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Mendelsberg, Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) is a federal program aimed at equalizing access to higher education for low-income students. GEAR UP, created in 1998, attempts to provide information and support about higher education to students beginning no later than the seventh grade while promoting lasting…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Equal Education, Low Income Groups, Undergraduate Students
Cahalan, Margaret; Goodwin, David – Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, 2014
In January 2009, in the last week of the Bush Administration, the U.S. Department of Education (ED), upon orders from the departing political appointee staff, published the final report in a long running National Evaluation of Upward Bound (UB). The study was conducted by the contractor, Mathematica Policy Research. After more than a year in…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, College Readiness, Access to Education, Data Analysis
Saar, Shalom; And Others – 1978
The Multi-Attribute Utilities Theory (MAUT), a model for the evaluation of public postsecondary programs, is presented and is applied to a study of WINNERS (Women's Inner-City Educational Resources Service) with an analysis of the effects of the model on the program. The first chapter provides an overview of the MAUT approach, outlining 16 steps…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs, Higher Education
Bouder, Annie; And Others – Training & Employment: French Dimensions, 1993
The increasing use of job training or retraining and employment programs in response to high rates of unemployment in France has spurred interest in program evaluation to see what results have been achieved. The contribution of traditional standardized evaluations and of emerging methodologies is being examined. Traditional evaluation methods…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs
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Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1979
A limited statistical report of student aid dollars in each of the states is presented. The report covers only the following programs: Basic Education Opportunity Grant Program, Supplementary Educational Opportunity Grant Program, State Student Incentive Grant Program, College Work Study Program, The National Direct Student Loan Program, the…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Enrollment
Carroll, Stephen J.; And Others – 1977
An empirical approach is taken to the problem of predicting effects of student financial aid programs on postsecondary enrollment rates and patterns. A model of students' enrollment decisions is developed and used to estimate the likely effects of alternative award policies for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program. The analysis…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Bound Students, College Choice, Educational Economics
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1980
This report prepared by the Policy Analysis and Legislation Staff of the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, for the Congress, discusses the status of vocational education using statistical information, state evaluations, and audits, and reports compliance and quality of vocational education programs in selected states. The general…
Descriptors: Adult Education, American Indian Education, Annual Reports, Bilingual Education
Siebert, Ivan N., Comp.; Waddell, Jerry N., Comp.; Murphy, Louise R., Comp. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
The initiation of the educational records and reports study by the Office of Education in 1951 marked a turning point in the Federal State teamwork approach toward providing a basis for complete, accurate, and comparable educational information. In cooperation with State education agencies and professional groups, three major handbooks of standard…
Descriptors: Educational History, Federal State Relationship, Student Records, Reports