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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 analysis of the term "experience" in ordinary language and in the more precise arena of adult education literature.
(1997)
An analysis of the concept "experience" is conducted, both in ordinary language and in adult education literature, for the purpose of adding clarity to what is meant or intended by the use of the term "experience."
Impact of donor motivations and characteristics on giving to higher education.
(1997)
All factors were deemed to be significant at the.05 level using Chi-Square and Discriminant analysis. The most significant motivation factors were that the donor valued higher education, the donor was satisfied with their ...
Total Quality Management implementation and leadership perspectives in a state agency.
(1997)
The population selected for this study was comprised of the entire groups of upper and middle-managers of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. This agency was selected based on information gathered on its activities as ...
Outsourcing in public higher education in Oklahoma.
(1997)
Five outsourcing case studies were conducted at four public institutions of higher education in Oklahoma. The cases yielded data on nine outsource decisions. Drawing on three theory-based models that can explain ...
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 ...
Patterns of change and learning in the practices of selected Oklahoma architects.
(1997)
Implications for educators are that experience serves as the organizing principle for learning in professional practice and that customs and work conditions peculiar to each profession ultimately color the process of change ...
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 ...
Relationships among self-efficacy, anxiety, perceptions of clinical instructor effectiveness and senior baccalaureate nursing students' perceptions of learning in the clinical environment.
(1997)
Findings. Analyses revealed that the variable most predictive of students' perceptions of learning in the clinical environment were their beliefs of nursing self-efficacy. Significant correlations were also found between ...