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Download full textBaumann, James F.; And Others – 1996
This paper reviews methods for conducting and reporting teacher research. Through three cases, the paper explores common and diverse methods employed in classroom inquiry. The paper recounts the history of teacher research and discusses common methodological characteristics as well as context-specific features of teacher research. The first case…
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Studies, Classroom Research, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedPetrini, Glenda C.; Fleming, Dan B. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1990
Presents a study addressing the confusion over social studies skills. Documents the historical background leading to this confusion by reviewing the professional and research literature from the early 1900s to the 1980s. Stresses the problem of imprecise terminology, pointing out that the citizenship, inquiry, study, and thinking skills movements…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational History
McNeely, John H. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1934
In most of the States there are privately controlled institutions providing higher education. An obligation rests upon the State in the interest of public welfare to insure the high quality of that higher education. The purpose of this inquiry is to analyze the extent of supervision exercised over privately controlled institutions of higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Supervision, State Legislation, State Policy
