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Thomas, Johnny. "Archstand theory of design for innovation : the integration of design and innovation using conceptual architectures." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11722.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1995, and Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1995.Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-283).
by Johnny Thomas.
Ph.D.
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Fulkerson, Sarah (Sarah Hampton) 1969, and Anna 1969 Halpern-Lande. "Product design and innovation : exploring breakthrough products (breakthroughs : a method and a madness)." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9619.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1998.Zip disk formatted for Macintosh.
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This paper has been an iterative rather than a breakthrough process. we approached the topic of product design and innovation with notions of what it meant and how good designs were created. our purpose here has been to provide some understanding of the complexity of the issues surrounding breakthrough product designs. we redefine a variety of terms that are used liberally in the field to provide some sort of precise understanding of our perspective. This thesis is not meant to be read in the traditional paper format rather, it has digital collateral
by Sarah Fulkerson and Anna Halpern-Lande.
M.B.A.
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Yu, Warren. "Cultivating innovation to ignite organizational transformation." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Mar%5FYu.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2004.Thesis advisor(s): Barry Frew, Dale Courtney. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79). Also available online.
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Burke, James Brian. "Evolution of the entrepreneurial firm : product strategy and organizational design /." Thesis, Cambridge, Mass, 1996. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/527372560.pdf.
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Saylak, Diana Danielle. "The Design Process and Functionality of an Innovative School| A Case Study of Lee Elementary." Thesis, Dallas Baptist University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10937766.
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Improving the educational system has been a focus in the United States, but these reform efforts have not been as effective as intended. Educational transformation is the focus in one North Texas school district. The design of school facilities and impact of school design on reform efforts have not been extensively investigated. The current study examines and describes the process used by one school district to design an innovative elementary school and how components of the design impacted a change in behavior. Interviews were conducted with 19 members of the design committee, which included the design team, district administrators, and architects. Data collected from the interviews, as well as archival data, was entered into NVivo for Mac. The analysis revealed four overarching themes: collaboration, flexibility, sustainability, and school as a tool. These themes were evident in the design process, and in the design of the school. Data was also collected to describe the process used by the district to design the building, develop the curriculum and pedagogy used, and hire the administrators and educators for the campus. The process used design thinking to develop the design for the building. The result of the process was an award-winning innovative school building.
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Franklin, Rebecca N. "Innovation Within Regulations: Gaining Insight On Cultivating Employee-Led Innovation In California Public-Sector Organizations." Scholarly Commons, 2020. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3704.
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The inquiry concerned gaining insights into environmental elements needed within California public-sector organizations to increase employees’ willingness to share innovative ideas. Although research exists regarding the need for service innovation and employees as fruitful sources of innovative ideas, there have been limited studies concerning public-sector organizations and the best method to solicit employee ideas. The data collection for this qualitative research study consisted of a series of interviews with front-line, non-supervisory civil servants. The results provide insights and information on how public-sector organizations may foster a culture that promotes and encourages employee-led innovation. The themes that emerged were (a) transparency in the process of sharing ideas and what is needed to feel motivated to participate in a formal submission process; (b) recognition and follow up, including which types of follow up and recognition are needed to feel the idea submission was worth the effort; (c) safe space including what needs to be present within the process for employees to feel safe to participate; (d) organizational buy-in including the need for encouragement and demonstrated support from all levels of leadership. These themes contributed to form the following recommendations for organizations to create a process and culture for soliciting ideas from employees: (a) establishing a transparent and easy to use process; (b) utilizing trusted and unbiased evaluators to review ideas; (c) providing meaningful and specific follow-up on ideas submitted; (d) ensuring there is no public criticism of ideas, but having public praise for submitting ideas; creating an organizational culture to be promoting and supporting participation in these processes. The data analysis revealed several implications: a significant disconnect between what employees' need to be comfortable sharing ideas and the existing process; the insufficient efforts of current leaders to promote and execute innovation within their organizations; the need for a paradigm shift to embrace a culture and operations that support innovation at all levels of an organization.
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Leung, Yat-ming. "A study of curriculum innovation in post-1976 China, with special reference to the design and implementation of the senior middle school geography curriculum." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293903.
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Xiong, Thai. "The Impact of Technology Innovations in High School Biology Courses on Science Learning for Hmong Students." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5295.
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Hmong high school students struggle in science courses and have difficulty using technology, leaving them behind other ethnic groups in science performance. There is lack of research regarding Hmong students' struggle in technology-focused science courses, especially regarding the experiences of Hmong students with using science technology and teachers' experiences with these students. This single case study was designed to explore how technology innovations in high school biology courses impact science learning for Hmong students based on Gu, Zhu, and Guo's technology acceptance model. Both Hmong student and science teacher interviews as well as reflective journal data were collected to better understand students' opinions regarding usefulness and ease-of-use of technology in high school biology courses. Course document data were collected to determine technology integrations in lessons. Participants selected from a public high school in the Midwestern region of the United States included 8 Hmong students and 2 teachers. Data were analyzed within unit analysis and line-by-line coding to construct codes, then through cross unit analysis to develop themes. Results indicate that technologies have a positive impact on Hmong student science learning and aligned to the technology acceptance model. Key findings included positive use of technology, usefulness of technology and ease of use, and evidence of technology integration. The results can be used by teachers to improve support to minority students who learn biology using educational and scientific technology. The use of technology contributes to positive social change to advance Hmong students' acceptance of technology and biology learning, as well as the advancement of education to support all learners.
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Proctor, Clinton Lee. "Improving operational effectiveness in the job-shop environment through discrete event simulation and innovative process design." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122281.
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Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2018, In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MITThesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2018, In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT
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Includes bibliographical references (page 63).
A key value stream for Company X is a manufacturing area dedicated to production of precision electro-mechanical systems, of which they are contracted to service during the complete lifecycle. Currently, the production system is dedicated to the refurbishment of these electro-mechanical systems; it could be characterized as a high-mix low volume production system with a-job-shop layout. The operations team is being pressured to increase both production volumes and the product mix, while maintaining a competitive cost structure in a highly constrained environment, in terms of both space and resources. This thesis proposes two distinct projects to address the challenges faced. First, develop a framework to analyze the value stream, utilizing a discrete event simulation (DES) tool to characterize the production system.
The method will validate the DES tool against the current state production system and key performance indicators (KPI's) then conduct what-if analyses and studies based upon anticipated contractual obligations. This effort will identify risks within the value stream related to the transition from current state to future state, while studying the impact of changes in shipment volumes, product mix, direct labor, and capital equipment. This model supported conclusions and recommendations drawn, based upon the results of the DES, to build confidence in the production system and enable the value stream to meet the requirements of the increased volumes and complexity through making informed operational decisions. Second, to improve a key subassembly within the value stream identified as problematic with respect to labor content, cycle time, and ergonomics. A project has been identified to develop a new process to join two components with a tightly controlled radial bond.
Currently, the components are bonded, and the bond material must cure for several days. Upon curing, the joint contains excess bond material that must be removed for several reasons. The excess material is removed through a manual cutting process that is physically taxing on operators. After cutting, a cleanup process is initiated where an operator fills the void left from cutting with additional material; this additional bond material needs several additional days to cure. The new process utilizes an inflatable vessel that will apply pressure during the bond process to direct excess material away from the joint, eliminating the need for secondary processing in the joint, favorably impacting labor content, cycle time, and the ergonomics of operators. To speed validation and adoption, this project leveraged the 3D printing capabilities of the manufacturer.
Both the testing fixture and test articles were 3D printed in order to accelerate development and reduce risk associated with investment in the development process. Testing of the new process has indicated that the new method produces bonds of acceptable quality with markedly reduced labor content, resulting in a projected annual savings of $950k.
by Clinton Lee Proctor.
M.B.A.
S.M.
M.B.A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Edwards, Chester Roy. "Designing Innovative Alternatives to Traditional High Schools: What Leaders Need to Know." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1036.
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The need for new and innovative alternatives to traditional high schools has never been greater. Never designed to graduate all students on time, traditional high schools and their high dropout rates have remained unchanged for the last 30 years. Improving secondary schooling for all young people is a worthwhile social and educational objective. Many school leaders want to create alternative high schools but may lack the knowledge of what to do, nor may they have a comprehensive design process to follow.
The research question explored in this dissertation is: What do leaders in education need to know to design innovative alternatives to traditional high schools?
This dissertation studied four aspects or assumptions that school leaders should understand when designing alternatives to traditional high schools: (a) consider all of the elements of successful alternative high schools, (b) start over conceptually when designing a new alternative high school, (c) use regional accreditation standards as a framework for design, and (d) begin design with the end in mind for program evaluation. Research literature topics of alternative education, organizational leadership, school accreditation standards, and program evaluation were reviewed.
The research conducted was theoretically and practically grounded in Bridges and Hallinger's (1995) Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and Borg and Gall's (1989) Research and Development (R&D) Cycle. The product of the research conducted in the R&D cycle was a process for designing alternative high schools. Qualitative and quantitative data collected from school leaders and designers during field tests was analyzed to improve a prototype of an alternative high school design process. An effective process that is ready for dissemination was the result of this research. A larger implication of the application of this process will be the improvement of high school experiences for all students through the creation of new designs for innovative forms of secondary schooling.
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Morgan, Allan Robert. "The principal in a process of school revitalisation: a metastrategic role." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Education, 2008. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00004077/.
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[Abstract]: The educational literature has popularised models of school leadership such as Instructional, Transformational, Strategic, Educative, and Servant Leadership. Whilst valuable as ways of conceptualising leadership styles, worldviews, traits, roles and functions of individual principals, these models fall short of capturing the dynamic between the outcomes of leadership and the leadership process in contemporary school contexts. Distributed leadership theory is held by many to be more attuned to the post-industrial needs of organisations, and its influence on educational research has seen the emergence of new ways of comprehending leadership in schools. One influential example is ‘parallel leadership’, a derivative of distributed leadership that describes teachers as leaders of curriculum and pedagogy and principals as metastrategic leaders. This study looks specifically at the leadership processes of a small sample of principals in the process of school revitalisation titled IDEAS (Innovative Designs for Enhancing the Achievements of Schools). A key motivation for this study was that the concept of ‘parallel leadership’ had been subjected to little serious critique. Uncertainty surrounded how principals in IDEAS schools conceptualised their leadership, and what impacts experience with the IDEAS Project has on conceptions of leadership. The purpose of this study was to tease out the meanings that a sample of principals gave to their highly complex role as principal, whilst engaging with the concept of ‘parallel leadership’ during their schools’ implementations of IDEAS. The Research Problem was stated as: What conceptions of principal leadership arise out of a sample of principals’ experiences with a process of school revitalisation that emphasises a distributed approach to school leadership? The overarching inquiry took the form of a multi-case or collective case study and comprised four principals who had engaged with IDEAS over a period of at least two years. Data collection strategies included the in-depth interview, which was chosen as the primary method for informants to describe their perceptions of their leadership, together with concept mapping and a structured interview that was utilised to gain staff perceptions of informants’ leadership. Methods of analysis involved detailed transcriptions of taped interviews and tools derived from the literature review that were used to code and categorise the texts of interviews.Crowther et al. (2001) proposed a Model of Successful School Revitalisation as a result of their research conducted under the auspices of the Australian Research Council and Commonwealth Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DETYA). Source: (Crowther, Hann & McMaster 2001, p. 141). First, the Model identifies principal leadership and teacher leadership as each having concrete meaning and significance and that success occurs through a mutual and respectful association. This relationship is captured by the authors in the new concept of ‘parallel leadership’. Second, the Model makes clear a view that effective school leadership impacts three school processes that are conceptualised as culture building, shared approach to pedagogy and schoolwide learning. Third, the Model proposes that through the enrichment and integration of these three processes school outcomes are enhanced.This study focussed on the principal leadership aspect of ‘parallel leadership’ and resulted in a Model of Metastrategic Principal Leadership that conceptualises the intersection of principal leadership and the ideas process which Crowther et al. described as the Stimulus.The present study thereby extends the definition of ‘parallel leadership’ by describing how principals contribute to transformations of leadership, learning, and pedagogy through three principal-led processes. The proposed Model of Metastrategic Principal Leadership suggests that when activated by a principal’s continuous professional learning the combination of the interactions of personal style (Personal), the process of revitalisation (Processual), and personal conceptualisation of role (Conceptual) result in principal-led processes that support successful school revitalisation. The three principal-led processes that were uncovered are described as re-imaging school leadership, support of organisation-wide learning, and management of meaning.The researcher hopes the outcomes of the study will be of benefit to principals and teachers in the increasing numbers of schools now engaging with IDEAS across Australia and internationally. A further hope is that the present study’s descriptions of new ways of comprehending leadership in schools might be of assistance to school practitioners seeking to move from traditional to distributed forms of leadership and also educational theorists who are working in the field of school improvement.
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Toft, P. N. "Management of innovation in school technology." Thesis, University of Salford, 1988. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/14795/.
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This thesis documents and evaluates two associated topics of action research in the form of case studies in school technology. Its emphasis is on the role of strategic planning in the management of innovation within this increasingly important area of the English school curriculum. The research was carried out during a period in which British industrial innovation, and its effective management, was seen to be crucial to the nation's economic well being in the face of international competition. Growing acceptance of the importance of technology in general schooling, evidenced by its inclusion in the national curriculum embodied in the 1988 Education Reform Act, is set against the interlinked cultural, epistemological and professional barriers to its acceptance as high status activity within schools. It is argued that considerable energy expenditure is required before the intentions of the Reform Act become reality, and that innovation will need to be effectively managed. The study is therefore set against a review of the literature of innovation management in three spheres: curriculum development; the diffusion of Innovations; and industrial management. The first case study examines the implementation of an innovatory interpretation of the school subject Craft, Design and Technology (CDT) within the City of Manchester Education Authority. It tests the feasibility of developing a 'concept base' approach to CDT by teachers collaborating and being supported by the authority's inspector for CDT. It concludes that the innovation in a simple form is feasible, given that certain conditions and levels of resourcing can be met, but that in a more elaborate form, the innovation is severely problematic. The turbulence and rapid change being experienced within schools in the late nineteen eighties increases the severity of these problems. The second case study describes a project carried out in the North West of England in which various local education authorities and institutions of higher education collaborated to reduce perceived severe qualitative and quantitative shortages of CDT teachers. Five project aims were tested within the research and it is concluded that under certain conditions they are achievable, but that collaboration between institutions with different goals and customs is difficult, and that the quality of management information available to CDT staffing decision makers in the region W4S insufficiently accurate or sophisticated for effective innovation to proceed. In conclusion, certain generalisations are made relating to the effective management of innovation in school technology. These include: the inevitability of transactional distortion of objectives in the journey from intention-to outcome; the need to formulate and understand objectives and defend them from this drift, albeit in flexible ways; the need for incentives and central control in such collaborative endeavours; and finally the need for simple and effective communications within innovations.
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Williams, William Bryant Jr. "Middle school innovation: Interpretation and assessment." W&M ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539618631.
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The purposes of this study were to present a historical interpretation and explanation of the middle school innovation and to examine the characteristics of model middle schools. In light of the available body of knowledge is the middle school a reasonable innovation to sustain and implement? A subsidiary purpose was to determine if there were any consensually agreed upon characteristics. The main research question is:;A comprehensive review of the literature was completed to provide the history of middle level education. Beginning with an explanation of the work of the Committee of Ten in 1893, the study provided a report on the current status of the middle school movement and established the rationality and reasonableness of the program in meeting the intent established by the Committee of Ten. The educational, social, and political issues that affected the development of the middle school movement were also examined.;The second part of the study included an examination of the literature on middle level education for the past quarter of a century to determine the essential characteristics of good middle schools. The rationale for implementing teacher training, flexible scheduling, and a core and exploratory curriculum was also examined as they relate to the middle school program.;It was concluded that the middle school is a reasonable innovation to sustain and implement in light of the available body of knowledge. The middle school itself is now being presented as a distinct unit in the educational system that provides a transitional program between the elementary school and high school. The literature and research of middle level education also indicated that highly successful middle schools have very similar programs.;Further study is needed to determine what types of teaming arrangements are most appropriate for the various middle grades, the strengths and weaknesses of various middle school daily schedules, and the effects of the interdisciplinary approach used in the middle school.
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Wright, Natalie. "The goDesign immersion program: Fostering design-led educational innovation in regional Australian schools." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/123067/1/Natalie_Wright_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis proposes a new research area and framework for Design-led Educational Innovation which, based on approaches applied from the business, design and education sectors, outlines how design thinking capabilities might be developed for twenty-first century skill development and life-long learning. The framework is validated and refined through the findings of a mapping study and an informal, context-adaptive, regional secondary school design immersion program called goDesign, conducted in Queensland, Australia.
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Mercer, Nancy Anne. "Instructional Leadership for a School-Based Innovation." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30135.
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This study looked at the leadership style of one public elementary school principal that chose single-gender education as an innovation to manage and improve student behavior and the leadership of the principal during the implementation process. The anticipated outcome was that the researcher would discover that the principal followed steps outlined in professional research, however, what was learned were that some principals do not adhere to those guidelines.
In this study, the principal researched, implemented, and oversaw the implementation, and she strategized a short-term plan for teacher training and support. Outside complexities, such as the simultaneous implementation of the Responsive Classroom® program and looping, influenced the implementation of the innovation as well as the principalâ s leadership of the program. Another influential factor affecting the principalâ s leadership was the lack of long-term planning for ongoing training and support of the initiative.
Leading an innovation as unique as single-gender education is a multi-faceted process. Assessment of a principalâ s leadership of an innovation has multiple layers of complexity as well. These stem from the principalâ s rationale for the innovation and the methods used to initiate, implement, and sustain it. When leading an innovation, leaders rarely follow a prescribed path as outside factors arise that either enhance or derail the innovation. The leader must have the ability to analyze these factors and make essential alterations while maintaining integrity to the innovation. The leader must also have the ability to analyze individual participant needs during the implementation process and provide re-direction when the innovation deviates from its desired outcome.Ed. D.
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Slawsby, Alex (Alex David), and Carlos Rivera. "Collective innovation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39518.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-179).
The ability to innovate sits at the heart of an organization's ability to succeed in a competitive environment. An organization can innovate by improving existing products, services, or processes or by generating new products, services, or processes. Achieving successful, repeated organizational innovation, however, is a significant challenge. The hurdles to such innovation run the gamut from psychological to structural to procedural. Managers can fall victim to myopia and other human level challenges. Organizational processes, structures, and values can short circuit innovation as well. Given these challenges, we posit that an innovation strategy embracing the concepts of collective intelligence and openness may enable organizations to surmount these hurdles. We refer to this approach as Collective Innovation and define it as a connected, open, and collaborative process that generates, develops, prioritizes, and executes new ideas. To develop our argument, we surveyed literature from a wide array of disciplines including economics, organizational behavior, social psychology, and organizational change.
(cont.) We begin this thesis by drawing a connection between the economic theories of Adam Smith and Ronald Coase and research into the changing workplace by Thomas Malone. We then introduce the concepts of collective intelligence and openness, core tenets of Collective Innovation. After introducing Collective Innovation, we examine its place in the history of innovation strategy. Next, we outline and describe the four stages of the Collective Innovation process. Having dealt mainly in theory, we then turn to the application of Collective Innovation and the myriad challenges that managers will face when attempting to implement such a strategy. Keeping in mind these challenges, we outline four ways in which organizations might use Collective Innovation to power the exploration-side of their operations. Finally, we revisit several remaining questions before concluding our analysis.
by Alex Slawsby [and] Carlos Rivera.
M.B.A.
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Schneider-Sikorsky, Patrick A. "Innovation Spaces." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90734.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Innovation ecosystems today are the lifeblood or the great hope of many major economies, but at the heart of these ecosystems, there are places and spaces. Silicon Valley is not just a place, but a cluster of spaces where people come together to create and innovate in a way that they could not elsewhere. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the influence of spaces on the spread of ideas, innovation and collaboration between people and organisations and to begin to understand how to design spaces that positively affect these three phenomena. The thesis will be broken down into four sections. Firstly, I will review what I deem to be the most relevant literature on the subject of space, innovation and the spread of ideas. I will then lay out my primary research on successful co-working spaces in London, followed by a description of the problems at Somerset House, an example of a successful institution that is struggling to fashion itself as an innovation space. Finally I will suggest an experiment based on these findings that will attempt to confirm some of the theories in this thesis, namely that people are more likely to meet and collaborate as a result of well designed and well programmed spaces.
by Patrick A. Schneider-Sikorsky.
S.M. in Management Studies
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Badavan, Yusuf. "Educational innovation and primary school supervision in Turkey." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/35597.
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The aim of this study is to attempt to focus on the relationship between educational innovation and primary school supervision in Turkey. The main focus is on the innovative behaviours exhibited by the primary school supervisors. Thus, the experiences of primary school teachers, provincial directors of education and primary school supervisors about these behaviours are identified. The views of these groups on some on-going supervisory activities in primary education in general and its supervision in particular are also identified and compared with each other. In addition, the views of these three groups of educationalists were sought on the barriers which could prevent the process of initiation and implementation of educational innovations and their recommendations for the improvement of the degree of implementing such innovations in primary schools. Questionnaires were administered to a sample of 190 teachers, 50 supervisors and 10 directors, drawn from representative regions throughout Turkey. For the teachers and supervisors, information obtained and their personal charecteristics made it possible to examine the relationship of their responses with, for example, sex, age, teaching experiences and region. The findings of the study revealed that the vast majority of the pre-defined would-be innovative behaviours of supervisors had not been adequately exhibited both in quantity and quality, according to the responses of the vast majority of the teachers. However, a substantial proportion of the supervisors reported that they had exhibited those behaviours. The findings also suggested that the "quality control" or "assessment" aspect of the primary school supervision in Turkey was given more weight than the "support" and "advice" aspects of it. However, the results also highlighted that there was a need for shifting of the focus away from monitoring and inspection to support and advice in supervisory activities. The results also suggested that the teachers revealed views distant from the supervisors and directors with regard to the items on some on-going supervisory activities. But, they reported nearly similar views about the pre-identified seventeen barriers and eleven recommendations. The barriers were acknowledged and the recommendations were 'agreed' with.
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Sweeney, Joseph E. "Innovation in the school context| An exploratory study." Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10158585.
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Independent school leaders are seeking opportunities to improve their organizations’ impact on mission (Collins, 2005; Mair & Marti, 2006), respond to the new affordances and expectations driven by information and communications technologies (Christensen, Horn, & Johnson, 2008; Cuban, 2013), and improve their financial sustainability (Baumol & Bowen, 1966; Farkas, 2012; Ewert, 2013). The answer to similar challenges in other fields has been innovation (Christensen et al., 2008; Schumpeter, 1949). However, there is a gap in the research—an absence of a theory of practice for the work of identifying, enacting, and diffusing value-adding changes, or innovations, throughout independent K–12 schools. As a first step in developing such a theory of practice, this exploratory qualitative study focuses on independent school leaders identified by their peers as innovative and working at independent U.S. K–12 schools that have been defined as representative through the metrics of enrollment, tuition, endowment, and length of operations. Via a process of structured interviews, archival document review, member checks, and researcher writing, this study explores and seeks to understand these particular leaders’ perceptions, conceptualizations, and thinking about innovation, and their efforts in relation to the enactment of innovation in their particular school contexts. The major findings of this study are: (a) innovation is an under-theorized area of practice for leaders of independent schools; (b) the conceptualizations of innovation of Heads of independent schools are varied among individual leaders depending on several factors; (c) conceptualizations of innovation by Heads affect their approaches to innovation and leading innovation adoption; and (d) the field of independent schools lacks an approach to innovation that would help contain cost growth. The conclusion of this study is a call for a new theory of practice for independent school leaders regarding innovation, informed by theory from various fields and grounded in the experiences of leading practitioners.
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Cohen, Elliot M. B. A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Accelerating digital health innovation : analyzing opportunities in the healthcare innovation ecosystem." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80993.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 22-24).
There has recently been a dramatic increase in demand for healthcare innovation. In this thesis we present a framework for analyzing a digital health innovation ecosystem in the US. Our framework consists of four key activities: innovation generation, entrepreneurial team formation, early company incubation, and validation of the core innovation. Throughout the paper we analyze the existing literature around innovation in order to motivate the design of the framework. The framework is applied to three key innovation ecosystems in the US; Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York as a way to illustrate how this tool can be used to analyze digital health ecosystems in order to understand what key areas exist for improvement. We end the thesis with a discussion of the various programmatic ideas that might be used to bolster each category as well as a discussion of adapting this type of ecosystem development to the natural capacity of a region.
by Elliot Cohen.
M.B.A.
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Kearney, Michael J. (Michael Joseph ). "Essays on managing innovation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124587.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2019Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This dissertation investigates how choices by managers in research and entrepreneurial settings affect innovation and entrepreneurial outcomes. In the first three chapters, my coauthors and I consider the role of grant-makers in inducing exploitation or exploration among grant recipients at ARPA-E. We use internal data from ARPA-E project selection and quarterly performance reviews to show how active project management enables risk mitigation across a portfolio of projects. In the fourth chapter, we consider a set of decisions made by entrepreneurs related to technology commercialization. Specifically, this paper reconceptualizes the Technology S-Curve not as a technological given but as an envelope of potential outcomes derived by managerial action. We define and investigate a choice-based approach along several key dimensions of technological options, including the tradeoff between exploration versus exploitation, generality versus specialized versions of a technology, and modular versus systems-oriented innovations. In the fifth chapter, I empirically assess I-Corps, an entrepreneurial training program at the National Science Foundation. Using data from the last 11 years of NSF-grant awardees, I find that entrepreneurial training reduces perceived barriers for academics to commercialize their research, resulting in the formation of more innovation-driven enterprises. The results are particularly important for early-career academics, for example graduate students and post docs. The results also confirm that barriers to commercialization are higher for women and academics in locations that are not traditional hubs of entrepreneurship.
by Michael Kearney.
Ph. D.
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
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Mukherjee, Devajit 1965. "Innovation and corporate renewal." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9776.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 100).
Leading firms fail. Dinosaurs ruled the earth for 180 million years - almost forty times longer than human beings have existed. However, the only remains are fossils and a few hardy species. Both are the result of failures to innovate fast enough in the face of changing environments. While "sticking to your knitting" may be good advice in corporate strategy to avoid fragmentation of attention, sitting on the 'corporate laurels' of a leading firm is purely a recipe for disaster. These assertions may appear to be intuitive, yet most leading firms appear to be unable to innovate in spite of significant advantages over new entrants. This thesis explores the nature of innovation, building on earlier framework<. to describe the nature of product or service innovation (based on the components, systems and customer perception of utility), different types of innovation from incremental to radical. These ideas are then used as a base to look at the evolution of innovation in an industry or technology and understand the issues large organizations face as they enter new businesses or attempt to sustain existing business. Finally, the affect of organizational control systems on product innovation and the evolution of innovation within an organization is discussed, to better understand the potential inhibitors to and tools to support innovation. The frameworks are used to analyze three examples of innovation at IBM, to confirm the usefulness of the frameworks and identify additional issues that must be considered by corporate managers that don't want to be dinosaurs.
by Devajit Mukherjee.
M.B.A.
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Erickson, Brittany. "Democratic School Design: Reimagining School Turnaround in Denver Public Schools." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:27013332.
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After a decade of focused attention and millions of dollars, school turnaround remains one of the education sector's most pressing challenges. Research shows that tackling it requires the implementation of tried and true levers—high-quality instruction, effective school leadership, and family engagement—at the highest possible levels, and that it requires a sophisticated interrogation of broader structural challenges such as segregation, poverty, and racism. This capstone explores a novel approach to school turnaround in Denver Public Schools (DPS), the Year Zero Redesign cohort. This approach strives to equip principals with the mindsets, skills, and autonomy to build partnerships with families, redesign their schools, and effectively lead dramatic change efforts. Through this inquiry, I explore the unique role of principals in system-level transformation; the way trust affects schools and communities; and the quest to redesign schools in alignment with the needs and preferences of students and families. I also examine how DPS, a large and ambitious school district, might learn to support this work in a rapidly evolving policy environment. I argue that taking time for intentional school design and leadership development—not instructional leadership development alone, but community and creative leadership development as well—holds great potential for more consistent results in school turnaround and school redesign. I also suggest that this and other creative approaches to turnaround will become possible only when system-level incentives and accountability measures allow for it. This capstone offers lessons for DPS as it seeks to create an ecosystem of excellent and diverse school models, and for practitioners and policymakers across the sector seeking to realize transformative change through community mobilization and school design.
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Burdiles, Orellana Sergio. "Process Innovation by working miners : a case of user innovation in copper mining industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72876.
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Thesis (S.M. in Management of Technology)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-51).
Employees are known to develop and use key process improvements. In this thesis, I explore innovation by mining employees working in Codelco, a Chilean mining company. The data on these innovations come from a contest sponsored by mine management at the Andina division of Codelco. This contest encourages workers to come forward and reveal the improvements they have made. The research method used for this case study is based on data and information collected from interviews with managers, workers and members of the contest organizing committee. In addition, a survey was given to more than 50 workers involved in the current version of the contest, to evaluate and analyze their interests and motivation drivers to participate in the contest. One of the main findings is that more than 85% of total workers do behave as user innovators, and 85% of the survey's participants have created at least two innovations at Andina. For the workers, the main reasons to participate in the contest are making a contribution to the company, to develop a deeper knowledge in a specific topic, and also to be recognized by family, colleagues and managers. The key lessons of this case study are that user innovations in the copper mining industry do happen, and creating the right incentives for workers to innovate and share their innovations, can increase their motivation, performance evaluation and add value to their company and the industry.
by Sergio Burdiles Orellana.
S.M.in Management of Technology
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Bernal, Jorge L. "Design and Architecture High School." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31126.
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This thesis is about learning from architecture, it is about teaching design at an early age, and how light and space speak about architecture. It is about teaching design and architecture at the high school level, and the ideas, metaphors and sources of inspirations used to achieve this.
Design students require a sense of the sublime, the ability to respond to art and architecture, and challenge to aspire to greatness. Schools of design must teach about nature, the metaphysical and the fragility of mankind, moving away from prior schools of thought including "form follows function" and replacing the traditional teaching of architecture with a more inclusive approach.One way to develop thought processes that lead to inclusivity is through the metaphor.
Metaphors are the foundation of the imagination. Strongly developed metaphorical channels are essential to any designer. They offer opportunities to contemplate a proposed work in another light. They inspire the designer to probe new sets of questions and develop new ideas and interpretations. Several metaphors formed the basis of this thesis, "Learning as Light," "A new light every dawn," and "Education by Design," which proposes that twenty?first century design educators rely more greatly on the use of metaphors in their teaching curriculum. Above all, the search for the metaphysical "soul of the building" is and will continue to be the most integral element in the teaching of design and architecture.
Art, architecture and archeology are essential elements to a robust design education, for they provide the context for the history, challenges and changes of the field. This thesis proposes a Design and Architecture High School in downtown Washington, a design developed through careful consideration of the elements essential to the transfer of knowledge.Master of Architecture
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Ramey, Rachel A. "Designing School Community: Changing Inner-City Middle School Culture Through Interiors." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5474.
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While the knowledge of disrepair in inner-city schools is fairly common, the impact that school facilities are having on students and faculty is not as widely known. More recently, the closing of inner city schools has greatly increased across the United States; Reduction in public school enrollment from 2006-2013: Detroit -63%, Cleveland -32%, Indianapolis -27%, D.C. -23%, L.A. -23%,etc. (Journey For Justice Alliance,2014).
Due to budget cuts, threat of school closings from poor facility conditions, large class size, and pressure to raise test scores, inner city schools struggle to keep teachers (Journey For Justice Alliance,2014). Poor teacher retention along with a lack in care for educational facilities has created a toxic environment for inner-city students.
Although there are many reasons that inner-city schools suffer, negativity within school culture seems to be a common denominator within many of these problems. With larger population percentages of minority, economically disadvantaged and disabled students, difficulties arise in communicating student-to-student and teacher-to-student (Bellwether Education Partner, 2016). The question becomes, how does one design a space to provide comfort, safety and communication in order to foster healthy relationships?
This research will inform the design of a middle school that focuses on community and communication. The goal will be to design a school where flexibility and team work is made easier through furniture and layout solutions in order to foster growth and respect for students and teachers.
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Roxo, da Fonseca Gustavo J. C. (Gustavo José Costa) 1967. "Technology innovation in financial services industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17891.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-98).
Over the last few decades, we have seen an enormous evolution in the financial services industry driven by technology innovations. Indeed, we cannot imagine the current financial system without electronic fund transfers, ATMs, and Internet banking among many other innovative implementations. In fact, the financial services industry is the largest market to IT suppliers which makes the financial providers the preferred partners in many technological innovations such as mobile technologies, security devices and customer relationship management (CRM) tools. Although the importance of technology innovation is clear in transforming the financial services industry, we do not often find organizations getting sustainable competitive advantage though technology innovation. In fact, in most cases, financial providers have just been focused on being as good as the competition in terms of technology innovation, neglecting any sophisticated technology strategy that could enable them to primarily capture the value created by internal innovative ideas. The goal of this research is to evaluate the stage of technology innovation in the financial services industry, its strategic relevance to the organizations, and its governance models. Based on the information gathered through reviewing relevant literature and interviewing people involved with technology and financial services, our work will propose some technology strategies that could improve the effectiveness of innovation to different types of financial providers.
by Gustavo J.C. Roxo da Fonseca.
M.B.A.
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Kim, Jinhwan. "Mandatory corporate patent disclosures and innovation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123580.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2019Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 41-46).
I investigate the effect of corporate patent disclosures on innovation. Using the American Inventor's Protection Act (AIPA) as a plausibly exogenous shock to corporate patent disclosures, I find evidence of the AIPA shaping innovation through two simultaneous channels. First, the AIPA encourages a firm to innovate by facilitating access to the scientific information contained in other firms' patent disclosures. Second, the AIPA discourages a firm from innovating by increasing the risk of leaking business-related strategies through its own patent disclosures. These findings are consistent with the view that corporate patents contain information useful for both science and business, and highlight their respective roles in generating both spillover benefits and proprietary costs of mandating patent disclosures. Finally, using textual analysis, I find that firms with high proprietary costs respond to the AIPA by strategically changing their patent disclosures to obfuscate exploitable business-related signals.
by Jinhwan Kim.
Ph. D.
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
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Ho, Ling-mun Joseph. "Student counselling an innovation in Hong Kong secondary schools /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1989. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B38626548.
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Un, C. Annique (Chhomroth Annique) 1969. "Organizational capabilities, knowledge, and innovation : strategies for developing the capability to mobilize and create knowledge for innovation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8780.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, February 2001."February 2000."
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 297-311).
In this thesis I analyze the way in which companies develop the capability to mobilize and create knowledge for innovation. This capability is crucial to achieve and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. In order to conduct this analysis, I link and integrate three bodies of literature -the literature on resource-based theory of the firm, team-level studies of innovation, and organization-level studies of innovation to provide an integrated view of how companies develop the capability to innovate and how this relates to their performance. The empirical analysis was conducted in two phases, in order to develop an empirically grounded and generalizable theory. In the first phase, in order to understand "how" companies develop this capability, I conducted a comparative multiple case study of twenty-four cross functional innovation teams in three companies. The result of this analysis was a general framework for the development of the capability to mobilize and create knowledge for innovation. From this I drew eight propositions regarding what companies do at the organizational level and at the project team level when organizing for innovation. In the second phase, I analyzed these propositions and examined which specific factors and strategies have a greater influence on this capability in a sample of 182 cross-functional innovation teams belonging to 38 companies. The innovation teams were selected from the largest customer service center of each firm. They were formed with the objective of using market knowledge about their products and services to innovate in response to customer preferences. In addition to innovation, I analyzed other outcomes of this capability, such as efficiency in terms of resources used, effectiveness in terms of customer satisfaction and speed-to-market of the innovation, and learning. The results of the tests and their theoretical and practical implications are listed below. grouped by level of analysis: Capability development at the project team level. Capability development at the organizational level. Linking project team-level and organization-level capability development. Overall, this thesis expands and integrates three bodies of literature to provide an integrated view of how companies develop the capability to mobilize and create knowledge for innovation. In terms of the resource-based theory of the firm, this study shows how companies develop this capability. In terms of the team-level innovation literature. the mirror image between project team-level processes and their organization-level processes suggests that teams should not be analyzed in isolation from their organization-level processes. In terms of the organization-level innovation literature, especially the differentiation-integration framework. facilitators of knowledge mobilization, i.e., communication, can also be developed as needed at the project team level when teams organize for innovation. Furthermore, this thesis provides recommendations for specific strategies and practices that managers can follow to develop this capability both at the organizational level, regardless of when they organize for innovation, and at the project team level. when firms organize for innovation in order to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.
by C. Annique Un.
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Scott, Lee-Anne. "Incubation Hub: a 'new' school for artisans where architectural innovation meets education in South Africa." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/15623.
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This document is submitted in partial fulfilment
for the degree:
Master of Architecture [Professional]
at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa, in the year 2013.In South Africa there are approximately three million people between the ages of 18 and 24 who are unemployed or not part of an education or training institute. There are residing issues concerning education in post-apartheid South Africa, such as poor quality education in areas where the socio-economic climates still prove challenging and an increasing absence of educational institutions and training facilities. As a result, South Africa is suffering from a lack of skilled labour across all sectors of trade. In the Green Paper for Post-School Education and Training, published in 2012, the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) addresses the current issues around education in South Africa and indicates that part of the resolution is to form a “nexus between the formal education system and the workplace.” Both private and public sectors need to adopt new infrastructure to ensure a higher success rate for empowering South Africans through the provision of skills-based education. This thesis is about creating a ‘new’ school idea - The Incubation Hub - for artisans, where architectural technological innovation meets education in South Africa, opens up vocational opportunities and subsequently allows for economic growth. The ‘new’ school will not only create a stronger and a more advanced workforce for South Africa but aims to bridge the gap between the corporate sector and the education and political sectors. The Incubation Hub tackles the proposed matter by recognising the opportunity for an architectural intervention, whereby a literal and physical symbiotic relationship is formed between two buildings – each with a separate function and role in society and the economy - that unites their individual responsibilities to create a new identity. In doing so, the Incubation Hub aims to improve the social and economic status of South Africa on a local and global level.
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Salerno, Alessandro. "Beyond us prototyping design and future building solutions through a multi-disciplinary design school and innovation hub." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/26025.
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The nineteenth and early twentieth century were characterised by the establishment, diversification, and specialization of fields of thought. Many disciplines came into being, developing independently of one another and in some cases dividing into clearly compartmentalized sub-disciplines.
Although this division has been the basis of education for centuries, there is a growing realisation that for education to be effective, it must help the learners to seek answers to some of the fundamental real-life problems around them. This cannot be achieved through the current hierarchical and discipline-oriented approach, as life and its current problems are not divided up into disciplines.
The argument for multiple disciplinarity is not that the disciplines represent a false theory of knowledge but rather that they are not a complete statement if we take them on their own. It is in the interconnections, the integration, that they attain their most effective use. Therefore, this project aims to provide a suitable architectural space in which a multiple disciplinary approach to education can be promoted.
The project itself utilised a multiple disciplinary approach in the design process which was influenced by the history and existing structures of the site, neo-futurist designs and principles, the chemical and physical properties of gas, and particle architecture. The proposed building provides all of the required program elements while promoting collaboration and multiple disciplinary learning.MT 2018
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CHEN, CHIA-LING, and 陳佳琳. "Application of Innovation Thinking Theory (TRIZ) to Design Tooth Mugs for Students in Elementary School." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24072544391784654674.
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碩士中華大學
土木工程學系碩士班
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Due to social change, the incomes of families are increased gradually. The requirement of healthy teeth is necessary to develop by a good habit. The education of elementary school for the teeth cleaning will focus on using habits after meals. This study will design tooth mugs to meet the needs of elementary school children cleaning teeth in school. The concepts of the innovation are involved the storage, location, shapes, functions, and emotional motivation for the tooth mugs. Through the Technical Contradictions, 40 Inventive Principles, Physical Contradictions, Substance-field Analysis, and 76 Standard Solutions of TRIZ theory, this research emphasizes on improving tooth mugs for students. This innovative design can enhance functions, shapes, and emotional feeling with educational purpose for the students.
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Tseng, Ying-Hui, and 曾英惠. "Integrating Functions Demand Orientation and TRIZ Technology for Elementary School Schoolbag Innovative Design." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59557255462296874298.
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碩士聖約翰科技大學
自動化及機電整合研究所
102
Given the functionality of commercially available schoolbag which are used by high-grade students in elementary school are unable to fulfil the real demand of students and comfort of general market schoolbag also have not been scientifically tested when holds a certain weight. A schoolbag which is able to meet the demand of an elementary student, develiver convenience and compliance with the scientific method of testing about comfort, is indeed indispensable. Therefore, through questionnaire, the investigation found out the most necessary functional items of elementary school bags for high-grade students. Based on the most necessary items, use TRIZ innovative techniques to analyze contradiction matrix of innovation plus the use of appropriate principles of invention to carry out innovative design and production for school bag. The innovative design goes through the Borg RPE rating scale assessment and the scientific method of testing of “Comfort Dynamic Physiological Response(CDPR)”. The results indicate that as for comfort, the innovative design bag is better than the commercially available schoolbag and more meets the demand of students for truly function and convenience . The research result of high practical value is worth being provided to schoolbag manufacturers to conduct product features improvement design and testing so that the production of schoolbag can more fulfil users' needs; at the same time, it can be a great criteria of choosing schoolbag as well. Keywords：Functions Demand Orientation、TRIZ、Borg RPE、Innovative Design、schoolbag
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Garcia, Bobby Jo. "Does A deeper level of empathy help high school engineering students generate more innovative consumer products?" Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-3902.
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Secondary level engineering education is a relatively new field of study. This report evaluates an activity in which high school students experience simulated disabilities as they interact with and redesign consumer products. These activities are also known as empathic experiences, in which the designer is challenged to place himself or herself in the position of a lead user who pushes a product to its extremes and experiences various customer needs sooner and more acutely than the typical user. The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not these types of empathic experiences help high school students develop more innovative product ideas in a concept generation activity. The results of this study are compared with similar studies that use college students for the subject pool. Differences between subject pools are examined to identify implications for secondary engineering education and assessment.text
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TSAI, YEN-TING, and 蔡燕婷. "An Innovative Teaching Design with Flipped Classroom Model for the Dialect Course of Elementary School." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r4jpt4.
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碩士醒吾科技大學
資訊科技應用系
105
Elementary schools in Taiwan have implemented mother tongue education for many years. However, the overall conditions of teaching environment are not up to standard, limiting the capabilities of students, with listening, speaking, reading and writing skill in mother tongue and knowledge of local cultural awareness all at inadequate levels. In view of these environmental conditions, it is difficult to compromise the hours of other basic courses in elementary schools. Therefore, using the modern thinking and methods to create a viable teaching model that meets the needs of the hours of teaching in mother tongue language, will help address the urgent problem that needs to be solved. In this study, the concept of flipped classroom, self-.learning, the characteristic of the mother tongue and distance education skills are replaced with the concept of the existing learning environment between school and home. Moreover, updating the existing teaching materials in the classroom to homework pattern which is adapted to the students need learning from distance education, and to provide students with opportunity to seek interaction with friends, relatives in the surrounding area learning and solving the problems. Teachers then collect and assess students’ uploaded answers by where they can reinforce the relevant works in the classrooms, reinforcing the related knowledge students require in mother tongue. The relevant verification test is conducted by using the quasi-experimental method. First, using web. collaboration platform provided by Google as a platform for distance interaction and database and designing teaching website for uploading the record in mother tongue. Moreover, changing Taiwanese material in elementary schools to homework material which is easier for distance education and facilitate the students and family or neighborhood to learn and understand. And then, choosing two senior classes in the elementary school as experimental group and practicing the innovative teaching model and the control group of traditional teaching model to test listening, speaking, reading, writing and cultural awareness before experiment, then make short-term teaching experiment on a specific subject. Once finished, proceeding post-test to identify the differences between new teaching method and traditional teaching method. The test subject in this study is selected from a class of 6th grade elementary students based at two different schools in Taoyuan City, who speak Taiwanese as mother tongue. The two groups of students were set up as experimental group and control group for 8 weeks of Taiwanese language teaching experiments, and with the scores seeing single-factor analysis of covariance by SPSS statistical method. The overall result shows that the students who use the flipped classroom innovative education of elementary mother tongue education, regardless of their pre-school ability or gender, are better than those who are taught with traditional method and achieve an average of 11.76 points or more;and the attitude to learning and acceptance by parents are also positive.
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Kuo-Ping, Huang, and 黃國斌. "A Study on the Influence of Virtual Reality on Junior High School Students’ Product Cognition and Innovative Design Performance." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04270202083280516440.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
科技應用與人力資源發展學系
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of virtual reality on junior high school students’ product cognition (material, shape, structure, and function), and innovative design performance (idea creativity and product creativity). The researcher selected three classes in the nine grade of a junior high school in Taipei City and adopted quasi-experimental method. The 100 students in these three classes were given twelve periods of the experimental instruction during a span of twelve weeks. After the experiment, the product cognition test, the idea creativity scale, and the product creativity scale were employed to collect the research data. The main statistic procedures employed for analyzing the experimental data were t-test, One-Way ANOVA, and One-Way ANCOVA. The major research findings were: (1) virtual reality was positive significantly upon junior high school students’ product cognition. (2) lecturing learning and virtual reality was positive significantly upon junior high school students’ product cognition. And the students’ product cognition in virtual reality group was better than that in lecturing learning group. (3) virtual reality was positive significantly upon junior high school students’ innovative design performance. Finally, the research findings and conclusions, derived from this study, demonstrated suggestions for the design and application of virtual reality in living technology curriculum. Accordingly, the suggestions of future study were proposed as well.
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Chang, Hsiao-Ching, and 張曉菁. "An Innovative Experiment of Applying the Concepts of Design Thinking to Design Education: A Case Study on the Campus Spatial Remodeling of Muzha Vocational High School." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/drude9.
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碩士國立臺灣科技大學
建築系
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With increased awareness of design in recent years and the government’s success in earning Taipei the title of the World Design Capital 2016, not only is design thinking promoted in all areas, but a number of training programs for elementary and high school teachers are held. Teachers are encouraged to apply design thinking to school education so that they can add innovation to their teaching. The researcher of this study is also a teacher in a design department of a vocational high school, and this study is based on a teaching experiment using design thinking that is integrated with vocational high school design courses. In the experiment, second graders of the Design Department in the Comprehensive High School Division of Muzha Vocational High School were guided in the campus spatial remodeling. On the one hand, their teamwork spirit and commitment in applying design thinking were observed, and whether their collaboration and devotion would reach a significant relationship with the appraisal results of the final design was taken as the research theme. On the other hand, the researcher was enabled to improve her teaching quality during the experiment in order to establish theory and put the theory into practice. Twenty-eight students in the Design Department were selected and divided into seven groups (four students in each group) according to their academic performance in professional subjects. The ability and academic performance of the students in each group were close to one another, which allowed for an objective observation of each group’s commitment and teamwork spirit when applying design thinking to the campus spatial design. Courses were conducted in five weeks (four hours in each week) using the five steps of the IDEO design thinking. Students were required to submit a feedback sheet to track their learning process at the end of each week’s courses. Through students’ self-assessment scores and their classmates’ assessment scores, as well as the researcher’s observation of each student’s performance in class, each group’s level of commitment to the design was calculated in three categories: knowledge, affection, and skills. At the end of the five-week courses, five teachers of professional subjects in Muzha Vocational High School were invited to appraise and rank the works of each group from the perspective of users. The results showed that the higher the level of commitment and cooperation in the process of applying design thinking was, the higher scores the group would obtain for their works in the appraisal. On the contrary, disagreements, disputes, and lack of mutual understanding led to less commitment, and poorer scores accordingly. This can prove that teamwork spirit plays an important role in designing excellent works, in addition to a good application of design thinking. On top of that, the feedback sheets showed that most students believed the curriculum integrated with design thinking was much more challenging and that discussions and brainstorming in such a curriculum also enhanced their concentration and learning effectiveness. It is suggested that teachers use design thinking in various disciplines in the future to enhance students' learning motivation and interest.
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Chang, Bo-Ya, and 張博雅. "The Influence on Students’ Creative Concept Design Capability Exerted by Innovative Teaching Strategies – A Case Study of Information Education Curriculum in Junior High School." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92z9ds.
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碩士國立臺北科技大學
技術及職業教育研究所
102
This study aimed to discuss the influence on junior high students’ creative concept design capability exerted by innovative teaching strategies by taking information education curriculum as sample. According to the research topic, the study launched an eight-week experimental teaching after collecting relevant domestic and overseas researches and books, conducting inductive analysis and adopting the IGCS as principal axis, which put forward by Taiwan Information Industry Institute of Digital Education. Taking two classes of grade seven in a high school in New Taipei City Province as sample, quasi-experimental research, which is an experimental design that check unequal classes before and after the experiment, was adopted. One class applying innovative teaching strategies to classroom teaching contents was the experimental group, while the other still using normal teaching methods was the control group. Then following conclusions have been drawn: 1. Innovative teaching strategies can effectively increase junior high school students’ creative concept design capability (including: creativity, fluency, and innovative thinking points). 2. Innovative teaching can promote students’ participation and cooperative ability. 3. Innovative teaching strategies can raise students’ motivation in autonomous learning.
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LIU, CHIEN-FENG, and 劉建豐. "Exploring the Integration of Digital Content Information and Innovative Community Tour Planning and Design APP teaching into Multi-ethnic Culture — Taking Pingtung Min-Ho Elementary School as an Example." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32x2m6.
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碩士大仁科技大學
文化創意產業研究所
107
The purpose of this research is to investigate innovative instruction model combining with environmental education and off-site learning by the method of questionnaire, which educates students how not merely to employ technology safely and correctly, but to analyze, interpret, collect, integrate and apply information as well, in order to enhance learning efficiency and living quality. Furthermore, outdoor mobile learning that integrated with digital technology application provides edutainment involving teachers, students and parents. Meanwhile, it enables the students to know more about the humanities, history and landscapes of their own hometown. The course provided in this study focuses on the landscape ecology of Wan-Nian brook, including education training and cultural guide in community. The application, Wan-Nian brook searching game of pokemon, is able to assist students to explore local community more and analyze knowledge, and to foster their technology literacy and the ability of employing and developing applications. This study concentrates on the relationships among user experience of innovative community-tour application, innovation, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, usage intention and the increase of the willingness of learning. The subjects of the questionnaire survey were the students and teachers of 4th, 5th and 6th garde in Ming-Ho elementary school in Ping-Tong County. 120 samples were collected and 96 of them were effective samples, which excludes the invalid ones. After being processed by descriptive statistics analysis and reliability analysis, the affective factors of usage intention of innovative community-tour application are displayed, and conclusion and suggestions are provided in the final section.
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Ku, Ya Hsuan, and 古雅瑄. "A meta-analysis of school innovation and school effectiveness." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08839456351866862574.
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碩士國立政治大學
教育行政與政策研究所
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The purpose of this study is to confirm the effect size of school innovative management and school effectiveness. Researcher analyze mean correlations, moderators’ effect, and correlation across two variables which are school innovative management and school effectiveness by collecting data of 25 theses published in 2003-2009. Meta-Analysis divides results into 3 parts. The first part takes 25 theses into calculation for estimating mean correlations between school innovative management and school effectiveness. The second part is trying to examine the existence of moderators and their moderate effects on the mean correlation. This study sets 2 possible moderators that are areas and transformational leadership for analyzing. The third part is to clarify the relationship across variables. For the sake of keeping a stable effect size, every analysis must build on 5 valid theses’ data. The main conclusions are as follows: 1.There is significant correlation between school innovative management and school effectiveness, and the effect size is demonstrates high effect. 2.Transformational leadership is the moderator that influences school innovative management and school effectiveness. 2.1 The area variable did not moderate the effect size. 2.2 Transformational leadership is the variable that moderates the effect size of school innovative management and school effectiveness. 3. Every Analysis across variables shows significant correlations, and the effect size is demonstrates high effect too. 3.1 In dimension of total school innovation versus single school effectiveness, all effect sizes are significant, and the strongest mean correlation is administrative effectiveness. 3.2 In dimension of total school effectiveness versus single school innovation, all effect sizes are significant, and the strongest mean correlation is administrative innovation. 3.3 In dimension of single school innovation versus single school effectiveness, all effect sizes are significant, and the strongest mean correlation is administrative innovation versus administrative effectiveness. According to the above conclusions, some suggestions have been proposed: 1. Local governments can hold innovative race with award to encourage schools. 2. Principals can use transformational leadership strategy to initiate innovation. 3. Change the rigid organizational culture when schools execute innovation. 4. Define the effective target before the innovative strategies are formed. 5. Suggestions for future researches: About area, method and setting variables.
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Cheng-Chien, Lin, and 林政謙. "The Tainan private full secondary school innovation management and School Efectiveness." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99603314832565752726.
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碩士長榮大學
高階管理碩士在職專班
100
This study aimed to explore the related private Tainan complete secondary school innovation management and school effectiveness. First, by way of literature to explore the basis of the theory and related research; random restructuring private fully Secondary School in Tainan City 400 teachers for the study sample, using the questionnaire contains three parts: teacher information, school innovative management and school effectiveness, income data for Windows12.0 to the SPSS for statistical analysis, to describe the statistical analysis, independent sample t test, single factor analysis of variance, Pearson correlation analysis and multiple stepwise regression analysis for statistical processing.
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Chudá, Kateřina. "Architektura školy jako vyjádření pedagogického konceptu." Master's thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-354571.
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What are the modern architectural trends in foreign and domestic learning enviroments? That is the main question of this thesis that is trying to merge both architectural and pedagogical points of view. Even though this topic is becoming more and more actual, it can still be hardly found in czech literature. This thesis analyses new trends in school projects and how they align to the schools educational concept. The theoretical part explains the terms of educational enviroments, educational concept and shows the main architectural trends in school designs. The analytical part presents ten foreign schools looking into the alignment between architectural concept and educational concept. In the research section nine recently built school projects are presented, eight czech and one austrian primary schools are investigated via interviews and observations. The research comes to a conclusion that according to the new changing educational reguirements, most of the examined school projects implements some new features like relaxation places for pupils and places for improving students social and personal skills. Just few of the examined architectural projects are taking into consideration the educational concept, mostly it is the educational concept that is subordinated to the school building project....
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Hsu, Pi-Lien, and 徐碧蓮. "A Study on Innovation Management of Cram School for Elementary School Students." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09863202023976029724.
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碩士國立臺東大學
教育學系(所)
101
The study aims to explore the innovation management of cram school for elementary school students, by using methods of document analysis and interview to understand the current management situation of the cram school as a culture and education industry and further proposing suggestions as references for the industry. Three objectives are included in the study: 1. to investigate the background factors improving the incentives for the case cram school to perform innovation management, 2. to analyze the operations of innovation management of the case cram school, 3. to propose suggestions as references for the case cram school. First, documents and literatures are gathered for further discussions and reviews on the advantages and disadvantages of theories, implications, and strategies of cram school innovation management. Then, interviews on subjects, including director and teachers of cram school and parents of the students, are conducted; finally, analyzing the data collected by the methods of document analysis and interview, and the result of the study indicates as follows: 1. In administration and management: the administration system is responsible for the supports to the teachers, and only a well-organized administration system with efficiency can offer sufficient administrative service and support. 2. In teaching: it is recommended that to teach students with their talents and progresses, a syllabus fitting the requirement may help in supporting students developing their talents. 3. In developing students’ potential: teachers should expand distinguish and creative educational events in which stimulating interest in learning and providing satisfactory teaching basing on talents of the students. 4. In establishing a better environment: renew the teaching facility by trying to find social support from community and student parents; an environmental comfort class can effectively stimulate students’ interest in learning. 5. In student recruitment and admission: an ideal student recruitment can be achieved by continually improving the quality of teaching and offering touching service with speed meeting the demand of the students and the expectation of the parents.
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Huang, Chien-Hsiang, and 黃建翔. "A Study of the Relationship Between School Innovation Management and School Effectiveness." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55945192162252724179.
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碩士國立花蓮教育大學
行政與領導研究所
95
This study attempts to investigate the current situations of school innovation management and school effectiveness in elementary schools and to analyze the differences between school innovation management and school effectiveness in personal variables and school environmental variables. Finally, it aims at exploring the relationship between school innovation management and school effectiveness. This study adopts research methodologies of literature review and questionnaire survey. The subject includes 383 teachers randomly selected from 35 elementary schools in Hualien Country. There are two survey instruments used in the study, including ” School Innovation Management Questionnaire ” and ” School Effectiveness Questionnaire”. The data is analyzed by SPSS 10.0 for Windows, methods of reliability analysis, factor analysis, descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's product-moment correlation, and multiple stepwise regressions. The findings of this study are as follows： 1. The current situation of school innovative management and school effectiveness at elementary schools in Hualien County are satisfactory. 2. In the variable of educational personnel’s background at elementary schools in Hualien County, the school innovative management perceived by personnels with different “age”, “highest educational diploma“, “administrative tasks taken”, “years of service in education” and “school scale” has significant distinction. 3. In the variable of educational personnel’s background at elementary schools in Hualien County, the school effectiveness perceived by personnels with different “age”, “highest educational diploma“, “administrative tasks taken”, “years of service in education” , “scale of school” , “school location” and “school history” has significant distinction. 4. The correlation between school innovative management and school effectiveness is positive. The better school innovative management is, the more satisfactory schools’ effectiveness will be, and vice versa. 5. The school innovative management is a significant predictor of school effectiveness. ”The administration management innovation ” is the primary predictive variable and has explained 48.7% of the school effectiveness variability. Based on the conclusions above, this study proposes suggestions for educational institutions and elementary schools for references.
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Chang, Fang Min, and 張芳敏. "The Indicators for Assessing Elementary School Innovation." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78111474889314760176.
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碩士國立暨南國際大學
教育政策與行政學系
97
Abstract The purpose of this study is to assessing Elementary School innovation indicators. According to literature review, theoretical bases and related concepts of innovation indicators in school and a questionnaire of the Indicators for Elementary School Innovation were designed. According to proportion of elementary school number of Taiwan, 1,056 school educators were randomly sampled from 264 public and private elementary schools, 692 samples were corrected and the rate of retrieve was 65.53％. The data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, reliability and validity analysis, one-way ANOVA, and chainwise paired comparisons (CPC). Conclusions are as follows: 1. The school innovation indicator system may useful to assess the degree of school innovation. 2. The personnel took care on the innovation of personnel preparation, personnel relationship, curriculum and teaching, and student capacities development. 3. The relative weight indicators system of school innovation was useful to use. 4. The education personnel with different background are different to the school innovation indicators important view. 1. According to conclusions, some suggestions to educational authorities are as follows: (1) To use the innovation indicators for elementary school to assess the degree of school innovation. (2) To invite various personnel to participate the assessment of school innovation indicators. (3) To develop one weight indicator system for school innovation based upon the real needs of school practice. (4) To integrate the school innovation indicators into the evaluation system of personnel performance, and conduct one reward project for innovation performance. 2. Suggestions to educators in elementary school: (1) To set up teacher growing communities, and promote the effects of innovation by knowledge share mechanism. (2) To establish a platform for teachers communication to promote creativity exchange among the different generation teachers. 3. Suggestions to future researchers: (1) To confirm the re-test reliability and cross-validity of innovation weight indicator system for elementary school. (2) To apply the innovation indicators in other level schools to verify or propose a new weight indicator system.
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Jordan, Kaitlyn. "Community School: A Design for Wilmington High School." 2012. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/914.
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Over the past twenty years there has been a major shift in the societal culture of America which has presented many challenges for children, families and the public school system. Being able to adapt to these challenges have not been easy. If future schools are going to keep pace with these changes, then they will have to provide its students with a variety of services which enhance their educational opportunities, while also developing and strengthening their physical, emotional, social and moral competency. One approach to this problem could be a more integrated community based schooling.
This thesis will examine this concept of how the public school system will operate when more accessible community features are integrated within the design. The generator for this prototype will be a new design of Wilmington High School which serves ninth through twelfth grade students. This program will support a variety of activities for multiple age groups, helping to build a center piece for community life. A community based approach will enable this age group to become leaders in the community and further strengthen their capabilities to function successfully outside of the educational environment.
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Li-Mei, Huang, and 黃麗美. "The Relationship between Innovation Climate and School Effectiveness." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62279161576686127310.
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博士國立臺灣師範大學
工業科技教育研究所
92
The research centered on school innovative climate and school effectiveness through analysis of literature review and questionnaire survey. 3,348 public elementary and junior high schools (Peng-hu included) were drawn as population. Through stratified random sampling according to school size and region, 2,235 teachers from 179 schools were sampled, to explore: first, the current conditions of school innovative climate and school effectiveness; second, the influence of variables such as teacher background difference, and school characteristics on perception of innovative climate and school effectiveness; and third, the influence of school innovative climate on school effectiveness. The conclusions of the research are as follows: I. The elementary and junior high schools under research show that the innovative climate and school effectiveness are normally good, yet it is common of the teachers to feel stressed from the heavy workload. II. Elementary school teachers indicate higher positive perception of innovative climate than junior high school teachers, and the former shows conformity on the negative perception of school innovative climate by scoring significantly lower than junior high school teachers. Significant differences exist in all conceptions between elementary and junior high schools teachers. III. Innovative climate and school effectiveness are affected by teacher background difference and school characteristics. 1. Tintype schools show higher positive innovative climate perception than medium and large type schools, and they also show an identical lower negative perception of innovative climate. 2. Schools built more than 35 years score higher on every perception than those less than 35 years. 3. On the perception of work challenge, schools in Southern Taiwan generally score higher than those in Central Taiwan; on the perception of school resources, schools in Northern Taiwan also show a significant higher tendency than that of schools in Central Taiwan. As to the conception of overstress workload, schools in Northern Taiwan show a significantly higher tendency than that of schools in Southern Taiwan as well. 4. Male, elder, senior, taking up administrational positions, and graduate school educational background have a higher positive school innovative climate perception, and often possess higher compressive resistance. IV. Correlation existed between innovative climate and school effectiveness. 1. Positive organization innovative climate is in positive correlation with school effectiveness, while overstress workload in negative correlation with school effectiveness. 2. Teaching quality is positively correlated with teamwork. 3. Support from Parents and communities is negatively correlated with resources. 4. Perception as Organizational encouragement, supervisory encouragement, support from teamwork, autonomy, and challenging have greater influence on school effectiveness. V. Innovative climate has predictability to school effectiveness. Supervisory encouragement is predictive of managerial service performance; teamwork is predictive of teaching quality; organizational encouragement serves as the best predictor of students’ achievement and support from parents and communities. According to the conclusions of this study, the researcher presents suggestions on school innovative management, educational governance innovation, and future research respectively so as to enhance school innovative climate and effectiveness at the elementary and junior high education level.
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SHAO-WEN, TU, and 杜少文. "A Study on Innovation Management of Cram School for Elementary School Students ─A Cram School Case in Hualien City." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/m63b9f.
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碩士國立東華大學
教育行政與管理學系
103
In recent years, due to the declining birthrate, the recruitment of cram schools is facing a more severe trial in such a situation. Aside from home and school education, cram schools, a part of social education, also have great influence on students. Reorganization and take innovation model based on plan a reorganization by means of previous experience as well as brand-new methods.Can solve the difficult position including difficulty of insufficient enrollment, reduction of class numbers, and even their close-down problems. In order to survive from the highly competitive society, how to break through the old managing patterns and create a new situation for cram schools will be the match point for sustainable management. Therefore, innovative management will be a trend in the future. Furthermore,the research papers of innovative management is mostly used in business and schools currently. There isn't much on cram schools. As a result, the researcher chooses cram schools as the subject to understand how innovative management works. This study begins with the meaning of innovative management. By means of collecting related documents and reviews, it goes further discussion on the meaning and theories of innovative management in cram schools. Then, it choose a cram school as the case to realize the difficulties. It faces and the solution of recruit students difficult in Taiwan, as well as strategies to applies under the principles of innovative management. For cram schools managers and the following researchers, this study could be a useful reference. Swot analysis of the use of the theory of the status cram, cram it in that case found that the advantages of close cooperation in land resources and curricula; drawback is lack of manpower; opportunities that environmental awareness so that the current market growth and the threat of new competitors that produce. Use five forces theory analysis of future development, and human resource discovery because of the need to make the case fit copy cram course is not high, for competitors and potential competitors, it is a major heart problem. Finally researchers have proposed successor 1. analyze the use of different research method. 2. Expanding the study to facilitate comparative analysis. 3. Continue in-depth study of the different nature of the remedial context. More than three proposals.
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Chung, Hsiu-Lien, and 仲秀蓮. "The Impact of Elementary School Principal’s Positive Leadership and School Culture on Effectiveness of School Innovation Management in Taiwan." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80930674582189153795.
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博士國立臺北教育大學
教育經營與管理學系
99
The main purpose of this research is to explore the situation, relation and impact of Elementary School principal’s positive leadership, school culture and effectiveness of school innovation management in Taiwan. The research is to adopt questionnaire survey and interview. The samples of questionnaire are from Elementary School principals, directors, team-chiefs and teachers in Taiwan. By using statistical average, standard deviation, one-way ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, Pearson’s product moment correlation, multiple stepwise regression and Simple LISREL of structural equation modeling (SEM), the researcher analyses 1,623 questionnaires returned from 198 schools, and edits the outline of interviews to interview in seven Elementary School principals in Taiwan. The main findings of this research are as follows: 1. Positive leadership has its value and applicability to Elementary School principal’s leadership in Taiwan. 2. At present, the status of Elementary School principal’s positive leadership, school culture and effectiveness of school innovation management in Taiwan reach to the performance of middle level. 3. School size has significant difference on the main effect of the whole effectiveness of school innovation management, and the rest of the background variables (principal’s gender, principal’s age, working years of school principal, principal’s highest level of education degree, school age, school location) have no significant difference on the main effect of the whole effectiveness of school innovation management. 4. The interaction between principal gender, school location, school age separately and benevolence consideration of positive leadership makes significant difference on the whole effectiveness of school innovation management. 5.The working years of school principal have significant difference on school culture. 6.The principal’s variables (gender, age, working years, highest level of education degree) and the school background variables (age, location, size) both have no significant difference on positive leadership. 7.There are high-positive correlations among principal’s positive leadership, school culture, and effectiveness of school innovation management in Taiwan. 8.Elementary school principal’s positive leadership and school culture both have the highest prediction toward the effectiveness of school innovation management in Taiwan. 9.The assessment of proper fit is supported in Structural Equation Modeling among the dimensions of Elementary school principal’s positive leadership. Especially, wisdom initiating is the hub of transformation, and benevolence consideration is as a prerequisite for wisdom initiating. 10.The assessment of proper fit is supported in Structural Equation Modeling among Elementary school principal’s positive leadership, school culture and effectiveness of school innovation management in Taiwan. Especially, school culture is the mediating role. 11.The principal’s positive character helps promote his or her ability of positive leadership. 12.The use of strategy of innovation management from systematic thinking can help promote the effectiveness of school innovation management. According to the above conclusions, the researcher is to provide some suggestions for reference to the institutions of education administration, the centers of principal preparation, the principal and the other relative researchers in the future.