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A measure of adaptation to problematic academic and interpersonal tasks of middle school
(Elsevier, 1992)
This study examined the development and validation of a measure of adaptation to problematic academic and interpersonal tasks that arise during the transition to middle school (Survey of Adaptational Tasks of Middle School ...
The Vulnerable System: An Analysis of the Tenerife Air Disaster
(Sage Publications, 1990)
The Tenerife air disaster, in which a KLM 747 and a Pan Am 747 collided with a loss of 583 lives, is examined as a prototype of system vulnerability to crisis. It is concluded that the combination of interruption of important ...
Adaptive Self-regulation: A Process View of Managerial Effectiveness
(Sage Publications, 1994)
This article describes a set of processes involved in attaining managerial effectiveness. These processes are components of an adaptive self-regulation framework. They involve the active management of constituencies' role ...
The Responses of Drug Abuse Treatment Organizations to Financial Adversity: A Partial Test of the Threat-Rigidity Thesis
(Sage Publications, 1992)
This article derives hypotheses from the threat-rigidity model about organizational responses tofinancial adversity. These hypotheses are tested in a national sample of 72 randomly selected drug abuse treatment organizations. ...
Using real-world cases to illustrate the power of analytical procedures
(Elsevier, 1994)
Accounting instructors often introduce analytical procedures (APs) to students as a series of techniques that help to reduce audit time and cost. However, they do not generally provide students with sufficient real-world ...
Students as multimedia composers
(Elsevier, 1994-12)
This study is distinguished by distancing itself from the type of multimedia research that looks at the effects of multimedia instructional units on students. The approach, instead, is within a constructionist learning ...
The impact of an integrated approach to science and literacy in elementary school classrooms
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2012-05)
This study investigates the efficacy of an integrated science and literacy approach at the upper‐elementary level. Teachers in 94 fourth grade classrooms in one Southern state participated. Half of the teachers taught the ...
Curriculum design for inquiry: Preservice elementary teachers' mobilization and adaptation of science curriculum materials
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-09)
Curriculum materials are crucial tools with which teachers engage students in science as inquiry. In order to use curriculum materials effectively, however, teachers must develop a robust capacity for pedagogical design, ...
Validity Evidence for Learning Progression‐Based Assessment Items That Fuse Core Disciplinary Ideas and Science Practices
(AblexWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2013-05)
This article evaluates a validity argument for the degree to which assessment tasks are able to provide evidence about knowledge that fuses information from a progression of core disciplinary ideas in ecology and a progression ...
Intervention program to keep girls in the science pipeline: Outcome differences by ethnic status
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2003-04)
This study evaluated a 2-week residential program aimed at enhancing the science interest and persistence of high-achieving 8th-grade girls. Questionnaires were administered to 38 program participants (14 of whom were of ...