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Yuksel, Ismail – Online Submission, 2010
The quantitative methodologies have been traditionally employed in the educational research so far. However, as long as with the appreciation and widespread use of the qualitative methodologies in many disciplines, many different educational areas have started to be examined in terms of qualitative research aspects. Particularly, the qualitative…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Qualitative Research, Educational Research, Models
Rui, Ning; Feldman, Jill M. – Online Submission, 2012
Notwithstanding broad utility of COPs (classroom observation protocols), there has been limited documentation of the psychometric properties of even the most popular COPs. This study attempted to fill this void by closely examining the item and domain-level IRR (inter-rater reliability) of a COP that was used in a federally funded striving readers…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Interrater Reliability, Correlation, Psychometrics
Fluellen, Jerry E., Jr.; Fluellen, Ingrid – Online Submission, 2006
150 students at McKinley Technology High School in Washington, DC have engaged the Harvard Model for creating a culture of thinking. This Tishman, Perkins, and Jay framework introduced them to four forces of enculturation and six dimensions of a thinking classroom in combination with African American Literature and Future Studies as specific…
Descriptors: African American Literature, African American Students, High School Students, Public Schools
Fluellen, Jerry E., Jr. – Online Submission, 2006
Preparing students for college and work in the Knowledge Age. That is the mission of this generic proposal. A counterpoint to Industrial Age mindsets marking most initiatives in the District of Columbia Public schools and described in the "fifth discipline" works of Peter Senge, Creating a Culture of Thinking in DCPS proposes a project…
Descriptors: African American Literature, African American Students, High School Students, Public Schools
Herrington, David E. – Online Submission, 2005
This study highlights the value of leveraging department resources in principal preparation program resources to achieve multiple teaching and program review goals. In this study, masters degree candidates participated in all aspects of the evaluation of the Department of Educational Administration and Counseling. As consumers they already had a…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Instructional Leadership, Evaluators, Data Interpretation
Murray, John – Online Submission, 2004
This study examines recent initiatives in the Irish Republic to integrate ICT into the primary school system. The study includes an analysis of the social, political and educational background to past initiatives, both government and teacher-led, to make more use of ICT in the general school system over the past 30 years. The government's…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Pilot Projects, Criticism, Foreign Countries