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Warsen, Gregory D.; Meyer-Looze, Cathy; Klein, C. Suzanne – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2022
A state organization of graduate faculty teaching in educational leadership preparation programs, the Michigan Association of Professors for Educational Leadership (MAPEL), serves as the focus for this case study designed to examine its efforts to reset, repurpose and reimagine its role. Using Bolman and Deal's (2107) observations of…
Descriptors: Role, Group Membership, Group Structure, Design
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Kramlich, Deborah J.; Cunliff, Ed; Sathe, Laurie Anderson; Zakrzewski, Tes C.; Romano, Alessandra; Longmore, Anne-Liisa; Brunstein, Jannette; Marsick, Victoria – Learning Communities Research and Practice, 2021
Research around learning community models often shows a structured and defined model to follow with the underlying assumption being if the steps are followed, the results will come. The model we offer in this paper is rather counter-cultural as it was not a specific process or practice we followed; rather, we found ourselves in a highly engaging,…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Ecology, Inclusion, Models
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Harlow, Jason J. B.; Harrison, David M.; Meyertholen, Andrew – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
We have studied the types of student teams that are most effective for collaborative learning in a large freshman university physics course. We compared teams in which the students were all of roughly equal ability to teams with a mix of student abilities, we compared teams with three members to teams with four members, and we examined teams with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Teamwork, Cooperative Learning
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Largent, David L. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2016
To prepare graduates for today's work environment, they must be immersed in positive (and perhaps negative) small group experiences in their courses, which will in turn provide a basic understanding of how teams form and develop over time. In the fall of 2009, we started exploring how software development teams form and interact in a computer…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Cooperative Learning, Group Dynamics, Group Structure
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Appl, Dolores J.; Fahl-Gooler, Felicia; McCollum, Jeanette A. – Infant-Toddler Intervention: The Transdisciplinary Journal, 1997
A study explored the perspectives of 12 parents of children with disabilities who attended inclusive play groups between 1987 and 1996. Factors that should be considered when planning and implementing inclusive play groups to help parents of children with disabilities feel more comfortable within the groups are discussed. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Group Structure, Inclusive Schools, Interpersonal Relationship
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Lewis, Ann; Crisp, Richard J. – School Psychology International, 2004
The educational inclusion of pupils with special or additional educational needs is being promoted internationally. One would expect that professionals for whom the group identity as 'special professional' is both important and perceived as being under threat, would only be supportive of inclusion if it could be orchestrated in a way which fosters…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Special Needs Students, Identification, Educational Needs
McLean, Gary N.; Arney, Barbara S. – 1990
Materials are provided from a 3-week workshop with 18 participants that was designed to prepare competent Pakistani trainers of trainers. The final report describes the Advanced Trainers Development Workshop (ATDW) design, development of participant and instructor manuals, participant selection and self-assessments, and participant presentations.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Decision Making, Group Dynamics
Keyton, Joann – 1986
A study assessed the validity of applying the Spitzberg and Cupach dyadic model of communication competence to small group interaction. Twenty-four students, in five task-oriented work groups, completed questionnaires concerning self-competence, alter competence, interaction effectiveness, and other group members' interaction appropriateness. They…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Group Behavior, Group Discussion