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Title: A Comparison of Administrators' and Teachers' Perceptions of National Technology Standards
Author: Wilkins, Patricia
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The need for teachers and administrators to select and use appropriate and effective technologies to support instruction is critical for the academic and social success of students. The purpose of the study was to document and compare administrato...

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: WRITING TO LEARN STATISTICS IN AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT STATISTICS COURSE
Author: Northrup, Christian
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Statistics
Description: This study investigated the use of writing in a statistics classroom to learn if writing provided a rich description of problem-solving processes of students as they solved problems. Through analysis of 329 written samples provided by students, it...

Title: Why Some Stay When So Many Leave: A Phenomenological Study on Why Teachers Remain in Low-Income, High-Minority Schools
Author: Hovis, Michael
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: School management and organization
Description: Tens of thousands of teachers in the United States leave their schools to work in other occupations or other schools each year. This has earned the teaching profession the reputation of being a "revolving door," with a large number of qualified te...