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Special Issue: Racial and Ethnic Minority Students' Success in STEM Education
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Museus, Samuel D.; Palmer, Robert T.; Davis, Ryan J.; Maramba, Dina C. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2011
This monograph provides educational researchers, policymakers, and practitioners with an overview of existing knowledge regarding factors that influence success among racial and ethnic minority students in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) circuit. To accomplish this task, the authors reviewed more than four hundred…
Descriptors: Race, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Research, STEM Education
Metasensemaking: How the Effective Elementary Principal Accomplishes School Improvement.
Taylor, Barbara O. – 1986
To illustrate the theoretical dynamics involved in analysis of the process of "metasensing," this paper investigates the language of 22 elementary school principals and their strategic actions during school improvement programs. The study's grounded theory approach frames the principals'"epistemology of practice"--thereby…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Change Strategies
How and Why Successful Elementary Principals Address Strategic Issues.
Taylor, Barbara O. – 1986
The role of the elementary school principal is critical in determining school effectiveness. This study analyzes the thinking and language of 22 "effective change" elementary school principals to discover common patterns in decisionmaking processes. The method of grounded theory delineates implicit theories principals use to make…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Change Strategies