Roland Tharp - Native American Studies

Articles & Chapters

Hilberg, R. S., Doherty, R. W., Epaloose, G., & Tharp, R. G. (2004). "The Standards Performance Continuum: A performance-based measure of the Standards for Effective Pedagogy. In H. Waxman & R.G.Tharp & R. S. Hilberg (Eds.), Observational Research in U.S. Classrooms: New approaches for understanding cultural and linguistic diversity." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hilberg, R. S., & Tharp, R. G. (2002). Theoretical perspectives, research findings and classroom implications of the learning styles of Native American and Alaska Native students. (pdf file) ERIC Digest EDO-RC-02-3, ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Charleston, WV: AEL. View article.

Hilberg, R., Doherty, R. W., Dalton, S. S., Youpa, D., & Tharp, R. G. (2002). Standards for effective mathematics education for American Indian students. In J. T. Hankes and G. R. Fast (Eds.) Changing the faces of mathematics: Perspectives on indigenous people of North America. Vol. 5. Pp. 25-36. Reston, Virginia: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Doherty, R. W., Hilberg, R. S., Epaloose, G., & Tharp, R. G. (2002). Standards Performance Continuum: Development and validation of a measure of effective pedagogy. Journal of Educational Research, 96, (2), 78-89.

Tharp, R. G. et al (2001). "Resistances in School/Community Co-constructed School Reform: Scaling Up from Research to Practice in a Native American Community" CREDE Project 5.6: Final Report. Read report.

Hilberg, R. S., Tharp, R. G., & DeGeest, L. (2000). Efficacy of CREDE's standards-based instruction in American Indian mathematics classes. Equity and Excellence in Education, 33(2), 32-40.

Tharp, R. G., Lewis, H., Hilberg, R., Bird, C., Epaloose, G., Dalton, S. S., Youpa, D. G., Rivera, H., Riding In-Feathers, M., & Eriacho, W. (1999). Seven more mountains and a map: Overcoming obstacles to reform in Native American schools. Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk, 4(1) 5-25.

Tharp R. G.; Hilberg, R. S.; Bird, C.; Riding-in-Feathers, M.; Epaloose, G. (1998). "Report to Zuni: CREDE's Activity in Educational Improvement for Zuni, New Mexico 1996-1998." CREDE Report.

Dalton, S. S. & Youpa, D. G. (1998). "Standards Based Teaching Reform in Zuni Pueblo Middle and High Schools." Equity & Excellence in Education, Vol. 31, No. 1, 55-68.

Yamauchi, L. A., & Tharp, R. G. (1995). Culturally compatible conversations in Native American classrooms. Linguistics and Education, 7, 349-367.

Tharp, R. G. (1994). Instructional Conversations in Native American Classrooms.ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics; Washington, DC. View article.

Tharp, R. G. (1994). Intergroup differences among Native Americans in socialization and child cognition: An ethnogenetic analysis. In: P. Greenfield & R. Cocking, Eds., Cross-cultural roots of minority child development. (Pp. 87-105). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Tharp, R. G., Dalton, S., and Yamauchi, L. A. (1994). Principles for culturally compatible Native American education. Journal of Navajo Education., 11, # 3, pp. 21-27.

Tharp, R. G. & Yamauchi, L. A. (1994). "Effective Instructional Conversation In Native American Classrooms." EPR 10, National Center For Research On Cultural Diversity And Second Language Learning.

Vogt, L. A., Jordan, C., and Tharp, R. G. (1992). Explaining school failure, producing school success: Two cases. In:. Jacob, E. & Jordan, C., (Eds.). Minority education: Anthropological perspectives. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. (Pp. 53-66). (Reprinted from Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 18, 276-286.

White, S., Tharp, R. G., Jordan, C., and Vogt, L. (1989). Cultural patterns of cognition reflected in the questioning styles of Anglo and Navajo teachers. In: D. Topping, V. Kobayashi, & D. C. Crowell, Eds., Thinking Across Cultures: The Third International Conference on Thinking. (Pp. 79-91). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Tharp, R. G., Jordan, C., Speidel, G. E., Au, K. H., Klein, T. W., Calkins, R. P., Sloat, K. C. M., & Gallimore, R. (1984). Product and process in applied developmental research: Education and the children of a minority. In M. E. Lamb, A. L., Brown, & B. Rogoff (Eds.), Advances in developmental psychology, Vol. III (Pp. 91-141). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates, Inc. Tharp, R. G. (1989). Psychocultural variables and constants: Effects on teaching and learning in schools. American Psychologist, 44, 349-359.

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Multimedia Studies

Research video tapes of Navajo and Zuni classrooms

The Video Collection of Roland G. Tharp, Ph.D., makes an extensive collection of videos permanently available through the Labriola National American Indian Data Center.

The collection, containing some 600 video recordings, is actually two collections of research material resulting from well-known projects, KEEP/Navajo (Kamahamea Early Education Program) conducted at Rough Rock Demonstration School on the Navajo Reservation between 1983 and 1987, and CREDE/Zuni, conducted at Zuni School on the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, between 1996 and 2001. See full archive desription at the center's website.

Studies in Native American Education: Improving Education for Zuni Children. Hilberg, R. S., Tharp, R. G., & Epaloose, G., (2002).

A teacher professional development videotape of best practices in the Zuni Public School District. Exemplars of the Five Standards are featured, as well as two additional standards developed from education research in Native American Communities: Modeling, and Student Directed Activity. This videotape also demonstrates elements of the CREDE instructional model, such as Activity Centers and opening and closing "handles." (2002; 41 minutes, $20)
See a five-minute demonstration of the video.

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News Articles

Northwest Regional Education Laboratory — March/April 2003: A Review of the Research Literature on the Influences of Culturally Based Education on the Academic Performance of Native American Students" View article.