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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

An examination of students' attitudes toward school and classroom science

Creator:: Morrell, Patricia Drozdowski
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to examine fifth, seventh, and tenth graders' attitudes toward school and classroom science by means of questionnaires and interviews. In particular, the study hoped to determine (a) if a relationship existed between these two attitudes, (b) what relationship, if any, grade level, gender, ethnicity,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ' attitudes. The questionnaires used in this study (Science Attitude Scale for Middle School Students by

The effects of an interdependent group-oriented contingency on middle school students' physical activity levels during physical education

Creator:: Schuldheisz, Joel M.
Abstract:: The primary purpose of this study was to determine the effects of an interdependent group-oriented contingency on the MVPA levels of middle school students during the fitness portion of physical education lessons. Participants were randomly selected target students from three intact eighth grade classes. A combination of a delayed multiple...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Interdependent Group-oriented Contingency On Middle School Students' Physical Activity Levels During Physical

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

Middle school mathematics teachers' subject matter knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge of probability : its relationship to probability instruction

Creator:: Swenson, Karen A.
Abstract:: As a result of the calls for reform in mathematics education and the ever-changing nature of mathematics, today's teachers face the challenge of teaching unfamiliar content in ways that are equally unfamiliar. In view of this challenge, the purpose of this study was to investigate middle school teachers' subject matter...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Middle school mathematics teachers' subject matter knowledge

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

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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

An examination of students' attitudes toward school and classroom science

The effects of an interdependent group-oriented contingency on middle school students' physical activity levels during physical education

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

Middle school mathematics teachers' subject matter knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge of probability : its relationship to probability instruction

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

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