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Download full textWashington School Research Center, 2008
The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of recent educational reform efforts in Washington State and to determine what educators believe to be the most important future areas of focus. In particular, the researchers wanted to determine whether school-wide improvement efforts (i.e. School Improvement Plans (SIPs), School Improvement…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Educational Experience
Direct linkDarling-Hammond, Linda; LaPointe, Michelle; Meyerson, Debra; Orr, Margaret Terry – Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, 2007
Contemporary school administrators play a daunting array of roles. They must be educational visionaries and change agents, instructional leaders, curriculum and assessment experts, budget analysts, facility managers, special program administrators, and community builders. New expectations for schools--that they successfully teach a broad range of…
Descriptors: Expertise, Change Agents, Organizational Change, Instructional Leadership
Schwartz, Terry; And Others – 1988
This federally funded project analyzed data from a computerized individualized education plan (IEP) system, to examine factors relating to excellence in special education, with the goal of improving student assessment, evaluation, and outcomes in special education. This final report focuses on three research questions. The first question is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Cazares, Patricia – 1997
During the early 1990s, the Hartford, Connecticut, public school system experienced serious financial problems and a downward trend in the key indicators of educational success. In 1994 the Hartford, Connecticut, board of education granted Education Alternatives, Incorporated (EAI), a 5-year contract to manage the school district. This paper…
Descriptors: Contracts, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives
Greene, Jay P.; Peterson, Paul E. – 1996
In August 1996 Jay P. Greene, Paul E. Peterson, and Jiangtao Du, with Leesa Boeger and Curtis L. Frazier, issued a report called "The Effectiveness of School Choice in Milwaukee." The report, referred to as GPDBF, presented data that indicated that low-income minority students in their third and fourth years of participation in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Participant Characteristics
Gronlund, Laurie E., Ed. – 1993
This document consists of 39 ERIC Digests, which are two-page research syntheses written by each of the 16 Clearinghouses that form the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) System. The digests describe issues, exemplary programs and promising practices, and research results related to the National Education Goals, a framework for action…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Literacy, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Hudson, J. Blaine – 1991
This study analyzed the academic and demographic characteristics of 2,939 students admitted to the University of Louisville (Kentucky) Preparatory Division (an academic/enrollment unit for all students initially inadmissible to a degree-granting unit) who achieved eligibility to transfer to a degree-granting unit of the University. It also…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Admission Criteria, College Admission
Agosta, Lucien L. – 1983
The six evaluation instruments recommended by the Committee on Teaching and Its Evaluation of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) were modified to evaluate a large freshman writing program taught by inexperienced instructors. As course goals were clearly stated in the instructor's guide and repeated in orientation and…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Criteria, Program Effectiveness
Howe, Robert W.; Warren, Charles R. – 1988
This digest provides information on determining the effectiveness of school mathematics programs. The purposes for developing accountability programs and characteristics of good mathematics programs are listed. State goals and objectives and standards developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics have furthered the production of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Behr, George – 1983
The performance patterns of about 13,000 Asian/Pacific Islander (API) students in mathematics, written composition, and reading in grades 1 through 6 were examined. Student information was obtained through the Los Angeles Unified School District's data base for the Survey of Essential Skills (May 1982). Predominantly English-speaking, the students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Basic Skills, Elementary Education
Grise, Philip J.; Klein, James D. – 1987
A study sponsored by the Bureau of Adult and Community Education, Florida Department of Education, was conducted by the Center for Needs Assessment and Planning at Florida State University to compare the success of General Educational Development (GED) and traditional high school graduates in Florida's work force. (GED graduates account for about…
Descriptors: Dismissal (Personnel), Employer Attitudes, Employment Level, Employment Practices
Mockovak, William P. – 1981
A study entitled the Alternative Training Experiment (ATE) evaluated the effectiveness of a method for training census enumerators that involved new processes for developing instructional materials (called job performance aids) and new methods of instruction. During the study three pairs of census decentralized offices were matched on variables…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employee Attitudes, Followup Studies, Instructional Materials
Doherty, Linda M.; Bacon, Steven F. – 1982
A project evaluated the effectiveness of two pilot Correctional Custody Units (CCUs), at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Coronado, California, and the Behavioral Skills Training Unit (BEST) at Norfolk, Virginia. These units were intended to retrain errant, but potentially productive, first-term enlistees through a program of discipline, motivational and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attrition (Research Studies), Correctional Rehabilitation, Counseling
McNamara, Thomas – 1978
Quasi-longitudinal data on student achievement, drawn from a computerized file on about 50,000 children, essentially consist of cross-sectional performance data analyzed in terms of length of program exposure while allowing for analysis of post-program performance on the basis of program exposure. The data are also analyzed according to the major…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Attendance Patterns, Compensatory Education
CORT, H. RUSSELL, JR.; AND OTHERS – 1967
AS PART OF THE EVALUATION OF EFFECTIVENESS OF FULL-YEAR HEAD START PROGRAMS, CHILDREN FROM A NATIONWIDE SAMPLE OF CENTERS WERE TESTED WITH FIVE INSTRUMENTS (PEABODY PICTURE VOCABULARY TEST, PRE-SCHOOL INVENTORY, VINELAND SOCIAL MATURITY SCALE, DRAW-A-PERSON, AND BEHAVIOR INVENTORY). CENTERS WERE SELECTED TO BE REPRESENTATIVE OF PROGRAMS OF…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Family Characteristics, Family Structure, Parent Participation
