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Tella, Dorothy; And Others – 1970
Designed for evaluation and program planning and budgeting, the model presented herein provides a framework for estimating the contribution of individual manpower services in increasing the earning potential of manpower trainees with various sets of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. The model shows how to maximize total increase in…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Demography, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs
Auerbach Corp., Philadelphia, PA. – 1972
This study is one of two containing the findings and summary of an evaluation of the Work Incentive Program (WIN). A national survey, involving 50 projects, the study focuses on three aspects of the program which include: (1) the degree to which the WIN population represents the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) population, (2) the…
Descriptors: Career Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Download full textGoldstein, Jon H. – 1972
This study reviews the evidence on the impact that manpower training programs have had on the earnings of the poor, in order to assess the likely success that greatly expanded training programs would have in reducing the amount of public assistance payments and the size of welfare roles. Between 1963 and 1971, the Federal Government obligated 6.8…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs, Job Development
National Advisory Council on Extension and Continuing Education, Washington, DC. – 1972
This report presents the results of a comprehensive study of federally supported programs of extension, continuing education, and community service. The scope of the Council's activities was broadened to include, in addition to Title 1 activities, 142 other relevant Federal programs. Major recommendations include: (1) the establishment of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Services, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Olympus Research Corp., Washington, DC. – 1971
Based on followup interviews with 1700 participants, this study is an evaluation of Federal manpower programs in Boston, Denver, and San Francisco-Oakland. Included are Manpower Development and Training Act Programs, Work Incentive Programs, and Concentrated Employment Program from late 1969 to early 1970. Program impact on enrollees, employers,…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Disadvantaged
Miller, James O. – 1972
A review of early childhood programs of the sixties is presented. This review is divided into the following sections: Converging Forces and Orthodoxies; Educational Programming; Review Criteria and Procedures; Program Review Structural Outline; Instructional Systems; Delivery Systems; Evaluation Systems; and Support Systems. The problems of…
Descriptors: Criteria, Early Childhood Education, Educational Programs, Evaluation Methods
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1972
This report concerns the review by the General Accounting Office of the operation of the fiscal year 1970 programs, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act and certain aspects of the 1971 programs of the Illinois State educational agency, and of the Chicago, Harrisburg, and Rockford local educational agencies. The local…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Needs
Curtis, Thomas D.; And Others – 1976
The objectives of this study were to (1) develop a methodology to evaluate the effectiveness of CETA, title I vocational and technical education classroom training in Florida by assessing the vast quality of cost and benefit data and the different ways in which these data are categorized, (2) use data to derive benefit-cost ratios, (3) examine the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economic Factors, Educational Programs, Employment Programs
Peer reviewedHouse, Ernest R.; And Others – Harvard Educational Review, 1978
The evaluation by Abt Associates, Inc., of the Follow Through program, an extension of Head Start designed to improve primary education for disadvantaged children, created a controversy about the program and its assessment, which is discussed in this article. The authors see serious flaws in the evaluation design and interpretation. (MF)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Assessment, Educational Experiments
Peer reviewedAshenfelter, Orley – Review of Economics and Statistics, 1978
Available from: the North-Holland Publishing Company, P.O. Box 211, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (JG)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Economics, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs
Peer reviewedMurray, Stephen L.; Braverman, Marc T. – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1985
This paper describes a decision-theory-based procedure for compensatory education student selection that will increase the informational value of data available from program evaluation data collection and district information systems. The information produced by the decision theory approach bears directly on the basic question of who gets served.…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Compensatory Education, Decision Making, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedBassi, Laurie J. – Evaluation Review, 1987
The cost effectiveness of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act was evaluated in terms of moving economically disadvantaged individuals toward financial independence. Data analysis indicated small savings in welfare payments for female recipients, but not males. Data deficiencies in the Continuous Longitudinal Manpower Survey were also…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Peer reviewedFinifter, David H. – Evaluation Review, 1987
Estimates are presented for net earnings impact of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act programs. Net impact was linked to the human capital model and estimated for numerous subgroups. The matching procedure and the use of quasiexperimental versus experimental design are also discussed. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Effect Size, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods
Stimson, Jim; Scherer, Joseph J., Ed. – School Administrator, 1985
A study of Chapter 2 first-year implementation in nine states found that administrators like the flexibility of the block grants. Problems remain concerning the participation of private school students, service to special populations, and the continued use of state advisory councils. (MLF)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Block Grants, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Direct linkOrlebeke, Britany; Wulczyn, Fred; Mitchell-Herzfeld, Susan – Chapin Hall Center for Children, 2005
The Child and Family Service Reviews (CFSR) conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services are a critical step towards improving the nation's child welfare services. However, although the federal emphasis on outcomes has helped to accelerate state interest in performance measurement, both the federal effort to measure performance and…
Descriptors: Human Services, Child Welfare, Welfare Services, Measurement
