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Peer reviewedFenstermacher, Gary D.; Berliner, David C. – Elementary School Journal, 1985
Describes a staff development framework having four main components: a definition, a mapping sentence, a description of participant roles, and an evaluation perspective. Conditions are discussed for judging the worth of staff development activities, and examples of such activities are analyzed to show how the evaluation perspective is used in…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Heuristics
Peer reviewedMcDonnell, Lorraine M. – Elementary School Journal, 1985
Explores the link between the management of fiscal retrenchment and the need for more effective schools. Describes school improvement strategies based on the school effectiveness research and on past experience with educational change programs. A final section discusses the potential role of these strategies in the larger context of educational…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Peer reviewedPorter, Andrew C. – Elementary School Journal, 1986
Considers the possibilities of inadequacies in either the staff development effort and/or the evaluation of the Madeline Hunter Follow-Through Program, and concludes that the long-term change in teacher behavior is more difficult to accomplish than had been anticipated. (Author/HOD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedHunter, Madeline – Elementary School Journal, 1986
Offers interpretations of some results of the Napa County, California, Follow-Through Project that tested the Hunter Teacher Decision-Making Model, also known as the Instructional Theory into Practice Model. (Author/HOD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedSlavin, Robert E. – Elementary School Journal, 1986
Explores the question of whether the failure of the MHITIP, designed to change teachers' behavior and student engaged rates in reading and mathematics, was related to a lack of maintenance of program skills or a failure of the program to increase student achievement. (Author/HOD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedRobbins, Pamela – Elementary School Journal, 1986
Describes a four-year Follow-Through Research Project that investigates the effects of a comprehensive staff development program, based on Madeline Hunter's Instructional Theory into Practice Model, designed to improve instruction on student engaged rates and achievement in reading and mathematics. (Author/HOD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewedStallings, Jane; Krasavage, Eileen M. – Elementary School Journal, 1986
Describes findings from a Madeline Hunter Follow-Through Project in two Napa County, California schools over a four-year period that explored the relationships between program implementation and elementary school children's achievement in reading and mathematics. (Author/HOD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Longitudinal Studies
