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Making meaning of barriers and successes: A qualitative study of upper level female educational leaders.
(2006)
This study revealed the phenomenological meaning three women in the upper levels of school administration in a military school system overseas made of the barriers (both internal and external) they experienced in their ...
Social interaction phenomena in the first-year college experience.
(2005)
The transition from high school to college is not an easy process. New freedoms and new independence provide for an exciting first year. There is little debate as to the importance of starting college off well. However, ...
School initiatives as means for teachers' inquiries and considerations of changes toward their own instructional practices.
(2004)
A naturalistic research method, phenomenology, permitted this researcher to examine the perspectives of these five participants. The qualitative nature of the study provided a forum to gather participant data. Through ...
An analysis of meaning, malaise, mattering and marginality and their relationship to discretionary effort among regional university staff employees.
(2004)
Recommendations for administrators and other practitioners included: increase the awareness of the various perceptions of the university that different groups hold; provide opportunities for staff to be involved in the ...
Joy, passion and tenacity: A phenomenological study of why quality teachers continue to teach in high-challenge urban elementary schools .
(2007)
Over the last decade, research into the importance of teacher quality has shown that the quality of the teacher in the classroom plays a very important role in student achievement. (Bembry, Jordan, Gomez, Anderson & Mendro, ...
Fiscal equity comparison between current and capital education expenditures and between rural and non-rural schools in Oklahoma.
(2005)
Accordingly, the data to be analyzed with resource accessibility measures and wealth neutrality measures was reported by schools through the Oklahoma Cost Accounting System (OCAS). Specifically, all current expenditures ...
Educator perceptions of principal technology leadership competencies.
(2005)
The populace of the twentieth century is increasingly obsessed with new communication and information technologies that potentially may impact education and raise achievement levels of students (Spencer, 1999). In an ...
Reformation of the teaching profession: A genealogy of the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation as a regulatory standards board .
(2006)
Utilizing public and private archives, media reports, state and federal reports, literature of professional organizations and oral history interviews, the second portion of the paper presents the case---the Oklahoma ...
Technology supported data-driven decision-making in an Oklahoma elementary school.
(2005)
Public school educators need to know how to use data that support informed decision making in order to improve educational processes. Theoretical models provide scant explanations of how public school educators actually ...
Building school and community connections through leadership, technology, and professional learning community development: A case study of two elementary schools.
(2004)
As in any other profession, schoolteachers, principals, and other administrators need a vision to help them toward their goals. The intent of this research was to examine schools that have connected their vision for ...