Hix, Dan; Zheng, Yan (2009). Tuition and Fees at Virginia's State-Supported Colleges and Universities, 2009-10. State Council of Higher Education for Virginia In order to speed the national economic recovery, create and save jobs, and provide services to people affected by the recession, the 111th United States Congress enacted and President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)–an economic stimulus package worth $787 billion–on February 17, 2009. Virginia will receive approximately $4.8 billion in direct appropriations from the ARRA over the next two years, excluding tax cuts that go directly to Virginia citizens. Due primarily to the availability of ARRA funding, tuition and mandatory E&G fees for in-state undergraduate students will increase by an average of 5.1% next year. These charges increased by 6.5% in 2008-09. Tuition and all mandatory fees, including both educational and general and non-educational and general fees, will increase by 5.2% in 2009-10, as compared to an increase of over 7% in 2008-09. The FY2010 tuition increase will be the lowest annual increase since FY2002. This… [PDF]

Finn, Chester E., Jr.; Petrilli, Michael J. (2010). Now What? Imperatives & Options for "Common Core" Implementation & Governance. Thomas B. Fordham Institute Over the past year, the nation's governors and state school chiefs have achieved laudable consensus around a set of math and English standards, developed voluntarily and without federal involvement through the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI). Most states have signed on to them. More recently, the states have again teamed up–this time with federal funding–to develop new assessment systems that align with the common standards. What happens next? This is an enormously consequential question for American education, because charting the future of the Common Core (and the forthcoming assessments) is inseparable from some fundamental decisions about how the K-12 education system will be organized and governed. The authors asked experts from across the education sector to respond to a dozen perplexing questions on the future of the Common Core. They synthesize some of their collective input below. All final judgments, however, are solely those of the authors. The authors… [PDF]

Johnson, Karin Pogna (2011). Participatory Formative Assessment in an Environment of High-Stakes Testing: An Autoethnography. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas State University – San Marcos. The purpose of this study was to describe my experiences as a campus principal in facilitating the use of participatory formative assessment (PFA) in an environment of accountability and high-stakes testing. The methodology I employed was autoethnography (Chang, 2008; Ellis, 2004; Reed-Danahay, 1997; Stinson, 2009). I kept journals over a period of two years and recorded my perceptions as I journeyed on the path of PFA implementation. My journal entries are shared throughout this report as a way to keep my story more authentic and personalized. I also added some of my original artwork and biographical artifacts to further place myself at the center of this study. My research also included conversations with students and teachers as well as samples of PFA adapted or developed by teachers. The findings show that given enough time and support, teachers were able to use and adapt PFA strategies and tools to involve students in their learning. Through these adaptations, other… [Direct]

(2011). Evaluation Report: The EPIC Leadership Development Model and Pilot Programs. New Leaders (NJ1) New Leaders created the Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC) initiative in 2006 to learn from educators driving achievement gains in high-need urban schools. EPIC identifies school leaders and teachers whose students are making significant achievement gains and financially rewards these educators in exchange for sharing and documenting the practices that have contributed to the gains. Since 2006, New Leaders has awarded over $15.5 million to EPIC partner districts and charter schools and led them in a rigorous examination of their practices, culminating in the publication of video cases and practice profiles on the online EPIC Knowledge System. During the 2010-11 school year, New Leaders contracted with Rockman et al, an independent research firm, to evaluate pilots of the EPIC Leadership Development Model in one charter management organization and two urban school districts: Friendship Public Charter Schools in Washington, DC (Friendship), Memphis City Schools (MCS), and… [PDF]

Messina, Richard; Reeve, Richard; Scardamalia, Marlene; Zhang, Jianwei (2009). Designs for Collective Cognitive Responsibility in Knowledge-Building Communities. Journal of the Learning Sciences, v18 n1 p7-44 Jan. This article reports a design experiment conducted over three successive school years, with the teacher's goal of having his Grade 4 students assume increasing levels of collective responsibility for advancing their knowledge of optics. Classroom practices conducive to sustained knowledge building were co-constructed by the teacher and students, with Knowledge Forum software supporting the production and refinement of the community's knowledge. Social network analysis and qualitative analyses were used to assess online participatory patterns and knowledge advances, focusing on indicators of collective cognitive responsibility. Data indicate increasingly effective procedures, mirrored in students' knowledge advances, corresponding to the following organizations: (a) Year 1–fixed small-groups; (b) Year 2–interacting small-groups with substantial cross-group knowledge sharing; and (c) Year 3–opportunistic collaboration, with small teams forming and disbanding under the volition of… [Direct]

Berridge, Damon; Lewis, Charlie; Muldoon, Kevin P. (2007). Predictors of Early Numeracy: Is There a Place for Mistakes when Learning about Number?. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, v25 n4 p543-558 Nov. It is one thing to be able to count and share items proficiently, but it is another thing to know how counting and sharing establish and identify quantity. The aim of the study was to identify which measures of numerical knowledge predict children's success on simple number problems, where counting and set equivalence are at issue. Seventy-two 5-year-olds were given a battery of nine tasks on each of three sessions (at 3-monthly intervals). Tasks measured procedural proficiency, conceptual understanding (using an error-detection paradigm) and the ability to compare sets using number knowledge. Procedural skills remained fairly stable over the 6-month period, and preceded children's ability to detect another's violations to those procedures. Regression analysis revealed that children who are sensitive to procedural errors in another's counting and sharing are more likely to recognize the significance of cardinal numbers for set comparisons. We suggest that although children's… [Direct]

Cvetkovic, Milica (2009). Making Web 2.0 Work–From \Librarian Habilis\ to \Librarian Sapiens\. Computers in Libraries, v29 n9 p14-17 Oct. When people look back at the World Wide Web of 1996, there can be no doubt that today's web is better and more useful. Hyperlinking webpages and bookmarking were two of the most important aspects of the Web 1.0 world. Soon, though, usability and sharing became very high priorities, and Web 2.0 evolved. Information published in the Web 2.0 world traveled like wildfire, and Web 2.0 became a synonym for cutting edge. Now things are again evolving dramatically. At the DEMO 2009 conference, the Web 2.0 buzz had almost disappeared. Over the past few months a new term–Web 3.0–has been slowly catching people's attention. Is now the time for Web 3.0 to be born? Despite the fact that the author strongly believes in the coming of Web 3.0, the author argues that the time is not yet right for this transition. In this article, the author discusses the challenges of Web 2.0, presents a Web 2.0 checklist, and offers ways to effectively use social networking to promote a library and connect with… [Direct]

Dabrowska, Ewa (2008). The Effects of Frequency and Neighbourhood Density on Adult Speakers' Productivity with Polish Case Inflections: An Empirical Test of Usage-Based Approaches to Morphology. Journal of Memory and Language, v58 n4 p931-951 May. An experiment testing adult Polish speakers' ability to supply dative forms of unfamiliar nouns revealed strong effects of type frequency (performance was better on inflections that apply to large classes) and neighbourhood density (participants were more likely to supply the target inflection with nonce nouns belonging to densely populated neighbourhoods, i.e., those which are similar to many existing nouns, than with nouns that resemble few words in the language). These findings corroborate two central claims of usage-based theories: that more frequent patterns are more likely to be used productively; and that speakers prefer low-level generalizations over clusters of phonologically similar forms, or clusters of words sharing the same derivational affix, over more global generalizations. The experiment also revealed considerable differences in individual speakers' ability to inflect nonce words, similar in magnitude to differences in vocabulary size. Performance on the nonce word… [Direct]

Yu, Yuecheng (2012). Knowledge Sharing and Global Collaboration on Online Knowledge Exchange Platforms. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, City University of New York. This thesis reports on three empirical studies that focus on questions concerning knowledge sharing and construction in communities of practice and global knowledge exchange platforms. The first essay presents an exploratory case study on a particular academic community of practice–AISNET and its central knowledge exchange platform, the ISWorld Mailing List–over a four-year period from 2002 to 2006. Using content analysis of archival data, the study not only finds that this particular case of knowledge platform offers a highly efficient communication tool for knowledge dissemination to the IS community but also that its usage has been shifting strongly towards information broadcasting and away from interactive knowledge exchange and creation. The second study investigates the major drivers of internationalization of online communities of practice. A research model is presented, that extends conventional approaches based on differences in economic and technological infrastructure…. [Direct]

Hix, Dan; Zheng, Yan (2010). Tuition and Fees at Virginia's State-Supported Colleges and Universities, 2010-11. State Council of Higher Education for Virginia The Commonwealth of Virginia, like the rest of the nation, has endured the effects of an historical economic recession for the past three years. While Virginia is perhaps no longer in recession, the still fragile economy is a major cause for concern. Shrinking tax revenues and the need to balance the state's budget led the 2010 General Assembly to reduce state support for public higher education by more than $400 million or 27% by FY2012 when compared to the original FY2010 budgets. Higher education institutions are facing great pressure to increase tuition in an attempt to bolster the system from the erosion of state support and ensure the delivery of high quality instructional services expected of Virginia colleges and universities. This report focuses on tuition and fees for in-state undergraduates and provides a summary of: (1) board-approved tuition and fee increases for the 2010-11 academic year; (2) tuition and fee trends in Virginia over the past 25 years; (3) the… [PDF]

Palmero, Mauro R. (2010). An Examination of College and University Athletic Directors' Perception of Management Models Utilized to Operate Intercollegiate Athletic Arenas. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Ohio University. Demands for enhanced accountability and effectiveness in higher education have also affected athletic departments, requiring a more cost-efficient managerial approach to the administration of athletic facilities, especially arenas. The purpose of this study was to examine athletic directors' perceptions towards the arena management models they currently utilize. To achieve such purpose, 346 athletic directors working at institutions supporting men's basketball were invited to participate in an online survey. A combination of descriptive statistics, Kruskall-Wallis, factor analysis, and discriminant analysis were used to analyze the data. The results showed that the majority of the respondents have either the athletic department or other university departments operating their arenas, but emergent arena management models have a small but noticeable presence. Based on the results, it can be concluded that the following aspects should be taken into consideration when making the… [Direct]

Moore-Cox, Annie (2010). Socialization in the Asynchronous Online Course Discussion of Graduate Nursing Administration Students: A Case Study. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, State University of New York at Albany. Over the last several years there has been an increase in the amount of graduate education in nursing offered online in Web-based programs. There is a lack of research into the role played by online graduate nursing course discussion, an important component of many courses, in the process of socialization for advanced nursing roles. To understand more about socialization in online courses, I studied the asynchronous discussion within two master's level nursing administration courses. Interviews with selected subjects who participated in the courses, four students and two faculty members, helped me understand the participants' post program perceptions of the value of the course discussion to their learning. Analysis of the course transcripts focused on the students' discourse strategies in the enactment of identities and the process of professional role socialization in the online discussion. Students in this study did show evidence of role socialization in the online asynchronous… [Direct]

McIntire, David (2010). An Interview with Jon Wallace, Christian College President. Christian Higher Education, v9 n1 p71-81. Without question, effective leadership is essential to the future of higher education. Presidential leadership is seen as the key to strategically positioning the future of colleges and universities. This may be even more critical for Christian institutions. It is imperative that boards are successful in selecting, developing, and supporting their presidents. Similarly, it is crucial that the president be judicious in sharing and collaborating institutional vision with all constituencies. How this vision is communicated, to a great extent, will determine the university's success. Jon Wallace is the president of Azusa Pacific University. He is respected as a successful Christian university president. Jon would describe himself as a work in progress. His journey to the presidency is marked by arriving in 1972 as a freshman and then being academically dismissed at the end of his freshman year. He reflected on that experience and related that during his year off, he committed to being… [Direct]

(2009). National Infrastructure Protection Plan: Partnering to Enhance Protection and Resiliency. US Department of Homeland Security The overarching goal of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) is to build a safer, more secure, and more resilient America by preventing, deterring, neutralizing, or mitigating the effects of deliberate efforts by terrorists to destroy, incapacitate, or exploit elements of our Nation's critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) and to strengthen national preparedness, timely response, and rapid recovery of CIKR in the event of an attack, natural disaster, or other emergency. In seven chapters, this publication describes the purpose, goals, scope, and applicability of the NIPP. Following an introduction, Chapter 2, \Authorities, Roles, and Responsibilities,\ includes a brief overview of the relevant authorities and outlines the principal roles and responsibilities of: DHS; SSAs and GCCs; NIPP partners at all levels of government and in the private sector; CIKR owners and operators; and other partners who share responsibility in protecting the Nation's CIKR. Chapter… [PDF]

Boisvert, Pamela K. (2007). Leveraging Resources to Create Comprehensive Access Services. New Directions for Higher Education, n138 p59-66 Sum. The Colleges of Worcester Consortium has created a broad array of statewide, higher education access services over several decades by leveraging federal, state, local, and foundation resources. The consortium comprises thirteen diverse colleges and universities in central Massachusetts and is a nonprofit regional association of these institutions: two-year, four-year, and professional institutions, public and private, urban and rural. It works cooperatively to further the missions of the individual member institutions and advance higher education in the region. Resource and information sharing, staff and administration professional development services, cross-campus and community-oriented student services, academic cooperation, community and government relations, and higher education access services are the priorities for this community-based organization. By its very nature, the consortium is a prime example of a partnership model that has proven successful for over thirty-five years…. [Direct]

Babb, Corbett A. (2012). An Analysis of the Relationship between Organizational Servant Leadership and Student Achievement in Middle Level Schools. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Widener University. The purpose of this exploratory quantitative research study was to determine if middle schools in which higher levels of servant leadership are evident perform better on school effectiveness measures than middle schools that exhibit lower degrees of servant leadership. Furthermore, it sought to identify contextual factors that were correlated with lesser or greater degrees of organizational servant leadership in those same institutions. There has been little research concerning servant leadership and the public middle school. Most of the research emphasis has been on corporate leadership, workplace environments, religious institutions, high school, or college settings. Researchers have generally ignored the middle school setting, despite research that demonstrates the tremendous amount of influence it has on the later academic success of students. This study contributes to the literature about organizational servant leadership. It also provides middle school leaders, looking to… [Direct]

Schwartz, Adam G. (2012). The Relationship between Teacher Satisfaction and Frequency of Interaction with Site Administration. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Northern Arizona University. The primary determinant of student achievement is the quality of the classroom teacher. Some teachers are naturally talented, but the majority of teachers become effective through classroom experience. Unfortunately, the teaching profession experiences a high rate of turnover; many teachers leave before reaching the peak of their effectiveness. If satisfied in their position, teachers will stay in teaching longer and, through experience, improve their effectiveness. The purpose of this study is to determine if a relationship exists between teacher satisfaction and their frequency of interaction with site administration. A review of literature determined that teacher satisfaction and retention are directly related; satisfied teachers stay in teaching. There are four primary areas that affect teacher satisfaction and retention. Teacher preparation programs are an early determinant of teacher retention; programs that better prepare teacher candidates produce teachers who are more… [Direct]

Griffiths, Rose (2007). Young Children Counting at Home. Mathematics Teaching Incorporating Micromath, n203 p24-26 Jul. Learning to count is something that most children start to do by the time they are about two, and parents know from first-hand experience that family members play a big part in helping with this complex process. In this article, the author describes a project involving families sharing effective counting activities. The project called "Getting children counting," based in Leicester, has looked at activities that local parents and family members feel are important for children under five, and aimed to share good practice between families through the medium of a DVD. Many of the counting activities which the parents did with their children lasted only a few minutes, but they were often repeated over and over again over a period of months, until the child tired of them or moved on to something more ambitious. The author hopes the finished DVD will make parents and carers feel more confident about the activities they are doing, and that it will perhaps suggest new things to… [Direct]

Brown, Manny S. (1973). Special Education Revenue Sharing a Must for States?. Compact, 35, Feb-Mar 73. While revenue sharing is a unique and masterful windfall to local districts over the nation, if proposed cuts in current education programs are made and a special education revenue sharing bill not funded, the Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction will be unable to guarantee the State's fundamental interest in education. (Author/JN)…

Kayworth, Timothy; Koch, Hope (2009). Partnering with the Majors: A Process Approach to Increasing IS Enrollment. Journal of Information Systems Education, v20 n4 p439-449 Win. Information systems (IS) programs have been struggling with declining enrollment since 2001. The IS community has addressed the enrollment crisis by sharing best practices in journals and at conferences. Typically, such practices focus on improving enrollment through either (1) recruitment events or (2) program/curriculum development initiatives. While such efforts have been helpful, additional work is needed to examine this issue in a more systematic fashion within the inter-dependent process of recruitment, retention and placement. Furthermore, current research has been largely silent on the potential role that current IS majors may have in recruiting new students into the major–students recruiting students. This paper shares the enrollment initiatives that Baylor University has implemented over the past 2.5 years that have addressed both of these issues. First, we report on how we embedded enrollment initiatives within the overall student development process starting with… [Direct]

Steinhardt, Bernice (2009). Influenza Pandemic: Continued Focus on the Nation's Planning and Preparedness Efforts Remains Essential. Testimony before the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. GAO-09-760T. US Government Accountability Office As the recent outbreak of the H1N1 (swine flu) virus underscores, an influenza pandemic remains a real threat to our nation and to the world. Over the past 3 years, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has conducted a body of work to help the nation better prepare for a possible pandemic. In a February 2009 report, GAO synthesized the results of this work, pointing out that while the previous administration had taken a number of actions to plan for a pandemic, including developing a national strategy and implementation plan, much more needs to be done, and many gaps in preparedness and planning still remain. This statement is based on the February 2009 report which synthesized the results of 11 reports and two testimonies covering six thematic areas: (1) leadership, authority, and coordination; (2) detecting threats and managing risks; (3) planning, training, and exercising; (4) capacity to respond and recover; (5) information sharing and communication; and (6) performance… [PDF]

Young, Jeffrey R. (2008). Con Artists Attack Colleges with Fake Help-Desk E-Mail. Chronicle of Higher Education, v54 n32 pA29 Apr. An e-mail scam has hit tens of thousands of users at dozens of colleges over the past few weeks, leaving network administrators scrambling to respond before campus computer accounts are taken over by spammers. Students, professors, and staff members at the affected colleges received e-mail messages that purported to come from the colleges' help desks, asking users to reply with their log-in and password, and in some cases other personal information including birth date. But the messages actually come from hackers who use the information to send spam messages from the accounts. Administrators worry that the compromised accounts could be used to do further damage to the university networks. At least 86 colleges and universities have been hit by the scam messages, says Douglas Pearson, technical director of the Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center at Indiana University at Bloomington. He took an informal survey of college-security administrators last… [Direct]

McHaney, Roger (2011). The New Digital Shoreline: How Web 2.0 and Millennials Are Revolutionizing Higher Education. Stylus Publishing, LLC Two seismic forces beyond our control–the advent of Web 2.0 and the inexorable influx of tech-savvy Millennials on campus–are shaping what Roger McHaney calls \The New Digital Shoreline\ of higher education. Failure to chart its contours, and adapt, poses a major threat to higher education as we know it. These forces demand that we as educators reconsider the learning theories, pedagogies, and practices on which we have depended, and modify our interactions with students and peers–all without sacrificing good teaching, or lowering standards, to improve student outcomes. Achieving these goals requires understanding how the indigenous population of this new shoreline is different. These students aren't necessarily smarter or technologically superior, but they do have different expectations. Their approaches to learning are shaped by social networking and other forms of convenient, computer-enabled and mobile communication devices; by instant access to an over-abundance of… [Direct]

Krueger, Carl; Lane, Patrick (2011). Western Policy Exchanges. Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) Program is a federal formula grant designed to foster partnerships among federal, state, and local governments and philanthropic entities to increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education. Created by the College Cost Reduction Act of 2007, the CACG program provided $66 million per year for two years to agencies or organizations designated by each state's governor. The passage of the Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 expanded the program for an additional five years and raised funding to $150 million per year. The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) launched the CACG Network in 2008, soon after the federal government provided initial grant funding to the states. WICHE designed the network to give Western states the opportunity to collaborate and improve their grant programs by sharing ideas and promising practices with colleagues in other… [PDF]

James, Mary; Pollard, Andrew (2011). TLRP's Ten Principles for Effective Pedagogy: Rationale, Development, Evidence, Argument and Impact. Research Papers in Education, v26 n3 p275-328. The ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) worked for ten years to improve outcomes for learners across the United Kingdom. Individual projects within the Programme focused on different research questions and utilised a range of methods and theoretical resources. Across-programme thematic seminar series and task groups enabled emerging findings to be analysed, synthesised and communicated to wider audiences. One outcome of this activity was the development of ten "evidence-informed" principles, which engaged with diverse forms of evidence, whilst acknowledging that "users" would need to judge how best to implement such principles in their particular contexts. Synopses of these principles were published in posters and booklets, from 2006, but the evidence and reasoning underpinning them has not been fully explained. This contribution attempts to fill this gap. It provides a justification for the production of the TLRP principles and describes the… [Direct]

Cox, James R.; Kohorst, Kelly (2007). Virtual Office Hours Using a Tablet PC: E-lluminating Biochemistry in an Online Environment. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, v35 n3 p193-197 May-Jun. The availability of online collaboration software has provided new opportunities for instructors to interact with students outside the classroom. This report describes how Elluminate \Live!\[R], a particular conferencing software package, can be used with a tablet PC to conduct virtual office hours in a biochemistry course. The educational value of engaging students in an online environment, with text messaging, voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP), and application sharing is also discussed. A student perspective is provided to illustrate the advantages of conducting virtual office hours and how the combination of online collaboration software and tablet PC technology can provide an enhanced learning experience. (Contains 3 figures.)… [Direct]

Vasumathi, T. (2009). Challenges for Professional Development of Mother Teacher Educators in Information Communication Technologies. Online Submission, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Indian Association of Teacher Educators (IATE) (43rd, Maharashtra. India, Dec 29-31, 2009). Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have brought new possibilities to the education sector, but at the same time, they have placed more demands on teachers. They now have to learn how to cope with computers in their classrooms, how to compete with students in accessing the vast body of information chiefly via internet and how to use the hardware and software to enhance the teaching/learning process. Therefore the teachers have to spend more time for their Professional Development in order to reach the benefits of ICT to the learners. Ability of teachers in the uses of ICT for education entails sharing of knowledge among teacher educators, intra and Inter-institutional collaboration, and support from principals and administrators. These factors must be in place for the mother teacher educators, accepting their problems and stress they face in order to bring change in the classroom they handle through ICT. Mother teacher educators require ongoing support and opportunities… [PDF]

Kantor, Shawn; Whalley, Alexander (2009). Do Universities Generate Agglomeration Spillovers? Evidence from Endowment Value Shocks. NBER Working Paper No. 15299. National Bureau of Economic Research In this paper we quantify the extent and magnitude of agglomeration spillovers from a formal institution whose sole mission is the creation and dissemination of knowledge–the research university. We use the fact that universities follow a fixed endowment spending policy based on the market value of their endowments to identify the causal effect of the density of university activity on labor income in the non-education sector in large urban counties. Our instrument for university expenditures is based on the interaction between each university's initial endowment level at the start of the study period and the variation in stock market shocks over the course of the study period. We find modest but statistically significant spillover effects of university activity. The estimates indicate that a 10% increase in higher education spending increases local non-education sector labor income by about 0.5%. As the implied elasticity is no larger than what previous work finds for agglomeration… [Direct]

Bowne, Mary; Cutler, Kay M.; Gilkerson, Deanna; Stremmel, Andrew (2009). Change within a Teacher Education Program and Laboratory: A Reflective Commentary. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, v30 n4 p404-417. Intentional, systemic philosophical change on an educational program level and on an individual level is often a slow and cyclic process. In this article, we reflect on the journey of philosophical change and growth from a traditional philosophy to an inquiry-based, Reggio-inspired one that occurred on both levels in an early childhood teacher education program and laboratory school over a period of 7 years. As an inquiry group, we reflected on the change we experienced in our own teaching methods, our interactions with staff members and each other, and our perceptions of change in interaction with our students. After carefully and systematically reviewing our reflections, five trends in change were identified. They were (a) recasting the image of the teacher and reevaluating the process of teaching and learning, (b) valuing dialogue, (c) cultivating a reflective mindset, (d) valuing outside perspectives, and (e) building meaningful relationships. The process of reflecting on and… [Direct]

Majeed, Zahid (2009). A Review of HR Practices in Knowledge-Intensive Firms and MNEs: 2000-2006. Journal of European Industrial Training, v33 n5 p439-456. Purpose: The aim of this paper is to show the association which exists among the wide range of knowledge management, knowledge sharing and HRM practices in the knowledge-intensive firms. Design/methodology/approach: The proposed literature review includes the systematic process of research in the following manner; after identifying the main area of interest, key concepts and words were selected, parameters were set to ensure selection of good quality journals, and availability of articles in full text was also considered. Findings: The study finds that one must keep in view the variable personnel demands and extensive training and development needs of knowledge workers, and highlights the need for attention to be paid to unique scientific practices for managing gold-collar workers in knowledge-intensive firms. Research limitations/implications: The need for further empirical, cross-case, cross-cultural and longitudinal studies is highlighted to explore the dimensions of HR practices… [Direct]