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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 ...
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 ...
At-risk high school students examine practices, obstacles, and action plans for democratic school reform.
(2002)
This study examines the perceptions of at-risk high school students to the application of the nine practices of the high achieving schools (O'Hair, 1999). The research method was qualitative naturalistic. Data sources ...
Academic Optimism and Collective Student Trust of Teachers: A Test of the Relationship in Urban Schools
(2014-12)
The purpose of this study was to test the relationship between academic optimism and collective student trust in urban schools after controlling for contextual conditions that can enhance or impede cooperative student-teacher ...
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, ...
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 ...
An investigation of the program planning process for athletic training curriculum education programs.
(2006)
The study found that there is not one specific factor that will ultimately lead to the development of a successfully accredited athletic training education program. There are many explanations as to the role of program ...
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 ...
HOW LEADERSHIP INFLUENCES TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS IN RESPONSE TO EDUCATIONAL REFORMS: A HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY
(2016-05-13)
In 2009 a rash overhaul of educational reform occurred in our nation’s educational system, specifically preempted by Race to the Top. Administrators and teachers have been in a flux of understanding the importance of these ...
A study comparing student achievement in a full-service school and a non-full-service school.
(2007)
Student achievement indicators in the two schools were compared. The schools were similar in enrollment, community type, percent low-income students, and percent minority students. Data gathered from the schools was retrieved ...