William A. Firestone

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#77

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PhD Educational Psychology University of Chicago
Masters Educational Psychology University of Chicago

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William A. Firestone's Published Works

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Alternative Arguments for Generalizing From Data as Applied to Qualitative Research (1993) (928)
Multisite Qualitative Policy Research: Optimizing Description and Generalizability (1983) (920)
Meaning in Method: The Rhetoric of Quantitative and Qualitative Research (1987) (844)
Teacher Commitment, Working Conditions, and Differential Incentive Policies (1993) (546)
Performance-Based Assessment and Instructional Change: The Effects of Testing in Maine and Maryland (1998) (285)
Who's in Charge Here? Sources of Leadership for Change in Eight Schools (1995) (273)
Building Commitment in Urban High Schools (1988) (249)
Using Bureaucratic and Cultural Linkages to Improve Instruction: The Principal's Contribution (1985) (239)
Using Reform: Conceptualizing District Initiative (1989) (193)
Districts, Teacher Leaders, and Distributed Leadership: Changing Instructional Practice (2007) (187)
Educational Policy as an Ecology of Games (1989) (146)
Change and Effectiveness in Schools: A Cultural Perspective@@@Change and Effectiveness in Schools (1991) (144)
Teacher Evaluation Policy and Conflicting Theories of Motivation (2014) (136)
The ambiguity of teaching to the test : standards, assessment, and educational reform (2004) (134)
Schools as cultures (1999) (129)
A new agenda for research in educational leadership (2005) (122)
Images of Teaching and Proposals for Reform: A Comparison of Ideas from Cognitive and Organizational Research (1996) (117)
Two Images of Schools as Organizations: A Refinement and Elaboration (1984) (115)
Prescriptions for Effective Elementary Schools Don't Fit Secondary Schools. (1982) (115)
Resistance to Planned Change and the Sacred in School Cultures (1987) (109)
Leading Coherent Professional Development: A Comparison of Three Districts (2005) (103)
Leadership: Roles or Functions? (1996) (87)
Administrative support and teacher leadership in schools implementing reform (2008) (87)
The Study of Loose Coupling: Problems, Progress, and Prospects. (1984) (87)
Changing Classroom Practices through Teacher Networks: Matching Program Features with Teacher Characteristics and Circumstances (1996) (87)
Rethinking Effective Schools: Research and Practice (1990) (78)
Politics, Community, and Leadership in a School-University Partnership (2002) (78)
School context and school change : implications for effective planning (1984) (78)
Rethinking "High Stakes": Lessons from the United States and England and Wales. (2000) (68)
Power, Learning, and Legitimation: Assessment Implementation Across Levels in the United States and the United Kingdom (1999) (66)
chapter 6 Culture and Processes Affecting Data Use in School Districts (2007) (60)
Teacher Learning in a School-University Partnership: Exploring the Role of Social Trust and Teaching Efficacy Beliefs. (2006) (57)
Redesigning Teaching: Professionalism or Bureaucracy? (1992) (56)
Designing State-Sponsored Teacher Networks: A Comparison of Two Cases (1997) (49)
Educational tug‐of‐war: internal and external accountability of principals in varied contexts (2013) (47)
Two Images of Schools as Organizations: An Explication and Illustrative Empirical Test (1982) (45)
Redesigning Teacher Salary Systems for Educational Reform (1994) (42)
State Standards, Socio-fiscal Context and Opportunity to Learn in New Jersey (2000) (42)
The Formalization of Qualitative Research (1983) (42)
Accountability Nudges Districts into Changes in Culture (2009) (38)
The Ambiguity of Test Preparation: A Multimethod Analysis in One State (2002) (37)
Merit Pay and Job Enlargement as Reforms: Incentives, Implementation, and Teacher Response (1991) (34)
From Cashbox to Classroom: The Struggle for Fiscal Reform and Educational Change in New Jersey (1997) (32)
Where Did the $800 Million Go? The First Year of New Jersey's Quality Education Act (1994) (32)
Beyond Order and Expectations in High Schools Serving At-Risk Youth. (1989) (28)
The Alienation and Commitment of Students and Teachers in Urban High Schools. (1988) (28)
The Progress of Reform: An Appraisal of State Education Initiatives. CPRE Research Report Series RR-014. (1989) (27)
The Write Stuff: A Study of Productive Scholars in Educational Administration (2000) (26)
Approaches to Qualitative Data Analysis: Intuitive, Procedural, and Intersubjective. (1982) (26)
Why "Professionalizing" Teaching Is Not Enough. (1993) (25)
Participation and Influence in the Planning of Educational Change (1977) (25)
State Testing and Mathematics Teaching in New Jersey: The Effects of a Test Without Other Supports (2003) (23)
Professionalism or Bureaucracy? Redesigning Teaching (1991) (22)
Teacher-To-Teacher Professional Development Through State-Sponsored Networks. (1998) (22)
State Educational Reform Since 1983: Appraisal and the Future (1991) (21)
Explaining Differences between Elementary and Secondary Schools: Individual, Organizational, and Institutional Perspectives. (1984) (20)
A Tale of Two Tests: tensions in assessment policy (1998) (20)
Building Commitment among Students and Teachers: An Exploratory Study of Ten Urban High Schools. (1987) (19)
The Contextual Terrain Facing Educational Leaders (2005) (19)
Teacher evaluation as data use: what recent research suggests (2019) (19)
Culture and Processes Affecting Data Use in School Districts (2007) (18)
Using Bureaucratic and Cultural Linkages to Improve Instruction: The High School Principal's Contribution. (1983) (17)
Succession and Bureaucracy: Gouldner Revisited (1990) (16)
Great expectations for small schools: The limitations of Federal projects (1980) (16)
Recent Trends in State Educational Reform: Assessment and Prospects (1992) (15)
The content and context of sexuality education: an exploratory study in one state. (1994) (15)
Images of Schools and Patterns of Change (1980) (13)
Multisite Qualitative Policy Research in Education: Some Design and Implementation Issues. (1983) (13)
Why Teachers Participate in Professional Development: Lessons from a Schoolwide Teacher Study Group (2017) (13)
Teaching Research and Data Use in the Education Doctorate (2019) (12)
The Balance of Control between Parents and Teachers in Co-op Free Schools (1977) (10)
Schools Versus Linking Agents as Contributors to the Change Process (1981) (10)
Values and State Ratings: An Examination of the State-By-State Education Indicators in Quality Counts (2005) (10)
Education Reform from 1983 to 1990: State Action and District Response. (1991) (10)
Content and Coherence in District Professional Development: Three Case Studies. Publication Series No. 3. (2004) (10)
Creating Cultures That Support Instruction: A View of the Principal's Leadership Role. (1984) (10)
Differential Regulation: Clever Customization Or Unequal Interference? (1995) (10)
Two Images of Schools as Organizations: A Replication and Elaboration. (1983) (10)
Heroes, Teams, and Teachers: A Study of Leadership for Change. (1994) (10)
State Standards & Opportunity To Learn in New Jersey. (2000) (9)
Assistance and Enforcement (1983) (9)
An Analysis of the Teaching Practices of a Group of Fourth Grade Teachers. (2001) (8)
Administrative Behavior, School SES, and Student Achievement: A Preliminary Investigation. (1989) (8)
Rethinking teacher evaluation using human, social, and material capital (2021) (8)
Implementation, Effects of State Education Reform in the '80S (1990) (8)
The Principal and Instruction: Combining Bureaucratic and Cultural Linkages (2005) (8)
The Principal, Test Preparation, and Educational Reform (2004) (7)
Only a Phone Call Away: Local Educators' Views of Regional Educational Service Agencies. (1984) (7)
Culture of School Is a Key to More Effective Instruction (1984) (6)
LOOSE COUPLING: THE "CONDITION" AND ITS SOLUTIONS? (2015) (6)
Images of the School: An Exploration of the Social Organization of Elementary, Junior High, and High Schools, Field Studies. (1980) (6)
Professional Development for Instruction and Student Learning? A New State Policy for Administrators (2008) (5)
To Ethnograph or Not to Ethnograph? Varieties of Qualitative Research in Education. (1981) (5)
Professional Cultures, Improvement Efforts and Effectiveness: Findings from a Study of Three High Schools (1985) (5)
Research on Educational Leadership – Approaches/Promising Directions (2010) (5)
Pressure and Support (2004) (5)
Effective Schools: Do Elementary Prescriptions Fit Secondary Schools?. (1982) (4)
Shopping for Assistance: A Boundary Spanning Role for Administrators. (1982) (4)
Equity in Sexuality Education: An Exploratory Study of Family Life Education in New Jersey's Rich and Poor Districts (1994) (4)
Teaching Mathematics and Science (2004) (4)
Exploring Organizational Approaches to Dissemination and Training (1986) (3)
The Coordination of Education and Social Services: Implications from Three Programs. (1987) (3)
The Study of Regional Educational Service Agencies: Summary of Findings. (1983) (3)
Ideology and Conflict in Parent-Run Free Schools. (1976) (3)
The Politics of Technical Assistance (1984) (3)
Political and Technical Linkage: The Contribution of Regional Agencies. (1981) (3)
From Conflict to Schism: The First Year in Parent-Run Free Schools. (1976) (3)
Reply to David (1983) (3)
Multisite Qualitative Policy Research in Education: A Study of Recent Federal Experience. Final Report. (1982) (2)
Alienation and Commitment of High School Students and Teachers. (1987) (2)
The Promise and Problems of Long-Term, Continuous Fieldwork. (1978) (2)
Rational Bureaucracy or Loosely Coupled System? An Empirical Comparison of Two Images of Organization. (1982) (2)
Regional Educational Service Agencies Supporting Knowledge Utilization: The Intermediate Units of Pennsylvania. (1981) (2)
Constructing Case Studies on Educational Change for Policy Makers. (1980) (2)
The Bureaucratic Elementary School: Comparing Two Images of Elementary, Junior High, and High Schools. (1981) (2)
Teaching Evidence Use to Educational Leaders: The Ed.D.'s Contribution (2020) (1)
Knowledge Use in Educational Development: Tales from a Two-Way Street. (1981) (1)
Examining cohort models in the education doctorate (2020) (1)
Rationality and Cooperation in External Assistance for School Improvement: A Preliminary Report on the RBS Experience. (1979) (1)
Redesigning Teaching: Professionalism or Bureaucracy? Teacher Thinking and Development Series. (1992) (1)
Democracy and Professionalism in Teacher Change@@@Redesigning Teaching: Professionalism or Bureaucracy? (1994) (1)
School vs. Linking Agent: Contributions to the Change Process. (1980) (1)
Waste not want not: school finance reform and educational equity in new jersey (1996) (1)
Teacher Learning in a School-University Partnership: Exploring the Role of Social Trust and Teaching Efficacy Beliefs (2006) (1)
Where the Money Went: Revenue, Expenditure, and Programmatic Changes in the First Year of New Jersey's Quality Education Act. (1993) (1)
Section 2 Understanding the Challenges of School and District Leadership at the Dawn of a new Century (2002) (1)
Between Two Communities: External Pressures on the Direction of Educational Change. (1975) (1)
Firestone, William A., "Alternative Arguments for Generalizing from the Data as Applied to Qualitative Research," Educational Researcher, 22(May, 1993), 16-23. (1993) (1)
Educators and External Assistance: Factors Influencing Breadth of Knowledge Sharing. (1983) (1)
Letters: Reply to David (1983) (1)
Variations in Principal Perceptions of Accountability (2011) (0)
You Can Lead a Horse to Water: Limis to State Control over Technical Assistance Agencies in Education (1983) (0)
Acknowledgments (2014) (0)
School Improvement through analysis of Organizational Data: From Fast Food to Five Star Resturants. (1985) (0)
Knowledge for Legitimacy: The Maintenance Functions of Reformist Activities (1983) (0)
Book Review:The Imperfect Union: School Consolidation and Community Conflict Alan Peshkin (1984) (0)
A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION (2012) (0)
Learning to Use Research Evidence: The Case of the Education Doctorate (2023) (0)
Strategies for Promoting Research Use Learned in EdD Programs (2021) (0)
Local leadership: Policy implementation, local education authorities and schools (2013) (0)
Firestone, William A., and Gretchen B. Rossman, "Exploring Organizational Approaches to Dissemination and Training," Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 7(March, 1986), 303-330. (1986) (0)
Community Organizations and School Reform: A Case Study (1972) (0)
Book Review:Different by Design: The Context and Character of Three Magnet Schools Mary Haywood Metz (1987) (0)
Elementary Secondary Education : * Institutional Characteristics : * Organizational Theories : * School Organization : Schodt Surveys : Teacher Attitudes TDENTIrIERS * Loosely Coupled Systems : * Rational Bureaucracy (2011) (0)
Rethinking teacher evaluation using human, social, and material capital (2021) (0)
Limits to Citizen Participation: The Decline of Community Organizations. Marilyn Gittell , Bruce Hoffacker , Eleanor Rollins , Samuel Foster , Mark Hoffacker (1982) (0)
Book Reviews (1992) (0)
Chapter VII: The District Role in State Assessment Policy: An Exploratory Study1 (2001) (0)
Strategies for Promoting Evidence Use Through the Education Doctorate (2021) (0)
Regulatory Equity and Effectiveness: Issues of Will, Capacity, and Legitimation in New Jersey. (1993) (0)
Rethinking “High Stakes”: Lessons from the United States and England and Wales (2000) (0)
Restructuring Teaching: Form, Process, and Outcome. (1990) (0)
Volume Information (1990) (0)
Is "Who Governs?" the Right Question? (1981) (0)
Essay Reviews (1988) (0)
Chapter 13: Leadership: Roles or Functions?l (1996) (0)

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