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Adoption of computing: The experience of six teachers.
(1988)
This study explored the adoption of computing by teachers who have successfully integrated computing into their classroom practices. The intent was to surface themes that were significant in the experience of successful ...
The effects of families and schools on academic performance in Japan, Taiwan, The People's Republic of China, and the United States.
(1988)
Traditional models of status attainment have focused on attainment outcomes and have ignored the process by which status is transmitted. This investigation is an attempt to develop a conceptualization of the status attainment ...
Factors underlying the Red Guards' participation in "class struggle" and their compliant aggressiveness during the Cultural Revolution, and implications for Chinese education.
(1990)
The purpose of this study is to analyze factors underlying the Red Guards' destructive behaviors during the Cultural Revolution and to point out implications for Chinese education. Philosophical and historical analyses ...
A comparative study of educational administrators in Singapore: Emphasis on successful women.
(1988)
This study: (1) examined the similarities and differences on several (educational) issues between male and female educational administrators in Singapore, (2) explored the phenomenon of success as experienced by several ...
The introduction and development of the Detroit Public Schools Adult Education program: A historical study.
(1988)
This study examines the historical development of educational programming for adults in the Detroit Public Schools. It represents an effort to identify not only the forces which produced the first Public School Adult ...
Why college administrators leave administration: A comparison by gender.
(1989)
Telephone interviews were used to examine why some administrators leave administration while others remain and whether the factors influencing the decision to stay or leave are the same for men and women. Participants were ...
Intellective and Nonintellective Factors Associated with the Academic Performance of Black and White, Traditional and Nontraditional College Students.
(1985)
Opportunity Award students, 40 white and 119 Black, and non-Opportunity Award students, 64 White and 54 Black, from the University of Michigan were examined in a study of the predictability of academic performance. ...
Accuracy of Data Submitted to an Automated Children's Protective Services Central Registry (Michigan).
(1987)
Child abuse/neglect case data submitted to a state central registry were studied. The purpose was to examine the reliability of these data, which are the basis for most administrative decisions and current theory regarding ...
Organizational decline and turbulence: Their relationships with environmental conditions, organizational culture, decision-making, strategy, and effectiveness in institutions of higher education.
(1988)
This study addresses two major questions: (1) Do organizational decline and turbulence in key resources relate to organizational culture, decision making, strategic orientations, domain selections, and effectiveness? and ...
Medical school faculty and department chairmen perceptions on faculty promotion: 1978 and 1987. (Volumes I and II).
(1988)
This study examines a Medical School faculty's consensus, uncertainty, and agreement with departmental chairs on the departmental and school-level procedures and criteria for faculty promotion. The data collection survey ...