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Kole, James P. – 1986
The Nova University Programs for Higher Education Summer Institute was evaluated using data collected from two instruments: the Overall Evaluation, a modification of the 1985 Summer Institute Evaluation Form, and the Evaluation of Concurrent Sessions, an instrument utilized for the first time in 1986 to evaluate each concurrent session. These…
Descriptors: Attendance, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Download full textDonaldson, William S. – 1989
This evaluation of a summer remedial education program found that a substantial number of clients demonstrated criterion-assessed growth. The 1989 Summer Academic Skills Achievement Program was funded by the Private Industry Council (PIC) of Franklin County (Ohio) through the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to provide JTPA clients from…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship, Federal Programs, High School Students
O'Loughlin, Michael – 1990
This paper reflects the feelings, efforts, difficulties, and frustrations of an education professor who re-examined his attempts to develop an approach to pedagogy that is autobiographical, dialogical, and collaborative, in which the curriculum is built around students' experiences and centered on student voice. The experiences recounted focus on…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Dialog Journals, Higher Education, Individual Development
Anderson, Alfred L. – 1975
To ascertain program effectiveness, a written attitude survey, consisting of 14 questions, was administered to 85 Mexican American children in grades K-8 during the first 5 days of the Leipsic summer program and to 85 children during the program's final 7 days to determine their attitudes toward themselves, their home schools, and the Leipsic…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Elementary Education, Interviews, Language Role
Thompson, Cecelia; Thompson, Dale – 1986
The Educators-in-Industry project described in this document is sponsored by the General Electric Foundation to offer experience in the business and industrial world to educators. In Hawaii, where General Electric has no factory facilities, other businesses provide job shadowing sites for administrators, counselors, and K-12 teachers. Over 100…
Descriptors: Administrators, Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration
Gallant, Gerald – 1985
Since a high percentage of Native American students who begin college do not graduate, a summer survival program was created to assist Native American students in developing their scholastic abilities. The data establishing the need for such a program were provided by a study that compared the performance of all Native Americans enrolled in…
Descriptors: American Indians, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System Consortium. – 1987
An amendment to the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) mandated an assessment of the basic skills of all Summer Youth Employment and Training (SYET) Program enrollees. Many agencies in California used the Employability Competency System Appraisal Test to assess 1987 SYET participants' basic reading and math skills. Between June and October 1987,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Demography, Disadvantaged, Educational Needs
Lamb, Donald K.; And Others – 1988
A compilation of materials contributed by and developed with the cooperation of Wisconsin librarians and Ohio's 1987 summer reading program, this planning manual provides guidelines for planning and promoting summer programs for young people by librarians in the state of Wisconsin. The theme of the program, "Summer Splash," is intended…
Descriptors: Bulletin Boards, Elementary Education, Films, Games
Lund, Leonard; Weber, Nathan – 1983
During the summer of 1982, summer jobs programs organized and operated by the private sector were underway in numerous cities, often in addition to or in cooperation with the government-funded Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) projects. Of the 176 companies that responded to a Conference Board survey of 480 of the largest…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Business Responsibility, Community Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Gallaudet Univ., Washington, DC. – 1987
The National Science Foundation Summer Institute in Mathematics and Computer Science for Pre-College Teachers of Hearing Impaired Students at Gallaudet College is described in this report. The institute was designed to provide math and computer literacy instruction to such teachers in a 6-week summer program recruiting participants from around the…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
Kolb, William J. – 1989
Now that basic skills have been linked to the economic prosperity of the country, businesses have become concerned about improving the basic skills of young people. A promising approach is the Summer Reporter Project conducted in Wisconsin as part of the summer programs of the Job Training Partnership Act. The program has three main elements: (1)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Basic Skills, Dropout Prevention, Economic Development
Saylor, Cindy – 1983
A collection of classroom activities for French and Spanish language immersion programs includes descriptions of or directions for a variety of exercises, accompanied by a brief introductory section of notes for the teacher. The activities include audio-motor units, a back-to-back activity, a cocktail party simulation, cultural assimilators,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Activities, Cultural Education, French
Utah State Dept. of Public Instruction, Salt Lake City. – 1982
In 1982, Utah's migrant education program provided educational and support services to 559 K-12 migrant students in 10 six-to-eight-week summer migrant school projects. Instructional programs included reading, math, language arts, ESL (English as a Second Language), cultural awareness, physical education/recreation, career awareness, vocational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Agency Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
Berkeley Unified School District, CA. Asian American Bilingual Center. – 1980
This performance report of the Summer Institute for Educational Research on Asian Americans summarizes and evaluates the activities and tasks completed from February 1 through October 31, 1980. The goal of the project was to increase the participation of Asian Americans in the field of educational research and development. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Communications, Course Descriptions
Berkeley Unified School District, CA. Asian American Bilingual Center. – 1981
The activities and tasks of a summer institute are summarized and evaluated in this report. The goal of the institute was to increase the participation of Asian and Pacific Americans (APA) in the field of educational research and development. Specifically, the institute provided an opportunity for participants to exchange ideas and common concerns…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Communications, Course Descriptions, Educational Research
