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Title: An Examination of Factors that Relate to School Counselors Knowledge and Skills of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
Author: Olsen, Jacob
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling, Education
Description: Structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the factors that relate to school counselors’ knowledge and skills of multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS). A sample of 4,066 practicing school counselors who are members of the American School Couns...

Title: An analysis of administrative spending across education organizational forms
Author: Prieto, Tatia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, School management and organization
Description: This study compared administrative expenditures among 542 traditional school districts and 258 charter schools in Michigan, exploring whether one organizational model might better minimize administrative spending. A non-experimental correlational ...

Title: Appropriate Measures of Effectiveness: Teacher Evaluations and Value-Added Measures in North Carolina
Author: Covington, Azure
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education and state
Description: The increased use of value-added measures is a result of policymakers viewing traditional measures of teacher effectiveness as obsolete and unrelated to student achievement. Additionally, literature lacks substantial findings examining the relatio...

Title: FACTORS INFLUENCING COUNSELOR SELF-EFFICACY OF MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS WORKING WITH REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS
Author: Isawi, Dana
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: Since 1975, the United has admitted over three million refugees (U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, 2016). Mental health professionals are called upon to the psychological needs of this unique population. Neve...

Title: Factors Related to the Self-Efficacy of School Counselors in Training
Author: Mitchell, Rolanda
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling, Counseling psychology
Description: Professional school counselors play an integral role in the academic, personal/social and career development of children. Each day, they are charged with addressing student mental health needs (Burnett-Zeigler & Lyons, 2012; Green et al., 2014), e...

Title: Parenting Stress Among Sexual Minority Parents: Gender, Race, Custody Status, Timing of Coming Out, and Level of Outness
Author: Martin, Ann
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Queer studies, Families--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between parenting stress among sexual minority parents and their gender, race, legal custody status, timing of coming out relative to becoming a parent, and level of outness. A total of 833...

Title: The Perceptions of Pre-Service Teachers on a Program Rooted in Multicultural Service Learning: A Case Study
Author: Perrow, Adam
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, Teachers--Training of
Description: In response to diversifying classrooms, teacher education programs have focused efforts on multicultural service learning and culturally responsive teaching as mechanisms for delivering an orientation towards equity. Social justice teacher educati...

Title: Understanding the Impact of Racism and Sexism on the Development of the Professional Identity of African American Women Principals
Author: Brown, Chrystal
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The purpose of this study is to understand the impact of racism and sexism in the development of the professional identity of African American women principals in public K-12 schools. African American women experience the principalship differently...