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Title: Combatting Ceiling Effects: Modeling High-Ability Student Growth Using Multilevel Tobit Regression
Author: Hujar, Julia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational tests and measurements, Gifted children--Education, Statistics
Description: Pressures associated with accountability testing have resulted in a narrowing of both the curriculum and pedagogy that does not meet the needs of high ability learners. This study proposed that either a different measurement (an above-level comput...

Title: Comparison of the effectiveness of Traditional Nursing Medication Administration with the Color Coding Kids System in a sample of undergraduate nursing students
Author: Burgess, Colleen
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Health education
Description: ABSTRACTThe problem of medication errors in hospitals and the vulnerability of pediatric patients to adverse drug events (ADE) was investigated and well substantiated. The estimated additional cost of inpatient care for ADE's in the hospital setti...

Title: DACA Recipients Narratives: Pursuing Noncredit Occupational Training
Author: Gardner, Andrew
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: This adapted in-depth qualitative interview study explored and documented the lived experiences of four DACA recipients that pursued noncredit occupational training opportunities at a community college in North Carolina. The purpose was to underst...

Title: DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING A NEW INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE THE SELF-EFFICACY OF ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS TEACHERS
Author: McGee, Jennifer
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Educational psychology, Educational tests and measurements
Description: The purpose of this study was the development and validation of an instrument to measure the self-efficacy of elementary mathematics teachers. Self-efficacy, as defined by Bandura, was the theoretical framework for the development of the instrumen...

Title: Delivery of Remedial Community College Mathematics Instruction in an Emporium Learning Environment: Predicting Academic Success, Persistence, Retention, and Completion
Author: Little, Mark
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Community colleges--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this study was to find predictors of academic success, persistence, retention, and completion for students enrolled in community college developmental education mathematics courses utilizing an accelerated emporium model learning en...

Title: Does the Physical Active Learning Classroom Matter? Faculty Experiences Practicing Active Learning During an Era of Rapid Transformation in Higher Education
Author: Keith-Le, Julie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher--Administration, Educational technology, Instructional systems--Design
Description: Student-centered active learning strategies have been found to have a positive impact on student learning outcomes when compared to courses using traditional lecture methods in higher education. The practice of active learning is strongly linked t...

Title: Does ‘Working After Work’ Affect Teachers’ Confidence? Examining Teacher Efficacy in a Professional Development Program
Author: Gartlan, Scott
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Teachers--Training of
Description: This study examined the relationship between teacher efficacy and professional development among in-service K-12 teachers. A content-rich teacher professional development program was analyzed over the course of two years using a sequential explana...

Title: EFFECTS OF DIRECT INSTRUCTION ON ACQUISITION OF EARLY ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICAL VOCABULARY BY STUDENTS WITH AUTISM
Author: Patterson, Dawn
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education, Elementary
Description: Education in American schools is driven by the No Child Left Behind Act (2001) with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (2004) ensuring that educators provide students with disabilities a grade-aligned education. Recently, ...

Title: EXPANDING THE CONVERSATION AMONG SECONDARY EDUCATORS TOWARD A SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
Author: Mitchell, Karen
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Curriculum planning
Description: KAREN SMITH MITCHELL. Expanding the conversation among secondary educators toward a shared understanding of student engagement (Under the direction of DR. REBECCA SHORE) To describe how high school administrators and teachers perceive student enga...

Title: EXPLORING THE PERCEPTIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN ON HOW DIVERSITY TRAINING HAS IMPACTED THEIR UPWARD MOBILITY INTO SENIOR LEADERSHIP
Author: Crews, William
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sex role
Description: ABSTRACTWILLIAM E. CREWS. Exploring the perceptions of African American women on how diversity training has impacted their upward mobility into senior leadership. (Under the direction of Dr. LISA R. MERRIWEATHER)The purpose of the present study wa...

Title: EXPLORING THE USE OF DATA BY PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS IN THE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLANNING PROCESS TO INCREASE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Author: Hayes, Dorothy
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: ABSTRACTDOROTHY ANN HAYES. Exploring the use of data in the school improvement planning process to increase student achievement (Under the direction of DR. DAVID M. DUNAWAY).State mandates require data-driven decision-making in each step of the sc...

Title: Educational Leadership Coaches' Development of Domain Specific Expertise: A Phenomenological Study
Author: Lewis, Janice
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Educational evaluation, School management and organization
Description: Districts and schools having high poverty and low achievement experience the highest rates of administrator turnover. A recent paradigm shift promotes "coaching" as a supportive and focused intervention that might move the district and/or school f...

Title: Establishing time-continuous normative scores for Teaching Strategies GOLD® using a multilevel growth curve modeling approach
Author: Luce, Hannah
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Educational tests and measurements, Educational evaluation
Description: Young children are assessed to meet federal mandates and inform policy decisions, provide teachers with useful information to make instructional decisions and set reasonable learning goals, and facilitate communication with families. While young c...

Title: Examining Design Knowledge and Practice Among Stem Faculty-Designers Using Visual Lesson Blueprints
Author: Budhrani, Kiran
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Educational technology, Design
Description: Attention is being given to improving the design of undergraduate gateway courses (i.e., entry-level, introductory) in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), particularly those facing challenges of large enrollment...

Title: Examining How Core Content Area Teachers Define and Integrate Digital Citizenship into Core Content Area Curriculum
Author: Ramsey, Lindsey Heather
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Educational technology, Instructional systems--Design, Educational leadership
Description: This study explored two aspects of K-12 core content area teachers' experiences with digital citizenship through the Connectivism lens (Siemens, 2005). First, it explored how teachers instruct students on digital citizenship topics, including how ...

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: Expectancy-Value Model: Investigating Academic Success and Retention Predictors of First-Year STEM Majors
Author: Findlater, Nickcoy
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, Educational tests and measurements
Description: The gap in supply (i.e., shortage) and demand of the STEM workforce have prompted extensive research on identifying factors that predict STEM outcomes and retention of students. Few studies, however, have examined the relationships between STEM ou...

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: Exploratory And Confirmatory Analyses Of A Hospital Employee Satisfaction Survey
Author: Redden, Kenneth
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: This study explored the factor structure of a 22-item survey developed to measure employee satisfaction in a healthcare setting. The purpose was to determine if a homegrown survey possessed factors known to measure employee satisfaction. First an ...

Title: Exploring Secondary Classroom Engagement in Mathematics
Author: Cline, Jessica
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Mathematics, Education, Secondary
Description: The term engagement appears in teacher effectiveness models as well as state and federal legislation, including the most recent reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Schools Act of 1965 (ESEA), known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ES...