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Fernig, Leo; And Others – 1982
Servol (Service Volunteered for All) is a voluntary organization in Trinidad and Tobago with a staff of some 90 people engaged in a wide range of activities grouped in seven Life Centers and a periphery of 13 nursery schools, as well as family farm units in a rural area. From a modest start in late 1970, Servol has grown steadily during its first…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Benefits, Community Centers, Community Development
Powell, Judith A.; And Others – 1981
The major purpose of this study was to evaluate the past achievements and current status of the Oklahoma Training for Child Care Careers (OTCCC) project in relation to the overall goals of providing child care training which is both accessible to and suitable for Oklahoma caregivers. Resources for the study were provided by a Title XX contract and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, Child Caregivers, Classroom Techniques
Sirgado, Isabel Cid – 1981
This is an evaluation of the bilingual program in District 30, Queens, New York City during 1979-1980. The report states that the program was designed to aid the educational and cultural development of Greek and Korean speaking limited English pupils in grades K-6. Program objectives are listed as achievement gains in students' English speech and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
McManis Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1979
An impact evaluation of eight courts training project (CTP) institutes funded by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration was conducted. After a literature search and visits to potential evaluation sites in all fifty states, twelve sites were selected from a random stratified sample of court systems. Data were obtained from 1047 respondents…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Education, Adults, Court Judges
Puerto Rico Univ., San Juan. School of Dentistry. – 1980
The Dental Auxiliary Department of the University of Puerto Rico designed a career option dental auxiliary training program which is a step ladder program with three exit points over a period of two academic years. The first option is a six-month track to train a traditional chairside dental auxiliary. The second option is a nine-month track to…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development
Twitchell, Wirt B.; Foster, Carl – 1981
Special Education programs at nine Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools were investigated to establish and identify priorities for improvement and to determine the effectiveness of each program. The monitoring procedure involved random sampling of files of identified exceptional students and an in-depth examination of the documentation…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Classroom Environment, Disabilities
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Research, Planning and Evaluation. – 1981
During the 1979-1980 school year, 16 severely emotionally disturbed secondary school students participated in the Youth in Psychoeducational Services (YIPS) program. The program provided intensive academic and behavioral treatment, family counseling, and staff development activities. YIPS was evaluated using a model that required the comparison of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems
Myers, Roger A.; And Others – 1980
A prototype of a computer-aided manpower management and career progression system, the Officer Career Information and Planning System (OCIPS), has been developed to a point at which costs and benefits for its implementation can be estimated. Considering the goals of the Officer Personnel Management System and problems of the Army Military…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Development, Career Education, Computer Oriented Programs
Cronbach, Lee J.; And Others – 1979
Employers and school admissions officials must consider several factors when making choices among applicants, particularly when faced with a need to increase selection of minority group members. Should different standards be applied to different groups? Will acceptance of less qualified applicants from one group affect the overall quality of the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Competitive Selection
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1980
The Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA) authorized a range of research, evaluation, and demonstration activities to increase understanding of the employment problems of youth and to help determine the most effective policies and programs to address these problems. Although many programs, such as the War on Poverty and…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Planning
Passmore, David Lynn; Marron, Michael – 1980
Studying the employment outcomes expected from educational programs at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) can aid planners of other occupational programs. The main barriers to planning education for work are the inaccessibility or unavailability of information, the arbitrary nature of occupational classification, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classification, Deafness, Education Work Relationship
Marchisio, James R.; And Others – 1977
This report contains the results of the second year (1975-76) of a five year longitudinal study to determine the effectiveness of Title I programs for disadvantaged students in Seattle, Washington's Public Schools. The report attempts to identify Title I student characteristics and determine which educational variables affect academic performance.…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
Polley, Beulah M. – 1981
Project ALMS (Adult Literacy Mission Support) was designed to improve the communication skills of semi-literate or illiterate adults, help participants become more self-sufficient, provide an ongoing program for other such individuals, and provide a manual of guidelines and suggestions for other programs. Three groups were established to make a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adults
Pierce, Nancy; Burgio, Maria R. – 1981
In 1979 a project was undertaken to evaluate the Institute of Study for Older Adults (ISOA) Liberal Arts program, a unit of the City University of New York which provides noncredit, off-campus liberal arts classes for the elderly poor of New York City. The evaluation sought to determine the demographic characteristics of program participants; the…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Community Satisfaction, Liberal Arts, Older Adults
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1980
This is an evaluation report on a Title I English as a second language program that served Spanish speaking students (grades K-8) in private schools in New York in 1979-1980. Section one of the report provides a description of the program. Data analysis methods and pre- and post-test scores are presented in the second section. The third section…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Class Organization, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
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