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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, ...
To journey into creativity.
(2005)
Every year, in schools across America, children walk past framed statements asserting that one of the primary missions of their school is to foster creativity in its students. School districts, in addition to stating their ...
Extent of congruence between student perception and media representations of quality of higher education institutions.
(2005)
This study examines the degree of congruence between students' use of indicators in judging university quality and media use of those indicators. Through a student survey and content analysis of the media, each one's ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fleshing out the voices: The psychological effects of physical punishment in school.
(2005)
This qualitative study examined school corporal punishment from a phenomenological perspective using individual interviews and oral history narrative gathered from participants by audiotape recordings. The research focused ...
Perceptions of human rights and ethics in the training among military leaders: The case of Latin American leaders at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
(2005)
The United States Army has been training ethics, human rights and democracy to Latin American military and civilian personnel, in the past, through the School of the Americas and lately, in the Western Hemisphere Institute ...