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Brookhart Susan M.; Peretin, Janeen – 2002
This study looked at patterns of relationship among motivational and effort variables for different classroom assessments, considering the assignments interest and importance, students self-efficacy for accomplishing the tasks, and the goal orientations and learning strategy use behind their efforts. A multiple case study design looked at the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Path Analysis
Heid, Camilla Ann – 1983
This paper analyzes data from 12 of 20 studies conducted by Special Student Concerns Projects; the projects were designed to eliminate the disproportionate number of disciplinary actions involving minority group students in schools that were in the process of desegregating. The statistical approach to the quantitative suspension data used in this…
Descriptors: Black Students, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Thevar, Suriya Mayandi; Schinzel, Britta; Ben, Esther Ruiz – 2001
This study evaluates the extent to which the escalation of the labor demand, the transformation of work culture, and the diversification of the professional characteristics of the World Wide Web profession have attracted women to enter in to this new branch of information technology (IT) occupations. The study focuses on Web designers at the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Females, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
McLain, Barbara – 2002
During the 2000-2001 school year, the Washington State Institute for Public Policy conducted a study of how public high schools in Washington State are responding to state education reform. One aspect of the study was the experiences of high schools with various strategies to increase student engagement in learning. This paper summarizes study…
Descriptors: Career Development, Case Studies, Educational Change, High School Students
Smith, Fay; Hardman, Frank; Mroz, Maria – 1999
In 1998, the British Government introduced the National Literacy Strategy (NLS) in all state primary schools (encompassing students aged 5-11) in England in a bid to raise literacy standards. A year earlier, 13 local education authorities were involved in the piloting of the project, including the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. The first Newcastle…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Bosch, Samuel J., Ed.; Arias, Jaime, Ed. – 1978
This monograph derives from a conference sponsored by the Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences. The goals of the conference were (1) to establish channels of communication between health care evaluators from different disciplines and from different countries in the Americas, and (2) to promote an exchange of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Care, Children, Community Education
Clegg, Ambrose A.; And Others – 1991
In 1989, Ohio's Kent State University (KSU) Office of Admissions and Records developed a list of 1,404 students who had transferred from Ohio's Cuyahoga Community College (CCC) to KSU between 1979 and 1989. Demographic, enrollment, academic performance, and graduation data were analyzed to determine the impact on transfer students of a proposed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Standards, Black Students