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Peer reviewedKain, Daniel L. – Research in Middle Level Education Quarterly, 1997
Used the critical incident technique to study conditions that encourage or discourage teacher collaboration. Found that time, training, and organizational support were crucial to collaboration. Lack of structured support, pressures to "cover" curriculum and conduct testing, and traditions of tracking and separate-subject instruction discouraged…
Descriptors: Critical Incidents Method, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
