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Middle school change : a process for restructuring in a large school district

Creator:: Hanneman, Kathleen D.
Abstract:: This qualitative study examined organizational change including the necessary steps that a large school district took in planning and implementing a reform effort. This project told a story of one school district's experience. The study covered a five year period from 1990 to 1995 in the 30,000 student Salem-Keizer School...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: School Education, Salem-Keizer Schools, Salem, Oregon 3 3.1 Middle School Improvement Process 1990

Rural educator values in the implementation of drug education : a critical assessment of a crisis moral community

Creator:: Holmes, Donald Clifford
Abstract:: This study examined the values, competencies, and goals of educators related to preventing drug abuse. Its purpose was to develop a new theory to define the crisis moral community among the educators: a theory which linked the primary variables (values, competencies, and goals) in such a way as to reveal...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: required by Oregon law, is perceived by rural Oregon middle school teachers as a risk and one they are

Attitudes toward computers of ROC public middle school teachers

Creator:: Liou, Horng-Hwang
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of RQC Public Middle School Teachers Abstract approved: E. Wayne Courtney The goal for this study

Reducing aggressive student behaviors through block scheduling

Creator:: Link-Jobe, Jannice
Abstract:: This qualitative and quantitative study examines the potential improvement in aggressive student behaviors when a block schedule is implemented in a rural, low socio-economic and multi-cultural middle school. The number of incidents of physical aggression and harassment were obtained from official school records for the years 1992-1996. Interviews were also...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: grade program. Roosevelt Middle School in Eugene, Oregon provided the most viable template for the

Time is the key to reform : a study of teacher perceptions regarding a change in a middle school schedule

Creator:: Olsen, Kris J.
Abstract:: Time is the educational resource educators most desire, but which is in shortest supply. Educators cannot add more days to the 12-month calendar year, or minutes to the day. Whatever control is to be had over the calendar and clock rests in the way time is managed by those in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: regarding a change in a middle school schedule AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Kris J. Olsen for the

Co-curricular activities : an element of solution-focused oriented interventions for middle school seriously emotionally disturbed students

Creator:: Stevens, Clifford W.
Abstract:: The purpose of this research was to examine the effects of a co-curricular program on the behavior of seriously emotionally disturbed (SED) middle school students. Co-curricular activities are any school-based activities that give students an opportunity to blend the various aspects of their academic learning with personal actions. This was...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: oriented interventions for middle school seriously emotionally disturbed students AN ABSTRACT OF THE

The effects of career planning on self-concept and academic achievement of at-risk middle school students in an urban public school environment

Creator:: Casey, Michael Winfield
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a six-week career planning dropout prevention program on the self-concepts and academic achievement of at-risk middle school students in an inner-city public school environment. The research population consisted of 1,434 students (grades seven, eight and nine) attending an inner...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Achievement of At-Risk Middle School Students in an Urban Public School Environment AN ABSTRACT OF THE

Perceptions of the influence of school-based activities on voter behavior

Creator:: Borella, AnnLouise
Abstract:: The purpose of this case study was to explore the perceptions of school district administrators and members of the community about the influence of school-based activities had on voter behavior. The case study focused on a school district in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Interviews were held with the school...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: district in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Interviews were held with the school district

Selected Oregon student, parent, and teacher perceptions of the factors that influenced eleventh grade students' readiness to make career choices

Creator:: Derr, Debra A.
Abstract:: Oregon educational reform efforts are moving ahead with the support of legislation, business and industry, and education. There has been little apparent consideration given to the readiness of tenth graders to make career choices even though the research in the area of career maturity indicates that students at this period...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Jamieson, principal at Willamette High School in Eugene, Oregon, stated, "I think we've educated kids for

A description of teachers' sense of self-efficacy of the first graduate elementary pre-service teacher cohort at Oregon State University

Creator:: Bigler, Duane A.
Abstract:: Research studies indicated that teachers' sense of self-efficacy is a multidimensional construct related to teachers' beliefs about teaching, their ability to teach, and their students' ability to learn. This study described the change in a cohort of graduate preservice elementary teachers' sense of efficacy as they progressed through a four...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: first graduate elementary pre-service teacher cohort at Oregon State University AN ABSTRACT OF THE

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Middle school change : a process for restructuring in a large school district

Rural educator values in the implementation of drug education : a critical assessment of a crisis moral community

Attitudes toward computers of ROC public middle school teachers

Reducing aggressive student behaviors through block scheduling

Time is the key to reform : a study of teacher perceptions regarding a change in a middle school schedule

Co-curricular activities : an element of solution-focused oriented interventions for middle school seriously emotionally disturbed students

The effects of career planning on self-concept and academic achievement of at-risk middle school students in an urban public school environment

Perceptions of the influence of school-based activities on voter behavior

Selected Oregon student, parent, and teacher perceptions of the factors that influenced eleventh grade students' readiness to make career choices

A description of teachers' sense of self-efficacy of the first graduate elementary pre-service teacher cohort at Oregon State University

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