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Title: Exceptional institutional performance: A case study of three North Carolina community colleges' strategic responses to accountability factors: 2007-2009
Author: Lattimore, John
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education, Higher--Administration, Community colleges--Study and teaching
Description: Accountability demands on North Carolina community colleges are examined in a qualitative case study of three institutions that met Exceptional Institutional Performance standards set by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2007-2008 or 2008-200...

Title: Exercise Is Medicine-On Campus® and Contemporary Physical Activity Measurement in College Students
Author: McAvoy, Cayla
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Kinesiology
Description: The benefits of regular physical activity (PA) for lifelong health are abundant. However, college students are at risk for a decline in PA levels during a transformational life-course period, where long-lasting health behaviors often form. One evi...

Title: Experiences and Perceptions of Professional Development Facilitators In a Job-Embedded School Initiative
Author: Mashariki, Kaia
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Teachers--Training of, Adult education
Description: Recent legislation and accountability efforts in K-12 schools have increased the need to support and maintain high-quality teachers through enhanced professional development and teacher training efforts. As districts and schools seek new and innov...

Title: Exploring Diasporic Dialects of Black Women in College Composition and Communications: A Critical Reflective Narrative Inquiry
Author: Dervin, Alicia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Language and languages, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description: Historically, standard English language ideologies have been perpetually ingrained in American educational practices and policies (Smitherman, 2017; Wong & Teuben-Rowe, 1997). These practices are not limited to K-12 studies and maintain a position...

Title: Faculty Experiences in Teaching Students with Visual Impairments in Higher Education Online Language Courses
Author: She, Liane
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Educational technology
Description: In higher education institutions, as the number of online language courses continues to increase, it is paramount to provide training and support for faculty and equip them with the appropriate tools to improve students’ learning experiences, spec...

Title: Healing and Posttraumatic Growth in African American Survivors of Domestic Violence: An Exploration of Women's Narratives
Author: Dickerson, Anne
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Women's studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: This research explores how African American women's narratives present their healing processes after they experience domestic violence. The research was conducted within the framework of Black feminist epistemology. A narrative approach was select...

Title: IMAGINING THE UNTHINKABLE: A CASE STUDY EXPLORING AN INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSE TO THE PERSISTENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES.
Author: Wilson Jr., Clyde
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education, Higher--Administration
Description: Over the past thirty-five years, the rates of retention and graduation among African American males attending colleges and universities in the U.S. have declined. Many institutions of higher education have responded to this problem by reexamining ...

Title: Internalizing Genderization: Women’s Navigation of Power Dynamics in Senior-level Student Affairs Roles
Author: Wheeler, Emily
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: While women have attained higher-level roles and greater representation in higher education administrator roles, the concept of the higher, the fewer (Nidiffer, 2002) represents the "gendered prestige hierarchies" (Allan, 2011, p. 58) that limit w...

Title: Investigating the Influence of Literacy Coaching as Embedded PD on Teacher Instruction
Author: Mauzy, Katherine
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: Improving elementary student reading achievement has been a well-defined goal of many federal and state educational initiatives over the last several decades. To that end, vast amounts of resources have been funneled into professional development ...

Title: Investigating the Relationship between Student Race and Academic Expectations among High School Counselors and Teachers
Author: Saunders, Rachel
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling
Description: The enrollment of racial and ethnically diverse students has increased over the years, with nearly half of all students enrolled in K-12 schools identifying as students of color (U.S. Census, 2018). Given the increase in student racial diversity t...

Title: Latino Voices: A Qualitative Study of First Generation College Latino Males
Author: Brown, Gerald
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: A qualitative study design was used to describe the perceptions and beliefs about higher education of seven first generation college Latino male students enrolled in higher education in the Southeastern part of the U.S. The purpose of this investi...

Title: Major Decisions: A Phenomenological Study of the Experiences and Decision Making Processes of Undecided, First-Generation College Students
Author: Siarzynski, Kristen
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: While many students decide to attend college for increased career opportunities, first-generation college students (FGCS) are far more likely than their peers to report attending college for this reason (Bui, 2002; Byrd & MacDonald, 2005; Martinez...

Title: More than Pizza: Exploring the Professional Development Needs of Afterschool Administrators and Cultural Relevance
Author: Miller, Chiquita
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Afterschool programs play a significant role in the lives of minoritized students, offering a safe space for them to develop academically, socially, and emotionally. Program administrators are responsible for the oversight of the organization and ...

Title: NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE INSTRUCTORS' AND HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF THE EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM
Author: Parker, Ruth
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Community colleges--Study and teaching, Education, Secondary
Description: The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore the perceptions of college instructors and high school teachers regarding the purpose and benefits of the Early College High School program in North Carolina. College instructors and high schoo...

Title: Nurses' Experiences in a Blended Learning Course for Nurse Preceptor Development
Author: Green, Katrina
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: Traditional methods of staff development do not meet the needs of current healthcare organizations. It is difficult to find training that is effective and flexible, meeting variable staff scheduling needs (Chen at al., 2022; Haggerty et al., 2012)...

Title: PARTICIPANTS IN ADULT BASIC SKILLS CLASSES USING INTERTEXTUAL AND METACOGNITIVE SKILLS AND STRATEGIES TO AID READING COMPREHENSION AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION
Author: MacMonagle, William
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Adult education, Curriculum planning
Description: The purpose of this research was to seek evidence of awareness ofmetacognitive processes and intertextuality in the reading comprehension of students inan adult basic education class. Its purpose was to interweave several strands of researchinvest...

Title: Project Management in Higher Education
Author: Alpert, Shannon
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: This study identified factors that influenced the use of project management in higher education research projects. Using a qualitative grounded theory approach that included in-depth interviews with assistant professors, the researcher examined ho...

Title: Reducing the Underrepresentation of Black Male Middle School Students in Higher Level Mathematics Courses: Principals' Perspectives
Author: Barone, Jacqueline
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education
Description: Students in urban schools face a number of challenges including lower enrollment numbers in higher level mathematics courses. This particular challenge has the drastic consequence of increasing the achievement gap and reducing the opportunities av...

Title: Students' Understanding of Quadratic Functions: A Multiple Case Study
Author: Sevim, Volkan
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this study was to explore how individual students understand various aspects of quadratic functions such as quadratic growth, quadratic correspondence, quadratic graphs, vertex points, x-intercepts, y-intercept, line of symmetry, pa...

Title: Teacher candidates’ experiences with clinical teaching in reading instruction: A comparison between the professional development school environment and the non-professional development school environment.
Author: Hopper, Cynthia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading
Description: Teacher candidates experience a variety of school settings when enrolled in teacher education methods courses. Candidates report varied experiences when in public school classrooms. This dissertation investigated clinical experiences of teacher ca...