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Download full textInstitute of Education Sciences, 2013
In January 2011, a Joint Committee of representatives from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) began work to establish cross-agency guidelines for improving the quality, coherence, and pace of knowledge development in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. Although the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Research and Development, Intervention, Educational Improvement
Direct linkChappell, Shanan L.; O'Connor, Patrick; Withington, Cairen; Stegelin, Dolores A. – National Dropout Prevention Center/Network, 2015
Almost from the start of the public schools system in America, students have been leaving school without high school diplomas. However, the dropout issue did not rise to the level of significance it has today until the early 1980s, when social pressures, along with business leaders, leveraged their influence on educators to address the dropout…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Dropout Prevention, At Risk Students, Business
Burns, Barbara J., Ed.; Goldman, Sybil K., Ed. – 1999
This is the fourth volume in a series of monographs from the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Service for Children and Their Families Program, which currently supports 41 comprehensive system of care sites to meet the needs of children with serious emotional disturbances (SED). This volume identifies the essential elements of wraparound…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Court Litigation, Delivery Systems
Taylor, Jackie; Smith, Cristine; Bingman, Beth – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2005
The sourcebook is for those people who serve as administrators of adult basic, adult secondary, and/or adult English-for-speakers-of-other-languages (ESOL) programs, whether those programs are school-based, community-based, or community-college-based. This is one of the various tools developed through the National Center for the Study of Adult…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Improvement, Academic Persistence, Adult Education
Snyder, Scott; Sheehan, Robert – Diagnostique, 1983
The article proposes the viability of meta-analysis as a useful technique for integrating cross-study findings in early childhood special education. Issues of efficacy research, research integration, and the mechanics of conducting a meta-analysis are discussed, and efficacy studies are presented. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Meta Analysis, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedGresham, Frank M.; Sugai, George; Horner, Robert H. – Exceptional Children, 2001
This article discusses probable explanations for the weak effects in some meta-analyses that have investigated the effectiveness of social skills training (SST) for students with disabilities and offers specific recommendations for designing and producing more effective SST interventions. Treatment integrity issues, assessment issues, and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Generalization, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedScheerens, Jaap – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1985
In order to better understand the influence of the organizational setting on evaluation, this conceptual framework was developed and tried out in a meta evaluation of innovatory educational programs in Holland. Four components are explained--contigency factors, organization structure, policy-making, and evaluation research--and a checklist is…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Utilization, Meta Analysis, Meta Evaluation
