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Educational Administration - General & Miscellaneous, Middle School Education, School Management & Organization
Quality Middle Schools by Kevin M. Barnes β€” book cover

Quality Middle Schools

by Hoy, Wayne K., Barnes, Kevin, Hannum, John
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Overview

Building on 20 years of careful research and real-world testing, the authors show administrators how to assess their schools' health. The goal is to improve middle schools by making sure the "culture" is right for all groups - students, teachers, staff. The authors call their measurement tools the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire Revised for Middle Schools (OCDQ-RM), for tapping the openness of a school's professional interactions, and the Organizational Health Inventory for Middle Schools (OHI-M), for capturing the health of interpersonal relationships in schools. The OCDQ-RM (openness) questionnaire and the OHI-M (health) inventory are included in this book - ready to copy and administer. These measurements are user-friendly and easy to interpret; scoring directions are clearly explained. School leaders, especially superintendents and principals, can use these hands-on tools to understand what's going on in their schools and then make changes as necessary. Actual case studies show how using the questionnaires can help make every middle school a high-quality and positive learning environment.

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Book Details

Published
June 11, 1997
Publisher
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c1998.
Pages
216
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780803964204

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