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Peer reviewedAzmitia, Margarita – Child Development, 1988
Examines the dynamics involved when preschoolers aged five years attempt to build replicas of Lego models, either by working alone or with another. Results show that collaboration was more conducive to learning than was independent work and that children were able to generalize their skills. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cooperation, Group Dynamics
Peer reviewedKimpston, Richard D.; Rogers, Karen B. – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1987
Describes a longitudinal case study focusing on teacher and principal expectations, satisfaction, and attitudes toward curriculum devlopment. Relates these three factors to the resulting process and product. Participants' perspectives heavily influenced their views of both process and product. Includes 13 notes and 11 tables. (MLH)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Cooperation, Curriculum Development
Peer reviewedHilgers, Thomas L. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1987
Suggests that first-time young collaborators are likely to struggle for control of their writing group and for control of the common text. They are ultimately likely to accept the leadership of the group member who makes best use of other member's skills. Focuses on problem-solving skills. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Cooperation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Download full textArmstrong, Milree H.; Trueblood, Cecil – 1985
The purposes of this study were to examine the importance that elementary principals place upon the terminal value freedom in relation to the development of teachers, and to examine the consistency of elementary principals' decision making along a teacher-supportive to supervisor-supportive continuum. One hundred elementary principals in Ontario…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Cooperation, Decision Making
Webb, Norman L.; And Others – 1988
In 1984 the Urban Mathematics Collaborative (UMC) project was initiated to improve mathematics education in inner-city schools and to identify new models for meeting the ongoing professional needs of teachers. UMCs are located in Cleveland, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Durham, Pittsburgh, San Diego, St. Louis,…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement
Greer, John T. – 1983
This paper discusses problems the author encountered in attempting to conduct a study of teacher motivation as influenced by a combination of participative decision-making and financial rewards. Over a 3-year period, teacher motivation was to be viewed as influenced by two independent variables--participative decision-making and financial rewards;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrators, Analysis of Covariance, Compensation (Remuneration)
Torbert, William R. – 1981
Educational research has thus far failed to greatly improve education because it is based on a model of reality that emphasizes unilateral control in both research and practice. Efforts to gain unilateral control presume that researchers or practitioners know what is significant from the outset, that they are essentially outside the situation they…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Discovery Learning, Educational Improvement, Educational Practices
