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Direct linkWhite, Gene; Lare, Douglas; Mueller, Suzanne; Smeaton, Patricia; Waters, Faith – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2007
Current efforts to encourage students to persist are not stemming the tide of drop-outs. Estimates of the high school dropout rate range from 10-30 percent (Hardy 2002). The impact of having no high school diploma causes these students to experience economic and social struggles throughout the time in life that should be their most productive. One…
Descriptors: Homebound, Distance Education, Dropout Rate, Dropouts
Laing, Christopher; Robinson, Alan; Johnston, Veronique – Active Learning in Higher Education: The Journal of the Institute for Learning and Teaching, 2005
In helping students manage the transition into higher education, there must be (i) an understanding of the needs and expectations of the students, and (ii) a process that inducts the students into the needs and expectations of higher education. This premise underpins the on-line Spiral Induction Programme (onSIP) developed at Southampton…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Needs, Feedback, Computer Assisted Instruction
Download full textLiu, Meredith; Russell, Victoria; Chaplin, Duncan; Raphael, Jacqueline; Fu, Helen; Anthony, Emily – 2002
This paper describes implementation of the federal government's DC 21st Century Community Learning Center (DC 21st CCLC) program during the summer of 2001, focusing on the use of computer technology to improve academic achievement. The DC 21st CCLC program provides funding to schools in the District of Columbia to improve their out-of-school-time…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, High Risk Students
Mabry, Linda; Snow, Juna Z. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2006
"Cooltown@Roosevelt," an instructional technology program implemented in 2002-04 based on a five-year collaboration involving Vancouver School District in Washington state, Hewlett-Packard Corporation, and Comcast, provided high-risk students in six elementary classrooms with laptops and wireless internet access at school and at home. A…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Internet, Educational Technology, Cooperation
Tracey, Diane H.; Young, John W. – Online Submission, 2006
265 kindergarten children from a high-risk community participated in an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Waterford Early Reading Program, a software program designed to facilitate early literacy development. 151 students in eight experimental classrooms used the program for approximately 15 minutes per day. 114 students in seven…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Kindergarten, Educational Technology, Computer Software
Reid, Pamela Trotman; Roberts, Sally K. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
In response to indicators that a decline in interest in mathematics occurs among girls--particularly those from low-income and minority groups--during middle school, the GO-GIRL (Gaining Options: Girls Investigate Real Life) program was designed to help potentially talented at-risk girls. The program aimed to build mathematical confidence, skills,…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Private Schools, Mentors, Females
