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Sarkin, Andrew J.; Tally, Steven R.; Cronan, Terry A.; Matt, Georg E.; Lyons, Heather W. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1997
A strategy proposed by T. Cook and D. Campbell (1979) was used to investigate attrition in a community-based literacy program, focusing on 287 Head Start families. Data revealed interactions among intervention program-centered characteristics and person-centered characteristics that have implications for study validity and generalizability.…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Community Programs, Dropouts, Generalization
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Lewis, Janet – Children & Society, 1998
Discusses the emphasis on promoting policy and practice changes based on research evidence in projects (funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation) related to housing, social policy, social care, youth, and families. Discusses the difficulties in using random control trials for assessing the effectiveness of interventions with individuals. Concludes…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Welfare, Community Programs, Community Services
Doolittle, Fred; Traeger, Linda – 1990
Research on the implementation of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) included a sample of more than 20,000 people in 16 service delivery areas (SDAs). The random assignment model for the study produced estimates of the impact of the overall JTPA program in this sample of SDAs, plus separate impact estimates for individuals recommended for…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Compliance (Legal), Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. General Government Div. – 1990
The Criminal Justice Initiative (CJI) was conducted in Washington, D.C. from fiscal year 1984 through fiscal year 1986 to relieve overcrowded prison conditions by reducing the recidivism rate. Objectives of the project included hiring additional prison staff to provide security and increase prisoner processing, expanding the education program, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Programs, Correctional Education, Employment Programs
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Leviton, Laura C., Ed.; And Others – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1990
Seven essays on efforts of evaluate prevention programs aimed at the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are presented. Topics include public health psychology, mathematical models of epidemiology, estimates of incubation periods, ethnographic evaluations of AIDS prevention programs, an AIDS education model, theory-based evaluation, and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Community Programs, Educational Psychology, Epidemiology
Ellickson, Phyllis L. – 1996
Recruiting schools and kids to participate in drug prevention evaluations is no longer, if it ever was, a "done deal." Since the mid-1980s, schools have been inundated with requirements for drug programs and requests to cooperate with program evaluations. As a consequence, both treatment and control schools are harder to find. In addition, many…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adolescents, Attrition (Research Studies), Children
Young, Malcolm B.; Goldsamt, Milton R. – 1978
A study done for the National Community Education Advisory Council to assess programs funded under the Community Schools Act is presented in an introduction and three parts. Study goals, as defined in the introduction, are to describe the organization and operation of community education projects of local educational agencies, state educational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Programs