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Fiscal equity of teacher salary and compensation in Oklahoma .
(2007)
This quantitative study investigated the equitable distribution of resources to determine their accessibility to all children attending public schools in Oklahoma. With No Child Left Behind (NCLB) schools are mandated to ...
An examination of the relationship between parental involvement and academic achievement within an Ojibwe Indian population.
(2003)
After three separate mailings and follow-up phone calls and home visits, a total of fifty-three (53) completed survey questionnaires, along with signed parent and student Informed Consent Forms, were returned in the stamped, ...
Emerging leadership among African American female educators.
(2002)
The purpose of this study is to understand the process of why African-American female teachers seek administration early in their teaching career. This study examines the chronological stages of five women teachers that ...
An Examination of the Effects of Single-Gender Classes on Reading and Mathematics Achievement Test Scores of Middle School Students
(2009)
Educational strategies begin with student achievement in mind. Over time these strategies change to include new scientific information and sometimes change to include past practices. This quantitative research study ...
Path to the professoriate for high-achieving, first-generation college students.
(2006)
The researcher conducted nine interviews with high achieving first-generation college students who were able to overcome difficulties in order to gain access to higher education, persist through the maze of obstacles that ...
Making sense of motivation: Stories of high-achieving African American middle school students.
(2006)
The outcomes of this study will exhibit students maintaining high-academic achievements are equally intrinsically and extrinsically motivated. Their meaning making is synonymous with that of the literature, as the students' ...
Mandatory child abuse reporting practices of Oklahoma educators.
(2002)
This study investigated why, despite mandatory reporting laws, Oklahoma elementary teachers failed to report suspected child abuse and neglect cases. Variables included years taught, grade level taught, general knowledge ...
Authentic instruction: A comparative case study of three urban high schools.
(2005)
All five of these teachers were part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored (grant #0086415) Authentic Teaching Alliance (ATA) which involved public school teachers, graduate and advanced undergraduate fellows, ...
Factors in successful GED recipients in higher education.
(2006)
An inductive phenomenological study was conducted using eight GED recipients who had attempted higher education at a four-year university with this researcher's own experiences included. Four members of the study were ...
SELECTED FACTORS RELATED TO PERCEIVED LEGITIMACY OF MANAGEMENT INNOVATIONS AND THE SUBSEQUENT ADOPTION OF MANAGEMENT INNOVATIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
(2009)
In 2001, Richard Birnbaum observed that management innovations, when introduced to higher education via the business sector, followed a lifecycle that led to rejection of the management innovation. The purpose of this study ...