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Birney, Robert C. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1993
An overview of the innovative curriculum and program design of Hampshire College (Massachusetts), a liberal arts college opened in 1970, looks at its educational philosophy, nontraditional curriculum structure, underlying economic assumptions, recordkeeping, administrative organization, employment policy, governance, and student life. (MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, College Curriculum, Contracts
Goertz, Margaret E.; And Others – 1995
A relatively systemic approach to education reform emerged in the 1990s as one way of addressing policy fragmentation. This volume contains the case studies from a study that sought to: (1) expand knowledge of state approaches to systemic education reform; (2) examine district, school, and teacher responses to state reform policies in a small…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Educational Change
Buswinka, Helen F. – 1993
The case study presented in this paper describes the thinking-in-action of a first grade teacher who, within the natural setting of her classroom, was constructing a new way of teaching language arts by changing to a whole language approach. In contrast to traditional implementation models, this study highlights the constitutive nature of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Constructivism (Learning)
Filby, Nikola N., Ed.; And Others – 1990
The result of a collaborative effort to meet the needs of California educators in middle-grades reform, this volume provides access to the best ideas in research and practice, and support for local improvement efforts. The casebook format tells the strategies, problems, and diverse actions of educators focusing on the "how" of leading a…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Smith, Louis M.; And Others – 1983
This final volume of a six-volume study of an elementary school called "Kensington" in a school district code-named "Milford," examines its own assumptions and procedures. After the brief, introductory chapter, which presents the methodological appendixes of the preceding volumes as a serial, chapter 2 discusses exploratory and…
Descriptors: Biographies, Case Records, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes
Gisburne, Jaclyn M.; Fairchild, Patricia J. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2004
This is the first of several papers developed from a faculty and student perspective describing a new distance learning (DL) model. Integral to the model are four interrelated families of multi-variant issues, referred to here as (a) the academic divide, (b) student misalignment, (c) administrative influences, and (d) the use of student…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Graduate Study, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication
van der Vegt, Rein; Knip, Hans – 1986
This paper analyzes a research project that maps implementation efforts of comprehensive and mandated change at the primary school level in The Netherlands. In examining this large-scale national reform program, the report deals with schools whose innovation efforts acquired funding from the central education department in return for their local…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Sturman, Andrew – 1982
This study documents the innovative utilization of resources in 16 exemplary schools and provides recommendations for staff deployment and school organization. Two introductory chapters place the report in the context of a wider study of which it is part and describe its conceptual framework. The following two chapters review the debate on case…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Involvement, Curriculum, Decision Making
Stiegelbauer, Suzanne M.; And Others – 1985
The Situational Factors Checklist was developed to describe variables which influence changes within a school and was used in two different school settings. In one application, it was used as a part of a case study method to study implementation of a microcomputer project, increasing faculty computer literacy, at different community colleges. The…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Check Lists, College Environment
Hawke, Sharryl – 1974
At Northport High School, New York, the subject of human rights is dealt with in a tenth grade European Cultures Studies course. The ten week unit treats the concept of human rights as well as historical and current cases focusing on basic liberties. As students study the individual cases involving human rights, they delve into the political and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Current Events
Fullan, Michael; And Others – 1972
This study focuses on Thornlea Secondary School's social relationships and the way in which they affect the implementation of innovation. The study is largely descriptive and utilizes taped interviews of students, teachers, administrators, and citizens of the community as the primary source of information. The study's concern about innovativeness…
Descriptors: Building Design, Case Studies, Educational Innovation, Educational Philosophy
Mink, Deborah V.; Fraser, Barry J. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2005
This article describes a one-year study of 120 fifth grade students whose teachers participated in a program entitled Project SMILE (Science and Mathematics Integrated with Literary Experiences). The purpose of the study was to determine the extent to which the classroom implementation of Project SMILE positively influenced the classroom…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Student Attitudes, Validity, Educational Innovation
Grisham, Dana L. – 1995
The research described in this paper was conducted over a 4-year period at Orangecrest Elementary School, a new school in a Southern California urban district, which adopted Integrated Thematic Instruction (ITI) at its inception. ITI, developed by Susan Kovalik, is a tightly structured program based on the idea of year-long themes which are broken…
Descriptors: Awards, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Design
Lloyd, Les, Ed. – 1997
This volume is a compilation of chapters by faculty from a variety of disciplines demonstrating the use of different multimedia instruction techniques in order to enhance the higher education classroom experience for students. The book is divided into five parts: (1) General; (2) Multimedia; (3) Software; (4) Software/Hardware; and (5) the Web.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
de Armengol, Mercy Abreu – 1990
This report by the UNESCO Institute for Education compares approaches to providing nonformal education to out-of-school children in Bangladesh, Burundi, Colombia, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The report analyzes some of the educational and demographic characteristics of the six countries, and the countries' policies concerning universal primary…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Case Studies, Children, Curriculum Development