NCDPI, Final Presentation, NCDPI, 2007

 

NECC Presentation, 2007

Published Articles

Bradburn, Frances Bryant.  “Putting Their Heads Together,”  T.H.E. Journal (July 2007)

Bradburn, Frances Bryant.  “Making an IMPACT: Methods to Enact Change in Technology Instruction,”  Converge (Spring 2007): 50 – 52.

Bradburn, Frances Bryant and Jason W. Osborne.  “Shared Leadership Makes an IMPACT in North Carolina,” eSchool News (March 2007)

Bradburn, Frances Bryant.  “A Program with Impact,” T.H.E. Journal (January 2007): 50-52. 

Bradburn, Frances Bryant.  “Preloading Professional Development to Ensure Potential Success,” T.H.E. Journal (July 2004): 22-25.

Bradburn, Frances Bryant.  “Tweaking Common Professional Development Models for Added Value,” T.H.E. Journal (July 2004): 26-28.

IMPACT: Guidelines for North Carolina Media and Technology Programs.  North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2000, 2005, 

Instruments

 

Experimental Design: Instruments

Students
•    Gates-MacGinitie Reading Comprehension Test  (MacGinitie, W.H,, MacGinitie, Maria,C., Dreyer, L.G., & Hughes, K.E., 2003)
•    NC state end-of-grade reading test
•    Metacomprehension Strategy Index (Schmitt, 1990). 
•    Jr. MAI (Metacognitive Awareness Inventory) (Sperling, Howard, Miller, & Murphy, 2002)
•    Reading Efficacy (Wigfield & Guthrie, 1995).  

Teachers
•    Technology use survey
•    TAC survey (Christensen & Knezek, 1998).
•    DeFord Theoretical Orientation to Reading Profile (TORP) (pretest only)
•    MAI (Metacognitive Awareness Inventory) (Schraw & Dennison, 1994
•    Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES)
•    Teaching Reading Efficacy. (Roberts, Putney, Nietfeld, & Duncanson, 2003).




Readings of Interest

 

Fullan, M. (2001). Leading in a culture of change. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Fullan, M. (2005, August 30-31, 2005). Partners in Learning: Learning to lead change elite course, Redmond, WA.

Guskey, T. R. (1986). Staff development and the process of teacher change. Educational Researcher, 15(5), 5-11.

Guskey, T. R. (2000). Evaluating staff development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Hall, G. E., & Hord, S. M. (1984). Change in schools: Facilitating the process. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Hergert, L.F., Mundry, S.E., Kolb, F.A., Rose, R., & Corro, J. (1989). Making change. Boston: The Network.

Horsley, D. L., & Loucks-Horsley, S. (1998). CBAM brings order to the tornado of change. Journal of Staff Development, 19(4), 17-20.

Marzano, R., Waters, T., & McNulty, B. (2005). School leadership that works. Aurora, CO: McREL.

Newmann, F. M., Smith, B., Allensworth, E., & Bryk, A. S. (2001). School instructional program coherence: Benefits and challenges. Chicago, IL: Consortium on Chicago School Research.

Rogers, E. M. (1995). Diffusion of innovations (4th ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster.

Wenger, E., McDermott, R., & Snyder, W. M. (2002). Cultivating communities of practice: A guide to managing knowledge. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.