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Augustine, Catherine H.; McCombs, Jennifer Sloan – State Education Standard, 2015
The Wallace Foundation is funding a multiyear demonstration project to determine whether voluntary, district summer learning programs can stem summer learning loss for low-income students. Six districts--Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Duval County (Florida), Pittsburgh, and Rochester, New York--were selected for the demonstration project and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Low Income Groups, At Risk Students, Program Effectiveness
St. John, Mark – Inverness Research, 2014
The Algebra Project DR K-12, funded by the National Science Foundation as a Research and Development Project, addressed the challenge of offering significant STEM content for students to ensure public literacy and workforce readiness. The project's primary purpose was to test the feasibility and effectiveness of a model for establishing four-year…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Algebra, Demonstration Programs, Cohort Analysis
Witte, John F.; Wolf, Patrick J.; Cowen, Joshua M.; Fleming, David J.; Lucas-McLean, Juanita – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2008
This report focuses on the initial design, implementation and baseline results of the five-year Longitudinal Educational Growth Study (LEGS) of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) being conducted by the School Choice Demonstration Project (SCDP). The LEGS will be the first evaluation of the participant effects of the MPCP using…
Descriptors: School Choice, Academic Achievement, Demonstration Programs, Achievement Tests
Huang, Denise; La Torre, Deborah; Duong, Nikki; Huber, Lindsay Perez; Leon, Seth; Oh, Christine – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2009
Afterschool programs offer an important avenue for enhancing educational opportunities. Federal, state, and local educational authorities increasingly see them as environments to improve attitudes toward school, achievement, and academic performance (Fashola, 2002; Hollister, 2003) with higher levels of student participation and engagement in…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Program Effectiveness, Urban Schools, At Risk Students
Sokolow, Jayme A. – Center for Civic Education, 2008
This is school climate study of the Center for Civic Education's School Violence Prevention Demonstration Program at Ritter Elementary School in Allentown, Pennsylvania for the academic year 2006-7. Ritter, like most of Allentown's schools, is a majority-minority school. Hispanic, African American, Middle Eastern, and immigrant students outnumber…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Violence, Educational Environment, Demonstration Programs
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Anthamatten, Peter; Ziegler, Susy S. – Journal of Geography, 2006
Technology that helps students view images in three dimensions (3-D) can support a broad range of learning styles. "Geo-Wall systems" are visualization tools that allow scientists, teachers, and students to project stereographic images and view them in 3-D. We developed and presented 3-D visualization exercises in several undergraduate courses.…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Geography Instruction, Visual Aids, Instructional Effectiveness
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Hollinger, Constance L.; Fleming, Elyse S. – Roeper Review, 1993
Results of three longitudinal follow-up studies of participants in Project CHOICE, a 14-week career development program for gifted and talented female adolescents, are reported in terms of the Project's objectives (identification of achievement barriers and intervention), status of participants in young adulthood, and comparison with other cohorts…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Females
Boser, Judith; And Others – 1983
This paper presents the results of an educational equity program designed to reduce racial and sexual stereotyping at all grade levels among students. The project was instituted in a southeastern United States school district in 1981. Following evaluations in 1980-81 and 1981-82, this present study was conducted: (1) to determine whether…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Androgyny, Attitude Change, Demonstration Programs
Miller, Melvin D.; Wilkins, Sandra – 1979
A third-party evaluation was designed to document the processes undertaken to implement a Memphis, Tennessee, experience-based career education (EBCE) program. It also intended to assess project effects on student outcomes. Evaluation included pre- and post-testing of a control group and experimental group of tenth grade students enrolled in the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Demonstration Programs, Experiential Learning
GRAHAM, JEWEL – 1967
AS NOTED IN THIS REPORT, THE ANTIOCH PROGRAM FOR INTERRACIAL EDUCATION TESTED THE ASSUMPTION THAT DISADVANTAGED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH A POTENTIAL FOR ACADEMIC WORK WOULD BENEFIT FROM A COLLEGE CAREER AT ANTIOCH AND WOULD ALSO CONTRIBUTE POSITIVELY TO THE COLLEGE. IDENTIFIED BY COMMITTEES IN VARIOUS DEPRESSED AREAS AND ACCEPTED BY RELAXED…
Descriptors: Administration, Blacks, College Admission, College Environment
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Davidson, Walter; And Others – 1976
The 1975-76 program aimed to: raise or maintain the rate of gain in computational and communicational skills of each student in the tutorial program; improve the computational and communicational skills of each student in the "Career Development" program; increase each "Career Development" student's awareness of, specific…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary Services, Demonstration Programs, Educational Assessment
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Milrad, Marcelo; Spikol, Daniel – Educational Technology & Society, 2007
In this paper we report the results of our on-going activities regarding the use of smart phones and mobile services in university classrooms. The purpose of these trials was to explore and identify which content and services could be delivered to the smart phones in order to support learning and communication in the context of university studies.…
Descriptors: Use Studies, Demonstration Programs, Program Effectiveness, Partnerships in Education
Wentling, Tim L.; And Others – 1991
An evaluation described Tech Prep prototypes as they were implemented in five different Indiana sites and assessed their effectiveness. Evaluation procedures included: (1) collection and analysis of data from students involved in Tech Prep for the first time in 1990-91 and students involved for the second year; (2) analysis of prototype project…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Demonstration Programs, Employer Attitudes, High Schools
Bond, James T.; Rosario, Jose – 1982
This executive summary presents the major results of the longitudinal evaluation of Project Developmental Continuity (PDC). A Head Start demonstration project initiated by the Administration for Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) in 1974, the PDC aimed to stimulate the development and implementation of comprehensive programs linking Head Start…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education, Federal Programs, Institutional Characteristics
Rull, Marvin H.; Moore, Richard O. – 1968
One phase of the curriculum demonstration program sponsored jointly by the Quincy Public Schools and Southern Illinois University is the Service Station Training School described within this report. The Service Station Training School was one of several sheltered work stations which were developed to provide preemployment experiences and training…
Descriptors: Career Development, Control Groups, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Prevention
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