Purpose: This qualitative study reports on beliefs practicing educators hold about diverse students and families. Specifically, this study examined educator beliefs related to culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse students and families along with participants' knowledge of culture and its application in practice. Research Design:…

This dissertation examines the patterns and types of mistakes students make on a large-scale mathematics assessment, and puts these patterns into perspective based on the textbook used and the specific content covered in a student's classroom. In order to investigate the nature of these patterns, I employ a method of analysis originally designed…

THIS RESEARCH ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF SELF-CONCEPT OF ABILITY TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL WAS BASED ON THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK COMMONLY IDENTIFIED AS THE SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONAL THEORY OF BEHAVIOR. THE BASIC POSTULATE WAS THAT ACADEMIC BEHAVIOR OR SCHOOL LEARNING IS LIMITED BY THE STUDENT'S SELF-CONCEPT OF HIS ABILITY, AND THAT…

Two studies were conducted to determine the relationship between the principal's behavior and the teachers' behaviors during faculty meetings. The pilot study (conducted in the Wabash Valley) tested the hypothesis that the more indirect (willingly sharing authority with the teachers, incorporating their ideas) the principal's behavior is, the more…

THE PURPOSES OF THIS PAPER ARE TO EXAMINE THE RESEARCH METHODS GENERALLY UTILIZED IN DIFFUSION RESEARCH AND TO SUGGEST RESEARCH METHODS WHICH MIGHT HELP PROVIDE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE DIFFUSION PROCESS. TO PROMOTE THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMPLETE DIFFUSION PROCESS OF EDUCATIONAL CHANGE, RESEARCH SHOULD CONSIDER THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS,…

AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS OF THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT (GRADES K-6) WHICH AFFECT INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TEACHERS AND THEIR PUPILS. MEASUREMENTS OF INTERACTION OCCURRENCES WERE GATHERED WITH RESPECT TO (1) CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES, (2) TEACHING STYLES AND PUPIL RESPONSES, (3) SENSORY EMPHASES, AND (4) USES OF…

Examining the normative and regulative effects of parental influence on the educational mobility of high school youth and the changing patterns of educational mobility, rural high school seniors in Ontonagon County, Michigan were surveyed in 1957/58 (N=254), 1968 (N=193), and 1974 (N=201). The key variables examined were: (1) college plans; (2)…

This paper is based on a compilation of the first two phases of longitudinal research on desegregation effects now being conducted in the Kalamazoo Public Schools. The purpose of the Phase I study was to obtain baseline data during the spring of 1971 prior to the desegregation of the Kalamazoo Public Schools, which was initiated in the fall of…

Materials collected in this book and in Volume II (SP 003 239) are outgrowths of the Multi-State Teacher Education Project (M-STEP), a 3-year program to strengthen the capacity of state departments of education in the development of joint responsibility between local education agencies and teacher education institutions with emphasis on laboratory…