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Comprehensive School Reform Influence On Teacher Practice: Listening In The Classroom, An Examination Of Powerful Learning Labs Within The Accelerated Schools Project, Amy Daggett Petti

Dissertations and Theses

Focusing on teacher learning, this study follows fifteen teachers in the crux of comprehensive school reform. These "regular" classroom teachers are the ubiquitous players of this theatre of school reform. "Regular" teacher is defined as a typical classroom teacher who is not actively involved in the district's school reform project or one who hasn't taken an active leadership role. The teachers in this study work in the challenging environment of a poor, diverse urban school district that was in its third year of a comprehensive school reform program, the Accelerated Schools Project. Fifteen teachers volunteered to take part in a …

The Type And Nature Of Ergonomic Programs In Iowa Manufacturing, Gary Holland

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship of the different types of ergonomic programs according to company employment size.

Enhancing Teacher Education Through The Use Of Technology, Tracey Reed

Theses and Dissertations

With the need for teachers in this decade well documented, state policymakers have directed much attention to programs aimed at retaining new teachers. States, school districts, and schools can ill afford to lose good teachers at a time when pressure to improve student achievement is increasing. Some states are using induction programs to help new teachers from both traditional and alternative preparation programs, make a successful transition to the classroom and stay in the profession.

The New Teacher mentoring program at Powell School offers support and guidance to new teachers through mentoring, workshops, additional training, and on-the-job assessments. The New …

Service Learning – Facilitating Academic Learning And Development Of Social Skills, Kathleen E. White

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a service learning project in raising the civic responsibility, social skills, and academic skills of special education students, while meeting the needs of homeless individuals living in Callalily County, New Jersey. Service learning provided an opportunity for student growth. Students learned to be dependable, solve problems, and learned cooperation and teamwork, while increasing their academic skills.

The study involved three classrooms of special education students: one elementary class of students with behavioral disabilities, one middle school class of students with behavioral disabilities, and one high school class of students …

Cultivating Purpose & Meaning In Health Care Employees: A Case Study Of Spirituality Integrated Within An Organization, Denise Cleveland

Theses and Graduate Projects

This case study explores the impact of spirituality between an organization and employee. The literature supports a growing interest among leaders in the idea of integrating spirituality into the workplace. Many leaders are recognizing the role of spirituality in fostering the human spirit to create relationships and systems that allow people to feel valued and supported. These values contribute to a sense of community within the work environment. This study seeks to understand more about the attributes, characteristics and outcomes of an organization that integrates spirituality throughout its organizational culture.

Minutes, April 16, 2002

Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Possibility Of Reform: Micropolitics In Higher Education, Susan Haag, Mary Lee Smith

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

The purpose of this case study was to examine the restructuring of an institution of higher education's teacher preparation program and to assess the possibility for systemic reform. Although teacher education represents a vital link in not only the educational system but in curricular reform, the increased expectations for educational reform made this institution unavoidably more political. ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/21 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Possibility of reform : micropolitics in higher education / Susan Haag [and] Mary Lee Smith.

Implementing A Teacher Mentor Program, Nan L. Holland

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the study was to develop a mentor program for novice teachers that will ease the inevitable anxiety that occurs during the first year and increase the retention rate of new teachers to the profession and at Camden High School. The intern monitored this program as its coordinator and conducted mentor training through regular workshops.

Management decisions related to mentoring influenced the quality of instruction and learning of both mentors and novices. Camden High School transmitted the school culture to novice teachers in a well-developed program. Through interviews, surveys, classroom visitations, reflective journals, and personal contact with a …

Academic Senate - Agenda, 4/16/2002, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Teacher Efficacy And Student Achievement Quantitative Research Study, Norma Jean Weatherly

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of high teacher self-efficacy, both teaching and personal, had upon student achievement. First, the 7th grade academic math teachers at the XYZ Middle School were asked to complete the 30-item Teacher Efficacy Scale (Gibson 1983), in order to obtain both a teacher with high efficacy (teacher-A), and a teacher with low efficacy (teacher-B). Second, ten pairs of students (ten from both teacher-A and teacher-B) of equal caliber/academic ability (based upon their Stanford 9 math score, and average in math, for 6th grade) were chosen from the two academic math classes. …

Teacher Mentoring: The Needs Of First Year Teachers, Susan E. Barkowski

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the study was to identify the needs of the first year teachers in one public school district for the 2001-2002 school year. The intern distributed two surveys over the course of the study. The first survey was distributed in the beginning of the school year and the second survey at the end of January. The purpose of the surveys was to determine if the needs of the first year teachers changed over the course of the school year.

All of the first year teachers in the intern's school district were identified and sent a survey asking them …

The Hilltop 4-12-2002, Hilltop Staff

The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010

No abstract provided.

Minutes, Juvenile Welfare Board, April 11, 2002, Cecilia Burke

Juvenile Welfare Board Agendas, Minutes, and Historical Audits

Minutes from the April 11, 2002, meeting of the Juvenile Welfare Board. Attached as supplemental files are previous meeting minutes and reports to review before the meeting.

Entrepreneurial Ambitions In The Public Sector: A Random Effects Model Of The Emergency Of Charter Schools In North Carolina, Linda A. Renzulli

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

In this article, I study charter schools as social innovations within the population of established public educational institutions. I begin by briefly outlining the history of public schools in the United States. I apply organizational theories to explain the perpetuation of the structure of public schools since World War II. ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/19 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Entrepreneurial ambitions in the public sector : a random effects model of the emergence of charter schools in North Carolina / Linda A. Renzulli.

Proceedings Of The 58th Annual Meeting - Avoiding Attrition, Midwestern Association Of Graduate Schools

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools

Table of Contents: 58th Annual Meeting

Chicago, Illinois | April 2 – 5, 2002

Opening Session: Keynote

• Leaving the Ivory Tower: Socio-Cultural Causes of Doctoral Student Attrition
• Improving Graduate Student Retention through Graduate School Activities
• Graduate Attrition from the Perspective of a Private University
• Non-Traditional Students in Graduate Education

Plenary Sessions

• Plenary I: Curriculum
• When the Light at the End of the Tunnel Begins to Flicker: Examining Attrition from the Perspective of Graduate Students
• Curriculum Issues: Meeting Educational Needs in Life Sciences
• Plenary II: Support
• New National Support Mechanisms for Graduate Students and Their Education
• Examples of Non-Monetary Support for …

Southeastern Law Librarian Spring 2002, Seaall

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Just -In -Time Selling: Relation To Market Orientation, Organizational Structure And Organizational Performance, Kenneth Wilburn Green Jr.

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation is to answer the following research questions related to the efficacy of a Just-in-Time (JIT) selling strategy: (1) What is the nature of the relationships among market orientation, JIT selling, organizational structure, and organizational performance constructs? (2) Does JIT selling mediate and/or moderate the relationships among market orientation and organizational structure and organizational performance?

The market orientation model theorized by Kohli and Jaworski (1990) and the JIT selling model theorized and tested by Germain, Dröge and Daugherty (1994) and Claycomb, Dröge and Germain (1999) are combined to facilitate investigation of the link between market orientation …

Regulation Of Borderless High-Technology Economies: Managing Spillover Effects, Steven R. Salbu

Chicago Journal of International Law

In October of 1998, the European Union Data Privacy Directive ("Directive") became effective. Consistent with Europe's serious approach to consumer privacy, the Directive mandates that Member States adopt the most rigorous privacy legislation the world has seen. The specific requirements of the Directive are complex, and I have discussed them in some detail in another article. Very generally, the Directive places obligations on data collectors and provides rights to data subjects. The most significant of these protections from a global privacy perspective is the Directives "opt-in" approach, which presumes an expectation of data privacy as the default position, and (with …

Employee Representation In The Boundaryless Workplace, Katherine V.W. Stone

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In this Article. Stone describes changes in the organization of work that are undermining traditional union practices and patterns of collective bargaining. Many firms have dismantled their internal labor market's job structures, repudiated their former implicit promises of job security, and instead instituted workplace practices that do not depend upon long-term attachment between the employee and the firm. As employers reorganize the workplace to achieve flexibility rather than stability, many features of the labor laws and industrial union practices have become problematic. This Article identifies the ways in which current labor law and traditional union practices are in tension with …

The Academic Workplace (Spring 2002): Uniting Old Adversaries: Teaming Efficiency & Equity For Social Justice, New England Resource Center For Higher Education At The University Of Massachusetts Boston, Alicia C. Dowd, Sharon Singleton

The Academic Workplace

No abstract provided.

Financial Performance Of Insurance Companies Following Initial Public Offerings, Kulkanya Napompech

Doctoral Dissertations

The quality of insurance companies is a very significant societal issue. Policyholders pay premiums assuming indemnity of their potential losses. It is essential that an insurer be able to meet its contractual obligations when a loss occurs. An initial public offering provides an infusion of capital and an expansion of resources available to a firm. Thus, the objective of this study is to examine the financial and operating impacts of initial public offerings during 1980–2000 on insurance companies.

Chapter 2 examines changes in operating performance of property/casualty insurance companies following initial public offerings. I find that following initial public offerings, …

Satisfied Correctional Staff : A Review Of The Literature On The Correlates Of Correctional Staff Job Satisfaction, Eric G. Lambert, Nancy L. Hogan, Shannon M. Barton

Peer Reviewed Publications

During the past decade, there has been increasing pressure on correctional agencies to attract and keep quality staff. Raising worker job satisfaction is seen as a fundamental way of decreasing turnover. There has been a considerable amount of research in the area of the possible causes of correctional staff job satisfaction and, to a lesser extent, the possible consequences of job satisfaction. However, due to the numerous studies, some with conflicting results, it is difficult to understand clearly the factors associated with job satisfaction. A review of the literature is presented to provide a better understanding of correctional staff job …

Organizational Alignment: A Tool For Obtaining Greater Organizational Efficiency And Effectiveness In A State Government Agency, Patricia A. Collins

Dissertations

This study focuses on the modem day use of TQM, reengineering and privatization initiatives to gain efficiency and effectiveness in government operations, and the impact of alignment on the successful implementation of these three initiatives. A large state government agency which is currently using TQM, reengineering and privatization was used as a case study. Two-hundred-and-twenty-four employees were voluntary participants. This study examined three research questions: 1. Could the level of alignment, as hypothesized by Labovitz and Rosansky, be replicated with a sample of public agency employees? 2. Is the agency aligned, based on the Labovitz and Rosansky model, to successfully …

The Challenges Associated With Change In 4-H/Youth Development, Renee K. Mckee, B Allen Talbert, Susan J. Barkman

Journal of Extension

This article discusses a study documenting the beliefs about proactive change among volunteers and Extension staff who develop policy for local Indiana 4-H Programs. Data analysis indicated that volunteers believe in the core values of the 4-H Program; recommend that the 4-H Program should reach more and different youth; and believe that the program's rural image inhibits progress in these areas. Staff interactions with volunteers, lack of parental involvement, policy-making group organization and structure, and youth representation were cited as barriers to a more open, inclusive organization. The article makes recommendations based on the study's findings and suggests topics for …

An Assessment Of Air Force Development Portfolio Management Practices, Michael A. Greiner, Kevin J. Dooley, Dan L. Shunk, Ross T. Mcnutt

Faculty Publications

Selecting and managing development project portfolios is a critical function within the Air Force’s weapon systems development process. Decision makers must weigh benefits, costs, and mission needs for a variety of proposed new initiatives and current weapon systems programs in order to develop an effective portfolio that provides the best value to the User. This research examines current Air Force development portfolio management practices as perceived by those involved with the decision making process. Research findings indicate several gaps between Air Force practices and those commercial best practices as found in the literature. A general approach for bridging the differences …

Building Successful Campus And Field Faculty Teams, Okechukwu M. Ukaga, Mike R. Reichenbach, Charles R. Blinn, Deborah M. Zak

Journal of Extension

This article discusses how to build successful campus and field faculty teams in order to meet the Land-Grant research and outreach mission more effectively. Data was collected through individual interviews, telephone surveys, and focus group discussions. Differences between campus and field faculty with regards to their respective work environments were noted, including supervision, appointment, evaluation, publication, promotion and tenure, scholarly pursuit, and funding. Improved campus and field faculty interaction can be achieved if all faculty take initiative in identifying mutually beneficial work and are diligent in creating a body of work that is recognized in both the field- and campus-based …

Leadership Quarterly Symposium Brings Top International Scholars To Oxford March 21-23, George Kehoe

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Dr. Jay Conger, ranked by Business Week among the world's top-10 management experts, will discuss leadership in the corporate boardroom in the keynote address of the 2002 Leadership Quarterly Symposium at The University of Mississippi (UM)-Oxford March 21-23.

Communication Tactics For Empowering Employees: A Guidebook For Organizations And Managers, Todd Michael Pasley

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to establish communication tactics that apply to various communication situations in an empowerment context. The creation of such a reference source will offer a valuable resource for organizations and managers that wish to implement or change empowerment initiatives.

The completion of the study has yielded a guidebook consisting of case studies that offer solutions to communication problems based on literary research. The case studies will act as a guide for effective communication tactics when implementing or altering an empowerment initiative.

A non-scientific content analysis of relevant literature was completed to ascertain communication tactics and …