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- Title
- An Investigation of Academic Resiliency among African-American Males in Secondary Schools
- Author
- Casey, Lee
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Educational leadership
- Description
- This non-experimental survey study investigated the relationship between the participants’ perception of the existence of resiliency-building strategies in schools and their levels of resilience and academic achievement. The study used a correlati...
- Title
- Filling the Void: Exploring Predictors of African American Beginning Teacher Retention
- Author
- Hopper, Eugenia
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Educational leadership, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- African American teachers make up only about 7% of teachers in the United States, while African American students make up 16% of the public school population. Unfortunately, African American teachers leave teaching at almost a 60% higher rate when...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- THE EFFECTS OF BLENDED LEARNING ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, INTERACTION LEVELS, AND ONLINE READINESS SKILLS IN THE HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSROOM
- Author
- Rinehardt-Cline, Michelle
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership, Educational technology
- Description
- ABSTRACTMICHELLE RINEHARDT-CLINE THE EFFECTS OF BLENDED LEARNING ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, INTERACTION LEVELS, AND ONLINE READINESS SKILLS IN THE HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSROOM (Under the direction of DR. JIM BIRD) The purpose of this experime...
- Title
- USING THE MULTIMEDIA STRATEGIES OF LEARNER-GENERATED DRAWING AND PEER DISCUSSION TO RETAIN TERMINOLOGY IN MIDDLE SCHOOL SECONDARY EDUCATION SCIENCE CLASSROOMS
- Author
- Kasay, Theresa
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership, Reading, Science--Study and teaching
- Description
- The purpose of this quantitative study was to compare and evaluate two types of vocabulary interventions using grade 9 physics vocabulary terms using two lists of 10 words. A quasi-experimental crossover research design was used to compare the two...