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Direct linkSteele, Jennifer L.; Vernez, Georges; Gottfried, Michael A.; Schwam-Baird, Michael – RAND Corporation, 2011
Hurricane Katrina set the stage for a transformation of public education in New Orleans, replacing the city's existing school system with a decentralized choice-based system of both charter and district-run schools. Using principal, teacher, and parent surveys administered three years after Katrina, this study examined schools' governance and…
Descriptors: Traditional Schools, Charter Schools, School Choice, School Personnel
Peer reviewedFinegold, M.; Gorsky, P. – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
The consistency, if any, with which force concepts are used by individual students in different, but closely related, contexts was investigated. A total of 534 university and high school students were tested to elicit their beliefs about the forces acting on various objects. Students' beliefs about the forces acting on objects at rest and in…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Context Effect
Millroy, Wendy Lesley – Journal for Research in Mathematics, 1992
The researcher conducted a six-month ethnographic study as an apprentice carpenter in Cape Town, South Africa, to document the valid mathematical ideas that are embedded in the everyday woodworking activities of a group of carpenters. A secondary objective was to examine and to give a firsthand account of the teaching and learning of mathematical…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adult Programs, Apprenticeships, Carpentry
