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Title: PREPARING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FOR SUCCESS IN ADVANCED PLACEMENT STATISTICS: AN INVESTIGATION OF PEDAGOGIES AND STRATEGIES USED IN AN ONLINE ADVANCED PLACEMENT STATISTICS COURSE
Author: Potter III, James
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Educational leadership, Educational technology
Description: ABSTRACTJAMES THOMSON POTTER III. Preparing high school students for success in advanced placement statistics: an investigation of pedagogies and strategies used in an online advanced placement statistics course.(Under the direction of DR. RICH LA...

Title: Perception or Reality? A Frame Analysis of Leadership Behavior, Style, and Effectiveness Among Selected Community College Administrators
Author: Little, Susan
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Community colleges--Study and teaching, Education, Higher
Description: ABSTRACTSUSAN DIANNE LITTLE. Perception or reality? A frame analysis of leadership behavior, style, and effectiveness among selected community college administrators. (Under the direction of Dr. JOHN GRETES) The American community college has reac...

Title: Perceptions of Resiliency and Success in an American Community College: A Case Study of Five Transnational Students
Author: Classens, Nachette
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Adult education
Description: This dissertation examines five transnational students' views of their academic experiences in an American community college. The investigation contributes to the existing literature that illuminates the trends and conditions in which transnationa...

Title: Principal Efficacy of Alternative Secondary and Traditional Secondary Principals
Author: Snyder, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: Serving in North Carolina’s public alternative secondary schools can be a challenge for principals. Self-efficacy is the perceived judgment that one has the ability to execute a course of action to bring about a desired result. Using Albert Bander...

Title: Principals' Perceptions Of Resource Adequacy For Addressing Childhood Obesity
Author: Floyd, Otis
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Obesity in children
Description: ABSTRACTOTIS HENRY FLOYD. The perceptions of the K-12 principals on resource adequacy for professional development addressing student obesity (Under the direction of DR.RICHARD G. LAMBERT). With the rapid expanse in childhood obesity and the schoo...

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: Psychosocial Adjustment and Intentions to Persist for Transfer Students in the Psychology Major at a Four-Year Urban Research Institution
Author: OReilly, Elaine
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Psychology
Description: This study examined factors related to the psychosocial adjustment and intentions to persist of transfer students in the psychology major at a large urban research institution in the southeastern United States. Psychosocial adjustment was operatio...

Title: RENEGOTIATING IDENTITY: UNDERSTANDING THE COMMUNICATIVE NEGOTIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRANSFER STUDENT IDENTITIES
Author: Stamper, Brandy
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: Literature on community college (CC) students transferring to four-year institutions sufficiently addresses aspects of pre-transfer success indicators, transfer process barriers, and post-transfer outcomes. Yet, research frameworks in post-transfe...

Title: STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION TOOLS IN ONLINE LEARNING: HELPFULNESS AND EFFECTS ON TEACHING, SOCIAL, AND COGNITIVE PRESENCE
Author: Salloum, Sara
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Higher, Educational technology
Description: Distance learning continues to be used in the context of teacher training in special education. Distance learning is experienced through computer-mediated communication (CMC) tools via the Internet, or online learning. Little research has been don...

Title: STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR PRINCIPAL PREPARATION
Author: Taylor, Timothy
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: Using causal-comparative research methodology, this study examined the effectiveness of higher education PK-12 principal preparation programs. Forty-nine graduate students in three principal preparation levels were surveyed about their perceptions...

Title: STUDY ABROAD PARTICIPATION AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ INTERCULTURAL SENSITIVITY
Author: Edmunds, Julia
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Foreign study
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the intercultural sensitivity of College of Education students who participated in short-term, faculty led, study abroad programs at a large, urban, branch, university in the Southeast. The research questio...

Title: SUSPENSION RATES FOR STUDENTS OF COLOR IN RELATION TO THE PRESENCE OF SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS IN THREE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
Author: McDonald, Tyrone
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, School management and organization
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the long-term and short-term suspension and expulsion rates for Black males, White males, Black females and White female students in grades K-12 in relation to the presence of school resource officers (SROs...

Title: School Building Level Administrators and Special Education: Roles, Responsibilities, and Expectations
Author: Carney, Tracey
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: Special education has transformed over the last three decades to ensure the provision of services and instructional practices are provided for students with disabilities. However, there a disconnect remains between special education and the requir...

Title: School Choice and the Latinx Community: Increased Opportunity/Exclusion in Mecklenburg County
Author: Handler, Laura
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education and state
Description: Advocates of market-based reform strategies such as school choice claim they will offer families better options to obtain a high-quality education for their child, yet empirical studies offer inconclusive evidence of gains in student achievement a...

Title: School Scheduling and At-Risk Students: Looped Perspectives for Academic Support
Author: Kester, Kyle
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: KYLE R. KESTER. School scheduling and at-risk students: Looped perspectives for academic support. Students are graduating without requisite skills needed for life beyond high school- or not graduating at all (Institute of Education, 2014; New Amer...

Title: Service Learning: Social-Emotional Development and Civic-Engagement of Elementary School Students
Author: Miller, Aimee
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: ABSTRACTAIMEE MOORE MILLER. Service-Learning: Social-Emotional Development and Civic-Engagement of Elementary School Students. (Under the direction of DR. REBECCA SHORE).Social-emotional learning and character education are topics which have both ...

Title: Social Capital and Access to Higher Education: Barriers to Higher Education for African-American Women in the Rural South
Author: Barber, Stacey
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The researcher conducted a qualitative interview study that identified barriers to higher education experienced by African-American women living in the rural South. The research questions were (1) What is the role of social capital in the accessib...

Title: State-Led Virtual School Senior Leaders: An Exploratory Study
Author: Sivy, Mark
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, School management and organization
Description: The purpose of this study was to explore the role-related characteristics, factors, and requirements that can influence state-led virtual school senior leaders' leadership qualities, attributes, beliefs, and approaches. Semi-structured interviews ...

Title: Student Success in a Large-Size Hybrid Learning Course - A Study of Student Backgrounds, Online Video Quizzes, and Persistence
Author: Park, Enoch
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The purpose of this study was to identify and examine the potential factors that could predict college students' success in a large-size undergraduate hybrid learning course, offered in a southeastern public university.Based on a review of the exi...

Title: Students' Perceptions of Early Childhood Program Quality According to the National Association for the Education of Young Children Standards
Author: Javidi, Farhad
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Community colleges--Study and teaching, Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the extent to which one community college was preparing its early childhood education students for employment in the field according to the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) p...