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Effective Middle School Teaching: Factors That Promote And Maintain It, Judith Ann Smith

Dissertations and Theses

The past thirty years has seen the middle school as an organization come of age and with it a renewed emphasis on meeting the needs of the early adolescent student. Although many current studies have addressed middle school issues, one of the most significant was the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development's Turning Points: Preparing Youth for the 21st Century (1989). It claimed that the middle school is the "last best chance" to turn young lives toward a meaningful future and, in order to do so, schools must be staffed with "expert" teachers.

Once one knows what an "expert" teacher is, …

Archway Commencement Issue, May 16, 1992.

Archway (1946-2020)

1992 Archway Commencement Issue

Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 16, 1992.

Bryant University Commencements

Bryant University Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 16, 1992.

Graduate School Commencement Exercises Program, May 15, 1992

Bryant University Commencements

Graduate School Commencement Exercises Program, May 15, 1992.

A Study To Determine Criteria Essential To Technology Education At The Secondary Education Level, Jason Edward Perry

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

To accomplish the purpose of this study, the following goals were used: 1. Determine the list of curriculum criteria essential to technology education programs at the secondary level; 2. Validate the list of curriculum criteria essential to technology education programs at the secondary level.

The National Schools Project At Belmont Senior High School: A Formative Review Of The First Nine Months, Rod Chadbourne

Research outputs pre 2011

No abstract provided.

Mapping Abilities And Skill Levels Using Rasch Techniques, Annie Brown, Catherine Elder, Tom Lumley, Tim Mcnamara, Joy Mcqueen

Dr Tom Lumley

The ongoing interest in investigating the use of Item Response Theory (IRT) methods, involving the Rasch model, in language testing research and the development of language tests has encouraged the authors to explore the nature of this approach and to introduce some research on its validation.