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A Summative Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Classroom-Embedded, Individualistic, Computer-Based Learning for Middle School Students Placed at Academic Risk in Schools with a High Proportion of Title I Eligible Students
(2011)
The purpose of this post hoc, summative evaluation was to evaluate the effectiveness of classroom-embedded, individualistic, computer-based learning for middle school students placed at academic risk in schools with a high ...
Jenks Public Schools Vocal Music Department: A 100 Year History
(2012)
The purpose of this study was to research, document, and detail the activities of the Jenks Public School Vocal Music Department from the establishment of the district in 1908 through its first one-hundred years. The study ...
EDUCATIONAL RESPONSES TO THE CANCER INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX PINK WAR MACHINE: THEORIZING GENDER INSUBORDINATION FROM AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF BREAST AND GYNECOLOGICAL CANCERS
(2019-04-24)
Premised upon John Dewey’s contention that dualist notions of minds isolated and elevated from bodies are an “evil” perpetuated in education (1916), this study applies Jane Roland Martin’s theories of education as encounter ...
Enhancing Transformational Leadership of Urban Principals: The Role of Central Office Administration
(2018-05)
Transformational leadership is a model school principals can use guide their schools and their staff through times of uncertainty and reform. Current research presents many positive effects of transformational leadership ...
AN EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTEGRATED LEARNING SYSTEMS ON URBAN MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
(2012)
Many school districts have chosen to invest their federal funds in computer-based integrated learning systems that focus on literacy to increase high-stakes test scores and academic gains (Becker, 1994). In a study by Buly ...
Principal. Me. An Autoethnographic Analysis of Role Conceptualization Within the Principalship
(2015-05-08)
Over the course of the past several decades, the principalship has shifted dramatically. Neo-liberal inspired accountability pressures and increasing societal demands have increased the workload of those who lead schools. ...
Life Stories of Older Community College Women
(2018-05)
The purpose of this narrative research was to explore the life stories of older women attending community college, uncovering elements of their identities and highlighting the role education was playing in the creation of ...
The Relationship Between Self-Directed Learning Readiness and Learning Style Preferences on Employees in a Public Library System
(2013-12)
This quantitative correlational study investigated to what degree a relationship exists between self-directed learning readiness and learning style preferences on employee learning by sampling 169 employees employed in a ...
Monstrous Miseducation: Frankenstein as Educational Thought on the Modern Problem of Terror
(2016-12)
Seeking to understand terror as an under-theorized educational problem with critical implications for contemporary schools and societies, this dissertation is an inquiry into the life, work, and influence of Mary Shelley ...
BUILDING TRUST AND EFFICACY THROUGH CRITICAL FRIENDS GROUPS: A PROCESS EVALUATION
(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, ...