Project follow through info

Project Follow Through

From 1968 through 1995 the Department of Education and the Office of Economic Opportunity conducted a study to determine the most effective instructional techniques in an attempt to decrease poverty which had been shown to be correlated to poor academic performance. In the first ten years more than 22 sponsors took part to show what their approaches could do and Direct Instruction was shown to out preform the rest significantly. Since this time countless behavior analysts have dedicated their careers to the advancement of direct instruction and the improvement of student's lives. Sparks Behavioral Services partners with these instructional design experts to provide consulting for schools (from workshops to designing school wide programs) who want their personnel to learn these techniques. 
Despite the results of the study, direct instruction still has yet to be wildly adopted by the educational community at large. A full histories and analyses of Project Follow Through are available by the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies and from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A brief overview of Project Follow Though is available on Wikipedia and from the University of Oregon


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