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No rookies on rookies: compliance and opportunism in policy implementation

Michael R. Mills, +1 more
- 01 Jul 2001 - 
- Vol. 72, Iss: 4, pp 453-477
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In this paper, no rookies on rookies were used to rank students in higher education, and no Rookies on rookies was used to evaluate the performance of the students' programs.
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(2001). No Rookies on Rookies. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 72, No. 4, pp. 453-477.

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Work-First or Work-Only: Welfare Reform, State Policy, and Access to Postsecondary Education

TL;DR: This article examined the sources and consequences of state variation in access to postsecondary education for disadvantaged individuals and found that competing ideas about welfare, work and the role of education in the lives of welfare recipients help structure and shape political debates, and policy outcomes, in each of the states.

Faculty members' professional growth in teaching through the summative peer review of teaching and other departmental practices

Isabeau Iqbal
TL;DR: This book discusses the role of peer review in the development of teaching professional growth and the role that teachers and students play in this process.
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The Implementation of a Large-Scale Pathway Reform: How Department Chairs Make Sense of and Navigate a Pathway Initiative in a Community College

TL;DR: The pathway model as discussed by the authors has emerged as the preferred structural model for the education experience in the United States, which is defined as "a highly structured, coherent education experience that is built around and through an area of study".
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Sensemaking in organizations

Karl E. Weick
TL;DR: The Nature of Sensemaking Seven properties of sensemaking Sensemaking in Organizations Occasions for Sensemaking The Substance of Sense-making Belief-Driven Processes of Sense Making Action-driven Processes on Sensemaking.
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InterViews: An introduction to qualitative research interviewing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of the research interview as a conversation and discuss the social construction of validity of the interview report and the ethical issues in conducting research interviews.
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Organizational information requirements, media richness and structural design

TL;DR: Models are proposed that show how organizations can be designed to meet the information needs of technology, interdepartmental relations, and the environment to both reduce uncertainty and resolve equivocality.
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A primer on decision making : how decisions happen

Chip Heath, +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an introduction to decision making, a central human activity, fundamental to individual, group, organizational, and societal life, and draw on research from all the disciplines of social and behavioural science to show decision making in its broadest context.