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Murphy, Joseph; And Others – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1983
The recent research on school or educational leadership is reviewed in an attempt to define some of the major recurring research problems. This paper outlines and describes both methodological problems and organizational perspective problems so that future research efforts can be strengthened. (BW)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Generalization, Leadership, Measurement Techniques
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Lancaster, David; And Others – Educational Management and Administration, 1983
Major literature is reviewed in the course of describing and assessing the role of operations research (OR) in educational administration. Increased use of OR approaches in education and a compounding of the present disagreement about the application and potential of OR are forecast. (MJL)
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Planning, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Lippitt, Mary E.; Mackenzie, Kenneth D. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1976
Authority-task problems are organizational problems created by inconsistencies between the task process system and both the authority system and the formal hierarchy of offices. A new theory is used to develop a model that predicts how an administrator responds to an authority-task problem. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Administrators, Decision Making, Group Structure, Higher Education
Doe, Bob; Maclure, Stuart – Times Educational Supplement (London), 1976
Recently, a number of people from different spheres of education attended a conference at the TES to discuss what impact the Bullock Report had made during its first year. To conclude this three part series, the authors reported on the conference and reflected on some of the issues raised in the discussion. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Critical Thinking, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs
Bikner-Ahsbahs, Angelika – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This paper presents the design and some results of a series of teaching experiments. The design was created to develop a model for everyday math lessons, that describes the conditions which foster or hinder the construction of new mathematical meanings. The development process includes the students' epistemic processes, their social interactions,…
Descriptors: Models, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grade 9
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (DHHS/PHS), Rockville, MD. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. – 2002
Selecting an effective prevention program for a comprehensive intervention can be a daunting task. Not only must the program address the specific needs and assets of the defined population, but also there should be a level of confidence about its ability to produce positive outcomes regardless of differing settings and differing populations. The…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Evaluation Methods, Models, Prevention
Forester-Miller, Holly; Davis, Thomas E. – 1995
Counselors must make sound ethical decisions but, often, determining the appropriate course to take when confronted with a difficult ethical dilemma can be a challenge. This guide assists counselors in ethical decision making; it is presented as a supplement, and is to be used in conjunction with, the American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Behavior Standards, Codes of Ethics, Counselors
Cimino, Carol, Ed.; Haney, Regina M., Ed.; O'Keefe, Joseph M., Ed. – 2001
This collection of essays deals with the integration of the social teaching of the Catholic Church into Catholic schools. The collection contains the following chapters: (1) "Focus of SPICE 2000: How To Integrate Jubilee Justice into Schools throughout the Millennium" (Carol Cimino; Regina Haney; Joseph O'Keefe); (2) "Model…
Descriptors: Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools, Catholics, Elementary Secondary Education
Sexton, Thomas L.; Alexander, James F. – 2000
Increases in delinquency and violence over the past decade are often rooted in a number of interrelated social problems that may originate within the family structure. The focus of this publication is the effectiveness of family intervention programs and chronicles one type of intervention, the Functional Family Therapy (FFT). FFT draws on a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Counseling Theories, Delinquency, Family Counseling
van Someren, Maarten W., Ed.; Reimann, Peter, Ed.; Boshuizen, Henny P. A., Ed.; de Jong, Ton, Ed. – 1998
This book addresses questions of multiple representations in human reasoning and learning. Computational approaches to learning with multiple representations are introduced, and the role of multiple representations in teaching is discussed. The following chapters are included in Part I: Multiple Representations in Learning Concepts form Physics…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Learning
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Bromley, Jamie L. – 2000
Training in suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention is lacking in most counseling psychology training programs despite the likelihood of trainees encountering suicidal individuals in their careers. Part of the reluctance to address this issue may be due to the potential problems of incorporating training into existing counseling programs…
Descriptors: Counseling Psychology, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselor Training, Course Content
Young, David L.; Wilson, Brent G. – 2002
WebQuests have become a popular form of guided inquiry using Web resources. The goal of WebQuests is to help students think and reason at higher levels,and use information to solve problems. This paper presents modifications to the WebQuest model drawing on primarily on schema theory. It is believed that these changes will further enhance student…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Resources, Inquiry, Instructional Development
Robbins, Michael S.; Szapocznik, Jose – 2000
It is widely accepted that an increase in delinquency and violence is rooted in a number of interrelated social problems such as child abuse, alcohol and drug abuse, and youth conflict and aggression. Family strategies and interventions have been designed in an attempt to strengthen the role of the family within the community as a means to combat…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Brief Psychotherapy, Counseling Theories, Cultural Background
Winchell, Kristina; Hyman, Irwin – 2001
This paper describes the development of the fourth and latest version of the Teacher Variance Inventory-IV (TVI-IV). It was designed to improve the psychometric properties of the TVI and explore other characteristics that enable the TVI to be used for teacher consultation. The TVI-IV is a self-report measure based on Teacher Variance theory, a…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Counseling, Elementary Secondary Education, Models
Bevan, George H. – Education Canada, 1973
Author points out some typical common problems encountered in evaluating projects and proposes some tentative solutions to them. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Committees, Costs, Data Collection, Decision Making
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