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Tinberg, Howard B. – 1997
By intertwining narratives, journals, interviews, and traditional analysis and argument, this book offers an ethnographic account of a diverse group of community college faculty working together to revise their writing center's tutor protocols and expectations for student writing. In doing so, it takes postsecondary writing teachers to the place…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Arts, Postsecondary Education
Thrupp, Martin – 1997
The extent to which school mix--the social class composition of schools--influences school processes and student achievement has long been a matter of dispute. Drawing on a comparative ethnography of four New Zealand urban secondary schools, this article suggests that school mix probably does impact on school organizational and management…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Environment, Effective Schools Research
Thrupp, Martin – 1997
The existence of a contextual effect of the social class composition of a school's intake on individual student performance--the school mix effect--has long been debated in qualitative school effectiveness literature. This paper reports on a qualitative study of four New Zealand urban secondary schools of varying social class composition (and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Duran, Richard; Szymanski, Margaret – 1994
Ensuring that new forms of assessment are fair and valid for language minority students is essential for research on assessing the performance of Latino language minority elementary school students engaged in a cooperative learning language arts curriculum in Spanish and English. Strategies for developing performance assessments are described, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cooperative Learning, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education
McCarty, T. L. – 1993
A study investigated factors supporting innovation in American Indian education by comparing data from two separate studies. One was a followup study of 25 Indian educators' implementation of cooperative learning and whole language techniques, which sought to identify: (1) the impact of the innovations on student achievement; and (2) factors that…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Bilingual Education, Case Studies
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Leonardos, Ana Cristina – 1992
This study assessed the impact on student learning outcomes of the Integrated Center of Public Education (ICPE), an innovative program in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) for at-risk students; and compared school educational programs of the ICPE and a regular public school serving the same low-income community and focusing on critical thinking competence…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Curriculum Evaluation, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Smith, Michael Peter; Tarallo, Bernadette – 1993
The social practices described and analyzed in this report are based on a 2-year ethnographic study conducted in San Francisco and Sacramento (California) in neighborhoods that are home to five new immigrant groups: (1) Mexicans, (2) Chinese, (3) Vietnamese, (4) Mien (Lao), and (5) undocumented refugees from El Salvador. Interviews with more than…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Asian Americans, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Teachers
Dwyer David C.; And Others – 1985
This case study presents findings from a year-long ethnographic study of an innercity elementary school principal. It concludes one of seven studies conducted in elementary and intermediate schools in urban, suburban, and rural settings to investigate the instructional management role of principals. Although previous research offers disparate…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Lundsteen, Sara W. – 1986
Ethnographic research (1) observes human behavior in its natural setting over a substantial period of time, (2) claims that classes of events are better understood through intensive examination of carefully selected particular cases, (3) incorporates as many of the complexities and variables into a setting as possible, and (4) is usually comprised…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Creative Thinking, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Scott, Jessica P. – 1988
The positivist paradigm has dominated the shape and direction of research in education. Traditionally the scientific method is adhered to, variables are strictly controlled, statistics are compiled, and conclusions are reached. In the post-positivist paradigm, studies conducted using naturalistic inquiry take place in the natural setting and do…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Educational Research, Ethnography
Murray, Jack; And Others – 1986
As a result of preliminary observations of word processing in elementary level language the seven case studies presented in this report reveal the effectiveness of current word processing (WP) activities within their respective instructional contexts. Each study is presented separately, detailing the classroom context, tasks and outcomes, program…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Furniture
Stainback, Susan; Stainback, William – 1988
In this book, which applies the state of the art in qualitative research to special education, qualitative research is used as a generic term for investigative methodologies described variously as ethnographic, naturalistic, anthropological, field research, or participant-observer research. Chapter 1 introduces and defines qualitative research and…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Schumacher, Sally – 1984
Ethnography is a research methodology that belongs to a genre of research called by various names, including educational anthropology, participant observation, case study, field study, and naturalistic inquiry. Ethnography was used as the research methodology for a nine-month study of adult beginning readers in Virginia. The research design was a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Beginning Reading
Grant, Linda – 1982
Ethnographic observations and teacher interviews were conducted in desegregated first grade classrooms to examine teachers' attitudes toward black female students, black females' orientations toward teachers, and black females' peer expectations. The research indicated that: (1) teachers considered black girls to have average or slightly below…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Black Students, Classroom Desegregation, Ethnography
Boraks, Nancy; Schumacher, Sally – 1981
This study was undertaken to identify the reading strategies which facilitated or inhibited the progress of adult beginning readers (ABRs). An ethnographic approach was used so that factors influencing the ABRs' acquisition of these reading strategies could be identified. Using an adapted form of the Goodman and Burke taxonomy of oral reading…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
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