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Download full textHopkins, Theresa M. – Rural Educator, 2005
Part of a larger research project involving the study of mathematics achievement of middle and high school students in Tennessee, this report analyzes said achievement in terms of school locale and the percentage of disadvantaged (pdisadv) students enrolled in the school. Schools were designated as Rural, Large Central City, and Other Nonrural.…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Mathematics Achievement, Rural Education, Poverty
Vickery, Richard Donald – 1972
The study measured the value orientations of school administrators, secondary teachers, teachers in traditional elementary schools, and teachers in innovative elementary schools in Southern Appalachia, along a continuum from Traditional to Emergent, using Differential Values Inventory (DVI) as the source of differentiation. The total…
Descriptors: Administrators, Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations
Reddick, Thomas L.; Peach, Larry E. – 1984
A 20-item questionnaire determined and compared attitudes of 996 public school teachers and administrators in 83 rural Tennessee counties concerning curriculum development, course content, school environment, individualized instruction, philosophical parameters, student evaluation, and extracurricular activities. Both teachers and administrators…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Course Content
Talbert, Elmer Gene; And Others – 1987
A comparison of Middle Tennessee Rural (MTR) schools with the national sample of schools included in Kappa Delta Pi's Good Schools Project (GSP) focused on the areas of curriculum perspectives, goal attainment, classroom practices, interpersonal relations, commitment, discipline and safety, support services and facilities, and decision making. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Differences, Educational Attitudes
Fletcher, Richard K., Jr.; And Others – 1986
This paper compares responses of 660 teachers and 3,420 students from 36 schools (23 elementary, 4 middle, 9 secondary), located in 14 rural Tennessee counties, by school level on the Good Schools Survey instruments. Data represent teacher and student perceptions of classroom practices, support services/facilities, commitment, and goal attainment.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attitudes, Educational Environment
Gaumnitz, W. H.; Cook, Katherine M. – 1938
Examined were the educational conditions and efficiency of the school systems during the 1929-30 school year in both the mountainous and nonmountainous counties of Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Information was obtained for five counties in each State which were regarded as the most mountainous and five…
Descriptors: Age Grade Placement, Average Daily Attendance, Community Support, Comparative Analysis
