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The Design, Implementation, And Evaluation Of A Professional Development Program, Ellen Riina Hirsch
The Design, Implementation, And Evaluation Of A Professional Development Program, Ellen Riina Hirsch
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Ineffective professional development is a longstanding problem in education. Locally, the school district in the study lacked a comprehensive system for evaluating their secondary level professional development programs. The purpose of this case study was to investigate the district's professional development program, specifically examining its perceived strengths and weaknesses. The conceptual framework of the study was systems theory and the adaptive schools reform model. The research questions examined the perceptions of various school personnel on their experiences with the current professional development program at the study district's high school. Individual interviews were conducted with a purposeful sample of 3 teachers, …