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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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What Effective Classroom? Towards a Paradigm Shift
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Cheng, Yin Cheong; Mok, Magdalena M. C. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2008
The initiatives for educational effectiveness experienced 3 waves of movements. Each wave had its own paradigm in conceptualizing the nature of education and its effectiveness and formulating related initiatives for improvement of educational practice in the classroom. This article aims to discuss how the conceptualization and characteristics of…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Educational Improvement, Educational Practices, Educational History
An Outlier Study of Multilevel Self-Management and School Performance.
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Cheung, Francis W. M.; Cheng, Yin Cheong – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2002
Case study of multilevel self-management in three Hong Kong primary schools. Finds that the practices of multilevel self-management are associated with enhanced school performance at multilevels. Further, teachers' self-management practices largely determine the success of the school's self-management and demonstrates significant influence on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries, Primary Education
Recent Education Developments in South East Asia: An Introduction.
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Cheng, Yin Cheong – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1999
Recent educational developments in Southeast Asia provide strong evidence to support the assertion that education reform is the major means of buttressing a society's economic, political, and cultural development. Nearly all these countries have expanded compulsory education, boosted education quality and equality, and implemented…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compulsory Education, Decentralization, Developing Nations
The Pursuit of School Effectiveness and Educational Quality in Hong Kong.
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Cheng, Yin Cheong – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1999
Describes the Hong Kong education system, discusses policies and initiatives for education quality and school improvement, and reviews the development of school-effectiveness research. Summarizes progress in language teaching and learning, teacher quality, private-sector school development, curriculum development, teaching and learning conditions,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developing Nations, Educational Policy, Educational Quality
A School-Based Management Mechanism for Schools Effectiveness and Development.
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Cheng, Yin Cheong – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1996
Addresses conceptualization and measurement of school effectiveness from an organizational perspective and discusses how school-based management (SBM) and strategic management are related to school effectiveness. Discusses development of an SBM mechanism for pursuing long-term school effectiveness and educational equity. Reports on a training…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Principal's Leadership as a Critical Factor for School Performance: Evidence from Multi-Levels of Primary Schools.
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Cheng, Yin Cheong – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1994
This cross-sectional study of 190 Hong Kong elementary schools investigates how principals' leadership influences school performance in terms of multilevel indicators (organizational characteristics, teacher performance, and student performance). Survey results show that strong leadership is associated with high organizational effectiveness,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Influences, Institutional Characteristics, Leadership
Profiles of Organizational Culture and Effective Schools.
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Cheng, Yin Cheong – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1993
Investigates how school organizational culture is related to important organizational characteristics and how the profiles of strong culture-effective schools differ from those of weak culture-inefficient schools, in terms of organizational variables, teachers' job attitudes, and school effectiveness criteria. The survey of 54 randomly sampled…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, School Culture