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Cornell, Dewey; Bradshaw, Catherine P. – School Psychology Review, 2015
In this commentary, Cornell and Bradshaw report decades of research in school psychology have brought attention to the culture of peer bullying and harassment that was a largely neglected problem in most schools. At the same time, research on the school environment has brought recognition to the importance of a safe and supportive school climate.…
Descriptors: Bullying, School Psychology, Peer Groups, Educational Environment
Balu, Rekha; Doolittle, Fred – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2016
The articles in this special issue discuss efforts to improve academic reading outcomes for students and ways to achieve high implementation fidelity of promising strategies. At times the authors discuss if--and how--strong fidelity is associated with strong outcomes and potentially even impacts (the difference between program and control group…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Reading Programs, Program Implementation, Reading Instruction
Kelly, Dianne; Fearing, Erik – Voices in Urban Education, 2017
While Massachusetts has received accolades for its high scores on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) and Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests, absolute results from standardized tests tend to correlate strongly with family income and parental education. The Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education…
Descriptors: Consortia, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation, Partnerships in Education
Martineau, Joseph A.; Wyse, Adam E. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2015
This article is a commentary of a paper by Derek C. Briggs and Frederick A. Peck, "Using Learning Progressions to Design Vertical Scales That Support Coherent Inferences about Student Growth," which describes an elegant potential framework for at least beginning to address three priorities in large-scale assessment that have not been…
Descriptors: Performance Factors, Barriers, Program Implementation, Group Testing
Hoover, Sally – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2010
This commentary responds to "Lessons Learned From Leading an Anger Management Group Using the "Seeing Red" Curriculum in an Elementary School," E. L. Sportsman, J. S. Carlson, and K. M. Guthrie's (2010/this issue) account of an anger control intervention's implementation and effectiveness in an elementary school setting. The accompanying article…
Descriptors: Intervention, School Psychologists, Psychological Patterns, Elementary Education
Jones, Edwin; Lowe, Kathy – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2008
This article presents the authors' response to Harman and Sanderson (2008) who address the important question of how person-centred active support is. The authors' intention is not to disagree with Harman and Sanderson's general point that combining active support (AS) with person-centred planning (PCP) is better than either approach being…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Reader Response, Rhetorical Criticism, Social Support Groups
Magney, John – 1994
With the continuing shift toward more decentralized, team-based work structures, efforts to improve quality are often linked to efforts to improve productivity. This ongoing restructuring of the workplace has important implications for technical education. Educators need to have an understanding of how and why organizations are pursuing these…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, Group Dynamics, Higher Education
Magney, John – 1995
In recent years, interest in teamwork in the workplace has increased noticeably. For technical educators, the implications of this emphasis on employee involvement and cooperation are clear: they should begin developing the requisite skills in their students before they enter the work force. The skill sets that are needed--in effective…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, Group Dynamics, Higher Education
Miserandino, Anthony – 1994
This article addresses the problems of racism, prejudice, and bigotry and how they restrain academic achievement in minority students and the need for leadership to confront and reverse these effects. Politics (suburban/urban differences in funding), technology (computer gap), and family income are three factors that impact differentially upon the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning
Cassara, Beverly Benner – 1991
About 30 years ago, Betty Friedan published "The Feminine Mystique" and changed the lives of millions of women forever. The education of women, the prime vehicle to bring about change, has passed through many phases. In the late 1960s and the 1970s, many kinds of special programs for women blossomed in colleges and universities, continuing…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Continuing Education, Employed Women

Neale, Daniel C. – Instructional Science, 1984
A format is proposed for use in systematic instructional designs where small group activities are planned. The format includes descriptive categories of activity identification; instructional objectives; role, task, and reward structures; evaluation procedures; and support system. Examples are given of how the format can be used. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods, Group Activities, Instructional Design

Browne, Angela; Wildavsky, Aaron – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1983
In a reflective commentary, the authors address the implications of the fact that, in action settings, implementation and evaluation are often carried on by the same person, and they raise the question, "Should evaluation become implementation?" (PN)
Descriptors: Adults, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators, Program Evaluation
Griffin, James P., Jr.; Miller, Erica – Counseling Psychologist, 2007
This article is a response to a number of articles that use a culturally relevant prevention (CRP) approach for ethnic and racial minorities. The reaction is from a research practitioner's viewpoint. The authors argue in favor of determining an operational definition of cultural relevance by implementing prevention services with fidelity in the…
Descriptors: Cultural Relevance, Prevention, Ethnic Groups, Health Promotion
Blatchford, Peter; Baines, Ed; Rubie-Davies, Christine; Bassett, Paul; Chowne, Anne – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
The main impetus for the SPRinG (social pedagogic research into grouping) project was to address the wide gap between the potential of group work and its limited use in schools. It is an ambitious project that developed key principles and strategies to improve the effectiveness of group work in everyday primary classes and across a whole school…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Teacher Student Relationship, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Primary Education

Culnan, Mary J.; Bair, James H. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1983
This survey of potential impacts of office automation on organizational communication and productivity covers the following--(1) the relationship between office automation and organizational communication; (2) communication variables relevant to office automation; (3) benefits and caveats related to implementation of office automation. Thirty-four…
Descriptors: Automation, Information Networks, Information Systems, Needs