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Download full textClaus, Richard N.; Quimper, Barry E. – 1995
This document consists of four consecutive annual program evaluation reports covering the years 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95, respectively. These reports detail the results of the annual product evaluation of the federally funded Chapter 1 prekindergarten program of the Saginaw, Michigan School District. The purpose of the prekindergarten…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, High Risk Students, Parent Participation, Preschool Education
Claus, Richard N.; Quimper, Barry E. – 1991
Results of the 1990-91 product evaluation of the federally funded Chapter 1 prekindergarten program of the Saginaw, Michigan School District are reported. The purpose of the program is to provide inner-city 4-year-olds with an environment that will enable them to develop the skills needed for success in school. In 1990-91, the program served 466…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, High Risk Students, Parent Participation, Preschool Education
Gloria, Cyril; Karr-Kidwell, PJ – 1993
Educators are very concerned about the problem of students dropping out of school. The reasons for students dropping out vary from social to economic causes. Alternative programs or schools have been used since the 1960s to try to keep students in school. This study involved a literature review of research on the identification and remediation of…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Early Intervention, Elementary Secondary Education
O'Sullivan, Rita G.; Tennant, Cheryl V. – 1993
About one in four students who enter high school will not graduate. Numerous dropout-prevention programs have been implemented nationwide in the past decade to increase the high school graduation rate. This growth in programs has made it more difficult for educators to determine the effectiveness of the many alternatives. This guide is designed to…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students
Huffman, Priscilla D. – 1997
This study examined the effectiveness and efficiency with which the Chippewa Falls Area United School District (Wisconsin) addressed the needs of its diverse student population, focusing on the At-Risk Kindergarten Program implemented by the school district in 1992. The program serves a selected segment of the kindergarten population in an…
Descriptors: Diversity (Student), Early Intervention, High Risk Students, Instructional Effectiveness
Pollock, John S. – 1994
A study evaluated the effectiveness of the 1992-93 Reading Recovery program as implemented in the Columbus Public Schools. The program featured individualized one-on-one lessons provided by 66 specially trained teachers serving 305 pupils. Data included results of administration of Metropolitan Achievement Tests and Scott Foresman text reading…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, High Risk Students, Instructional Effectiveness
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. – 2000
This report documents a 3-year evaluation of Georgia's CrossRoads alternative education program. It focuses on the direct benefits to regular classrooms of removing disruptive students, the effectiveness of services rendered to those removed students, the success with which they are returned to the regular classroom, and the projected costs and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Publications
Pollock, John S. – 1994
A study examined the effectiveness of the Chapter 1 Early Literacy Summer School program. The program provided additional reading instruction to underachieving first-grade pupils at seven schools located throughout the Columbus, Ohio public school district. The program featured group instruction (with many of the activities modeled after the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Emergent Literacy, Grade 1
Claus, Richard N.; Quimper, Barry E. – 1991
Results of the 1990-91 product evaluation of the Saginaw, Michigan School District's state-funded prekindergarten program are reported. In 1990-91, the program served 285 pupils enrolled at 8 sites. The purpose of the program is to provide at-risk 4-year-olds with an environment that will enable them to develop school readiness skills. The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Emotional Development, High Risk Students
Putnam County School Board, Palatka, FL. – 1996
Some students need help in solving their daily challenges. The program described here teaches students to function more efficiently in the school environment and the community. Various strategies provide students with alternatives to suspension/expulsion, and encourage parental and community involvement with "at-risk" youth. The program…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavioral Objectives, Children, Daily Living Skills
Bravi, Gerald; And Others – 1990
This report presents the results of a process evaluation conducted after the first year of a 2-year literacy development project designed to assist grade 1 teachers at 4 Manitoba schools in becoming more effective in working with "at-risk" students to meet reading and writing performance expectancies. The report includes results from…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Early Intervention, Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation
Bravi, Gerald D.; Madak, Paul R. – 1993
A study investigated teachers' attitudes concerning the first year of the Reading/Writing Immersion (R/WI) project, which assisted early years teachers in the White Horse Plain School Division, Manitoba, Canada, to become more effective in working with students who were at-risk of failing to develop reading and writing performance goals. Eleven of…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Elementary School Students, High Risk Students, Inservice Teacher Education
Fernandez, Yaniris M.; Whitlock, Elaine R.; Martin, Charlene; VanEarden, Kathleen – 1998
This study evaluated a first-year pilot program to improve retention, academic achievement, and student satisfaction of 49 academically underprepared freshmen at Assumption College (Massachusetts), a predominantly white, Catholic, liberal arts institution. Students were identified by low verbal, math, and total SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, High Risk Students
Marged, Judith – 1990
There are potentially successful students who are failing one or more subjects every year. Many students are spending more than the normal 3 years at the middle school level because of this failure. A program was designed to increase the self-esteem, motivation, and interest of at-risk students, thereby improving their grades. A second aim was to…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, High Risk Students, Junior High Schools
Pollock, John S. – 1994
A study evaluated the effectiveness of the 1993-94 Reading Recovery program as implemented in the Columbus, Ohio, public schools. The program featured individualized one-on-one lessons provided by 61 specially trained teachers serving 402 pupils. Data included results of administration of Metropolitan Achievement Tests and Scott Foresman text…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, High Risk Students
