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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 056 802 32 RC 005 725 AUTHOR Cage, Bob N.; And Others TITLE Florida Compensatory Migrant "Learnand Earn" Program: An EvaluaLion. INSTITJTION Florida State Dept. of Education,Tallahassee.; Florida Univ., Gainesville. Inst. forDevelopment of Human Resources. SPONs AGENCY Office of Education (DHEW), Washington,D.C. Office of Programs for the Disadvantaged. PUB DATE Aug 71 NOTE 134p. EDRS PRICE MF-$0.65 HC-$6.58 DESCRIPTORS Attendance; Attitudes; *Basic Skills;Behavior Change; Cognitive Development;Employment Interviews; Hygiene; Job Training; MathematicsEducation; *Migrant Education; *MobileEducational Services; Oral Communication; Participation;Personality Development; *Prevocational Education;*Program Evaluation; Reading Development;self Estem IDENTIFIERS Florida ABSTRACT Instituted by the Migrant Section,Florida State Department of Education for the1970-71 school year, the Migrant Compensatory Learn and Earn Programoperatived 30 mobile units (2 on elementary, 4 on high school, and 24 onjunior high school campuses) which housed 4 pre-vocational programs(Hospital, Housekeeping, Auto Tune-up, and Supermarket) on21 school campuses in 5 Florida counties: Broward, Hillsborough, Orange,Palm Beach, and Polk. For data were collected on this P luative purposes, pre- and post-test of 441 participating studentsusing various instruments, iclists, surveys, and work sample testsranging from the Peabody La_,cure Vocabulary Testto teachers' weekly reports.Evaluation revealed that the experimental groupgenerally showed no significc" advantage over the control group(n=353) in terms of reading comprehension, arithmetic-computationability, and self-esteem; however, significant positivefindings for the experimental group were indicated in thestudents' participatory ability inconducting oral job interviews and completingjob application forms; in 11 of 14 areas of on-the-job workfunctions; in attendance; and inpersonal appearance, behavior,relationship to peers, and punctuality. Included in the document are 13recommendations, 17 tables, and 17 appendixes showing and describinc; the programand evaluative instrumentation used. (MJB) 'I S. DEPARTMENT C EDUCATION 8, WELFARE OFFICE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HASBEEN EDUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVEDFROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATIONORIG-1 1971 !RATING IT POINTS OF VIEWOR OPIN-: r IONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY1 ki REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICEOF EDU- S CATION POSITION OR POLICY E,. .1. .Axl FLORIDA COMPENSATO'Y MIGRANT "LEARN AND EARN" PROGRAM: AN EVALUATION Bob N. Cage Glenna Carr James Crews Douglas Patterson FLORIDA COMPENSA:ORY MIGRANT "LEARN AND EARN" PROGRAM: AN EVALUATION Bob N. Cage Glenna Carr James Crews Douglas Patterson The evaluation and analysis of datareported herein were conducted under Letter of Agreemem: by and betweenthe Division of Elementary and Secondary Education of the Department ofEducation of the State of Florida, and the Division of Universities of theDepartment of Education of the State of Florida. Funds for this evaluation were providedunder Title I, Public Law 89-10, Elementary and Secondary EducationAct, as amended by Public Law 89-750. University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 32601 August, 1971 FOREWORD Migrant children have amyriad of opportunities to observe a very of child- limited aspect of the world ofwork, but perhaps no other group experience within ren in America is morepositively affected by direct work continually emphasizes the world of work. The nature of their pr_rents' However, because this workis of to the children theimportance of worK. allow these such a narrow occupational nature,programs were developed to chidren to be able to selectfrom a wider spectrum of workopportunitites. of Gratitude is extended to Mr.Floyd T. Christian, Commissioner Education of the State ofFlorida, aad to the severalState and Federal the Learn agencies which provided financialsupport co develop and operate and Earn program and to compilethis evaluation report. The services rendered by the administrativeofficers who formulated the necessary agreements and oversaw theadministrative responsibilitiesfor this project are sincerelyappreciated. A special word ofappreciation is extended to Dr.Ira J. Gordon, UniverL Director, Institute for theDev,elopment of Human Resources, initial proposal Florida, for his guidance andexpertise in formulating the but one and participating in thepre-planning. This evaluation project is under the auspices of theInstitute. o several programs functioning for their Appreciation is also extended toseveral of the Institute members comments and suggestionsduring the project year. project, either While many people haveparticipated in the evaluation solely responsi- directly or indirectly, thedirector and project staff were ble for its operation andfor the content of this report. Bob N. Cage Glenna Carr James Crews Douglas Patterson PARTICIPATING AND CONTRIBUTINGPERSONNEL State DepartmentAdvisors Mr. Art Collier Mr. Thomas Culton Mr. Dennis Hooker Mr. Joel Murphree Mrs. Juanita Parks County "Learn and Earn"Coordinators Mr. Nathaniel Powell Mr. Lincoln Brown Mr. Charles Todd Mr. William Harris Mr. Julian Warren Public SchoolAdministrators and Suervisors Mr. Earl Stokes Mr. Edgar Elder Mr. James Stone Mr. Robert Beale Brow Mr_ Elda Carney Mr. Harlan Norman Mr. Joe Callis Mr. James A. Jones Mr. William Dandy Mrs. Lillian Cornett Mr. Arthur E. Willi ms Mr. Robert L. Moore Mr. Paul Matwiy Mr. Roger Williams Mr. Kyle Scott Mr. Walter End Mr. James T. Threlkeld Mr. Ulysses G. Horne Mr San J. Norton Mr. Martin Mills Mr. R '-ert Collins Mrs. Ann Harrington Mr. Robert Howard Mr. Lonnie Brown Mr. Ji-1 Moyner Sta.1T Advisors Dr. Ira Gordon Mr. Myron Cunningham Dr. Vynce Hines Research Assistants Miss Susan Roberts Mr.-Mark Bowers .Mr. Albor Ruiz Miss Lynda Hartnig Mr. Timothy Russell Mr. Harold Kay Miss Rita Seary MrsMarion Pullara Mrs. Genevieve Webber Student Assistants Miss Christine Elias Mr. Thomas Arcuri Mr. Peter Van Note iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Foreword vi List of Tables viii Code for Counties Chapter 1 I. Learn and Earn Program Introduction 1 1 Problem Objectives 2 Program and Curricula 2 Hospital-Housekeeping Program 8 Auto Tune-up Program 11 Supermarket Program 14 18 II. Research Design andInstrumentation 22 Hypotheses 25 III. Data Analysis andInterpretation 57 IV. Summary and Recommendations LIST OF TABLES Page Table Learn and Earn Program 4 I. Student Participation in Peabody Picture VocabularyTest for Mean Differences on 26 Learn and Earn and Control.Students by County the One Semester Programsin County C Mean Differences for Students). 28 (on the PPVT for Learnand Earn and Control Self-Esteem Mean Differences onthe Stanley Coopersmith IV. Earn and ControlStudents by Inventory for Learn and 30 County Self-Esteem V. Mean Differences on theStanley Coopersmith Earn Students by Levelof Staff Inventory for Learn and 31 Preparation for Reading Comprehensionof Learl VI. Means and Adjusted Means 33 and Earn and ControlStudents by County for MathematicalComputation of Learn VII. Means and Adjusted Means 15 snA Earn and ControlStudents by Cour,:r of the Oral JobInterview VIII. Mea7: :Cferences on Nine Factors 37 ur Learn and EarnStudents Five Factors Used forEvaluation Im- IX. Mean Differences on 39 provement on the JobApplication Blank Satisfactory andUnsatisfactory Job X. Number and Percent of 40 Application Blanks as Evaluatedby Business Firms Coefficients, t-ratios,and Standard Errors XI. Means Regression Evaluation Form... 42 for Fourteen Factors onthe Employer's for Learn and Earn andControl Students XII. Percent of Ab5enteeism 43 by Mobile Unit andParticipating School Semi-Weekly StudentChecklist on 385 XIII. Attributes from the 45 Learn and Earn Students Test Between Comparison of Scores onAuto Tune-up Work Sample XIV. and First YearStudents in Vocational Learn and Earn Students 51 Mechanics Programs Selected SupermarketProgram Students XV. Achievement Ratings of ... ....... 52 in Cashiering, Bagging,and Shelving vi Pos.i List of Tables - Continued Table Page XVI. Response of Thirty-One Students on the Hospital-Patient Care Work Sample Test 55 XVII. Percent Correct of 4 Employed Nurses Aides on Items on the Hospital Patient Care Work Sample Test 56 vii CODE FOR COUNTIES A - Broward B - Hillsborough C - Orange D - Palm Beach E - Polk A viii CHAPTER I LEARN AND EARN PROGRAM Introduction The Migrant Compensatory Learn and Earn Program was instituted by the Migrant Section, Florida State Department of Education, in cooperation with five Florida counties, to be operated during the 1970-71 school year. During the summer of 1970 various meetings were held statewide, involving people from several phases of compensatory education, for planning and organizing the program. The Institute for the Development of Human Resources, University of Florida, was asked to submit a proposal for evaluation of the program. The evalua- tion project grant was approved and let in August, 1970. This report conveys pertinent asperts of the program cull-icula, the research design for the evaluation, instrumentation and data analysis, and the summary and recommendations. Problem The purpose of this project was the evaluation of the Learn and Earn Program, as instituted by the Migrant Section, State Department of Education, in the Florida counties of Broward, Hillsborough, Orange, Palm Beach,and Polk. Thirty mobile units housing four pre-vocational programs were set up on twenty-one school campuses across these five counties. Most of the school campuses, as shown in Appendix A,