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AYP Status, Urbanicity, and Sector: School-to-School Variation in Instruction
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Northrop, Laura; Kelly, Sean – Urban Education, 2018
This study investigates whether adequate yearly progress (AYP) status, locale, and sector--common variables used to judge the quality of schools--accurately signal true differences in instructional practices in high school mathematics and science. Using data from the High School Longitudinal Study (HSLS), we find the school-to-school variation in…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Intermode Differences, Federal Programs, Educational Indicators
Computer Availability and Principals' Perceptions of Online Surveys
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Eaton, Danice K.; Brener, Nancy D.; Kann, Laura; Roberts, Alice M.; Kyle, Tonja M.; Flint, Katherine H.; Ross, Alexander L. R. – Journal of School Health, 2011
Background: School-based risk behavior surveys traditionally have been administered via paper-and-pencil. This study assessed the feasibility of conducting in-class online surveys in US high schools. Methods: A paper-and-pencil questionnaire assessing computer availability and perceptions of online surveys was mailed to a nationally representative…
Descriptors: High Schools, Intervals, Principals, Mail Surveys
Findings from the National Study of the Implementation of Reading First
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Boulay, Beth – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2009
The primary objective of this study is to describe how reading programs are implemented in Reading First schools and in a group of schools serving similar populations of students. The surveys collected detailed information about reading programs from nationally representative samples of schools to illustrate how this billion dollar a year program…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Academic Achievement, Reading Instruction, Program Implementation
Polling Students about Conditions of Learning
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Strom, Paris; Strom, Robert; Wing, Charlotte – NASSP Bulletin, 2008
Online polling was examined as a procedure for decision makers to find out how students perceive conditions of learning at their school. Students in Grades 7-12 from eight schools completed online polls about learning on the Internet, time management, and tutoring. Principals favorably evaluated polling as a method for gathering information and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Time Management, Electronic Learning, Student Surveys
Educational Leadership Programs Lag behind Other College of Education Programs in Adopting Distance Education Strategies
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McFadden, Cheryl C. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2004
Distance education might be a viable alternative to preparing principal candidates amid a national shortage of qualified applicants. Distance education has the potential of preparing more candidates in less time than the traditional method of face-to-face instruction. Distance education allows institutions to reach candidates in rural areas that…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Management Development, Adoption (Ideas), Mail Surveys
Distance Learning in North Dakota: A Cross-Technology Study of the Schools, Administrators, Coordinators, Instructors, and Students. Two-Way Interactive Television, AudioGraphic Tele-Learning, [and] Instruction by Satellite.
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Hobbs, Vicki M. – 1990
In 1990 a comparative analysis was conducted of North Dakota student achievement across three forms of distance education: instruction by satellite, audiographic tele-learning, and two way interactive educational television. Based in part on the 1988 study of a German by Satellite program in Missouri and North Dakota, this study mailed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Communications Satellites, Comparative Analysis