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Download full textVohra, Divya; Rowan, Patricia; Hotchkiss, John; Lim, Kenneth; Lansdale, Aimee; O'Neil, So – Mathematica, 2021
In the 2020-2021 school year, many schools and districts around the country implemented routine COVID-19 testing to proactively detect cases among teachers, students, and staff and stop the spread of the virus. Such testing made it possible for many communities to gain the needed support from teachers and parents to reopen schools and resume…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Districts, Educational Environment
Wolf, Patrick J. – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2010
The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) was established in 1990 as the first urban education reform in the U.S. built around the idea of permitting parents to enroll their children in private schools of their choosing at government expense. In its first year of operation, the MPCP or "Choice" program enrolled 341 students in the…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement
Lehr, Camilla A.; And Others – 1986
Information about current assessment practices was obtained from 54 surveys completed by Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP) demonstration projects across the United States. Information about factors influencing the selection and continued use of tests also was provided. Results indicated that 19 tests were used by five or more…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, National Surveys, Preschool Education
DAVIS, ROBERT B. – 1963
ACTIVITIES ARE DISCUSSED WHICH TOOK PLACE DURING THE SECOND YEAR OF THE PROPOSED 5-YEAR "MADISON PROJECT," A COMPREHENSIVE EFFORT AIMED AT GIVING SCHOOL CHILDREN AN EXPERIENCE IN THE CREATIVE AND OPEN-ENDED FORM OF MATHEMATICS AS IT IS KNOWN TO MATHEMATICIANS. THE REPORT OF THE FIRST YEAR (1962) BORE THE SAME TITLE AS THIS REPORT.…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Films, Instructional Films, Instructional Innovation
Nauta, Marrit J. – 1975
This field procedures manual for community interviewers and site coordinators, one of a series of documents on the evaluation of the National Home Start program (NHS), describes specific testing procedures for collecting family data. A federally funded demonstration program, NHS is aimed at providing home-based services (such as health, education,…
Descriptors: Administration, Data Collection, Demonstration Programs, Guides
Urban Collaborative, Detroit, MI. – 1971
This report deals with the elements of a neighborhood conservation program which will require the formulation of criteria for selecting a project area, the testing of those criteria in a particular location, and the definition of specific tasks within the project area. The projects described are intended to provide the Michigan State Housing…
Descriptors: Conservation (Concept), Demonstration Programs, Housing Needs, Neighborhood Improvement
Dean, Jeffery R.; Wolf, Patrick J. – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2010
The purpose of this report is to provide descriptive data regarding the test scores of Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) students in grades 4, 8 and 10 in reading, math, and science, as reported to the School Choice Demonstration Project 2008-2009. The tables, graphs, and histograms presented in this paper provide a snapshot of these…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, School Choice, Achievement Gains, Testing
Weinberger, Elizabeth
The document contains optical scannable forms for some of the instruments in the Input and Process Batteries, and guidelines for administration of the instruments in the Input Batteries of the Management Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE) Sample Data Systems. Input information describes the characteristics of the students at…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Processing, Demonstration Programs, Management Information Systems
Gordon, Jesse E. – 1969
Since the passage of the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 (MDTA), the Department of Labor has funded over $30 million worth of experimental and demonstration (E and D) projects in an effort to discover some new directions for dealing with the unemployment problems of disadvantaged youth. To evaluate the effectiveness of these and…
Descriptors: Counseling, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Innovation
Taylor, Anthony – 1976
This paper describes a project designed to improve the delivery of psychological services in elementary schools. One component of the project involves individual undergraduate college students as "associates." As an associate, the student contributes to, or performs, all measures offered by the given school for children evidencing problems.…
Descriptors: College Students, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education
Sellen, Jane – 1973
The demonstration project report describes a successful adult basic education program in music as a device for expanding the learning potential of the emotionally disturbed and mentally deficient residents of the Woodbury (Iowa) County Home. Background information on the project and a description of its progress, including the need for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Demonstration Programs, Educational Programs, Emotional Disturbances
Morris, Mary – 1977
This operations manual for field staff (site monitors, site coordinators, and testers) involved in the observation and testing of children is part of a series of documents on the evaluation of Project Developmental Continuity (PDC), a Head Start demonstration program aimed at providing educational and developmental continuity between children's…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Data Collection, Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education
Gray, Nathan L.; Wolf, Patrick J.; Jensen, Laura I. – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2009
The purpose of this report is to provide descriptive data regarding the test scores of Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) students in grades 4, 8 and 10 in reading, math and science, as reported to the School Choice Demonstration Project 2007-2008. The tables, graphs, and histograms presented in this report provide a snapshot of these…
Descriptors: School Choice, Testing, Academic Achievement, Demonstration Programs
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1969
This outline of orientation for people who design and conduct manpower programs for disadvantaged workers discusses objectives of the orientation, characteristics of enrollees, structure and content of the program, methods of communication, measurement of progress in orientation, counseling and supportive services, testing and assessment, and…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Counseling, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedManatt, Richard P. – Educational Leadership, 1987
Describes lessons learned from a five-year comprehensive model evaluation program developed by school systems in Minnesota and Iowa. The learner's experience was planned through instructional and curriculum strategies. Performance criteria were established for teachers, and principals and students evaluated classrooms. Pre- and post-testing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Evaluation, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
