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Frank, Kenneth A.; Kim, Jihyun; Salloum, Serena J.; Bieda, Kristen N.; Youngs, Peter – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
Accountability pressures and the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics have created complex demands for educators, especially early-career teachers (ECTs). Analyzing longitudinal data, including the social networks of 119 ECTs, we find that ECTs increase their ambitious mathematics instruction when their network members positively interpret…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Accountability, Common Core State Standards
Wilhelm, Anne Garrison; Chen, I-Chien; Smith, Thomas M.; Frank, Kenneth A. – American Educational Research Journal, 2016
Given prior research indicating that teachers can learn through their social network interactions with colleagues, it is important to understand more about the choices teachers make about whom to go to for advice. In this study, we investigated the degree to which middle school mathematics teachers change from whom they seek advice when…
Descriptors: Expertise, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
Spillane, James P.; Kim, Chong Min; Frank, Kenneth A. – American Educational Research Journal, 2012
Few studies identify those factors that might account for the development of social capital. Understanding those factors associated with the existence of a social tie among actors in schools is important because absent social ties, individuals do not have access to social resources. We investigate social tie formation in schools focusing on advice…
Descriptors: School Organization, Individual Characteristics, Social Capital, Elementary Schools
Zhao, Yong; Frank, Kenneth A. – American Educational Research Journal, 2003
Why is technology not used more in schools? Many researchers have tried to solve this persistent puzzle. The authors of this article report on their study of technology uses in 19 schools. They suggest an ecological metaphor, using the example of the introduction of the zebra mussel into the Great Lakes, to integrate and organize sets of factors…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Figurative Language, Ecological Factors