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Presidential leadership: A phenomenological study of the leadership experience of Oklahoma's regional university presidents.
(2005)
Regionally focused state colleges and universities present a unique and challenging leadership opportunity to the men and women who have been chosen to serve as president. A literature review showed that the leadership ...
A study of the relationships between community power structures, school board types, superintendent leadership styles and the impact on student achievement in Oklahoma.
(2007)
This study was designed to examine the degree to which relationships of community power structures, school board behavior types and superintendent leadership styles exist in Oklahoma public schools. The study also explored ...
Librarians and the emerging research library: A case study of complex individual and organizational development.
(2007)
The purpose of this case study was to increase the knowledge base of how research librarians experience and cope with the turbulence of change within their library system. This research also examined the issues that surround ...
Popular participation in Cochabamba, Bolivia as an ameliorative policy treatment affecting public education.
(2005)
Popular Participation is a public policy characterized by decentralization and devolution of responsibility and resources for a wide range of public services, including public education, from the national to the municipal ...
Alterations to faculty compensation structures at midwest medical schools.
(2001)
Despite an almost equal number of positive and negative outcomes reported as a result of the plans' implementation, the majority of the faculty respondents were accepting of the revised plan, and reported its implementation ...
Evolution of a high-achieving school: Building community through learning, leading and practices.
(2004)
The achievement gap of ethnic and poor students has haunted educators, and some schools have narrowed the gap through building learning communities. The purpose of the study was to understand how changes occurred in a ...
Supervision of itinerant teachers: Perspectives from itinerant teachers and those who supervise them.
(2001)
In relation to the conditions in which traveling teachers worked, participants reported the conditions that most often got in the way of their ability to effectively do their jobs were difficulties with travel, adapting ...
Mentoring and mentor efficacy: A training program's effectiveness.
(2001)
Both the quantitative data and the qualitative data generated noted that mentor training changed mentor efficacy in regard to the student teaching experience. The quantitative data derived from the pre and post questionnaires ...
Teaching with the data in mind: Using Oklahoma achievement test results to close the gap for No Child Left Behind.
(2004)
This qualitative study investigated successful practices of "highly effective" elementary teachers as they used Oklahoma State achievement test data to close the gap for all student subgroups in fulfilling the mandates of ...
The few who succeed: Women administrators in higher education.
(2006)
Vignettes of the interview participants provide detailed description of each individual participant; survey data provide generalized descriptions. The various themes that emerged from the interviews and survey data were ...