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Soljan, Ivanka; Holley-Boen, Wendy – Kairaranga, 2017
Communities of Practice (COP) have been used in schools and other educational institutions as a way of growing knowledge and managing change. This article centres on one professional inquiry with a group of Resource Teachers: Learning and Behaviour (RTLB) and using a strengths-based approach, explores the elements that increased the effectiveness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resource Teachers, Communities of Practice, Program Effectiveness
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Lockheed, Marlaine; Harris, Abigail; Jayasundera, Tamara – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
A school improvement program that provided support to poor-performing schools on the basis of needs identified in a school improvement plan was implemented in 72 government schools in Jamaica, from 1998 to 2005. In this independent evaluation of the program, we use propensity score matching to create, post hoc, a control group of schools that were…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Supplementary Reading Materials, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Al Khateeb, Jamal M.; Hadidi, Muna S. – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2009
This paper reports the results of an investigation of satisfaction of 135 resource room teachers and 190 mothers of children served in resource room programs in Jordan. Information from teachers was gathered using questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and classroom visits. Information from parents was gathered using a brief questionnaire.…
Descriptors: Fringe Benefits, Resource Room Programs, Mothers, Family Involvement
Adams, Vesper Marianne Zubrack – 1980
The primary aim of the study described in this thesis was to investigate the effectiveness of schools that implemented the Full Service School Model in the three regions that participated in the Saskatoon Region Special Services Project. The Full Service School Model refers to service delivery to exceptional children through personnel based within…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Educational Environment
Moody, Peter R. – 1983
The Maple Ridge Physical Education Project's purpose is to assist selected schools in the implementation of quality daily physical education lessons. "Quality daily physical education" is considered to comprise at least three instructional physical education periods per week, plus a maximum of two physical activity sessions per week.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Curriculum Development, Educational Quality, Elementary Education