Inspiring Middle and Secondary Learners: Honoring Differences and Creating Community Through Differentiating Instructional Practices

Kryza, Kathleen; Stephens, Samuel A.; Duncan, Alicia

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“…Ad hocracy culture with such dominant components as entrepreneurship, creativity and adaptability (Deshpande et al , 1993) and market culture with strategic emphasis on competitive edge and market superiority (Deshpande et al , 1993) support upward influence behaviors which create a new set of organizational values for innovation and market success. Clan culture, on the other hand, with high sense of family and high interpersonal cohesiveness (Deshpande et al , 1993) look upon upward influence behaviors as a crucial flow of communication and interaction, which helps the leader, also as the mentor, understands her or his members in their “big family” to help them as Arthur Combs says, “Without an understanding of the unique meanings existing for the individual, the problems of helping him effectively are almost insurmountable” (Kryza et al , 2009). Moreover, clan culture incubated in the atmosphere of a family and a rather flat organizational structure tends to yield physical and relational proximity between superiors and subordinates, so facilitates organizationally beneficial upward influence behaviors.…”

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What trust grows through upward influence?

Trong Tuan

2012

Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discern whether upward influence behavior, with its antecedents such as organizational culture and leadership, can cultivate organizational trust, with particular reference to manufacturing companies in the plastics industry in Vietnam.Design/methodology/approachStructural equation modeling (SEM) was used for the analysis of 418 responses returned from self‐administered structured questionnaires sent to 655 middle level managers.FindingsFrom the findings emerged the linkage pattern of knowledge‐based trust or identity‐based trust and organizationally beneficial upward influence behavior. Ad hocracy, market, and clan cultures and transformational leadership were found to cultivate organizationally‐beneficial upward influence strategies, which in turn cultivate knowledge‐based or identity‐based trust.Originality/valueThe paper discerns the interplay between culture and leadership on the upward influence behaviors, which in turn influence organizational trust. The paper's findings provide insight into the interplay pattern of trust and its antecedents and underscore the magnitude of ad hocracy, market, and clan culture types, as well as transformational leadership style in the building of organizationally‐beneficial upward influence strategies in plastic manufacturing companies in the Vietnam business setting.

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What trust grows through upward influence?

Trong Tuan

2012

Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration

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“…The current education system pays more attention to students' individual differences than it did in the past. Especially in recent years, educators have been trying out new methods, techniques, and approaches to meet learners' needs by accounting for learner differences (Kryza, Stephens, & Duncan, 2007;Kan, 2013). As one such technique, the learning stations technique is applied to design activities at learning stations by taking individual differences of learners into consideration, and these activities create a learning platform which enable students to experience various equipment.…”

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Effects of Using the Learning Stations Technique to Teach the Electrical Current Topic on Students’ Physics Subject Performance

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The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of using the learning stations technique in teaching about the electrical current on students’ physics course achievement. The sample of the experimental study designed with a pretest-posttest model consists of 50 10th grade students studying in a Science High School in Trabzon, in the 2016-2017 academic year. A multiple-choice achievement test with .80 reliability coefficient was used as the data collection tool. The obtained data were analyzed by applying the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test in SPSS 20.00 program and a statistically significant difference was found between the experimental and control group achievement test scores in favor of the experimental group, which indicates that the learning stations technique practices performed to teach about the electrical current are effective in increasing the 10th grade students’ physics course achievements.

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“…Kryza, Stephens, and Duncan (2007) came up with similar guidelines of how to a tiered instruction can be managed successfully. The guidelines include: 1.5.…”

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Effects of tiered English reading instruction on reading comprehension ability and opinions of lower secondary school students

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Differentiated Instruction (DI) is an instructional approach that can be used in English reading classrooms for second language learners to accommodate a wide range of student reading abilities. Tiering is one specific DI strategy that aims to adapt instruction to different levels so all students in a mixed-ability classroom are adequately challenged. This study explored the effects of tiering instruction on the English reading comprehension of secondary school students in Thailand. Three parts of each lesson were tiered: content (reading texts), process (the way students make sense of the reading texts), and product (post-reading tasks). The students were also tiered into three groupsbasic, grade-level, and advancedbased on their self-assessed background knowledge of the topic of each lesson. The scores from the paralleled pretest and posttest were compared and a statistically significant improvement to the students' overall comprehension was observed. The interviews revealed mostly positive sentiments amongst the students who used words like joy, motivation, interest, and excitement to describe their opinions of tiered reading instruction. The findings from this study suggest tiering is an effective strategy in mixed-ability English reading classrooms for second language learners. Further, tiering should be investigated as an instructional strategy for other language skills.

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Inspiring Middle and Secondary Learners: Honoring Differences and Creating Community Through Differentiating Instructional Practices

Cited by 4 publications

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What trust grows through upward influence?

What trust grows through upward influence?

Effects of Using the Learning Stations Technique to Teach the Electrical Current Topic on Students’ Physics Subject Performance

Effects of tiered English reading instruction on reading comprehension ability and opinions of lower secondary school students

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