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Download full textCaldwell, Michael S. – 1968
Educational programs, regarded as inputs, may be developed within a procedural framework to achieve outputs of desired change and improvement. Eight criteria for assessing plans and strategies are relevance, legality, congruence, legitimacy, compatibility, balance, practicability, and cost/effectiveness. (JK)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning, Educational Strategies
Rossi, Robert J.; And Others – 1977
This document reviews and summarizes fifteen major studies of compensatory education, and in particular Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It provides students, researchers, evaluators, and policymakers with a usable guide to the evolution of approaches associated with this large scale educational program. These studies…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Evaluation, Federal Programs, Program Descriptions
Estes, Gary D. – 1983
The paper focuses on the Title I Evaluation Technical Assistance Centers to illustrate issues of measuring costs and deciding on outcome criteria before promoting "cost-effective" approaches. Effects are illustrated for varying resource allocations among personnel, travel, materials, and phone costs as a function of emphasizing…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Economics, Organizational Objectives
Blackburn, Susan Fleming – 1976
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of a structured listening program on 220 first-, second-, and third-grade students enrolled in Title I schools in the ALbuquerque, New Mexico, public school system. All of the students were given the Educational Testing Service's Cooperative Primary Tests: Listening, and the author's own…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Experimental Programs, Instructional Programs
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Social Welfare Development and Research Center. – 1975
Two Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I project components for the Maui District, Hawaii are evaluated in this report. These are the reading resource rooms and the preschools. This report makes the following recommendations: follow-through instructional services should be carried into the target pupils' regular classrooms; a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Preschool Education, Program Content
Burnes, Donald W.; Moss, Richard L. – IRCD Bulletin, 1978
This paper discusses Federal Title I administration, and focuses on the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's activity in rulemaking and monitoring and enforcement. It also examines some of the similarities and differences in the ways states manage Title I and the implications of these strategies for local districts, particularly urban…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Federal Programs
New, Wendy Jo; Rhines, Chris; Walter, Fran; Klekotka, Peggie – Learning Point Associates / North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL), 2005
This toolkit is designed to provide educational leaders with information, tools, resources, and practical examples to help schools to effectively implement Title I schoolwide programs. It is intended to serve as a useful resource for states, districts, and schools to use, along with other resources and technical support, to create or refine…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, School Activities, Improvement Programs
Provus, Malcolm M. – 1969
A schema for the evaluation of ESEA Title I and III programs is based upon the view that evaluation should be considered as a process for program development and stabilization. Following a general systems approach and applying management theory, the model includes methods for using evaluation as a program improvement tool, with educational…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Educational Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged, Evaluation Criteria
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1972
This report concerns the review by the General Accounting Office of the operation of the fiscal year 1970 programs, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act and certain aspects of the 1971 programs of the Illinois State educational agency, and of the Chicago, Harrisburg, and Rockford local educational agencies. The local…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Needs
Detroit Public Schools, MI. Dept. of Research and Development. – 1968
A project to provide in-school work experiences for 14 and 15 year old junior high school students was conducted for the purpose of: (1) encouraging them to remain in school after the age of 16, (2) improving their school attendance and scholastic achievement, (3) providing opportunities for growth in the ability to work and explore aspects of the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Followup Studies, Junior High School Students
Imhoff, Charlene; And Others – 1972
Described is a federally funded summer program for 139 disadvantaged 5- and 6-year-old children. Preparation and planning aspects (including the proposal, objectives, and preservice training) are reviewed. The program is said to emphasize methods for implementing individualized instruction. Discussed and evaluated are inservice training…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Exceptional Child Education
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Social Welfare Development and Research Center. – 1974
The Elementary and Secondary (ESEA) Title I project components for Hawaii's Maui District are evaluated in this document. The first section reviews the following: the reading resource rooms, the preschools, and the measurement of academic gain as shown by the Peabody Individual Achievement Test. The second section presents a school-by-school…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs, Preschool Education
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Div. for Management and Planning Services. – 1980
To assist directors of local migrant projects in planning/developing a project application and in implementing/evaluating migrant projects, this guide also serves as a reference or checklist for mandated responsibilities, as an outline of good management, as an evaluative instrument to both new and experienced project directors who wish to assess…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Agency Role, Migrant Education
National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1975
This is the first of the progress and interim reports prepared for an evaluation study of compensatory education programs to be completed by 1977. This report describes and analyzes those parts of the research proposed in the research plan which have, to date, been fully designed and funded. These consist of (1) a description and discussion of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Demonstration Programs, Educational Finance, Federal Programs
Hunt, Barbara – 1973
In 1972-73, 288 of the 339 school districts in Oregon took part in efforts funded under Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I to provide a concentration of resources of educationally disadvantaged students. This report is compiled from project evaluations submitted by these participating school districts. Title I does appear to be helping…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annual Reports, Educational Change, Educationally Disadvantaged
