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Clark Coll., Atlanta, GA. – 1976
This document describes a summer program for newly-graduated high school students interested in a science and/or engineering career. One purpose of the program was to strengthen skills in mathematics, science, and reading for students prior to college entrance. Students could earn up to eight semester hours of credit. Results of the program…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Programs, Engineering Education, Program Descriptions
Bildner, Beatrice; And Others – 1979
The Summer Umbrella Program was designed to provide remedial instruction to children with demonstrable needs in reading, mathematics, and English as a second language. Instruction functioned on an individual or small group basis, employing a flexible, eclectic, multi-modality methodology. The instructional design was diagnostic/prescriptive. Pre…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Junior High Schools
Andrews, Theodore; And Others – 1978
This report is the first of two volumes concerning the 1977 Teacher Corps Corps Member Training Institute (CMTI). Volume I is a description of CMTI as it occurred; Volume II is an analysis of the data. The information is divided into six general catagories: 1) a profile and description of the participants in the summer institute; 2) a discussion…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Interpersonal Relationship
HAMPTON, NELLIE D. – 1960
AN EXPERIMENTAL 8-WEEK SUMMER PROGRAM FOR GIFTED CHILDREN IN RURAL AREAS AND TOWNS WAS TESTED FOR EFFECTIVENESS. THE HYPOTHESIS OF THIS PROJECT WAS THAT THERE WOULD BE NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN ACHIEVEMENT OR ADJUSTMENT BETWEEN STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN THIS SPECIAL PROGRAM AND STUDENTS WHO HAD THE SAME INTELLIGENCE BUT NO SPECIAL TRAINING.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Educational Opportunities, Experimental Curriculum
HEAD, SYDNEY W.; PHILIPS, C. LEE – 1961
A TWO-PHASE EXPERIMENT TESTED THE FEASIBILITY OF MOTIVATING RECENT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES TO DEVOTE SUMMER STUDY IN INTRODUCTORY COLLEGE STUDENTS FOR CREDIT BY MEANS OF OPEN CIRCUIT TELEVISION. A PILOT AND A EXPERIMENTAL COURSE WERE SCHEDULED IN SUCCESSIVE SUMMERS. THE PILOT PROGRAM SHOWED FAVORABLE RESULTS, BUT AN EXPANDED EXPERIMENTAL COURSE WAS…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, College Preparation, Educational Methods, Educational Objectives
Download full textPorterfield, Craig; Eglsaer, Richard – 1980
A total of 359 retained seventh and eighth grade students from the Austin (Texas) Independent School District's junior high schools participated in a summer enrichment program that was designed to improve their basic skills and decision making skills and to provide them with a successful school experience. Diagnostic information was used to assign…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Decision Making Skills, Educational Research, Junior High School Students
Price, William F. – 1968
Twenty high school and college students aged 16 to 20 were trained as summer camp counselors in a project to provide experiences leading to choosing a career with the mentally retarded. In the 11-week period, 1 week was devoted to lectures and seminars, 8 weeks to working with the retarded, and 2 weeks to working with multiply handicapped adults.…
Descriptors: Camping, Career Change, Career Choice, Exceptional Child Services
New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces. Southwest Regional Media Center for the Deaf. – 1969
To provide participants with intensive training in programed instruction, to make them more knowledgeable consumers of programed instruction materials, and to develop programming skills on a professional level so that they could apply the systems approach in development of instructional materials, two training institutes were initiated. A total of…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Hearing Impairments, Institutes (Training Programs), Program Descriptions
Cooperative Educational Research Lab., Inc., Northfield, IL. – 1969
This report describes an attempt to revise and pilot-test an achievement quiz, a background information form, and an attitude inventory considered inadequate when used at the Summer (1968) Institute on Evaluation at the University of Illinois. In the original achievement quiz, most items tested recall or information and few tested the student's…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Attitude Measures, Background, Evaluation
King, M. Sylvester – 1968
This report evaluates a Summer Teacher Training Institute in poverty areas in New York City. The program encompassed two distinct types of training: (1) the Reading Institutes, designed to train reading teachers for the elementary and junior high schools in disadvantaged areas, and (2) the Teacher-Training Institute, set up to train both…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Elementary Schools, Institutes (Training Programs), Junior High Schools
Mazer, Gilbert E. – 1968
Thirty-six teachers, 17 inexperienced and 19 experienced, were observed systematically (under the Flander's system of interaction analysis) while engaged in teaching migrant children in 3 Michigan elementary schools. The purpose of the study was (1) to evaluate a training program especially devised to prepare teachers of disadvantaged youth and…
Descriptors: Camping, Inservice Education, Interaction Process Analysis, Migrant Education
Reid, Marilyn J. – 1971
The Secondary Summer School Programme encompassed four areas. Three of these, Regular Credit Courses, Advanced Credit Courses, and Language Assistance Courses, are considered in this report. Of those students attending Regular Credit Courses, 82% received a "Pass" mark and 18% received a "Fail" mark at the end of the summer programme.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acceleration, Advanced Programs, English Instruction
Dailey, John T.; Neyman, Clinton A., Jr. – 1967
Contents of this evaluation of ESEA Title 1 programs for the District of Columbia, 1966 and 1967, include: development of a statistical model for the evaluation; programs and procedures; patterns of program participation; data-gathering instruments developed for analysis of Title 1 Programs; relationship of program participation to pupil…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged
Woolfolk, Mansfield – 1971
An evaluation of the Detroit Board of Education's 4-session 2-week Outdoor Education and School Camping Program for the summer of 1971, this report examines the 2 camps that served approximately 1400 campers from public schools. Children were assigned 10 to a cabin, and each child was guided and counseled by a cabin counselor. The camp program…
Descriptors: Camping, Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged Youth, Outdoor Education
Runnalls, James J.; And Others – 1970
The Training Program for Retirees was a program operating during the summer of 1970 that trained persons retired from industry and the military to teach the technical skills that they had learned in their years of working. The courses included in the training program were: Methods of Teaching, Philosophy of Vocational-Technical Adult Education,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Higher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Professional Continuing Education
