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Are we speaking the same language: Exploring meaning construction in a first-year composition classroom.
(1997)
Data revealed that disjunctions occurred between the teacher's intentions for making the assignments and the students interpretations of the assignments on some level with all three essays. Data analysis also indicated ...
Daniel Boone Wilderness Therapeutic Camping Program: A retrospective study of beliefs, attitudes, and values of selected innovators and change agents.
(1997)
The purpose of this qualitative study is to identify the beliefs, attitudes, and values of a select group of innovators and change agents who participated in one therapeutic camping and experiential educational program ...
A study on the effects of situated cognition on the study of foreign language.
(1997)
This study examined situated cognition and anchored instruction in the context of foreign language learning. Based upon situated learning models proposed by McLellan (1996) and Thurman (1993), a situated lesson was adapted ...
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 ...
An investigation of instructional systems design practice via esurvey methodology.
(1997)
An esurvey was designed to be implemented via the Internet and targeted toward a large, heterogeneous population of Instructional Designers and developers from educational, corporate, government, and technical environments. ...
Staff development process that results in change: A training of trainers cadre.
(1997)
Findings that facilitate the implementation process were: (1) provide time for professional development; (2) ensure district and principal support; (3) establish follow-up and maintenance procedures; (4) designate someone ...
Legally related religious challenges to public school materials, curricula, and instructional activities: The "Impressions" controversies, 1986-1994.
(1997)
The increase and subsequent decline of challenges based on occult content coincided with a large number of challenges to Holt, Rinehart and Winston's Impressions reading series, the first whole language reading series and ...
Implementing integrated learning systems in elementary classrooms.
(1997)
The findings of the study provided evidence that teacher perceptions about an ILS influenced implementation of the ILS. Highest levels of concern for respondents were at the awareness stage and second highest levels of ...
Basic police officer training in Oklahoma: An assessment of effectiveness and relevance.
(1997)
This study was undertaken to collect and analyze data that would assist in assessing the relevance and effectiveness of the entry level law enforcement officer training program in Oklahoma. Additionally, the study was ...