HOSTS Program in the Portland Public Schools [microform] : 1983-84 Evaluation Report / David Leitner and George Ingebo.
Helping One Student To Succeed (HOSTS) is a nationally validated Education Consolidation and Improvement Act Chapter I exemplary program adopted by 24 schools in the Portland (Oregon) School District. The HOSTS program has operated in three schools since 1979-80, 17 more since 1981-82, two more sinc...
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| Summary: | Helping One Student To Succeed (HOSTS) is a nationally validated Education Consolidation and Improvement Act Chapter I exemplary program adopted by 24 schools in the Portland (Oregon) School District. The HOSTS program has operated in three schools since 1979-80, 17 more since 1981-82, two more since 1982-82, and two more since 1983-84. It is designed to help low performers in grades 2 through 8 learn to read by providing individualized instruction through the use of volunteer tutors. Diagnostic, prescriptive, and instructional procedures were specified by program guidelines and were essentially the same for all schools. The HOSTS program included 758 students from kindergarten through grade 8, and 906 tutors (community members, college students, high school students, cross-age students, and teaching staff and aides). A questionnaire on the use of computers in HOSTS, particularly for data management, was sent to all 23 HOSTS coordinators in the spring of 1984; the responses from 22 were analyzed. An overwhelming majority of the program coordinators indicated that the computer facilitated better use of their time and provided other benefits outside simple data management. Taken together, evaluation data for the 1983-84 year indicate that HOSTS students' reading gains are greater than those of all student groups at the same grade levels district-wide. The use of cross-aged student tutors appears to be a particularly effective HOSTS strategy. Twenty-one statistical data tables are included. (TJH) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Note: For the 1984-85 report, see edition 268 167. ERIC Document Number: ED300395. |
| Physical Description: | 46 pages. |
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