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The Iatrogenic Consequences of Standards-Based Education
(2006)
Standards-based assessments were prescribed as the cure for the poor accountability of public schools. Billions of dollars have been spent on curricula, tests, and scoring rubrics so that federal and state agencies can ...
Authentic instruction: A comparative case study of three urban high schools.
(2005)
All five of these teachers were part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored (grant #0086415) Authentic Teaching Alliance (ATA) which involved public school teachers, graduate and advanced undergraduate fellows, ...
The perceived quality and impact of the Tulsa model evaluation: a survey of teachers and principals in Oklahoma public schools
(2020-12-18)
Oklahoma began implementing its Teacher Leader Effectiveness Law in 2011, the state’s response to competing for federal Race to the Top grant money and the nation-wide cry from education reformers for tougher teacher ...
An examination of Project Team Life: Two case studies.
(2003)
The study revealed little difference in the curriculum development schemes between the two cases. Implementation occurred in both cases and was achieved in different ways. Of all the themes, the resources theme was found ...
A Study of Student Trust in Teachers in a Suburban School District
(2022-12-16)
The formations, differences, and effects of student trust were examined in a midsized suburban school district where a sample of 1086 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students were surveyed. Four research questions guided ...
Voluntary consolidation in rural Oklahoma schools: A descriptive study of the strategies that facilitate the process.
(1997)
Data analysis was performed following Holsti's (1969) four-step procedure for content analysis. The four steps include: (1) selecting a sample of data, (2) selecting content categories, (3) comparing the categories, and ...
School improvement: An analysis of facilitating practices for central office administrators to support decentralized change in public school districts implementing the (I)(D)(E)(A) School Improvement Process.
(1997)
This study examined the perceptions of public school superintendents, central office administrators, principals, and teachers to determine the importance of central office administrator facilitating practices reported in ...
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 ...
An assessment of teacher concerns about classroom technology integration in Southeast Oklahoma.
(2005)
Three hundred sixty-two teachers volunteered to complete the survey instrument. Based on the findings of this study, the following conclusions were made: (a) Teachers were at the Stage 5, collaboration; (b) teachers had ...