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Direct linkStephanie A. Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this program evaluation was to evaluate the impact of CORE District's Breakthrough Success Community (BTSC) Program at an urban Title I high school located in Southern California. BTSC aims to improve the ninth-grade experience through a focus on five key change drivers and the implementation of improvement science. Through teacher…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Urban Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, High Schools
Tray J. Geiger – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
In this case study, I describe my experiences as a novice researcher in conducting focus groups with high school students to learn about their participation in a high school dropout prevention program. The dropout prevention program was a partnership among the high school, the local state university, and the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Program Evaluation, High School Students, High School Teachers
Vera, Elizabeth; Shriberg, David; Alves, Alison; de Oca, Jessie Montes; Reker, Kassandra; Roche, Meghan; Salgado, Manuel; Stegmaier, Jessica; Viellieu, Lindsay; Karahalios, Vicky; Knoll, Michael; Adams, Kristen; Diaz, Yahaira; Rau, Ellen – Preventing School Failure, 2016
Low high school completion rates are an ongoing challenge for educators. This study provides the results of an evaluation of a ninth-grade summer transition program offered at a large public school with a high freshman dropout rate. The evaluation consisted of preprogram and postprogram surveys and interviews with 64 incoming freshman…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Summer Programs, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Download full textOrr, Aline – Online Submission, 2020
This report includes findings regarding demographic characteristics and academic outcomes of DELTA students; highlights emerging topics from the student, teacher, and staff surveys; and provides recommendations for future program implementation. [For the 2018-2019 report, see ED626017.]
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Outcomes of Education, Program Evaluation, Credits
Behr, Michelle; Marston, Christine; Nelson, Kyle Anne – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2014
Changing demographics, low Latino graduation rates, and changes to education funding--nationally and locally--challenge society to develop innovative strategies to navigate transformations affecting public education. This article presents findings from a collaborative community-engaged evaluation of a dropout prevention program for at-risk male…
Descriptors: Case Studies, At Risk Students, Males, Hispanic American Students
Lawrence, Arul A. S. – Online Submission, 2015
The XX IDEA annual conference has been focused and reflected on different ways and means of meeting various kinds of methodological challenges, new technologies and multi-media developments, newly emerging partnerships and collaboration between emerging sectors on one hand and between the institutions functioning with similar objectives and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Distance Education, Barriers
Griffin, Edward; And Others – 1984
The study examines the relationship between success upon leaving an alternative school program and immediate measures of program effect. The strength of the relationship was used to determine the degree to which the program effected its long term goals of preparing students for future academic or vocational success. Student success was defined as…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavior Modification, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Jahnukainen, Markku; Helander, Jaakko – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2007
Dropping out of school is a universal problem, concerning fairly similar target groups in all countries. Several action plans to prevent dropping out and to activate the dropouts have been developed worldwide. The object of this study, the Activity School of East Finland, is an exceptionally comprehensive entity, within which alternative…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Nontraditional Education, Dropouts, Student Attitudes
Speckhard, Gerald P. – 1992
An evaluation of an alternative program for at-risk high school students offered in the Porter County (Indiana) school system is described in this report. The evaluation was based on student assessments of the program, obtained through use of an interview format. The program, which provides instruction in basic subject areas required for…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Dropout Prevention, High Risk Students
Youth-At-Risk and 4-H: Partners in Success. An Evaluation of a County 4-H Drop-Out Prevention Model.
Valentine, Nancy L. – 1990
The West Virginia University Cooperative Extension Service developed a 4-H curriculum designed to provide targeted potential school dropouts with opportunities to develop specific skills. These included decisionmaking, parliamentary procedure, group processes, public speaking, leadership, and life skills. In addition, participants would have…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Dropout Prevention, Elementary Education
Cutter, N. Craig; Jones, Earl R. – 1971
The KAPS (or Keeping All Pupils in School) program was initiated by the Baltimore City Public Schools in 1969, using funds provided under Title VIII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This evaluation deals with the academic year 1970-71, the second full year of the project's evaluation. Most important among the goals of Project KAPS is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Records, Attitude Change, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedKortering, Larry; Braziel, Patricia – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2002
A study involving 185 high school students with learning disabilities explored their views of high school. While participants enjoyed the opportunity to socialize with peers, they found specific classes boring or too difficult. Participants were much more likely to report advantages to staying in school than disadvantages. Recommendations are…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, High Schools, Learning Disabilities, Peer Relationship
LONGSTRETH, LANGDON E.; AND OTHERS – 1962
SANTA MONICA HIGH SCHOOL, IN 1960-1961, ESTABLISHED A PROGRAM DESIGNED TO HOLD A SELECTED GROUP OF POTENTIAL DROPOUTS IN SCHOOL IN ORDER TO IMPROVE SCHOLASTIC MOTIVATION, REDUCE DEVIANT BEHAVIOR, DEVELOP INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS, AND PROVIDE PRELIMINARY WORK EXPERIENCE. TWO EXPERIMENTAL AND TWO CONTROL CLASSES WERE FORMED. THE STUDENTS ATTENDED…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Development, Counseling Services, Dropout Prevention
Dayton City School District, OH. – 1973
Project Emerge, funded under Title VIII of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, is located in the Model Cities Area, a black-inhabited west side section of Dayton, Ohio. The target school student population is 2,300 of which 20 percent come from families with low incomes. Project Emerge's major objectives are to reduce the dropout rate in…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Black Students, Curriculum Development, Dropout Prevention
Fredman, Norman; And Others – 1973
The Reach-Out Program served as an enriched guidance service for potential dropouts. It sought, by closer contact with the home, to improve pupil attitude, attendance, punctuality, and reading competence and to make pupils and parents aware of those services available in school and community that would facilitate learning and maturity. The program…
Descriptors: Attendance, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
