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Development of Definable Constructs in a Measurement Instrument for Social Emotional Learning in the Music Classroom
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Jennifer Kathleen Cady – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study addresses the need to accurately assess social emotional learning from a quantitative perspective. As school districts evaluate the allocation of educational resources, data is used to inform those decisions. Social emotional learning (SEL) is gaining prevalence in the field of education. However, an accurate way to measure that…
Descriptors: Music Education, Social Emotional Learning, School Districts, Resource Allocation
High Stakes Policy and Mandated Curriculum: A Rhetorical Argumentation Analysis to Explore the Social Processes That Shape School Leaders' and Teachers' Strategic Responses
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Dulude, Eliane; Spillane, James P.; Dumay, Xavier – Educational Policy, 2017
Several social processes guide and shape how school actors engage with high stakes state and district policies relative to mandated curriculum and instruction. In this article, we use rhetorical argumentation analysis to explore how stakeholders mobilize resources through argumentation and rhetorical appeals (logical, emotional, and…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Educational Policy, Educational Resources, Resource Allocation
Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century: Overcoming the Structural Barriers to School Reform
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Manna, Paul, Ed.; McGuinn, Patrick, Ed. – Brookings Institution Press, 2013
America's fragmented, decentralized, politicized, and bureaucratic system of education governance is a major impediment to school reform. In this important new book, a number of leading education scholars, analysts, and practitioners show that understanding the impact of specific policy changes in areas such as standards, testing, teachers, or…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Administration, Failure, Decision Making
Linking Academic Priorities to Resource Decisions. AIR Forum Paper 1978.
Lawless, Robert W.; And Others – 1978
An accreditation self-study was conducted by the University of Houston Central Campus. In the process of establishing the academic priorities for departments two dimensions were assessed: the current quality of the academic programs and the centrality of each program to the stated mission of the college under which it was housed. Based upon a…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrative Principles, Centralization, College Administration
Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education: Education Policy Advice for Greece
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OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2011
The future of Greece's well-being will depend on improving educational performance to boost productivity and improve social outcomes. In the current economic context, with the need to get best value for spending, Greece must and can address inefficiencies in its education system. The challenges are significant. For example, Greece lags behind many…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Beyond Curriculum Reform: Confronting Medicine's Hidden Curriculum.
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Hafferty, Frederic W. – Academic Medicine, 1998
Discusses the existence of three curricula in medical schools (formal, informal, and hidden) and suggests that educators and administrators investigate the hidden curriculum by examining four areas: institutional policies; evaluation practices; resource-allocation decisions; and institutional "slang." Needed reforms in accreditation standards are…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Administrative Policy, Allied Health Occupations Education