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Organizational Learning Mechanisms: The Meaning, Measure, and Implications for School Improvement
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Schechter, Chen – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2008
Purpose: In light of the excessively broad conceptions and nonobservable terms generally characterizing discussions of organizational learning, this study explores the notion of organizational learning in schools through the conceptual framework of organizational learning mechanisms (OLM) and develops a measure of OLM at the elementary school…
Descriptors: Validity, Learning Processes, Organizational Development, Information Processing
The Autonomy of Mental Models.
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Fischbein, Efraim; And Others – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1990
Described is research which sought to prove the hypothesis that mental models tend to preserve their autonomy with regard to the originals they are meant to represent. The results of this investigation involving 200 Israeli students are presented. (CW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Foreign Countries, Geometry, Learning Processes
Open Education and Reading Comprehension of High-Ability and Low-Ability Elementary School Pupils.
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Eshel, Yohanan; And Others – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1987
Describes study of 435 Israeli elementary school students to assess effects of open education on reading comprehension assignments. Literature on open education is reviewed, the hypotheses tested are described, results are analyzed comparing the effects of open education with the effects of traditional classroom instruction, and 46 references are…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction