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White, Bradford R.; Cowhy, Jennifer; Stevens, W. David; Sporte, Susan E. – Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2012
In a very short period during the spring and summer of 2012, researchers at the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) and the Illinois Education Research Council (IERC) collected data from respondents in five districts across Illinois to examine how school districts in the state approach designing and implementing new…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Case Studies, Teacher Evaluation, Instructional Improvement
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McKinney, Kathleen; Naseri, Naghme – Teaching Sociology, 2011
In this exploratory scholarship of teaching and learning study, we describe the development, over time, of engagement in the discipline, the ability to use the sociological imagination and other learning, an identity as a sociologist, and a sense of being an autonomous learner in a group of sociology majors. We followed 18 students who completed…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Imagination, Questionnaires, Sociology
O'Banion, Terry; And Others
A project to evaluate and study student development programs in all community colleges in Illinois is discussed. The project included a number of individual studies on various aspects of student development programs. The major study focused on the scope and quality of student development programs as perceived by students, faculty, and student…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Colleges, Educational Practices, Interviews