Forty Rural Schools [microform] : A Study of School Effectiveness / Elmer Gene Talbert and Others
- Bib ID:
- 5486478
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Talbert, Elmer Gene
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED289639
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1987
- 231 p.
- Summary:
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A comparison of Middle Tennessee Rural (MTR) schools with the national sample of schools included in Kappa Delta Pi's Good Schools Project (GSP) focused on the areas of curriculum perspectives, goal attainment, classroom practices, interpersonal relations, commitment, discipline and safety, support services and facilities, and decision making. The study was based on responses to 2 separate survey instruments from 722 teachers and 3,846 students in 39 schools. Data analyses showed that MTR teachers and students reflected more traditional values with respect to education, indicated less support from the community and parents, perceived their schools as having fewer resources, had lower levels of commitment to education, and perceived their schools as attaining fewer of their goals than the GSP teachers and students. MTR teachers consistently perceived critical thinking skills as less important than did GSP teachers. MTR students perceived teachers as encouraging critical thinking less, using less variety in instruction, and placing more emphasis on the textbook. MTR teachers and students shared lower academic expectations than did GSP teachers and students. Administratively, MTR teachers perceived their schools to be more authoritarian with less involvement of teachers and students in decision making, planning, establishing rules and procedures, and evaluating school programs. (Author/JHZ)
- Notes:
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- Sponsoring Agency: Tennessee Technological Univ., Cookeville. Rural Education Research and Service Consortium.
- ERIC Note: A research study presented at the Annual Meeting of the Rural Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (Washington, DC, April 23, 1987). For related paper, see RC 016 542.
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Comparative Analysis
- Curriculum Development
- Differences
- Educational Attitudes
- Educational Environment
- Elementary Schools
- Elementary Secondary Education
- High Schools
- Middle Schools
- Regional Characteristics
- Rural Education
- Rural Schools
- School Community Relationship
- School Effectiveness
- School Surveys
- Student Attitudes
- Teacher Attitudes
- Good Schools Project (Kappa Delta Pi) Tennessee (Upper Cumberland)
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- ERIC
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- Publication date:
- 1980
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