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Leithwood, Kenneth; Azah, Vera N. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2017
This mixed-methods study inquired about characteristics of districts which influence changes in student achievement and how those characteristics are developed. Staff in 49 Ontario districts were surveyed to estimate the status of nine district characteristics on changes in provincial tests of math and language achievement over five years. A…
Descriptors: School Districts, High Achievement, School Effectiveness, Institutional Characteristics
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Rodman, William – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2007
One of the most important questions I ask as both a cultural anthropologist and a university teacher is: How do people come to know what they think they know? In this article, I adopt a narrative approach to processes of learning and discovery in two very different locales, an indigenous society in the South Pacific, and a senior seminar on…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Educational Anthropology, Personal Narratives