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Download full textNew York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. – 1966
VARIOUS ASPECTS OF A NEW YORK CITY COMMUNITY ZONING PLAN (CZP) ARE EVALUATED IN THIS REPORT. INITIATED IN 1964, THE PLAN WAS DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THE ETHNIC BALANCE IN THE SCHOOLS BY PAIRING SELECTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS TO CREATE SINGLE ATTENDANCE ZONES. STUDENTS IN THE LOWER GRADES ATTENDED ONE SCHOOL WHILE THOSE IN THE UPPER GRADES ATTENDED THE…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrator Evaluation, Arithmetic, Attendance
Class Size and Teacher Load in High School English. New York State English Council Monography No. 8.
Wade, Durlyn E. – 1964
To determine the class size and teaching load of secondary teachers of English in New York state, the Research Committee of the State English Council mailed 1,093 questionnaires to chairmen of English Departments in the state's registered public and private secondary schools. The 694 usable replies--representing 4,410 full-time English…
Descriptors: Class Size, English Instruction, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Noninstructional Responsibility
Derevensky, Jeffrey L.; Mitchell, Daphne – 1975
This paper discusses the influence of class size and school personnel on the development and implementation of the curriculum of 10 inner city schools in Montreal, Quebec. Information is based on interview data, personnel records, and responses to a questionnaire. Results indicate that while teacher-pupil ratios in inner city schools are slightly…
Descriptors: Class Size, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Problems, Inner City
Villano, Maurice W. – 1975
The effect of class size, course level, instructor rank, campus, and subject area on 14,366 student ratings of 488 science and mathematics classes at a main university and 18 branch campuses was investigated. Class means were factor-analyzed and four resultant components of teaching performance were submitted to a 2x2x2x2x3 MANOVA. Discriminant…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Class Size, College Students, Colleges
Moffatt, Elizabeth C. – 1972
This report is the third in a series devoted specifically to compiling comprehensive and timely information about public school teachers. The material in the document reflects data gathered from a nationwide questionnaire survey of samples of teachers in both elementary and secondary schools. The object of this report is to provide an account of…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Class Size, Comparative Analysis, Family Relationship
Illinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1976
This handbook is designed to assist community college administrators in using the various reports generated by the faculty and staff subsystem of the Illinois Community College Board management information system. Among the reports generated by the subsystem are: faculty and staff salary report, class size by instructional type, number and percent…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Audiovisual Instruction, Class Size, College Faculty
Jimerson, Lorna – Rural School and Community Trust, 2006
Across the country, states are pushing to close their small rural schools with the mistaken hope of saving money, in spite of overwhelming evidence that smaller schools are beneficial for students, and that they frequently function as the glue that binds together small communities, serving as their economic and social hub. The battle is even more…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Individualized Instruction, Class Size
American Association of Physics Teachers (NJ1), 2002
The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) developed this document as a resource for high school administrators, parents, and teachers who are interested in developing guidelines for physics curriculum and instruction in their school(s). These guidelines reflect the goals of the AAPT, with an emphasis on instructional strategies and…
Descriptors: Physics, Secondary School Science, High Schools, Guidelines
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Direct linkCerto, Janine L.; Fox, Jill Englebright – High School Journal, 2002
This study investigated teacher attrition and retention in seven Virginia school divisions representing urban, suburban, and rural localities. Focus group interviews of teachers who stay in their school divisions and telephone interviews of teachers who migrated to another school division or who left the teaching profession revealed a hierarchy of…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Persistence, Focus Groups, Faculty Mobility
Lopez, Omar S. – 1995
This study investigated the relationship between classroom student diversity (how students differ in their attributes, educational requirements, learning styles) and teacher capacity (skills, abilities, knowledge) to student performance in Texas public schools. Teacher ethnicity and gender, class size, and classroom per pupil expenditure were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Classroom Research, Cultural Differences
Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers, Whitewater. – 1995
The report examines issues in block scheduling as it affects foreign language teaching and learning. First, key questions related to block scheduling are discussed from the perspective of student learning, access, and workload. These include questions concerning the potential of block learning to improve achievement and rate of learning, to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrative Policy, Annotated Bibliographies, Class Size
Lottes, Christine R. – 1996
Reducing class size was considered an important element in a revised health course at Gettysburg College (Pennsylvania). However, reducing class size to approximately 15 students per class would require 38 sections, more than the health faculty could handle. To recruit additional instructors, the course was marketed to faculty and administrators…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development
Jimerson, Lorna – 1998
This study examined how eight rural, high-impact Minnesota school districts (defined as those losing or gaining a high percentage of student population due to school-choice implementation in fiscal year 1995) responded to school choice policy. Data from semistructured interviews with each district's superintendent were sorted and analyzed. In each…
Descriptors: Accountability, Class Size, Competition, Cost Effectiveness
Wilkinson, David; And Others – 1993
This report presents information on the effectiveness, including cost effectiveness, of many programs of the Austin (Texas) Independent School District (AISD). In 1991-92, the AISD Office of Research and Evaluation (ORE) reviewed 85 programs or program components. Cost effectiveness was calculated for 18 programs using an achievement effect…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Class Size, Compensatory Education
Fordham, Adrian M. – 1983
This publication describes the first phase of the Classroom Environment: Teaching for Learning Study in Australia, a six-year international research effort to identify correlations between teaching practices and student achievement. The report's first chapter presents a resume of the study and reviews research findings on managerial and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
