Browsing The University of Oklahoma by Author "Edwards, Beverly"
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Academic Optimism and Collective Student Trust of Teachers: A Test of the Relationship in Urban Schools
Ensley, Jay (2014-12)The purpose of this study was to test the relationship between academic optimism and collective student trust in urban schools after controlling for contextual conditions that can enhance or impede cooperative student-teacher ... -
Advancement Via Individual Determination in the Suburban High School: An Evaluation of the Jenks High School AVID Program
Muller, Lisa (2014-05)This program evaluation examines the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program at Jenks High School in Jenks, Oklahoma. AVID is a college readiness program designed to prepare underachieving high school ... -
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and Student Achievement
Williams, Patricia (2014-05)The relationship between school spending and student achievement has been studied for years, beginning in earnest with the Coleman Report (Coleman, Campbell, Hobson, McPartland, Mood, Weinfield, York, 1966). The authors ... -
An analysis of the intra-district variances in PTA revenue among elementary schools
Frazier, Larahn (2024-05-10)The purpose of this quantitative resource equity study was to use an equity audit to examine the relationship between intra-district school per-pupil instructional expenditure coupled with per-pupil Parent-Teacher Association ... -
AUTONOMY SUPPORT, COMPETENCE SUPPORT, AND RELATIONAL SUPPORT CAN FOSTER SELF-EFFICACY FOR SELF-REGULATED LEARNING IN URBAN SCHOOLS
Murillo-Wilbur, Lyda (2014)Purpose. The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between school conditions (namely: autonomy support, competence support, and relational support) and student self-efficacy for self-regulated learning ... -
Boundary breaking: how principals impact student engagement
Tucker, Amanda (2023-05-12)The purpose of this study was to understand the impact site principles have on student engagement in the classroom through a sitewide art integration program with the outcome of increased knowledge in content areas. ... -
Building a line of inquiry around instructional program coherence: The role of coherence in teacher well-being, turnover intentions, and mental models
Fiegener, Ashlyn M. (2020-05)Previous studies suggest that instructional program coherence is related to higher student achievement and school improvement. There is little known about the process by which coherence operates in schools, specifically ... -
BUILDING A LINE OF INQUIRY INTO STUDENT PSYCHOLOGICAL NEED FRUSTRATION AND RELATED SCHOOL-SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Adigun, Olajumoke Beulah (2020-07-20)According to Gallup data, U.S. public school students increasingly endorse disengagement from school and hopelessness about the future. Over the years, research around student psychological ill-being has focused on it as ... -
Building Teacher Competence through Modeling and Practice in an Instructional Coaching Session
Lein, Joanna (2017)This study aims to understand how instructional coaching supports novice teachers by examining how to build teacher competence effectively. Using self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2002) as the conceptual framework, ... -
BUILDING TRUST AND EFFICACY THROUGH CRITICAL FRIENDS GROUPS: A PROCESS EVALUATION
Ackley, Kathryn (2017)Two ongoing challenges that schools face, particularly urban schools, are finding ways to develop and retain quality teachers and to contribute to student academic success. There are claims that collaborative structures, ... -
CAN SELF-ORGANIZING TEACHER GROUPS REDUCE TEACHER ISOLATION?
Wheelus, Michael (2024-03-07)This study investigates the conditions fostering self-organized teacher groups within schools and their relationship to reducing teacher isolation. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach involving 663 online surveys and 18 ... -
CELL PHONES AT THE SCHOOL HOUSE: EXPECTATIONS OF PRIVACY, INTERPRETATIONS OF PROTECTION AND THE RESPONSE OF SCHOOLS
Ballard, Traci (2018-05)Through combined traditional legal and documentary research, in addition to a review of current social scientific academic literature on youth perception and behavior, this study sought to answer these questions: 1. What ... -
Choices: an exploratory study of the decision-making behaviors of school superintendents
Fichtner, Amy J.Decision-making practices of school superintendents have previously been studied in the context of decision-making in response to a program or initiative, identifying decision-making styles, and ethical decision-making. ... -
Communication Satisfaction and its Effects on Organizational Readiness to Change: A Quantitative District-Wide Study of Employees from a Technology Center
Durant-Tyson, Angela (2022-08)Although literature establishes the importance of top-level executives’ communication during times of change, there is a lack of empirical research focusing on Communication Satisfaction’s role on Readiness for Organizational ... -
Conceptualizing and Validating a Measure of Principal Trust in Central Administration
Burchfield, Debra (2013-12)ABSTRACT Trust is a core social resource for schools. Lack of trust, however, is a serious impediment to the implementation of improvements in schools today. The absence of a valid and reliable scale to measure principals’ ... -
Culturally responsive teaching in one urban school district: a needs assessment
Robinson-Woods, Cecilia (2022-12-17)There exists a pattern of underperformance in minority children in urban school districts across this country. Nationally, minority students—especially African American students—score lower on standardized assessments than ... -
A Descriptive Study of Principal Use of Transformative Leadership Conversation
Fox, Eric (2024-05-10)Leadership at the level of a school site matters with the school principal serving as a central source of influence (Dodson, 2015; Wallace Foundation, 2013). Leithwood et al. (2004) found principal leadership just behind ... -
Does the National School Lunch Program foster healthy eating? a mixed method analysis of food selection and consumption in middle school
Kaiser, Robert (2022-05-13)American children exhibit the highest rates of obesity among industrialized nations. To promote healthy eating, policy makers have revised standards for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), which provides free and ... -
THE EFFECT OF THE CARRERA ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY PREVENTION PROGRAM ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Nelson, Todd (2017-05)This study evaluates the effect of the Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program, as implemented at a mid-sized, urban-suburban school system, on student achievement. The Carrera Program offers seven components of ... -
The Effects of Relational Conditions and Organizational Commitment on Teacher Turnover Intention
Lepine, John Sr. (2017)This study examines organizational commitment’s potential role as a psychological mediator between the relational conditions in schools and individual teachers’ intentions to leave their positions. Although there is a ...