Meaning in method: The rhetoric of quantitative and qualitative research WA Firestone Educational researcher 16 (7), 16-21, 1987 | 2213 | 1987 |
Multisite qualitative policy research: Optimizing description and generalizability RE Herriott, WA Firestone Educational researcher 12 (2), 14-19, 1983 | 2145 | 1983 |
Alternative arguments for generalizing from data as applied to qualitative research WA Firestone Educational researcher 22 (4), 16-23, 1993 | 2089 | 1993 |
Teacher commitment, working conditions, and differential incentive policies WA Firestone, JR Pennell Review of educational research 63 (4), 489-525, 1993 | 1376 | 1993 |
Using bureaucratic and cultural linkages to improve instruction: The principal's contribution WA Firestone, BL Wilson Educational Administration Quarterly 21 (2), 7-30, 1985 | 573 | 1985 |
Who's in charge here? Sources of leadership for change in eight schools MF Heller, WA Firestone The elementary school journal 96 (1), 65-86, 1995 | 562 | 1995 |
Performance-based assessment and instructional change: The effects of testing in Maine and Maryland WA Firestone, D Mayrowetz, J Fairman Educational evaluation and policy analysis 20 (2), 95-113, 1998 | 553 | 1998 |
Building commitment in urban high schools WA Firestone, S Rosenblum Educational evaluation and policy analysis 10 (4), 285-299, 1988 | 549 | 1988 |
Change and effectiveness in schools: A cultural perspective GB Rossman Suny Press, 1988 | 493 | 1988 |
Planned organizational change WA Firestone, HD Corbett Handbook of research on educational administration, 321-340, 1988 | 416 | 1988 |
Districts, teacher leaders, and distributed leadership: Changing instructional practice WA Firestone, M Cecilia Martinez Leadership and policy in schools 6 (1), 3-35, 2007 | 363 | 2007 |
Teacher evaluation policy and conflicting theories of motivation WA Firestone Educational researcher 43 (2), 100-107, 2014 | 343 | 2014 |
Resistance to planned change and the sacred in school cultures HD Corbett, WA Firestone, GB Rossman Educational Administration Quarterly 23 (4), 36-59, 1987 | 301 | 1987 |
Schools as cultures WA Firestone, KS Louis Handbook of research on educational administration 2, 297-322, 1999 | 296 | 1999 |
Educational policy as an ecology of games WA Firestone Educational researcher 18 (7), 18-24, 1989 | 295 | 1989 |
Prescriptions for effective elementary schools don't fit secondary schools WA Firestone, RE Herriott Educational Leadership 40 (3), 51-53, 1982 | 295 | 1982 |
School context and school change: Implications for effective planning HD Corbett, JA Dawson, WA Firestone (No Title), 1984 | 276 | 1984 |
The ambiguity of teaching to the test: Standards, assessment, and educational reform WA Firestone, RY Schorr, LF Monfils Routledge, 2004 | 253 | 2004 |
Leading coherent professional development: A comparison of three districts WA Firestone, MM Mangin, MC Martinez, T Polovsky Educational administration quarterly 41 (3), 413-448, 2005 | 232 | 2005 |
Images of teaching and proposals for reform: A comparison of ideas from cognitive and organizational research WA Firestone Educational administration quarterly 32 (2), 209-235, 1996 | 228 | 1996 |