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Dollman, Lucinda; Morgan, Catherine; Pergler, Jennifer; Russell, William; Watts, Jennifer – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this action research project is to improve student social skills through the use of cooperative learning, in order to develop a positive classroom environment that is conducive to learning. The action research project will involve approximately 95 students, 95 parents, and 200 teachers. It is the intent of the teacher researchers to…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Role Playing, Classroom Techniques, Discipline
Piercy, Brenda A. – 1996
Treatment characteristics and methods were analyzed for 103 empirical studies of reading therapy, or bibliotherapy, from the United States and Canada conducted over the past two decades and retrieved from the PsychInfo database. A content analysis was performed on each study, and quantified data was reported and compared within and between two…
Descriptors: Authors, Bibliotherapy, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries
Fortner, Sandra – 1997
The purpose of this study is to analyze the nature of materials used by scholars in the field of Appalachian studies. Citations were analyzed from four monographic works: "Appalachia and the Politics of Culture,""Appalachia in an International Context,""Appalachia: Social Context, Past and Present," and…
Descriptors: Citation Analysis, Citations (References), Higher Education, Journal Articles
Wagner, Joyce A. – 1997
Five quarterly issues of the publication, "Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society" were examined in a citation analysis format to determine trends in Women's Studies scholarship. A total of 1,927 citations were reviewed to ascertain: the nature of the sources cited; the author's alternate field of interest in addition to Women's Studies;…
Descriptors: Citation Analysis, Educational Trends, Females, Higher Education
Mayer, Anne E. – 1999
Professional fundraising has given rise to a new information specialist profession. This career path, which has been known as prospect research or advancement research, should be more accurately characterized as information resources management for advancement. With primary emphasis on value-added information processes that involve analysis and…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Information Management, Information Scientists, Institutional Advancement
Dragga, Amy L. – 1999
This study surveyed the membership of the Ohio Prospect Research Network to ascertain where prospect researchers get most of the information necessary to perform their jobs. It was hypothesized that prospect researchers do not utilize the library, even when the same services or information may be found for free at the library. A questionnaire was…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Fund Raising, Information Needs, Information Retrieval