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From zero-tolerance to restorative practices: a narrative inquiry of the transition in policy and practice
(2020-12-04)
This dissertation explores an educational leader’s unique journey to establish a new culture for school discipline in a Midwest urban middle school. This study chronicles three years of the implementation of restorative ...
Teacher identification of principal behaviors that support teacher autonomy, competence, and relatedness
(2020-12-18)
This qualitative research examined teachers’ perspectives of specific behaviors of principals that promoted teachers’ basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness through the lens of Basic Psychological ...
NEVERTHELESS SHE PERSISTED: AN ANALYSIS OF WHAT MOTIVATES WOMEN TO PERSIST IN ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP
(2021-12-18)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the lived experiences of women who successfully navigated the trajectory to the upper levels of administration in the public K-12 school districts, and how they leveraged ...
Principal Perceptions of District Support in Oklahoma: What They Get, What They Want, and How It Affects Their Psychological Needs
(2021-05)
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between principals’ basic psychological needs and the district-level factors that support them. Evidence from the past thirty years of educational research has pointed ...
Communication Satisfaction and its Effects on Organizational Readiness to Change: A Quantitative District-Wide Study of Employees from a Technology Center
(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 ...
Jewish Community Views on Partnerships with the Judaic Studies Department
(2023-12-15)
The purpose of this study was to better understand the dynamics of partnerships between Judaic studies departments and the Jewish community and to what degree Jewish community members find these partnerships useful through ...
A case study of the transitions of veteran students to public university
(2022-05-13)
College campuses across the nation are recruiting and admitting veteran students more than ever. Through their service, veteran students have earned a military benefit through their military service that will cover most ...
Identifying Community College Transfer Student Characteristics Associated with Graduation from a Four-Year Institution
(2021)
Transfer students represent a rapidly growing subgroup in higher education. Increasingly, students are beginning their degree-seeking journeys at community colleges with the intention of transferring to a four-year ...
The Profession with a 1,000 Job Titles: Historicizing Home Economics, Gender, and Society at the University of Oklahoma
(2021-05-14)
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a curriculum history of the School of Home Economics at the University of Oklahoma. The primary research question asks what the role that the school’s home economics curriculum ...
Culturally responsive teaching in one urban school district: a needs assessment
(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 ...