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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Tschannen-Moran, Megan; Bankole, Regina A.; Mitchell, Roxanne M.; Moore, Dennis M., Jr. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2013
Purpose: This research aims to add to the literature on Academic Optimism, a composite measure composed of teacher perceptions of trust in students, academic press, and collective efficacy by exploring a similar set of constructs from the student perceptive. The relationships between student trust in teachers, student perceptions of academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Factor Analysis, Identification, Educational Environment
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Uline, Cynthia L.; Tschannen-Moran, Megan; Wolsey, Thomas DeVere – Journal of Educational Administration, 2009
Purpose: Accompanying the recent concern for the quality of our nation's educational infrastructure, a growing body of research connects the quality of school facilities to both student outcomes including achievement, behavior, and attitude as well as to teacher attitude and behavior. Less is known about the mechanisms of these relationships. This…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Academic Achievement, School Buildings, Aesthetics
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Uline, Cynthia; Tschannen-Moran, Megan – Journal of Educational Administration, 2008
Purpose: A growing body of research connecting the quality of school facilities to student performance accompanies recent efforts to improve the state of the educational infrastructure in the USA. Less is known about the mechanisms of these relationships. This paper seeks to examine the proposition that part of the explanation may be the mediating…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Relationship, Academic Achievement, School Buildings
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DiPaola, Michael F.; Tschannen-Moran, Megan – Journal of Educational Administration, 2005
Purpose: Rational and open system theories offer divergent sets of tactics on how best to deal with factors outside the boundary of the school. This study compared two competing strategies that emerge from these theories: bridging and buffering. The impact of how schools interact with their environments was examined in relation to student…
Descriptors: Multiple Regression Analysis, Teacher Attitudes, Adjustment (to Environment), Change Strategies
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Tschannen-Moran, Megan; Gareis, Christopher R. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2004
In this era of accountability and significant school reform, efforts to improve schools increasingly look to the principal to spearhead change efforts at the school level. Good principals are the cornerstones of good schools. Without a principal's leadership efforts to raise student achievement, a school cannot achieve its fundamental academic…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Self Efficacy, Principals, Leadership Qualities
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Tschannen-Moran, Megan; Hoy, Wayne – Journal of Educational Administration, 1998
Reviews the conceptual foundations of trust as a multidimensional construct, highlighting trust-related issues in schools. An empirical analysis involving 2741 middle-school teachers demonstrates that faculty trust is an important aspect of an open, healthy school climate. Elements of climate and behavior predicting trust in the principal differ…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Educational Environment, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools