Provides guidance on key issues affecting the operations of this scholarship program designed to encourage undergraduates from disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue careers in biomedical research. Shows how using disadvantaged background alone as an eligibility criterion cannot increase...

Presents descriptive information on program implementation from the national evaluation, including detailed statistics on Talent Search project hosts and target schools; project staff and organization; and program participants, services, and activities based on data collected from a survey of...

Provides a comprehensive profile of the program, including participant demographics, services provided, and performance outcomes, using data from 1998-1999. The data, submitted by almost all funded projects, represent over 150,000 participants. Thirty-nine percent of participants used programs...

Provides a comprehensive profile of the program, including participant and school demographics, services offered, and performance outcomes, using 1999-2000 performance reports submitted by 355 projects serving over 300,000 participants. Notes that 97 percent of middle school participants and 95...

Assesses the feasibility of estimating the impacts of the program, which helps disadvantaged middle school and high school students prepare for, apply to, get financial aid for, and begin attending college. Examines three evaluation options: 1) estimating impacts of the program as a whole in the...

Provides a comprehensive profile of the program, including participant and school demographics, services offered, and performance outcomes, using 1998-1999 performance reports submitted by 355 projects serving over 300,000 participants. Notes that 52 percent of participants continued from a...

Provides a comprehensive profile of the program, including participant demographics, services provided, and performance outcomes, using data from 1999-2000. Notes that 57 percent of college-ready participants were admitted to a postsecondary institution, and 56 percent of those who dropped out...

Summarizes lessons learned for stations, partnerships, and outreach from an ongoing five-year evaluation of <I>Ready To Learn</I>, a Public Broadcasting Service and U.S. Department of Education initiative to help enhance children’s readiness for school. Stations need to be committed to the program...</i>

Presents descriptive information on program implementation from the national evaluation, including detailed statistics on Talent Search project hosts and target schools; project staff and organization; and program participants, services, and activities based on data collected from a survey of...