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Technology, Wasc Committee

Publications and Administrative Reports

No abstract provided.

Facilities Design, Wasc Committee

Publications and Administrative Reports

No abstract provided.

Scholarship Of Teaching, Wasc Committee

Publications and Administrative Reports

No abstract provided.

Student Financial Aid 2000-01, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

IPEDS Financial Aid

IPEDS Student Financial Aid annual report contains the following information: • Number and percent of undergraduate and of full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students receiving student financial aid, by type of aid and average amount of aid received

A Model Continuous Learning Progress Program Designed For K-6 Students In Easton School District #28, Sara J. Mccoy

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project was to develop a model continuous learning progress program, aligned with the Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements designed specifically for elementary students, grades kindergarten through sixth grade in Easton School District 28, Easton, Washington. To accomplish this purpose, current research and literature concerning serving students in nongraded continuous progress learning programs were reviewed, and assisted in the development of student profiles, student learning plans, learning continuums, and student assessment portfolios.

Small Schools: Great Strides, A Study Of New Schools In Chicago, Patricia A. Wasley, Michelle Fine, Matt Gladden, Nicole E. Holland, Sherry P. King, Esther Mosak, Linda C. Powell

Books

This book documents a two-year study and analysis of small schools in Chicago. Using a mixed-method study, gathering both quantitative and qualitative data, the research serves to compare results to previous studies of small urban schools.The study examines the effects of small schools on students, parents, teachers, and community members. Both previous and current research suggest that small school size is correlated with an increase in student attendance, performance, and better sense of community overall.

Building Leadership Capacity In Schools, Linda Lambert

APC Monographs

The author discusses a broad concept of leadership that is distinguished from person, role and a discrete set of individual behaviours, and that needs to be embedded in the school community as a whole, which suggests a shared responsibility for a shared purpose of community.

Improving Numeracy Learning (Conference Proceedings), Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

2000 - Improving Numeracy Learning

ACER’s annual national Research Conferences review current research-based knowledge in key areas of educational policy and practice. The Research Conference 2000 brings together leading numeracy researchers to examine and discuss research evidence relating to the improvement of numeracy learning in schools. The objective of the Conference is to identify major research findings and to study the implications of those findings for improved numeracy teaching and learning.

Workshop Manual: Implementing Developmental Assessment., Margaret Forster, Geoff N. Masters

Assessment Resource Kit

This workshop manual has been developed as a resource for curriculum coordinators in schools, staff in curriculum and assessment support roles in regional and central offices, and others interested in the professional development of teachers in the areas of assessment and reporting. The manual provides resources for a single workshop Implementing developmental assessment. It is part of the Assessment Resource Kit (ARK), a series of magazines on assessment and reporting issues and methods. Workshop contents: Implementing developmental assessment: workshop overview. Section 1: Progress maps Section 2: Assessment methods Section 3: Judging and recording Section 4: Estimating attainment Section 5: Reporting.

Annotated Bibliography On Indigenous Education Issues, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Indigenous Education Research

No abstract provided.

Koinonia, Eric Spiecker, Lynne Sparks, Brent D. Ellis, George D. Kuh, Edee Schulze, Greg Bish

Koinonia

In This Issue
The Outward Bound "Temporary Community": A Practical Framework for Understanding Residence Life, Eric Spiecker

Community Service Learning and Christian Higher Education, Lynne Sparks

Diversity Education: Helping Students Find a Common Ground, Brent D. Ellis

Student Bashing: An Unseemly Academic Tradition, George D. Kuh

In The Field
Gender Dynamics in the Classroom at an Evangelical Christian Liberal Arts College, Edee Schulze

Around Campus
From Service to Learning, Greg Bish

CoCCA Hot Tip: Celebrating Diversity

Regular Features
President's Corner

Editor's Disk

Annual Conference: New Professionals Retreat

Book Review: More Light Less Heat: How Dialogue Can Transform Christian Conflicts Into …

Higher Level Learning: A Taxonomy For Identifying Different Kinds Of Significant Learning, L. Dee Fink

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

An in-depth look at strategies for Higher Level Learning.

Helping Students (Better) Evaluate And Validate Www Resources, David L. Graf

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Faculty need strategies to assure that students can process information from the WWW responsibly. Such strategies include developing web-savvy assignments and requiring demonstration of critical review of the material.

The Legacy Of John Dewey, David Halliburton

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

John Dewey’s educational legacy embraces wide-ranging views on the relation of teaching to learning and to other key issues in education.

Fostering Students' Moral Development, Lion F. Gardiner

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

The development of students’ ethical behavior has been an aim of college faculty for centuries. This essay reviews research and ways of fostering principled ethical reasoning.

Changing Student Learning Behavior Outside Of Class, Graham Gibbs

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Shifting focus from teaching to Learning includes shifting attention from in-class to out-of-class learning activity. This essay offers strategies for understanding and controlling students’ outside learning activity.

The Western Scholar, Editors

WKU Scholar

No abstract provided.

Cultural Change Paradigms And Administrator Communication, Theodore J. Kowalski

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

Public school reform has taken three distinct turns over the past two decades. In the early 1980s, most policymakers blamed a lack of educational productivity on lazy students. Influenced by this argument, virtually every state legislature enacted laws lengthening the school year, lengthening the school day, and increasing high school graduation requirements. Within a relatively short period of time, however, the would-be reformers concluded that intensification of student experiences was insufficient to produce significant improvements. While not abandoning their original conviction, they shifted their attention to a second target-educators. The result was a flurry of proposals to revise or eliminate …

Error Analysis And Curriculum Development In An Efl Classroom In Taiwan, Meng Teh Wu

MA TESOL Collection

It is the premise of this paper that errors provide invaluable information for guiding teachers and learners in the process of language acquisition. They offer insights for the teacher in constructing curricula and help the students with their ingerlanguage development. Errors should not be regarded as negative indicators. They are significant guide posts in the learning process. When and how to correct errors and what errors to correct has been the focus of Error Analysis studies. In this respect this paper is no exception. Special emphasis has been laid, however, on how to translate theoretical concepts into the author’s classroom …

Written Feedback In The Classroom And Beyond, Karen Gould Peltola

MA TESOL Collection

This paper is an in-depth look at the experimentation with and use of written feedback with middle school foreign language students and their parents. It includes my own learning about giving written feedback, the process by which I have trained my students to give written feedback, and finally the extensions of written feedback beyond the classroom, to the parents. Examples of written feedback forms and formats are included, as well as completed examples.

“Pass The Remote…! Interactive Classroom Review For The 21st Century: Bringing Remote Response Pads Into Your Classroom, Lisa Michelle Lucas

MA TESOL Collection

This project describes a form of computer-assisted interactive classroom instruction, which is particularly useful in the ESL context. Not only does this project show how to integrate instruction with ever advancing technology, it also demonstrates how to integrate interactive class work with the diverse and relevant learning styles of each learner in the classroom. This project will show how easy it is to use this technology in conjunction with thematic units or projects-whatever the level of the ESL student. Enclosed are examples of instructional materials, created for the ESL High Beginner and examples of how they relate to the paper …

Reflective Teaching: In-Sights Into The Process And Development Of The Skill Of Reflection, Marie-Claude M. Durand

MA TESOL Collection

The primary purpose of this study was to investigate and document the stages and levels of reflection based on the Millett, Rogers, & Stanley Framework for Reflection as they manifested in the working lives and professional contextual realities of three experienced teachers. Their Framework is a four-step model of reflection that looks at the reflective cycle in terms of the stages of Experience, description, Analysis, and Intelligent Action. It further categorizes the skill of reflection in terms of Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced levels. The second goal of the study was to examine the development of the reflective process in a …

The Elementary Teacher’S Role In Moral Education: An Investigation Of One Albuquerque Public School Site, Melanie L. Bauer

MA TESOL Collection

This paper examines the elementary teacher’s role as a moral educator. The context is the Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) in New Mexico. I have investigated the Character Counts! program, the moral education program which has been adopted and utilized by the school district. I describe the goals and rationale behind the Character Counts! program, as written about in existing documentation and literature. In addition, I have conducted interviews with individuals in APS in charge of creating and disseminating such information. I have reported on the perceived effectiveness and shortcomings of the Character Counts! program as described by the people in …

Counting Quality, John Strassburger

Publications

This is the fifth in a series of occasional papers about the challenges confronting students and what Ursinus is doing to help them enter adult life.

Foundations Of Collaboration, Gail Goodyear Muir, Sally S. Blake

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Specific ideologies are forwarded by learning, socio-political, and religious theories using collaboration, consensus, and cooperation. Examination of the foundations of these processes reveals the values required of participants.

Catalogue 2000-2001, Bank Street College Of Education

Graduate School of Education

This course catalog from a past academic year is a resource for referring to previous course offerings, degree requirements, institutional policies, and more.

Where Do We Go From Here?, Gary R. Brown

Office of Academic Innovation Publications

Review of recent articles that appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, related to technology and its impacts on changes in education.

Feedback-Who Needs It Anyway? A Project On Humanizing Large-Scale Supervision, Tsylla Maria Balbino De Carvalho Ferreira

MA TESOL Collection

This paper describes the project of humanizing large-scale supervision at the Casa Thomas Jefferson, a binational center in Brasilia-Brazil.

It presents the supervision model used in the past and its current, humanized version. It takes the opportunity to compare them and introduce the author’s beliefs and how these ideas have been developed throughout the years, aiming at an ideal supervision model that is centered on teachers’ needs for growing

Sky-Diving Into The World Of Feedback, Rosa Maria Campos Da Silva

MA TESOL Collection

This work is a simple description of my experience with feedback in the classroom and with some of my colleague teacher. I am a Brazilian teacher who has been working in the field for ten years, in different binational centers in Brazil, teaching students of all ages from beginners to upper-intermediate levels. I start the paper talking about what led me to seek for a Master’s degree. Then I talk about my first exposure to feedback as a student at SIT. I will talk about oral feedback, written feedback to the teacher, giving feedback (to the teacher and to peers) …

Finance 2000-01, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

IPEDS Finance

IPEDS Finance annual report contains the following information: • Revenues by source (e.g., tuition and fees, government, private gifts) • Expenses by function (e.g., instruction, research, plant maintenance and operation) • Scholarships, physical plant assets and indebtedness • Assets, liabilities and net assets • Different formats are used based on the institution’s accounting standards