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Ford, Phyllis M.; Payne, Philip G. – Bradford Papers Annual, 1986
Compares effect of two different outdoor education programs (Van Matre's Sunship Earth and a traditional nature study program focusing on plants, animals, water, and soil) on attitudes and knowledge of 266 selected Washington County (Oregon) sixth graders attending a five-day residential outdoor school program. (NEC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Course Objectives, Elementary Education
Download full textDishart, Martin – 1970
This report evaluates the 1970 Summer Enrichment Programs for the Public Schools of the District of Columbia. There were 35 programs with a very wide range of purposes, involving 21,555 students. These much needed programs for student achievement and enrichment could only have taken place during the summer. A few were exemplary programs, but some…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Program Evaluation
Griffin, William H. – 1981
A 1979 external evaluation of the Eckerd Wilderness Educational System (a series of 9 residential, therapeutic camps for disturbed youth in 3 eastern states) drew data from 3 sources: records of the first 1,385 youth entered into the camps from 1968 through November 1979, test results from the most recent 157 clients who completed both entry and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Emotional Disturbances, Milieu Therapy
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1986
This report presents a description and evaluation of the Nature-Computer Camp (NCC), an environmental and computer science program designed for sixth grade students in the District of Columbia public schools. Inputs, processes and outcomes based on a Planning, Monitoring and Implementing (PMI) Evaluation Model are reviewed for each of the four…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1985
This report presents a description and evaluation of the Nature-Computer Camp (NCC), an environmental and computer science program designed for sixth grade students in the District of Columbia public schools. Inputs, processes and outcomes based on a Planning, Monitoring and Implementing (PMI) Evaluation Model are reviewed for each of the four…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education
Carter, James D. – 1979
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of the Eckerd Wilderness Camping Program with those of the Florida Training Schools (rehabilitation institutions) on delinquent youths. Effects of these different treatment modes were measured in terms of school adjustment and court contact of each group at 6, 12, and 18 months after release or…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Schools, Comparative Analysis, Correctional Education
Carter, James D. – 1979
In an effort to assess program effectiveness, demographic data derived from institutional records on 161 emotionally troubled youth having participated in the Eckerd Wilderness Program were analyzed in terms of interview data derived from a sample of 27 males and 22 females enrolled in the Eckerd camps March 1, 1968-December 31, 1971. The static…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Camping, Cooperative Planning, Correctional Rehabilitation
Carter, James D. – 1979
In an effort to assess program effectiveness, demographic data derived from institutional records on 335 emotionally troubled youth who had participated in the Eckerd Wilderness Program were analyzed in terms of interview data derived from a random sample (32 males and 32 females) of youth enrolled in the Eckerd camps March 1, 1968- December 31,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Camping, Cooperative Planning, Correctional Rehabilitation
