The analytic framework suggests that strategies employed by teachers arise within the context of the school organization. The organization provides dilemmas and imperatives, possibilities and opportunities which explain the existence of certain strategies in the classroom. (Author/KC)

Presents information concerning the range of external interruptions experienced by junior high school teachers. Examines the ways in which interruptions become disruptions. Provides suggestions on how to manage these interruptions and discusses the difference between "proactive" and "reactive" class management. Finds that size…

Both the 1988 and 1999 editions of "Handbook of Research on Educational Administration" suggest that continuing dialogue about educational administration scholarship is warranted as conditions in schooling and society change. Handbook and "EAQ" editors asked several expert researchers to write articles about one or more…

In the Netherlands, the constitutional freedom of education offers the opportunity for the growing number of Muslims to establish state-funded Islamic schools. At the moment there are 46 Islamic primary schools; a number of schools are in the process of being established and there is still a need for an additional 120 such schools. Right from the…

Models of organizational structures developed through the study of commercial organizations are not necessarily applicable to educational organizations. Technical organizations such as factories act to regulate the flow of their processes and products and, thus, to buffer them from external forces. Institutional organizations such as schools or…

The workings of schools have not received the attention due them in the study of educational administration. We need to generate new "images" or models of school organization that are more congruent with reality. These models need to be refined through expression and discussion and selected and changed through scientific methodology.…

This booklet describes how a group of doctoral condidates at Harvard established the Clinical School Collaborative and how they tried to shape their ideal into a reality. The group wanted to form an organization which did a better job in teaching students, training adults, and pursuing research than existing institutions. They held discussions in…

Schools are essentially human systems; without people they are nothing but wood, concrete, and paper. Yet, the people who make up schools -- professionals, parents, service personnel, and students -- often form into ineffective and poorly coordinated groups, much in the way that employees in the bureaucracies of industry and government become…

A descriptive analysis is provided of institutional activity and characteristics of 20 four-year institutions that converted to a two-year status during the last 25 years. Institutions included in this study were identified from the annual issues, 1948-49 through 1972-73, of the "Educational Directory, Part 3." The information is profiled as to…

Reported is a study of the effects of locus of control and the school organization on science achievement of 122 students in non-graded schools and 181 students in graded schools. The dependent variable of the study was scores on the Stanford Achievement Test in Science and the independent variables were the student scores on the Children's Locus…

States that his experience leads him to question the similarity of constitution among middle schools. Examines the causes of that diversity which he believes characterizes the nine to thirteen middle school system in Hull. (Author/RK)

Thirteen to fifteen year-old students from Denmark, Sweden, Italy, United States, Austria, Germany, and Great Britain were the subjects on this study of formal thought processes. Socioeconomic status, sex, and school organization provided additional categorization upon which the subjects were divided. Chi square analysis revealed some differences.…

The literature on decentralization focuses on exchange of power and school reform. Rather than uncovering details of organizational processes, researchers attempted to impose inappropriate models upon them. Unable to explain how decentralization happens, they judged the process unsuccessful. Decentralization remains to be studied and understood.…

Introduces an issue of "Educational Administration Quarterly" that reviews recent developments in educational administration studies. Summarizes trends since the 1960s and suggests that research in the 1980s will focus on school effects, motivational processes, and social models of organization and will involve greater integration of…