ABSTRACTFor years, educators from colleges and universities across the country have searched for ways to improve student engagement and increase retention. Changing demog[...]

Accountability standards challenge schools to provide quality education for all students and to ensure that all students are on grade level by the end of the school year.[...]

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) that adapt to an individual student's needs have shown significant improvement in achievement over non-adaptive instruction. This impr[...]

ABSTRACTPORTIA GIBBS-ROSEBORO. The effect of a mentoring and extended learning program on North Carolina end-of-course Tests. (Under the direction of DR. COREY LOCK)The p[...]

As the United States struggles with issues regarding the rapidly increasing immigrant population, so do public schools struggle with providing the youth of this non-Engli[...]

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)[...]

Accountability demands on North Carolina community colleges are examined in a qualitative case study of three institutions that met Exceptional Institutional Performance [...]