Mixed Results in a Transitional Planning Program for Alternative School Students

Autor/inn/en	Wolf, Elaine M.; Wolf, Douglas A.
Titel	Mixed Results in a Transitional Planning Program for Alternative School Students
Quelle	In: Evaluation Review, 32 (2008) 2, S.187-215 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0193-841X
DOI	10.1177/0193841X07310600
Schlagwörter	Nontraditional Education; Attendance Patterns; Multivariate Analysis; Objective Tests; Functional Behavioral Assessment; Intervention; Program Effectiveness; Maximum Likelihood Statistics; Discipline Policy; Program Descriptions; Quasiexperimental Design; Portfolios (Background Materials); Followup Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Multivariate Analyse; Objektiver Test; Disziplinarmaßnahme; Follow-up studies; Kontaktstudium
Abstract	Disciplinary alternative schools have a reputation as gateways to the juvenile and criminal justice systems. The authors conducted an evaluation of an intervention (Strategies for Success) designed to divert seventh-, eighth-, and ninth-grade alternative school students from this gateway. They used propensity score matching and a multivariate random effects model to estimate program impacts and found that the program not only increased attendance rates, at least in the short term, but also increased the likelihood of reassignment to alternative schools. The discussion focuses on possible reasons and solutions for high rates of return to alternative school and for the erosion of program effects. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10