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- Title
- A Systematic Approach To Interrater Reliability In Early Childhood Teacher Performance Evaluations
- Author
- Bottoms, Bryndle
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational evaluation
- Description
- Teacher evaluations are routinely conducted across the United States for licensure and professional development supports. However, there is limited research on the interrater reliability of these evaluation assessment systems, despite federal reco...
- Title
- Black HBCU Students’ Perceptions Of A Short-Term Heritage-Seeking Immersive Study Abroad Program: Journey To The First Black Republic
- Author
- Brown, Sabrina
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher
- Description
- Study abroad is a high-impact practice in the college and university setting that can lead to increased student engagement and student success. While study-abroad participation has increased, it is not a common practice across ethnic demographics ...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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...
- Title
- Lambda Coefficient of Rater-Mediated Agreement: Evaluation of an Alternative Chance-Corrected Agreement Coefficient
- Author
- Holcomb, Timothy
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational tests and measurements, Educational evaluation
- Description
- In this study, the performance of the Lambda Coefficient of Rater-Mediated Agreement was evaluated with other chance-corrected agreement coefficients. Lambda is grounded in rater-mediated assessment theory and was developed as an alternative to Ka...
- Title
- NCAA Transfer Student-Athletes, Athletic Identity, and the Impact of COVID-19
- Author
- Verburg, Mark
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher
- Description
- Transfer students are an increasingly important piece of the college athletics puzzle; however, little is known about the athletic identity of this important population and the effects of COVID on their commitment to sport. The purpose of this stu...
- Title
- North Carolina High School Alternative School Administrators’ Perceptions of School Performance Measures
- Author
- Clemons, Shannon
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- School management and organization, Educational tests and measurements, Education
- Description
- This qualitative study investigates the perceptions of alternative school administrators in North Carolina about the impact of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) on them and their campuses. The study interviewed four alternative high school adm...
- Title
- Persistence of Engineering Transfer Students: Identifying Student-Influenced and Institution-Influenced Academic Success Factors
- Author
- Green, Courtney
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, Engineering
- Description
- COURTNEY SUSANNE GREEN. Persistence of Engineering Transfer Students: Identifying Student-Influenced and Institution-Influenced Academic Success Factors. (Under the direction of DRS. SANDRA DIKA AND XIAOXIA NEWTON) This correlational study utilize...