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Title: A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CONSTRUCT OF ACCULTURATION, ACCULTURATIVE STRESS, AND COUNSELOR SELF-EFFICACY AMONG FOREIGN BORN COUNSELING STUDENTS
Author: Interiano-Shiverdecker, Claudia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine how cultural practices, cultural values, cultural identification, and acculturative stress related to counselor self-efficacy among foreign-born counseling students. A total of 93 foreign-born students curr...

Title: A Quantitative Analysis of Per Pupil Expenditures on Instruction and Academic Outcomes in Michigan Public Schools
Author: Bryant, Amber
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: This research quantitatively explores the relationship between per pupil expenditures on instruction and academic outcomes on Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP) in Michigan state public schools. This study particularly focuses ...

Title: AN EXAMINATION OF FACTORS RELATED TO ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING OF PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL COUNSELORS
Author: Perry, Jennifer
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling, Education, Ethics
Description: Professional school counselors are faced with the task of implementing a comprehensive school counseling program that supports the academic, social-emotional, and college and career development of all students they serve. While implementing such w...

Title: AN EXAMINATION OF THE PERCEIVED RESOURCES AND DEMANDS OF NORTH CAROLINA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS
Author: Helf, James
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, School management and organization
Description: School administrators are faced with an increased number of responsibilities and challenges. In order to effectively create and maintain effective schools, educational leaders must provide principals with the proper tools. The purpose of this stud...

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 Examination of Predictive Factors of Self-Efficacy among Supervisors who Conduct Cross-Racial Supervision: Social Influence, Racial Identity Attitudes, and Gender Self-Confidence
Author: Summers, LaTonya
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Social sciences
Description: The counseling profession has become diverse and it is not uncommon for a person of color to be included in the supervisory dyad. Therefore, counselor supervisors are required to become competent in supervising people who are racially different fr...

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: Does the proportion of white students predict discipline disparities? A national, school-level analysis of six racial/ethnic student groups
Author: Triplett, Nicholas
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education and state, Education
Description: Racial/ethnic disparities in school discipline have existed for decades (Children’s Defense Fund, 1975), and have had a disproportionately negative effect on the educational attainment, social/emotional well being and life chances of students of c...

Title: Experiencing the Double-Edged Sword of Desegregation: Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Graduates from 1995-1998
Author: Hawn Nelson, Amy
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational sociology, Social sciences--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this study is to gain insight into the long-term effects of desegregated schooling within a firmly established K-12th grade desegregated school system. Long-term outcomes include: educational and occupational attainment, comfort wit...

Title: Exploring Self-Compassion, Empathy, and Intrinsic Spirituality as Predictors of Cultural Humility
Author: Rikard, Tiffany
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Counseling psychology, Education
Description: Each year in the United States (U.S), one in five adults experience mental illness and one in six youth ages 6-17 experience a mental disorder (NAMI, 2020). While mental illness can affect individuals at similar rates, minority populations suffer ...

Title: Exploring factors impacting social justice advocacy attitudes among play therapists
Author: Chase, Lauren
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Overall, the United States’ population is becoming more diverse, and children in minority groups have many disadvantages due to circumstances beyond their control. They experience more poverty (US Census Bureau, 2017), unequal educational opportun...

Title: Factors Influencing Teen Suicide-Related Behaviors Among Racially Diverse High School Students in a Southeastern Urban School District
Author: Richardson, Sonyia
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Social service
Description: This quantitative study explores factors related to suicide-related behaviors among high school students in a southeastern urban racially diverse school district. It sought to examine whether race was a moderator of identified predictors and the o...

Title: Functions, Practices, and Leadership Responsibilities of High School Athletic Directors in the United States
Author: DeCesare, Tammy
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: The consistent growth of high school sports has created a noticeable evolution in the athletic director position requiring an increase in competencies in business administration and leadership. However, academic requirements, credentials, and trai...

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: Purpose in Life and Career Indecision as Predictors of Academic Success in College
Author: Olivera-Celdran, Galina
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education, Counseling psychology
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine how purpose in life (exciting life and purposeful life) and career indecision (lack of structure and confidence, perceived external barriers, approach-approach conflict, and personal conflict) related to cu...

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...