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ERIC Number: ED075546
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1972-Nov
Pages: 150
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The Accelerated Learning Experiment: An Approach to the Remedial Education of Out-of-School Youth. Final Report.
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Social Research Group.
This paper reports the results of the experimental use of new remedial education techniques in three urban out-of-school Neighborhood Youth Corps programs. The use of these techniques and the evaluation of the results of these techniques constituted the Accelerated Learning Experiment. The research design called for study groups of 50 each in three different cities, using the education system and materials developed for the Job Corps Conservation Centers. Measures of academic achievement of enrollees were taken at the beginning of the program and again after three and six months. Bi-weekly reports on each student and program progress were prepared by the instructors. The three cities selected for the Accelerated Learning Experiment were: St. Louis, Missouri; Cincinnati, Ohio; and, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Each of the sites was provided with the criteria for an "ideal" experiment, and arrangements were worked out in each city for the most feasible programs in relation to local problems and conditions. Teachers from all three cities were brought together in Pittsburgh in early February, 1968, and were trained by a Job Corps staff member in the use of the Job Corps materials. During the course of the Experiment, educational consultants visited the classrooms periodically to assist teachers with any problems that they had encountered. (Author/JM)
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Sponsor: Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Social Research Group.
Identifiers - Location: Missouri; Ohio; Pennsylvania
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