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Download full textLeClair, Daniel P.; And Others – 1987
In March of 1985, the Massachusetts Department of Correction opened Longwood Treatment Center, the state's first minimum security prison designed exclusively to detain and provide alcoholism education and treatment to multiple drunken driving offenders. A process evaluation of the program revealed that the program was implemented as planned and…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Alcoholism, Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. – 1985
Witnesses offered testimony bearing on budget issues and the reauthorization of the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Programs; the Special Supplemental Summer Food Program; the State Administrative Expense Program; the Commodity Distribution Program; and the Nutrition Education and Training Program. Testimony concerning permanently authorized…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Children, Costs, Federal Programs
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1987
The relationship between the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) Program and vocational rehabilitation (VR) programs was reviewed. Focus was on the extent to which VR services are successful in returning SSDI beneficiaries to productive employment. The review was carried out in 10 states with widely varying practices in referring SSDI…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Job Placement, Program Effectiveness
Herndon, Martha – 1984
Responses of 100 parents, 30 teachers, and over 200 preschool children were used to evaluate the effectiveness of a child sexual abuse prevention curriculum for preschool children. An orientation meeting for parents and teachers preceded a presentation of the curriculum to preschool children. Parents and teachers were already aware of child sexual…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Knowledge Level, Parent Attitudes, Preschool Children
Packard, Richard D. – 1987
The Arizona Career Ladder Teacher Incentive Program, a pilot teacher incentive program, features: (1) successful collaboration among government, business, universities, school districts, and the teaching profession; (2) "stakeholder" initiated and monitored teacher development and performance evaluation systems with totally restructured…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Educational Cooperation, Incentives, Program Effectiveness
Barnes, Lori; And Others – 1985
The success of rehabilitative nursing homes has been measured by their ability to return patients to their homes. The rates of reinstitutionalization after discharge are less studied but are basic to the role of alternative levels of care. This research examines the relationship of predischarge factors with long term outcomes of patients…
Descriptors: Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Institutionalized Persons, Males, Nursing Homes
Case, Elizabeth J.; Johnson, Barbara J. – 1986
The effectiveness of using 75 aides in special education classrooms in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was evaluated in terms of impact on students, classrooms, and staff. Interviews, record reviews, and survey research were used to collect data. Findings revealed that aides were perceived as having a positive impact on the children through more…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction, Paraprofessional School Personnel
Baron, Patricia B. – Communicator, 1987
A study of graduate student recruitment practices was conducted in the spring of 1986 to determine the current practice of graduate schools and to determine the extent to which they are using marketing techniques. The members of the Council of Graduate Schools were surveyed; 250 graduate schools responded (69% response rate). Questions concerned…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Marketing
Valadian, Margaret – 1981
With specific reference to the Aboriginal situation in Australia, and in the context of the Australian federal government's current policy regarding Aboriginal self-management, this document addresses the need for alternatives to traditional Aboriginal training (education) programs and the implications of these alternative programs for the…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries, Nontraditional Education
Wacker, Sally; And Others – 1982
The second of two volumes, this document continues the final evaluation report of Project Developmental Continuity (PDC), a Head Start demonstration project initiated in 1974 to develop program models which enhance children's social competence by fostering developmental continuity from preschool through the early elementary grades. In particular,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education, Federal Programs, Longitudinal Studies
Halasa, Ofelia; Theus, Frank – 1982
This report provides a summary description of the Title IV-C Classroom Management Project conducted in the Cleveland (Ohio) Public Schools. The purpose of this project was to develop and pilot test a resource handbook designed to improve elementary and secondary school teachers' ability to organize and manage their classrooms. The development of…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Material Development
Tims, Frank M. – 1982
The need for evaluation of drug abuse treatment programs has been generally recognized and mandated by law since 1976. To learn to what extent such evaluations are actually performed and to obtain information about those evaluations, drug abuse treatment programs receiving federal funds in 1979 were surveyed. Questionnaires were sent to a random…
Descriptors: Clinics, Drug Abuse, Drug Rehabilitation, Evaluation Methods
Hendrickson, Jo Mary – 1981
The effects of using a nontraditional peer tutoring format--same age, similar skill level arrangement--were investigated for two school terms on a county wide basis with 2,386 significantly underachieving students in grades 1 through 9 in the curricular areas of reading and mathematics. Certified teachers and paraprofessional aides served as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools
Anderson, Judith I.; Stonehill, Robert M. – 1982
The evaluation strategies and results for Title I programs were compared and contrasted. Two systems of evaluation to examine the nature and effectiveness of Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I programs nationwide were implemented. The first involved sponsoring national studies, including the Study of the Sustaining Effects of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Powell, Douglas R. – 1982
Questions about the effectiveness of parent programs are addressed in this paper, which is based on the premise that an important step toward improvement is the identification and clarification of assumptions which prompt and sustain specific program structure and operations. Selected major assumptions about the ways in which programs attempt to…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Educational Trends, Parent Education, Program Design
