This report evaluates the alcohol abuse prevention program's effectiveness in producing social change among Boys' Club participants. Concentrating on the program's second year, this paper presents summative evaluations for nine Boys' Club pilot sites. Each summation concentrates on the site's ability to implement model programs developed during…

THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THIS INVESTIGATION WERE TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF UTAH'S INSERVICE TRAINING PROGRAM, COMPARE IT WITH THAT OF OTHER STATES, DETERMINE ITS EFFECTIVENESS, AND ASCERTAIN PROBLEM AREAS AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT. DATA WERE COLLECTED BY A SURVEY OF OTHER STATE PROGRAMS, PERSONAL INTERVIEWS WITH STATE VOCATIONAL…

This study investigated (1) whether or not the institute was accomplishing its objectives to upgrade science and mathematics teachers' competency and to remove academic deficiencies due to inadequate or inefficient academic training and (2) whether the objectives of the institute were based on valid assumptions. The study population consisted of…

California has consolidated the administration of funds allocated to its schools through state programs--the Early Childhood Education Act (ECE), the Educationally Disadvantaged Youth Act, the Bilingual Education Act of 1972, and the Miller-Unruh Basic Reading Act--as well as Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This report…

A study was made of the effectiveness of the San Francisco Unified School District's Special and Vocational Educational Programs in preparing handicapped students for the work world. Ninety-eight high school graduates were divided into two groups--those who had received vocational training (T) and those who hadn't (NT)--and were interviewed along…

The document reports on a 3-year research project to measure the acquisition and generalization of teaching and child management behaviors by parents of preschool handicapped chiloren enrolled in the Portage Project. Initial chapters describe treatments (which utilize the parent as the child's primary teacher in a home-based program) and first,…

Focusing primarily on test data from locally developed tests, the document presents results and an evaluation of the first year of a program developed for elementary grades at Dutemple School, Cranston, R. I. The first section discusses behavioral objectives and presents pre- and posttest results, grade by grade tabulated to show levels of…

This report presents the results of a three-year program of research designed to evaluate the effectiveness of institutions serving dependent and neglected children in terms of their impact on resident children, and their ability to respond to changing demands on their services. Basically, the research was geared to determining whether the open,…

The followup study assessed employment variables among persons who had experienced the Comprehensive Residential Family Career Education Model IV of the Mountain-Plains program. The assessment was accomplished by focusing on the current status of former Mountain-Plains students with regard to work variables: income, satisfaction derived from work,…

Using a regression analysis technique, the authors produced a profile of clients, many of whom are Mexican-American, of the East Los Angeles Youth Training and Employment Project (YTEP), in an attempt to correlate YTEP participation with probable later success. In addition to data from an earlier Rand survey of 7,659 clients, YTEP collected…

A 1972 project to assess the impact of the work incentive program passed in 1971 (WIN 2) on the administration of WIN in local welfare found that the program was still in the transitional stage in the local welfare offices, that there was greater diversity among office operations as a result of WIN 2, that the program did not affect the clients…

The Summer Orientation Program (SOP) at the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY/B) is an extensive program that affects approximately 2,500 freshmen each year and involves virtually every university office that works with undergraduates. The program tries to provide students with academic, social, and physical perspectives of the…

This report is a collection of research information on competency based teacher education (CBTE) programs. The methods of collecting data consisted of two surveys sent to teacher education institutions and an ERIC search using a variety of descriptors. In total, information was obtained relating to 56 institutions and 65 programs from 66 different…

Preparing Educational and Training Consultants (PECT-II) is the second in a series of three cumulative and sequential instructional systems designed to help a cadre of educators acquire process training and consulting skills. The PETC-II graduate should be capable of forming a temporary relationship with a small group or major subsystem of an…

The report represents an external evaluation of a three-year project designed to use ex-offenders as paraprofessional parole officer aides in Ohio. The report includes the results of a 1974 national survey of States' use of ex-offenders in parole work as background of the study. The program is described in terms of selection and assignment, duties…