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Pattridge, Gregory C. – 1989
The study explored teacher attitudes towards gifted programming and the gifted label, and determined whether teacher attitudes changed after being involved with an elementary school gifted program. Twenty-nine elementary classroom teachers in Jefferson County, Colorado, were surveyed as their school was beginning to host a full-time,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Elementary Education, Gifted, Labeling (of Persons)
Download full textSocial Science Education Consortium, Inc., Boulder, CO. – 1989
In 1987, the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention contracted with the Social Science Education Consortium to study how law-related education (LRE) programs become institutionalized and what factors influence institutionalization. Interviews were conducted in eight school districts in four states and narrative case studies…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citizenship Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Law Related Education
Hord, Shirley M.; Hall, Gene E. – 1986
Although vast numbers of educational innovations have been introduced into the nation's schools over the past 20 years, few have succeeded in effecting affective, behavioral, and cognitive student gains. Many recent studies have focused, therefore, on school change processes and the formulation of strategies for successful innovation…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adoption (Ideas), Change Strategies, Educational Innovation
Louisville Univ., KY. School of Education. – 1995
This report describes what schools and educators across Kentucky are doing to implement school reform in performance assessment based on the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA). It provides research-based suggestions about how implementation of programs can be enhanced and how the benefits of reform increased for the Kentucky youth.…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance Based Assessment, Program Evaluation
Field, Sharon – 1981
This evaluation of an attempt by the Papua New Guinea Department of Education to establish Generalist Teaching (GT) in provincial secondary schools from 1973 to 1977 is based on survey and case study data. Generalist Teaching was introduced to schools by means of two department circulars proposing reorientation of grades 7 and 8 curricula from…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Community Involvement, Educational Administration
Campbell, Karen Anne – 1985
This speech presents a teacher's account of the implementation of the Standards of Excellence Program in a Denver, Colorado, elementary school. Eight questions from the assessment instrument are cited that prompted the staff to reevaluate the educational program. Results of the assessment were analyzed by a committee, and objectives were set by…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Change Strategies, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Catlin, Anita; Kalina, Michelle – 1993
This manual offers practical guidelines, based on the work of K. P. Cross (1988) and T. A. Angelo (1991), on implementing a Classroom Assessment Training Project (CATP) at a high school or college. The manual contains information on planning, budgeting, training, and content. The Cross/Angelo Classroom Assessment Model relies on quick, anonymous…
Descriptors: Budgets, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, Community Colleges
