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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Education, Administration; Education, Secondary"”.
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The transition of Taiwan's upper secondary education
… a systematic understanding of the pressures for educational reform and change in Taiwan's upper secondary school system. Through an analysis of official documents and a set of focus group interviews, we sought to gain insight into Taiwan's current situation in order to anticipate the future …
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The role and function of department chairpersons in the collegial peer coaching environment
… conducted to study the role and function of the secondary school department chairperson in a collegial peer coaching environment. Specifically, the study focused on the relationships between instructional staff and chairperson, chairpersons instructional leadership, the teaching practices of …
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Why four critical decisions were made concerning school facilities at Lake Forest High School, 1960-1990: A case study approach
Schools, school boards, and administrations across the nation constantly face the challenge of providing adequate school facilities for students in their respective districts. A number of factors affect and are affected by the decisions that are made concerning these facilities. This research looks …
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Perceptions of a change process relating to the institutionalization and implementation of a peer coaching program at Carl Sandburg High School: A case study
This research was designed to study the perceptions of administrators and faculty involving an institutionalized change, peer coaching, in Carl Sandburg High School. This change has survived over a 10-year period of time and serves as both a teacher self-evaluation tool and as means for …
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Case studies of teacher evaluation systems viewed as successful in suburban high school districts
This study seeks answers to why certain teacher evaluation systems are viewed as successful in improving and maintaining the quality of instruction in Chicago suburban public high schools. The review of the literature explores the two expressed purposes of teacher evaluation: summative and …
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Illinois Alliance of Essential Schools: A Qualitative Case Study of an Urban High School's Planning Year
… is a voluntary organization of American secondary schools which promotes school reform along the lines of Nine Common Principles of Essential Schooling established by Theodore Sizer and others. Coalition membership means that each school will eventually integrate the Common Principles in …
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A naturalistic examination of successful change in junior high schools
… the author went to the literature on change in educational organizations for insight into the change process. The literature, though quite pessimistic about change in schools, did offer a kind of classic change implementation model. The model paralleled quite accurately the pattern of …
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Principals' Perceptions of Administrative Control in Secondary Schools: An Exploratory Study
The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of six administrative-level control mechanisms (hierarchical controls--supervision, input, behavior, and output; nonhierarchical controls--selection/socialization and environmental) used by high school superintendents to direct the work of high …
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A study of parental information seeking and implications for school choice
… are unable to choose schools within the public education system. A total of forty parents from two middle schools were randomly selected and interviewed by phone or in person to collect data which would answer pre-designed hypothetical questions including: (1) What factors would influence the …
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Adolescent Alienation and Student Perceptions of School Climate
This case study of one midwestern high school explored indepth the relationships between adolescent alienation and student perceptions of school climate, with the goal of understanding those relationships and finding ways the school might change in order to decrease alienation in students. With the …