Interdisciplinary team organization: the distribution, structure, and important components of implementation in Virginia high schools

The purpose of this study was to determine the distribution of interdisciplinary team organization in Virginia high schools, to identify common elements of implementation, to assess the importance of those elements as perceived by team members, and to assess the relationship of these factors to school demographics. In this study, an interdisciplinary team was two or more teachers of different disciplines (one of which is a core subject), who share the same students and have a common planning period. A stratified sampling was used to select 123 Virginia high schools of which 67 consented to participate in the study. All core subject teachers in each school were surveyed. The survey used Erb and Doda's (1989) model of four hierarchical developmental areas of interdisciplinary team organization as the research base.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Curriculum and Instruction

Department dc:contributor.department

Curriculum and Instruction

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1995

Author dc:creator

• Benezra, Susan Horner

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Gatewood, Thomas E.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Cline, Marvin Gerald
• Conley, Houston
• Curcio, Joan L.
• Caldwell, M. Teressa

• education disciplines
• teamwork

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

etd-10242005-174020

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/40160