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Title: A Qualitative Investigation of Factors Contributing to Women Majoring in Computer Science
Author: Wong, Alexandria
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Computer science
Description: This study investigates factors that influence young women’s decision to major in computer science (CS). While there is a rapid increase of scientific advances being made in the United States and the importance of scientific fields for societal, e...

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: Experiencing the crux of agency and structure in urban education: On becoming a teacher educator
Author: Salyers, Bethany
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Higher, Teachers--Training of
Description: This research seeks to understand the experience of agency among those being prepared to be teacher educators and education scholars. It investigates how doctoral students negotiate their agency when they discover a difference between the promise ...

Title: Family Matters: Familial Support and Science Identity Formation for African American Female STEM Majors
Author: Parker, Ashley
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: ABSTRACT This research seeks to understand the experiences of African American female undergraduates in STEM. It investigates how familial factors and science identity formation characteristics influence persistence in STEM while considering the d...

Title: Poverty, English, and Evangelism: A qualitative study of young adults in a church-based English language program in Cambodia
Author: Krzeszewski, Lori
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Language and languages--Study and teaching
Description: This qualitative case study explored the motivations and experiences of thirty young adults enrolled in a free church-based English program in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Data include the researcher's field notes from six months of participant observati...

Title: School Choice and the Latinx Community: Increased Opportunity/Exclusion in Mecklenburg County
Author: Handler, Laura
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education and state
Description: Advocates of market-based reform strategies such as school choice claim they will offer families better options to obtain a high-quality education for their child, yet empirical studies offer inconclusive evidence of gains in student achievement a...

Title: Standardized Distraction: Why the Emphasis on High-Stakes Testing Can't Resolve Educational Inequality
Author: Giersch, Jason
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Education and state, Educational sociology
Description: Standardized testing has exploded into nearly every grade level and subject area in public education over the past two decades. Attaching high stakes to standardized test results was intended to improve education for all students, but especially f...

Title: THE RETENTION OF FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS IN STEM: AN EXTENSION OF TINTO’S LONGITUDINAL MODEL
Author: Uche, Ada
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Education and state, Educational sociology
Description: In the current technologically advanced global economy, the role of human capital and education cannot be over-emphasized. Since almost all great inventions in the world have a scientific or technological foundation, having a skilled workforce is ...

Title: THE TITLE WAIVE: A POLICY AND LEGAL ANALYSIS OF THE 50 STATES’ ESEA WAIVERS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR FEDERALISM AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW MAKING IN EDUCATION POLICY
Author: Trull, Sheena
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Education and state, Law
Description: The aim of this dissertation is to provide a critical analysis of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Flexibility Waivers administered by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan since 2012. As a function of federalism, local school p...

Title: The Middle Segment of the Society and Socioeconomic Polarization: A Multidimensional Approach Applied to Colombia
Author: QUINONES, MAURICIO
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Area studies
Description: The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate the relevance for Colombia of analyzing the middle segment of the society – as the core concept – and socioeconomic polarization due to its linkage with the middle segment of the society, with a m...

Title: The Relationship between School Built Environment and Student Achievement in Pakistan
Author: Begum, Nahida
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Ecology, Education and state
Description: Schools in Pakistan face many challenges, ranging from lack of qualified teachers to insufficient teaching resources. Another obstacle is the low quality of school built environment. Some important built environment factors include an available wa...

Title: The development of Chinese overseas joint venture universities and their role in Chinese higher education
Author: Mao, Ping
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: This dissertation investigates a newly emerging phenomenon in Chinese higher education in which a Chinese university partners with an overseas university to open a new university campus in China which began in 2004. This form of university was est...