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Hackett, E. Raymond; And Others – 1982
A model for analyzing policy impacts is presented that will assist state-level policy makers in education. The model comprises four stages: (1) monitoring, which includes the identification of relevant trends and issues and the development of a data base; (2) forecasting, which uses quantitative and qualitative techniques developed in futures…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Planning, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, Educational Trends
Flynn, Donald L. – 1976
This report examines in detail the cost-estimating model developed for a study of reading-program costs, undertaken as part of a large-scale evaluation of compensatory reading programs. Results of the cost-analysis were presented in a separate report. Here, the confidence which can be placed in the cost-assessment model is evaluated in terms of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cost Estimates, Elementary Education, Measurement Techniques
de Porcel, Antonio; And Others – 1979
The final report of the Bilingual Prediction Project presents a review of the project from its inception in 1975 through completion in 1979. The main goal was to predict a student's academic ability in English. A prediction index was constructed in two stages. The first stage was a description of the target population and their school setting, as…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, Expectancy Tables, Language Proficiency
Peer reviewedKurdek, Lawrence A.; Sinclair, Ronald J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2000
Tests a model that posited that three diverse sets of academic outcomes for children were uniquely determined by psychological, family, and peer factors. Results reveal that early verbal skills are unique predictors of academic outcomes, and that the relative importance of psychological and peer factors depends on the kind of academic outcome of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Family Influence
Vooijs, Marcel W.; van der Kamp, Leo J. Th. – 1990
A two-stage procedure for the analysis of pretest-posttest data was developed and illustrated. Data were reanalyzed from a quasi-experimental evaluation that assessed the effects of an intervention program to teach elementary school children aged 10 to 12 years to watch violence on television more carefully/critically. The treatment group…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Elementary Education
Download full textAnderson, Barry D. – 1975
This paper reports a model of the impact of teacher behavior on student achievement. Estimates of the model's efficiency are obtained and its utility tested on a second set of data. Methodological and theoretical frameworks are from sociologists interested in contextual affects phenomena. Data were collected from 374 students during 1971-73. Using…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Affective Behavior, Analysis of Covariance
