Does Your School Need to Improve?.

Cooper, Muriel

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ERIC Number: EJ293739

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1983

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Does Your School Need to Improve?

Cooper, Muriel

Education Canada, v23 n4 p32-35 Win 1983

Explains how Dr. Ronald R. Edmonds discovered five characteristics common to 55 United States schools exhibiting academic effectiveness. Explains the characteristics: large portion of principal's time spent in classrooms, global understanding of school's major purpose, orderly school climate, teacher behavior, and close monitoring of students through standardized tests. (SB)

Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives, Institutional Characteristics, Principals, School Effectiveness, Standardized Tests, Teacher Behavior

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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