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50 Years of ERIC
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The Epistemography of an Urban and Regional Planning Practicum: Appropriation in the Face of Resistance. WCER Working Paper No. 2010-8
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Bagley, Elizabeth – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2010
In this paper, the author describes an ethnographic study of a graduate-level practicum at a large Midwestern university in order to examine one of the ways urban planners develop expertise. The graduate students in the practicum were guided in the production of a site plan for a developing area by a planner with 34 years of planning experience.…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Urban Planning, Graduate Students, Practicums
A Final Case Study of SCALE Activities at California State University, Northridge: How Institutional Context Influenced a K-20 STEM Education Change Initiative. WCER Working Paper No. 2009-5
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Hora, Matthew T.; Millar, Susan B. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2009
This qualitative case study reports on processes and outcomes of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded System-Wide Change for All Learners and Educators (SCALE) project at the California State University, Northridge (CSUN). It addresses a critical challenge in studying systemic reform in complex organizations: the lack of methodologies that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Organizational Culture, Organizational Change, Educational Change
A Final Case Study of SCALE Activities at UW-Madison: The Influence of Institutional Context on a K-20 STEM Education Change Initiative. WCER Working Paper No. 2008-6
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Hora, Matthew T.; Millar, Susan B. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ3), 2008
This qualitative case study reports on processes and outcomes of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded System-Wide Change for All Learners and Educators (SCALE) project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). It addresses a critical challenge in studying systemic reform in complex organizations: the lack of methodologies that…
Descriptors: Productivity, Graduate Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Cooperation
A Preliminary Case Study of SCALE Activities at the California State University, Northridge: Factors Influencing Change Initiatives in STEM Undergraduate Education, Teacher Training, and Partnerships with K-12 Districts. WCER Working Paper No. 2007-7
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Hora, Matthew T.; Millar, Susan B. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ3), 2007
This report of the National Science Foundation-funded SCALE Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) Case Studies line of work provides preliminary findings about SCALE activities at the California State University, Northridge (CSUN). This interview-based study (N = 19) includes a descriptive analysis of SCALE activities and an exploratory analysis…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs