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Collaborative Teacher Action Research: Improvement Science As Professional Development?, Carol L. Munson
Collaborative Teacher Action Research: Improvement Science As Professional Development?, Carol L. Munson
Theses and Dissertations
There is growing consensus in the education world about the need to change the dominant practices in P-12 teacher professional development, which do not respect teacher knowledge and are unconnected to teachers’ daily work, to be more consistent with new and ambitious visions for school reform. This study employed collaborative action research, using improvement science, in which a small cadre of teachers worked through problems of practice to examine the effect on their practice and student learning. In this research project, I implemented a systematic evidence-based process developed by Anthony Bryk, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of …
Principals' Perceptions Of Professional Development: Options That Support Effective Leadership, Lisa Lee Geren
Principals' Perceptions Of Professional Development: Options That Support Effective Leadership, Lisa Lee Geren
Theses and Dissertations
This study is designed to investigate the perceptions of elementary school principals in the state of Arkansas regarding what supports they need to be effective instructional leaders. Phase I of this mixed method study uses an online survey of 112 elementary school principals to better understand their descriptions of an effective instructional leader and the professional development supports they need. Phase II consists of personal interviews of 12 elementary school principals. The research revealed four overarching themes: Personal Attributes, Values Relationships, Leadership Skill Sets, and Meaningful Professional Development. Principals described effective leaders as visionaries, hospitable, empowering others, visible, good listeners, …
Executive Coaching As A Model Of Professional Development For School Superintendents, Timothy Brian Arnold Jr.
Executive Coaching As A Model Of Professional Development For School Superintendents, Timothy Brian Arnold Jr.
Theses and Dissertations
This study is a utilization-focused program evaluation that describes the impact of an executive coaching model on the professional learning of superintendents who participated in the IASA School for Advanced Leadership (ISAL). This program evaluation is a knowledge-focused, or lessons learned-oriented, formative evaluation of the ISAL cohort program. A qualitative approach is used to describe the lived experiences of superintendents who participated in the coaching model provided through the ISAL cohort program. The results were intended to inform general practice and to provide recommendations on the use of a coaching model in the professional development of superintendents for the ISAL …
Assessment For Learning: An Evaluation Of A Professional, Aimee Davis Feehery
Assessment For Learning: An Evaluation Of A Professional, Aimee Davis Feehery
Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this program evaluation was to determine how teachers have come to understand, use, and value formative assessment through their participation in our Assessment for Learning Teams for the past five years. Greeno, Collins, & Resnick's (1996) learning theory serves as the theoretical framework of the evaluation, as this program evaluation serves to determine if, and how, teachers have changed their mental models of assessment from a Behaviorist-Differentiationist model to the Cognitive-Situative model, or from an Assessment of Learning view of assessment, to an Assessment for Learning perspective. In order to determine if teachers have gained the conceptual …