Results of a Process for Improving Chapter 1 Programs

Between 1985 and 1988, the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Chapter 1 Technical Assistance Center developed, refined, and disseminated a research-based process for improving local compensatory education programs. Known as the Chapter 1 Improvement Process (CHIP), the effort combined knowledge from five research areas into a year-long, cross-district interactive program improvement effort. This paper provides an in-depth examination of the development and effects of the CHIP model. After a review of the relevant literature, the development of the CHIP model is discussed, followed by a brief description of the CHIP workshop series. The results of a follow-up study in the winter of 1989 using qualitative data obtained from interviews with 35 participants from 33 school districts in Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mex....o are then presented, along with an analysis of the findings and relevant illustrations. The three-session CHIP workshop program is based on literature associated with teacher effectiveness, school effectiveness, educational change, content area advances, research on Chapter 1 effectiveness, and exemplary Chapter 1 programs. The CHIP model coordinates federal and state law and regulations, parental participation, compensatory programs and instruction, regular class instruction, other school programs, district staff, community members, and student achievement and other student gains. (TJH) *************r***************x***************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * *****************************************A***************************** U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Orrice of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Orl'his document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating st. O Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction Quatity Pants of view of opmionsstated in this (loco. ment do not necessarily represent official OE RI position or policy "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY Ss/Eu.sy H. Eize./6. TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." RESULTS OF A PROCESS FOR IMPROVING