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Fine, Lawrence Jay – Camping Magazine, 1987
Reviews research to determine applicability of Matthew Miles' temporary system theory to organized camping in Connecticut. Reveals resident camps exhibit more temporary system features than day camps and program directors respond to more similar temporary system features than camp directors. Supports importance of camp setting as effective…
Descriptors: Camping, Day Camp Programs, Educational Research, Group Dynamics
Wolf, Richard M. – 1993
This booklet provides some systematic guidelines for assisting educational planners to discriminate between high-quality educational research and research that should not be relied on for decision making. The guidelines focus on educational research studies that employ either experimental or survey-research methodologies. A checklist is presented…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Criteria, Decision Making, Educational Planning
Download full textCox, Pat L.; And Others – 1987
Drawing on research conclusions about the process of educational change, this report seeks to demonstrate the importance of understanding the diverse factors that inhibit or enable school improvement efforts. The report focuses on leadership and support in achieving successful change and stresses that principals are but one of several players who…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cooperation, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Daniel, Larry G. – 1987
Organizational theorists have viewed organizations as "mini-societies" based upon commonly held cultural values and assumptions, which may serve to revolutionize organizational practices or to bring about new organization structures. The middle school is an example of an educational institution that has arisen as a result of a particular set of…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Comparative Analysis, Construct Validity, Educational Change
Marzano, Robert J.; Gaddy, Barbara B.; Dean, Ceri – 2000
This report provides K-12 educators with instructional strategies that research shows have the greatest likelihood of positively affecting student learning. The 12 chapters include: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "Identifying Similarities and Differences (comparing, classifying, creating metaphors, and creating analogies); (3)…
Descriptors: Analogy, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback
Greer, John T. – 1983
This paper discusses problems the author encountered in attempting to conduct a study of teacher motivation as influenced by a combination of participative decision-making and financial rewards. Over a 3-year period, teacher motivation was to be viewed as influenced by two independent variables--participative decision-making and financial rewards;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrators, Analysis of Covariance, Compensation (Remuneration)
