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Simon Vurayai – Educational Practice and Theory, 2024
This study employed the Systematic Review (SR) methodology to examine the content and reasons for resisting the implementation of Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (CALA) in Zimbabwean Secondary schools. The Overcoming Resistance to Change (ORC) model was exploited as the analytical lenses. The study found that factors such as education,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Program Implementation, Resistance to Change
Zacamy, Jenna; Newman, Denis; Lazarev, Valeriy; Lin, Li – National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools, 2015
This paper reports findings from a multi-year study of the scale-up of Reading Apprenticeship (RA), an approach to improve academic literacy by helping teachers provide the support students need to be successful readers in the content areas. WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI), began developing the program in 1995 and has since reached…
Descriptors: Scaling, Reading Programs, Apprenticeships, Educational Innovation
Murray, Saundra R.; And Others – 1980
This report evaluates the implementation of the PUSH for Excellence program (PUSH-EXCEL) from September of 1979 to March of 1980. PUSH-EXCEL operated in 39 schools in six cities. For evaluative purposes, 11 schools were studied, seven of them intensively. Data were collected through interviews, observations, and examination of archival records.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Involvement, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Environment
Corcoran, Thomas B. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2008
This is the first report on the evaluation of the Inquiry Based Science and Technology Education Program (IN-STEP), an innovative and ambitious science education initiative for lower secondary schools being undertaken by a public-private partnership in Thailand funded by MSD-Thailand, an affiliate of Merck & Co. IN-STEP is a public-private…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Schools of Education, Evaluators, Science Interests
Norton, Robert E. – 1993
The Systematic Curriculum and Instructional Development (SCID) model provides a tested procedure for developing high-quality, low-cost competency-based education and tech prep curriculum and instructional materials. It consists of 5 phases--analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation--and 23 components. The analysis phase…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Formative Evaluation