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The Possibility Of Applying Senge’S Learning Organization Principles In Irbid Public High Schools As Perceived By Principals And Teachers, Mohammed Ashour Oct 2009

The Possibility Of Applying Senge’S Learning Organization Principles In Irbid Public High Schools As Perceived By Principals And Teachers, Mohammed Ashour

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Purpose of the study: 1. To be acquainted with the possibility of applying Senge’s learning organization principles in Irbid high public schools as seen by principals and teachers 2. To be acquainted with the individual differences of the participants about the possibility of applying Senge’s learning organization principles in Irbid high public schools related to the social type, experience and qualification 3. To be acquainted with the suggestions presented by principals and teachers in Irbid high public schools regarding the possibilities of applying Senge’s learning organization principles


What Is Rigor?: A Qualitative Analysis Of One School’S Definition, Heather Bower, Joelle Powers Oct 2009

What Is Rigor?: A Qualitative Analysis Of One School’S Definition, Heather Bower, Joelle Powers

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In an era of increasing accountability, school administrators and faculties often find themselves amid a plethora of best practices and strategies aimed at improving students’ academic achievement. In the midst of these discussions, school culture is often hailed as the key to creating effective schools because it defines how people within a particular school are to behave and what they are to value (Stolp & Smith, 1995). Furthermore, it allows administrators to draw attention to some of the culture’s most important aspects: its values, beliefs, and assumptions that create the school’s vision for excellence (Stolp & Smith, 1995). Malloy (2005) …


A National Study Of Baccalaureate Degree Completions In The Sciences: An Overview Of Institutional Success By Public, Private, And Proprietary, Tara Tietjen-Smith, Cheri Davis, Audrey Williams, Gloria Anderson Oct 2009

A National Study Of Baccalaureate Degree Completions In The Sciences: An Overview Of Institutional Success By Public, Private, And Proprietary, Tara Tietjen-Smith, Cheri Davis, Audrey Williams, Gloria Anderson

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The purpose of this study was to examine baccalaureate degree completions in the sciences within public, private, and proprietary higher education institutions by ethnicity to determine which educational sectors (and science categories) were producing more graduates, specifically minority graduates.


Educational Restructuring And The Policy Process: The Toronto District School Board 1997-2003, Duncan Maclellan Oct 2009

Educational Restructuring And The Policy Process: The Toronto District School Board 1997-2003, Duncan Maclellan

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This paper will examine the seminal events leading up to passage of the Fewer School Boards Act (Bill 104), and its impact on the newly created Toronto District School Board (TDSB). While the focus of this paper will be on Bill 104, it is important to note that significant structural changes needed to occur in Toronto and its neighbouring municipalities before Bill 104 could take effect. To facilitate these changes, the Ontario government introduced and passed Bill 148 An Act to Establish a New City of Toronto. Bill 148 amalgamated the City of Toronto with the surrounding cities of East …


Potential Extensions To Transformational Leadership Models, C.R.A. Jackson Oct 2009

Potential Extensions To Transformational Leadership Models, C.R.A. Jackson

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The view adopted in this research was that transformational leadership (Bass 1985; Burns 1978) could be characterised by an ability to bring about significant change in an organization, and that transactional leadership above was inadequate for this task. Since the 1980s, research (Avolio & Bass 2002; Bass 1990; Parry 1996) supported the idea that transformational leadership was more effective than transactional leadership in generating the extra effort, commitment and satisfaction of those being led (Bass 1990). Transformational leadership was a process where leaders and followers raised one another to higher moral and motivational levels (Yukl 1971). As Bass (1990) asserted, …


Validation Of An Emotional Intelligence Scale: A Case Of An African Sample, Ibraheem Dooba Oct 2009

Validation Of An Emotional Intelligence Scale: A Case Of An African Sample, Ibraheem Dooba

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There has been serious effort to develop scales to measure emotional intelligence since the first measure of an aspect of emotional intelligence – the perception of affective content in ambiguous visual stimuli (Mayer, DiPaolo, & Salovey, 1990) – was reported in a scientific journal (Mayer, Caruso, & Salovey, 2000). The studies were done in relation with a number of variables such as academic achievement (Newsome, Day, and Catano, 2000); leadership (Humphrey, 2002); personality (Lopes, Salovey, and Straus, 2003; Newsome et al. 2000); sex (Charbonneau and Nicol, 2002; Saklofske, Austin, and Minski, 2003), and IQ (Saklofske et al., 2003).


Science Homework And Parental Involvement: Factors Influencing Behaviors And Attitudes, Dana Harwell, Kate Brown Jul 2009

Science Homework And Parental Involvement: Factors Influencing Behaviors And Attitudes, Dana Harwell, Kate Brown

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The purpose of this study is to understand confounding information regarding homework and school achievement. Recent research has sought to identify specific factors impacting student success as it relates to homework including parental involvement, parental education, gender, socio-economic status, computer and internet use, extra-curricular activities, and other factors. Unfortunately, the results of these studies have lacked consensus. The review of the literature shows attempts have been made to isolate co-variates along with important factors such as gender, parental involvement, and student characteristics, but the results have been unclear. This study utilized a qualitative design with interviews, observations, and collection of …


Fewer Women Than Men In Educational Leadership, Mahshid Pirouznia Jul 2009

Fewer Women Than Men In Educational Leadership, Mahshid Pirouznia

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The purpose of this study is to explore the possible obstacles in women’s pathway to a principalship; and examine if these obstacles have changed over the past two decades because of women’s changing roles.


Determining School District Organization In North Carolina, David Dunaway, Leigh Ausband, Do-Hong Kim Jan 2009

Determining School District Organization In North Carolina, David Dunaway, Leigh Ausband, Do-Hong Kim

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The current study sought to answer the next question, “How are the organizational structures of North Carolina school districts determined?” We wanted to understand what factors influenced the organization of school district.