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What Is a "Good" Social Network for a System?: The Flow of Know-How for Organizational Change. Working Paper #48
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Frank, Kenneth – Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2014
This study concerns how intra-organizational networks affect the implementation of policies and practices in organizations. In particular, we attend to the role of the informal subgroup or clique in cultivating and distributing locally adapted and integrated knowledge, or know-how. We develop two hypotheses based on the importance of…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Hypothesis Testing, Educational Policy, Social Systems
Effects of Vice-Principals' Psychological Empowerment on Job Satisfaction and Burnout
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Schermuly, Carsten C.; Schermuly, Rene A.; Meyer, Bertolt – International Journal of Educational Management, 2011
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the relationship between psychological empowerment, job satisfaction, and burnout among vice-principals (VPs) in primary schools. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 103 VPs at 103 different primary schools in Germany were surveyed with a questionnaire that assessed the four dimensions of psychological…
Descriptors: Fatigue (Biology), Job Satisfaction, Structural Equation Models, Statistical Significance
Accommodations Manual: How to Select, Administer, and Evaluate Use of Accommodations for Instruction and Assessment of Students with Disabilities. Third Edition
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Christensen, L.; Carver, W.; VanDeZande, J.; Lazarus, S. – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2011
The Council of Chief State School Officers' "Accommodations Manual: How to Select, Administer, and Evaluate the Use of Accommodations for Instruction and Assessment of Students with Disabilities" was first developed to establish guidelines for states to use for the selection, administration, and evaluation of accommodations for…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Academic Achievement, Guides, Program Development
Identification and Assessment of Intercultural Competence as a Student Outcome of Internationalization
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Deardorff, Darla K. – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2006
This study seeks to determine a definition and appropriate assessment methods of inter-cultural competence as agreed on by a panel of internationally known intercultural scholars. This information is validated by a sample of higher education administrators and can be used by administrators in identifying and assessing intercultural competence as a…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Outcomes of Education, Interpersonal Competence, Minimum Competency Testing
The Effectiveness of New-Student Basic Skills Assessment in Colorado Community Colleges.
Richards, William – 1986
In fall 1985, a study was conducted by the Colorado State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education to analyze the efficiency and effectiveness of community college assessment programs throughout the state. Each community college in the state randomly selected 100 students whose basic skills had been assessed and who had enrolled in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Basic Skills
Adult Educators' Guide to Designing Instructor Mentoring.
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Sherman, Renee; Voight, Janet; Tibbetts, John; Dobbins, Dionne; Evans, Arthur; Weidler, Danielle – 2000
This document provides guidelines for designing mentoring programs to facilitate the professional development of adult basic education (ABE) and English-as-a-second-language (ESL) instructors. Chapter 1 discusses the rationale behind mentoring in ABE programs. Special attention is paid to the following topics: how mentoring fits with adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Beginning Teacher Induction