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Title: A COMPARATIVE EXPLORATION OF CULTURE CHANGE IN NURSING HOMES: THE RESIDENTS' PERSPECTIVE
Author: Murray, Louise
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Gerontology
Description: The need to provide an environment that ensures both quality care and quality of life for residents of nursing homes has long been recognized. The culture change movement in nursing homes emphasizes both principles. This mixed-methodology research...

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: A Comparison of Developmental Mathematics Sequences at a North Carolina Community College Using a Markov Chain Model
Author: Peeler, Matthew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Community colleges--Study and teaching, Educational evaluation
Description: This study compares students at a North Carolina community college taking a course-based developmental mathematics sequence to students taking a new, module-based emporium method developmental mathematics sequence using a Markov chain model to com...

Title: A Qualitative Interview-Based Study of the Experiences of Community College Disability Services Providers
Author: Nichols, Jennifer
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Higher, Disability studies
Description: The purpose of this study is to explore and capture the experiences of disability services providers (DSP) within the community college setting as it relates to facilitating and coordinating accommodations for students with disabilities, collabora...

Title: A Study of the Attitudes of University of North Carolina Education Faculty Toward the Use of Computer-Based Simulation in Pre-service Teacher Education Methods Courses
Author: Englebert, Mary
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Teachers--Training of, Educational technology
Description: ABSTRACTMARY F. ENGLEBERT: A study of the attitudes of University of North Carolina education faculty toward the use of computer-based simulation in pre-service teacher education methods courses. (Under the direction of DR. JOHN GRETES) The use of...

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: COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY PERCEPTION OF PREPAREDNESS TO TEACH ONLINE
Author: Vang, Kao
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Community colleges--Study and teaching, Instructional systems--Design
Description: Faculty competencies required to teach online have been examined in university settings but there is limited research focusing on community colleges. This study examined 101 community college faculty’s perceptions on their preparedness to teach on...

Title: First Year Residential Tradtional-aged College Students' First Semester Experience and it's impact on Social Identity
Author: Douglas, Niesha
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Higher
Description: ABSTRACTNIESHA CHARISSE DOUGLAS. First year residential traditional aged college students' first semester experience and its impact on their social identity. (Under the direction of DR. LISA R. MERRIWEATHER)The needs of our society are not met whe...

Title: High School Success: An Effective Intervention for Achievement and Dropout Prevention
Author: Lowder, Christopher
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Educational evaluation, School management and organization
Description: The purpose of this mixed-design study was to use quantitative and qualitative research to explore the effects of High School Success (a course for at-risk ninth graders) and its effectiveness on student achievement, attendance, and dropout preven...

Title: Hispanic-Black Achievement Gap: The Educational Schism in South Carolina Middle Schools
Author: Belton, Sr., Montrio
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The academic achievement gap that exists between middle class White and non-White and poor students is well-documented. As policy-makers and educational leaders in South Carolina grapple with the academic achievement gap between White and non-Whit...

Title: STUDY ABROAD PARTICIPATION AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ INTERCULTURAL SENSITIVITY
Author: Edmunds, Julia
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Foreign study
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the intercultural sensitivity of College of Education students who participated in short-term, faculty led, study abroad programs at a large, urban, branch, university in the Southeast. The research questio...

Title: TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVES OF THE PRINCIPALS’ INVITATIONAL LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS, TEACHER JOB SATISFACTION AND PRINCIPAL EFFECTIVENESS IN HIGH-POVERTY RURAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
Author: Younis, Matthew
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of Invitational Leadership behaviors on school teacher satisfaction, teacher perceptions of the school principal’s performance, and to identify if there was a difference between the levels of inv...

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: The Development Of A Comparative Appraisal Of Perceived Resources And Demands For Clergy
Author: Jackson-Jordan, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Adult education
Description: The purpose of this study was to develop the Comparative Appraisal of perceived Resources and Demands for Clergy (CARD-C), which is used for appraising perceived stress for clergy persons. An appraisal-based definition of stress was derived from t...

Title: The Influence of Teach for America on Algebra I Student Achievement
Author: Carroll, Curtis
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: This non-experimental study examined the influence of an initiative that High Risk School District (pseudonym) implemented to offset the effect of low student academic performance in low performing-schools. The study attempted to answer the follow...

Title: The effect of multiple interventions on freshman college student engagement and retention
Author: Lehmuller, Peter
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: College student retention has been widely studied in the past twenty five years, and institutions have developed numerous interventions aimed at improving student retention and persistence-to-degree. A number of theories have been promulgated to e...

Title: USING PRE-KINDERGARTEN DATA TO PREDICT STUDENTS’ KINDERGARTEN PERFORMANCE
Author: Tynan, Jacqueline
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Psychology
Description: As support mounts for the use of pre-kindergarten (pre-k) to promote academic achievement, there is increased need to understand the nature of pre-k’s effects and the key elements of effective pre-k programming. The present study used a short-term...

Title: What are the differences between effective and ineffective charter schools?
Author: Stone, Cedric
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation
Description: ABSTRACTThis purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the North Carolina charter schools. The variables were chosen based on the researcher's inference from literature reviews discussing common factors from qualitative charter...