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Fazio, Thomas J.; Ural, Karen K. – NASSP Bulletin, 1995
The Princeton Peer Leadership Program, which evolved from Sharon Rose Powells' doctoral research in the 1970s, trains seniors to serve as mentors to high school freshmen. The program involves the freshmen in school life and with students outside their social cliques, breaks down social and cultural barriers, and exposes the universality of many…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, High School Freshmen, High School Seniors, High Schools
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Myers, Marvin R.; And Others – Roeper Review, 1990
This study used F. Fiedler's task structure analysis to probe emergence and maintenance of leadership in groups of gifted secondary students (N=122) engaged in unstructured, creative production. Results are discussed in terms of relationships between group perceptions of leadership effectiveness, group product creativity, and leadership style…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creativity, Gifted, Group Dynamics
Coleman, Mary Ruth; And Others – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1993
A survey of 300 professionals supporting cooperative learning or supporting gifted education found strongly differing intergroup views. Professionals differed in the areas of level of challenge in the cooperative-learning curriculum, extent of evaluation of cooperative learning, development of social and leadership skills, role of gifted students…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Curriculum, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education
DeBey, Ephanie K.; Headrick, Amy M.; Holzrichter, Lindsay D.; Robbins, Stacey L.; Rude, Cheryl L.; Sharp, Stephanie C.; Walton, Janet L. – Leadership Journal: Women in Leadership--Sharing the Vision, 1998
Describes evolution and structure of the four-year leadership curriculum at Southwestern College (Kansas), whose model promotes personal development, interpersonal growth, and service leadership through class work, field trips, conferences, and practical experience. Students work on projects throughout the program as teams, mentored in the early…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Students, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
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Goree, Cathryn T. – College Student Affairs Journal, 1997
Presents a historical process model for the full integration of women into a male institution based on historical studies of several institutions. Draws analogies to current decisions at Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel, including predictions about ways in which the presence of women will affect the student life of these institutions.…
Descriptors: Coeducation, College Environment, College Housing, Economics
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Hackmann, Donald G. – NASSP Bulletin, 1996
Since students possess intimate knowledge about their academic progress, they should be invited to participate in, or even lead, parent-teacher conferences. Interested middle schools should consider piloting their models, focus on the conference model process, have students identify personal goals, clearly define participants' roles, and evaluate…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools
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Shertzer, John E.; Schuh, John H. – NASPA Journal, 2004
This study investigated college student perceptions of leadership and beliefs that both empower students towards and constrain students from involvement in leadership. Interviews were conducted with student leaders (students who held leadership positions) and disengaged students (students who had not held leadership positions). The student…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Beliefs, Student Empowerment
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Osberg, Jerusha; Pope, Denise; Galloway, Mollie – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2006
Our examination of three schools demonstrates how students can be involved in school reform by giving input about problems, helping design the reform, and sharing implementation responsibilities with adult leaders. Their involvement affects both the reform--as students leave their fingerprints on it--and the students themselves, who show signs of…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Educational Change, Student Participation, Participative Decision Making
Picciotto, Linda Pierce – 1996
Student-led parent conferences allow students to gain significant insights about themselves as learners in ways traditional parent-teacher conferences do not. This guide draws on two teachers' experience to help other teachers implement student-led parent conferences that will enhance parent involvement and student learning. Chapter 1, "Why…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Parent Participation, Parent Student Relationship
Buckner, J. Kirk; Williams, M. Lee – 1995
A study examined leadership training programs for college students. The study used a theoretical model of organizational effectiveness and leadership, developed by Robert Quinn (1988), which was adapted and applied to student leadership programs. A version of Quinn's Competing Values Self Assessment instrument was used to measure university…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Leadership Qualities, Leadership Training
Braught, Loran, Comp. – 1992
This manual was developed as one outcome of a 2-year experimental project conducted in 53 school districts in Indiana (1990-92). The manual was designed to be a resource to schools interested in operating a successful "Students' Own Bookshop" program to encourage development of literacy and leadership among the students of their school.…
Descriptors: Bookstores, Entrepreneurship, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Whitt, Elizabeth J. – 1993
A study of student leadership experiences at three women's colleges is described, and its implications for leadership in coeducational settings are examined. A brief review of research on women and leadership in college looks at women students' under representation in leadership roles, some reasons for this situation, female students' self esteem,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Coeducation, College Environment, College Students
Twale, Darla; Fogle, Rick – Bulletin of the Association of College Unions-International, 1986
Workshops that help students develop leadership are offered twice a year by the Office of Student Activities at the University of Pittsburgh. Soon after the 12 programming committee chairs and the student coordinator are selected in December, they meet with advisory staff in a local hotel for a training workshop, the first session of the…
Descriptors: College Students, Decision Making, Extracurricular Activities, Higher Education
Sgro, Joseph A.; And Others – 1986
This report describes the steps that were taken in developing and evaluating a conceptual and experiential approach to leadership training at the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) level. "U.S. Army ROTC Leadership Development: A Performance-Based Program" consists of two documents: a student manual and an instructor manual. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Leadership, Leadership Training
Smith, Clifton L.; And Others – 1984
Studies were conducted to determine the goals of five organizations for high school vocational students and the extent to which local clubs are meeting these goals and developing affective skills and leadership abilities through appropriate activities. Survey questionnaires were developed and administered to many local chapters of the following…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, High Schools, Leadership, Leadership Qualities
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