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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 ...
The influence of technology integration on high school collaboration through the development of a professional learning community: A mixed methods study.
(2006)
Today's traditional school structures result in isolation that negatively impacts systemic school change. The school's physical organization of a collection off disconnected, separated classrooms where a group of students ...
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 ...
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 ...
The function of context, influence and intuition in solving problems of leadership.
(2006)
The purpose of the study was to determine if training novice leaders to identify context, influence and intuition embedded in a real life problem-solving narrative as affecting the explicitness they used in describing how ...
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 ...
Resistance to change in the community college: The influence of participation, open communication, perceived organizational support, and organizational commitment.
(2006)
The ability to successfully implement organizational change in a constantly evolving world is an increasingly critical element for the success of community colleges. This study was conducted to examine the interrelationships ...
Career satisfaction and resilience among Oklahoma band directors.
(2006)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the demographic, professional, social, and personal influences related to career satisfaction and teacher resilience among instrumental music educators, as determined by responses ...