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Title: A Systematic Approach To Interrater Reliability In Early Childhood Teacher Performance Evaluations
Author: Bottoms, Bryndle
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation
Description: Teacher evaluations are routinely conducted across the United States for licensure and professional development supports. However, there is limited research on the interrater reliability of these evaluation assessment systems, despite federal reco...

Title: Black HBCU Students’ Perceptions Of A Short-Term Heritage-Seeking Immersive Study Abroad Program: Journey To The First Black Republic
Author: Brown, Sabrina
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: Study abroad is a high-impact practice in the college and university setting that can lead to increased student engagement and student success. While study-abroad participation has increased, it is not a common practice across ethnic demographics ...

Title: Combatting Ceiling Effects: Modeling High-Ability Student Growth Using Multilevel Tobit Regression
Author: Hujar, Julia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational tests and measurements, Gifted children--Education, Statistics
Description: Pressures associated with accountability testing have resulted in a narrowing of both the curriculum and pedagogy that does not meet the needs of high ability learners. This study proposed that either a different measurement (an above-level comput...

Title: Examining Design Knowledge and Practice Among Stem Faculty-Designers Using Visual Lesson Blueprints
Author: Budhrani, Kiran
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Educational technology, Design
Description: Attention is being given to improving the design of undergraduate gateway courses (i.e., entry-level, introductory) in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), particularly those facing challenges of large enrollment...

Title: Expectancy-Value Model: Investigating Academic Success and Retention Predictors of First-Year STEM Majors
Author: Findlater, Nickcoy
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, Educational tests and measurements
Description: The gap in supply (i.e., shortage) and demand of the STEM workforce have prompted extensive research on identifying factors that predict STEM outcomes and retention of students. Few studies, however, have examined the relationships between STEM ou...

Title: Exploring Secondary Classroom Engagement in Mathematics
Author: Cline, Jessica
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Mathematics, Education, Secondary
Description: The term engagement appears in teacher effectiveness models as well as state and federal legislation, including the most recent reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Schools Act of 1965 (ESEA), known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ES...

Title: Lambda Coefficient of Rater-Mediated Agreement: Evaluation of an Alternative Chance-Corrected Agreement Coefficient
Author: Holcomb, Timothy
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational tests and measurements, Educational evaluation
Description: In this study, the performance of the Lambda Coefficient of Rater-Mediated Agreement was evaluated with other chance-corrected agreement coefficients. Lambda is grounded in rater-mediated assessment theory and was developed as an alternative to Ka...

Title: NCAA Transfer Student-Athletes, Athletic Identity, and the Impact of COVID-19
Author: Verburg, Mark
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: Transfer students are an increasingly important piece of the college athletics puzzle; however, little is known about the athletic identity of this important population and the effects of COVID on their commitment to sport. The purpose of this stu...

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: Persistence of Engineering Transfer Students: Identifying Student-Influenced and Institution-Influenced Academic Success Factors
Author: Green, Courtney
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Engineering
Description: COURTNEY SUSANNE GREEN. Persistence of Engineering Transfer Students: Identifying Student-Influenced and Institution-Influenced Academic Success Factors. (Under the direction of DRS. SANDRA DIKA AND XIAOXIA NEWTON) This correlational study utilize...