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Scardamalia, Marlene; And Others – 1987
Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments (CSILE) is a project using computer software to promote the constructive processes involved in intentional learning. CSILE enables groups of students to build a collective database (knowledge base) of their thoughts, in the form of pictures (created by students using a color graphics editor) and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics
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Englert, Carol Sue; And Others – Education and Treatment of Children, 1993
This article discusses problems with traditional top-down methods of disseminating educational innovations to teachers and proposes a conceptual framework in which teachers share a primary role with educational researchers in the development of innovative practices. Focus is on the critical dimensions of teacher change as they participate in the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Handel, Ruth D. – 1990
This ethnographic study describes the relationships involved in the Partnership for Family Reading, a collaborative project between Montclair State College and a low-income urban school district to promote parent involvement in children's literacy development. Participant observation and other ethnographic research methods were used to produce…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Role, College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs
Wightman, Margaret – 1986
This report describes the procedures of a systemwide testing program established by the Ottawa, Ontario, education board to evaluate high school student performance in selected courses. The project was initiated in response to a directive from trustees, who were concerned about variation of academic standards among students in relation to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Planning, Educational Improvement, Evaluation Methods
Dawson, Judith A. – 1984
This paper synthesizes data from two studies of educational change to describe how school contextual factors influenced teacher involvement and how principals reduced those influences. The first study, involving 14 schools representing a mixture of levels and types of areas served, began in 1979 and spanned 3 school years; the second study, which…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement
Loucks, Susan F. – 1983
Teachers who implement new programs have often been observed to adapt them to suit their own teaching situations. This process of adaptation raises four important issues: (1) Can teachers replicate practices developed elsewhere? (2) Can they be equally effective in doing so? (3) Must adaptation occur for implementation to succeed? and (4) Can…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Gottfredson, Gary D.; And Others – 1992
This report presents an evaluation of the Multicultural Education Demonstration Program in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), an effort to address racial and ethnic diversity in a middle school. The report covers the implementation of the program since its inception in May 1989 through the beginning of the 1991-92 school year. It describes the program's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affirmative Action, Demonstration Programs, Intermediate Grades
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Ali, Shaikh Maqsood; Sirivardana, Susil – International Social Science Journal, 1996
Summarizes the Report and Recommendations of the Independent South Asian Commission on Poverty Alleviation. Proposes an economic development approach that is based on a people-centered values framework and social mobilization. Profiles a similar program, Janasaviya, pioneered in Sri Lanka in 1989. (MJP)
Descriptors: Advocacy, Capitalism, Citizen Participation, Disadvantaged Environment
Gottfredson, Denise G.; And Others – 1989
This paper describes the implementation and effects of a behavior management system in eight middle schools, including control schools, in an urban school district. The components of the system included school discipline policy review and revision, computerized behavior tracking, classroom organization and management, and positive reinforcement.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Uses in Education, Discipline Policy, Discipline Problems