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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 ...
Foundations of Afrocentric thought and practice and its implications as an alternative educational philosophy for African American individual and community empowerment.
(1999)
Afrocentricism stems from a total attempt by African Americans to define themselves based on their own value system and their interpretation of reality in which they find themselves without Eurocentric interference, ...
Perceptions of AIDS education issues: A qualitative study of at risk individuals.
(1998)
The research affirmed certain elements of current AIDS education theories and revealed areas which should be added to instructional methods and curriculum content. Significant patterns affecting the participants' behavior ...
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 ...
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 ...
Core knowledge in American schools: A portrait of contemporary curricular reform.
(1999)
This is a study of contemporary school reform in America. The object of the study is the Core Knowledge Movement, a content oriented curriculum reform initiative advocated by E.D. Hirsch Jr. and promoted by the Core Knowledge ...
An assessment of attitude change in preservice physical education majors after exposure to movement education.
(1998)
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of exposure before and after the 16-week course, Skills and Techniques of Movement, Exercise, and Fitness on preservice physical education majors' attitudes toward ...