,008 students in grades 1 through 8 in the Des Moines (Iowa) Independent Community School District. Four comments summarize results of the evaluation: students in grades 2-8 surpassed the criterion for gains in the total mathematics score on the Iowa Tests of Basic…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Behavioral Objectives, Budgets, Compensatory Education
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
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 1976
This report provides descriptive information for public officials and the general public about Maryland's public schools. It is the second report required by the Maryland Educational Accountability Act. This second report contains information about: the implementation of the Maryland Accountability Program on the State and local school system…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis
Schnelker, Diane; And Others – 1986
A three-year study was conducted to evaluate the implementation of the Transitional School Model in the Des Moines, Iowa, Independent Community School District. The model was designed to provide early adolescents in grades 6-8 with a more comprehensive bridge between elementary school and high school by emphasizing students' physical, emotional,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Turner, W. E.; Riley, Gerald – 1984
Education Consolidation Improvement Act (ECIA) Chapter 1 programs were conducted in 29 elementary schools in the Wichita (Kansas) Public Schools during the 1983-1984 school year. Major programs were corrective reading, mathematics, and prekindergarten. Smaller programs for children in neglected and delinquent institutions were conducted. A reduced…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Corrective Reading, Educationally Disadvantaged
George, Yvetta; Schaer, Barbara – 1987
The success of a reading laboratory using a learning modality approach was studied. The null hypothesis that there would be no significant difference among the levels of primary learning modality, sex, and race on the posttest of reading achievement for 31 second grade students, who read below grade level was tested at the 0.05 level after the…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Grade 2, Kinesthetic Perception, Learning Modalities
Mathews, Walter M. – 1972
The purpose of this study was to design, produce, and evaluate testing reports that would be useful and meaningful at the classroom level: reports that would be useful to teachers and informative to parents, without making time demands on teachers in either preparation of the reports or in inservice training in educational measurement. The Iowa…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Media, Evaluation Methods, Grade 4
Tyler, Doris – 2001
In the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), North Carolina, the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) is administered to all third grade students each year. The ITBS, which is one of the assessments used as a screening tool for the Academically Gifted Program, was given to approximately 7,700 third graders in 2000. The ITBS can be given as a…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
FOLEY, WALTER J. – 1967
THIS DETAILED FOUR-PART REPORT ASSESSES THE FIRST YEAR OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROJECTS ESTABLISHED IN IOWA UNDER TITLE I OF THE 1965 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT. OVER 95 PERCENT OF IOWA'S SCHOOL DISTRICTS, MANY OF THEM IN RURAL AREAS, PARTICIPATED IN THE PROJECT. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SHORTCOMING OF THE LOCAL PROJECTS WAS THEIR LACK…
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement, Ancillary School Services, Aspiration
Scheiner, Louis – 1969
This study tested the Modern English Infant School Approach to teaching as a partial solution to the problem of properly educating the ghetto child. It was hoped that the approach could (1) improve achievement in reading and arithmetic, (2) improve ability in written composition, (3) improve students' attitudes toward self, the school, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Creative Thinking, Experimental Programs
Peer reviewedPowell, Jack V.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Education, 1987
The influence of the Athens (Georgia) Tutorial Program upon the academic achievement of 256 low socioeconomic students in grades 3-8 was studied. The study covered a 3-year period. Results showed the positive impact of the program, but accurate evaluation was not possible because complete records were not available. (JAZ)
Descriptors: Attendance, Blacks, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedYin, Ping; Brennan, Robert L. – International Journal of Testing, 2002
Studied longitudinal changes in performance at both the student and school district level in major content areas of a widely used norm-referenced grade-level testing program. Used data from grades 3 to 4 and from 7 to 8 of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (in Iowa). Reports descriptive statistics and empirical norms and reliability estimates for…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Longitudinal Studies
