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Overview

Brian Rowan is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans several fields including Social Sciences, Decision Sciences, and Arts and Humanities. Within these broad areas, they focus on subfields such as Education, Information Systems and Management, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory, and Computer Science Applications.

The main topics addressed in Brian Rowan's work include Educational Assessment and Improvement, Teacher Education and Leadership Studies, School Choice and Performance, Subtitles and Audiovisual Media, Second Language Learning and Teaching, EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, and Online Learning and Analytics.

Brian Rowan has published recent scholarly papers in established academic journals. These include:

  • "A Framework for Addressing Instrumentation Biases When Using Observation Systems as Outcome Measures in Instructional Interventions" (2022) in the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness
  • "The Common Core State Standards Initiative as an Innovation Network" (2021) in the American Educational Research Journal
  • "Common Core-Related Shifts in English Language Arts Teaching From 2010 to 2018" (2022) in The Elementary School Journal

Their book publication record includes the volume Implementing Educational Reform published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Brian Rowan frequently collaborates with other scholars. Notable frequent co-authors are Colleen McLaughlin, Mark White, Bridget Maher, Alan Ruby, and Mel Ainscow.

Their work appears in journals such as the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, The Elementary School Journal, and the American Educational Research Journal.

Best Publications

  • Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

    John W. Meyer;Brian Rowan

  • Effects of Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching on Student Achievement:

    Heather C. Hill;Brian Rowan;Deborah Loewenberg Ball

  • The Instructional Management Role of the Principal

    Steven T. Bossert;David C. Dwyer;Brian Rowan;Ginny V. Lee

  • WHAT LARGE-SCALE SURVEY RESEARCH TELLS US ABOUT TEACHER EFFECTS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT: INSIGHTS FROM THE PROSPECTS STUDY OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

    Brian Rowan;Richard Correnti;Robert J Miller

  • Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

    Brian P Rowan

  • Contextual Effects on the Self-Perceived Efficacy of High School Teachers.

    Stephen W. Raudenbush;Brian Rowan;Yuk Fai Cheong

  • Distributed Leadership in Schools: The Case of Elementary Schools Adopting Comprehensive School Reform Models:

    Eric Camburn;Brian Rowan;James E. Taylor

  • Using research on employees' performance to study the effects of teachers on students' achievement?

    Brian Rowan;Fang-Shen Chiang;Robert J. Miller

  • Research on Effective Schools: A Cautionary Note

    Brian Rowan;Steven T. Bossert;David C. Dwyer

  • Commitment and Control: Alternative Strategies for the Organizational Design of Schools

    Brian Rowan

  • Organizational Structure and the Institutional Environment: The Case of Public Schools.

    Brian Rowan

  • THE NEW INSTITUTIONALISM IN EDUCATION

    Heinz Dieter Mayer;Brian Rowan;Zheng Yanqiu

  • Higher Order Instructional Goals in Secondary Schools: Class, Teacher, and School Influences

    Stephen W. Raudenbush;Brian Rowan;Yuk Fai Cheong

  • Organizational Strategies for Promoting Instructional Change: Implementation Dynamics in Schools Working With Comprehensive School Reform Providers

    Brian Rowan;Robert J. Miller

  • A Multilevel, Multivariate Model for Studying School Climate With Estimation Via the EM Algorithm and Application to U.S. High-School Data

    Stephen W. Raudenbush;Brian Rowan;Sang Jin Kang

  • Opening Up the Black Box: Literacy Instruction in Schools Participating in Three Comprehensive School Reform Programs:

    Richard Correnti;Brian Rowan

  • School Improvement by Design: Lessons from a Study of Comprehensive School Reform Programs

    Brian P. Rowan;Richard J. Correnti;Robert J. Miller;Eric M. Camburn

  • The Ecology of School Improvement: Notes on the School Improvement Industry in the United States

    Brian Rowan

  • Effects of Organic Management on Student Achievement

    Robert J. Miller;Brian Rowan

  • Studying Reading Instruction With Teacher Logs: Lessons From the Study of Instructional Improvement:

    Brian Rowan;Richard Correnti

  • Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality.

    Glenn R. Carroll;John W. Meyer;W. Richard Scott;Brian Rowan

  • Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony (translated by Igor Chirikov)

    John Meyer;Brian Rowan

  • Study the Effects of Teachers on Students' Achievement

    Brian Rowan;Fang-Shen Chiang;Robert J. Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen W. Raudenbush
Stephen W. Raudenbush University of Chicago
Deborah Loewenberg Ball
Deborah Loewenberg Ball University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John W. Meyer
John W. Meyer Stanford University
Heather C. Hill
Heather C. Hill Harvard University
Kimberly Hoagwood
Kimberly Hoagwood New York University
Joanne F. Carlisle
Joanne F. Carlisle University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Martin Carnoy
Martin Carnoy Stanford University

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