This study investigates beginning US elementary teachers' competence for teaching mathematics and its development during teacher preparation and into the first 2 years of full-time teaching. Data are drawn from three longitudinal case studies and include the classroom video analysis survey, classroom observations and interviews about teachers'…

The main purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between managers' performance in the field of interpersonal, informational and decision-making tasks with organizational health. To measure the indicators of the model, a questionnaire was prepared and distributed among 113 company of Tehran stock Exchange Market. According to the…

This paper analyzes role transitions in small groups within the context of a more general model of group socialization that is based on the psychological processes of evaluation, commitment, and decision making. The major advantage of such an approach is that it specifies why role transitions in small groups occur. According to the model, groups…

A detailed, general and comprehensive accounting scheme is presented, consisting of nine stages of career development, three major sets of elements contributing to career choice (in terms of personal, cultural and situational roles), and 20 hypotheses relating the separate elements. Implicit in the model is a novel procedure and method for…

When statistics are the focus, consumer/consultant relationships are often strained. Therefore, decision points in the research and consulting processes are examined for ways to clarify and improve the consulting relationship. A model for analyzing statistical techniques to provide a graphic basis for negotiation is presented. (Author/GDC)

Many mature women reach a decision-making point where a desire to change the direction of their lives is quite evident, but how to implement that change is unclear. Presented is a five part guidance model which provides steps useful in working with the mature woman in her mid-life role change. (Author)

This article focuses on "organizational health, i.e., the health of a school, through redefinition of the role of the school principal". (JC)

This theory takes in concepts of a "decision" and the decision-making process. The process model has three parts: (1) personal and situational variables, (2) decision behavior modes, and (3) decision procedures. Emphasis is placed on the influence of personal values in decision making. Implications for adult education research are drawn.…

The perceptions of department chairpersons concerning the leadership roles of academic deans in several schools/colleges of a major research university were identified, based on interviews with 55 chairpersons. The typical chairperson was male, from the College of Letters and Science, had served for about 4 and one-half years, was a full…

This research concerns the level of agreement among subordinates reporting to the same leader in their descriptions of his behavior. (Available from the Comparative Administration Research Institute, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242; $12.00 annually) (Author/MLF)

Data demonstrated that elementary school children permitted to share decision-making in a physical education program demonstrated greater interaction with teachers and greater initiative. (GW)

The conventional wisdom of numerous practitioners and researchers suggests that on issues of structure and control the school can best be described and analyzed in the bureaucratic framework. However, the bureaucratic model fails to recognize the intervening character that the presence of professionalism has on the process of school governance.…

The monograph summarizes findings from two research areas: teacher effectiveness and teacher decision making practices. Paradigms for research on teaching, characteristics of an effective teacher, generalizations about teachers' decision making, decision making models, and the relationship of teacher self-efficacy and teacher behaviors are…

Examines the decreasing role of hierarchy in society and organizations and describes emerging mental models for the role of people in organizations. Discusses human resources and cost control; learning hierarchy in instructional design; information technology, access, decision making, and communication and collaboration across hierarchical…