Participants in ACRL’s Program

The Impact of the Stabilization Program on the Learnings of the Participants in the Literacy Program

The Impact of the Stabilization Program on the Learnings of the Participants in the Literacy Program   R. Hassani, Ph.D.*   To explore the impact of the stabilization program on the learnings of the participants in the literacy program, a sample of 891 participants from six provinces in three categories of privileged, semi-privileged, and low-privileged was selected and tested rep...

Are Program Participants Good Evaluators

How well do program participants assess program performance ex-post? In this paper we compare participant evaluations based on survey responses to econometric impact estimates obtained using data from the experimental evaluation of the U.S. Job Training Partnership Act. We have two main findings: First, the participant evaluations are unrelated to the econometric impact estimates. Second, the p...

Auditory Thresholds in Advanced Participants in the Transcendental Meditation Program

In a study on participants in an advanced Age of Enlightenment Governor Training Course at MERU, unusually sensitive hearing thresholds were found ( 11.7 dB more sensitive than norms averaged over the frequency range 250Hz to 8000Hz). Thresholds decreased by a further 3. 0 dB after 15 minutes of performing the sidhi designed to produce unusually acute hearing. These results are discussed in rel...

[Quality of food: perceptions of 'Bolsa Familia' program participants].

INTRODUCTION This study deals with perceptions of beneficiaries of the 'Bolsa Familia' Program, in Curitiba, southern Brazil, about their feeding habits. OBJECTIVE To understand the perceptions of participants of the 'Bolsa Família' Program on the quality of their food. METHOD A qualitative study based on the critical-interpretive tradition, which used individual interviews as a technique f...

Predicting Abuse and Reassault Among Batterer Program Participants