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The Lived Experiences of Principals in Urban Turnaround Schools: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Study Examining Teacher Collective Efficacy
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Mayo-Brown, Meg – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study set out to explore how five principals experienced collective teacher efficacy in their schools. The uniqueness of this study was the context of collective teacher efficacy in urban turnaround schools. Each school in the study was once considered among the lowest performing schools in Massachusetts, with persistent low student…
Descriptors: Principals, Teacher Effectiveness, Urban Schools, School Turnaround
A Comparison of Massachusetts and Texas High School Biology Teachers' Attitudes towards the Teaching of Evolution
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Howarth, Richard T. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is considered to be the unifying theory for all life sciences (American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS, 1990; National Academy of Sciences, 1998; National Research Council, NRC, 1996; National Science Teachers Association, NSTA, 2010a) and as such, the biology topic has been…
Descriptors: Evolution, Comparative Analysis, Teacher Surveys, Biology