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Download full textFelsenthal, Helen – 1978
A review of literature indicates that schools with effective reading programs tend to have common characteristics, such as a strong commitment to improved reading; a competent teaching and administrative staff; clearly defined objectives; a structured, intensified program; adequate assessment techniques; a variety of materials; and parental…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Problems, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Occupational Education Research. – 1978
The purpose of this study was to determine whether Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) project completers in the college adapter program (CAP) have shown evidence of successful performance in a postsecondary program. Specific objectives of the project were (1) to determine the number of CETA project completers who matriculated at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Admission (School), College Admission
SANTOS, SEVERINO R. – 1966
A TOTAL OF 179 GRADUATE STUDENTS WHO WERE CANDIDATES FOR EITHER A MASTER'S OR A DOCTORATE DEGREE IN THE AREAS OF FARM MANAGEMENT, RURAL SOCIOLOGY, EXTENSION EDUCATION, AND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION WERE STUDIED--(1) TO DETERMINE WHAT CONSTITUTES SUCCESS IN GRADUATE CANDIDACY BASED ON THE OPINION OF A PANEL OF PROFESSORS, (2) TO DESCRIBE THE STUDENTS…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, College Faculty, Criteria, Doctoral Degrees
Cassidy, Sally Whelan; And Others – 1968
With the establishment in 1959 of a small experimental college within a large public city university, a record was kept of the impact of the college's high demand program on the working class students recruited from the university. To document the progress of the new institution and its students, a huge volume and variety of data was collected and…
Descriptors: Achievement, Demography, Experimental Curriculum, Experimental Programs
Stevens, David W. – 1968
The purpose of this study was to discover whether job seekers can be expected to act on the basis of new knowledge about the local labor market, and if they do act, whether their probability of success in finding a job is increased. This supplementary labor market information experiment was conducted in a single employment service office and…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Control Groups, Employment, Employment Opportunities
Bello, Ann; And Others – 1977
A study was done to identify factors which predict success or failure of students in an associate degree nursing program using the completion of the program and passage of the State Board Test Pool Examination (SBTPE), which leads to licensure as a registered nurse, as success criteria. Pre-program and program data and SBTPE scores were collected…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Admission Criteria, Associate Degrees
Butler, Annie L. – 1975
This paper emphasizes the need for today's early childhood programs to meet children's present needs and still prepare them to cope with the future. Current early education trends are discussed as a basis for planning for the future. The factor identified as being most important to a preschool child's perception of the future (his aspirations and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Development, Childhood Needs, Early Childhood Education
Chadwick, Robert; Walters, Henry – 1975
In order to measure the academic success/failure rate of students reading below the ninth grade level, all freshmen students entering Cosumnes River College were given the Nelson-Denny Reading Test during college registration in August 1974. Of the approximately 650 students tested, 113 (17 percent) scored 41 or below; this score corresponds to a…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Academic Probation, Dropouts, Failure
Welker, L. C., Jr.; Ginn, Clyde N. – 1973
The purpose of the study was to determine the degree to which factors other than job skills, in particular mobility and social factors, are important for the success of students from vocational and technical training programs at the secondary and postsecondary levels. Data were gathered from interviews with selected center directors, from teacher…
Descriptors: Correlation, Educational Programs, Postsecondary Education, Secondary Education
Rouse, William B.; Rouse, Sandra H. – 1976
A mathematical model was used to consider alternative request routing policies for use in the Illinois Library and Information Network. Given data on interlibrary loan demands, the probability of request success, processing and delivery times for various libraries, and a network request routing policy, the model predicted the probability of…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Data Processing, Failure, Information Services
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Program Evaluation and Research. – 1975
This report discusses the analysis by the State Department of Education of the statewide evaluation reports of all Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I programs in California for the 1973-74 school year. Students at all grade levels enrolled in ESEA Title I related programs gained more than one month's growth in reading skills for each month…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Community Involvement, Health Services, Individualized Instruction
Connolly, John A.; Maguire, Louis M. – 1973
A model developed by Research for Better Schools, Inc., the Academy for Career Education was an attempt to develop a "pure" transportable model of employer-based career education that provided a comprehensive secondary school education program for students. The year-round program, conducted at about 80 different locations in…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Counseling, Employer Attitudes
Lindert, Peter A. – 1974
In this paper, the author offers an expanded explanation of just what difference sibling position should make, and then subjects this reasoning to a test that seems to meet all of the objections raised about empirical work linking sibling position to achievement. More specifically, the author (1) lays out a simple proximate explanation of the way…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Birth Order, Child Development, Family Characteristics
Marshall, F. Ray; Briggs, Vernon M., Jr. – 1968
The main issues in this study are the paucity of black apprentices and the transferability of success achieved in New York by the Workers Defense League (WDL) to other places. The paper: (1) outlines the general nature of apprenticeship in the United States; (2) discusses the reason for the low participation of the blacks in these programs in the…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Black Youth, Blacks, Employer Attitudes
Spuck, Dennis W. – 1969
The Program of Special Directed Studies (PSDS) identifies persons with intellectual ability whose academic achievement, as indicated by traditional measures, is inadequate to secure admission to selective colleges. Then, through a program of supervised college courses, special services and individual tutoring, it attempts to prepare these students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Programs, College Students, Evaluation Criteria
