Much of what goes on in education occurs within some group context. Students typically
come from family units with certain characteristics, both ascribed (size, socioeconomic …

The history of black-white contact in the United States is long and complex. However, the
last 35 years have seen changes in relations between blacks and whites of a magnitude …

This study compared the effects on achievement and verbal interaction of two instructional
programs designed to teach students how to work effectively in small groups: cooperative …

This study examined the prevalence, conceptualization, and form of cooperative learning
used by elementary school teachers. Responding to a survey, 93% of teachers (n= 85) from …

This study investigated the effects of group ability composition on group processes and
outcomes in science performance assessments. Students in 21 eighth-grade science …

During the past decade there has been considerable criticism of administrative leadership
behavior in schools. Criticism has focused on the hegemony of autocratic forms of …

Large-scale assessment programs are beginning to design group assessment tasks in
which small groups of students collaborate to solve problems or complete projects. Little is …

Although the micropolitics of organizations has received increased attention in recent years,
few empirical studies of this phenomenon have actually been produced, particularly with …

Three trends have merged during the past few years that point to the importance of teacher
selection. First, research on teacher effectiveness (Brophy, 1973; Berliner & Tikunoff, 1976; …

This study assessed the effects of a change in principals, called management succession,
on school-level basic skills achievement using longitudinal data on 149 schools in the San …