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INTERIM ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS AND COGNITIVE MEASURES OF DEEPER LEARNING: AN EVALUATION OF THE USA TESTPREP® PROGRAM
(2018-05)
Recent federal and state policy has placed increasing focus on college and career readiness. As a result, many states and local districts respond by implementing interim assessment systems to help them facilitate instruction ...
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 ...
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 Effect of Increasing Intercollegiate Athletic Program Spending on Enrollment at Small Colleges and Universities
(2018)
This quantitative study focuses on ten small, private colleges and universities affiliated with the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Association of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The research ...
EXPERIENCES OF BLACK WOMEN STUDENTS IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS AT A HISTORICALLY WHITE INSTITUTION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY
(2018-05-02)
The purpose of the study was to understand the experiences of Black women students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at a historically White institution (HWI) with the goal of making recommendations ...
Paths to Success: Analyzing the Journeys of Four Women of Color
(2018-05-02)
This dissertation is a literary analysis as it applies to the writing of memoir. It is a study that focuses on the memoirs of four specific minority women of color who came of age during the historical time-period in this ...
De-professionalized and Demoralized: A Longitudinal Examination of Teachers' Perception of Their Work and Teacher Turnover During the Accountability Era in the United States
(2018-04-27)
The purpose of this dissertation, presented in a three article format, is to describe the changes in teachers’ perceptions of their work, and how those changes relate to teacher turnover, through the state and federal ...
DISGUST AS A CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATION FOR ART APPRECIATION IN THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT IN PRACTICE
(2018-05-11)
Reflecting on the history of art appreciation and viewing its current context within a community college, as a general education course that largely perpetuates cultural miseducation (Martin 2011) through preservation of ...
The Role of the Principal in Professional Learning Communities
(2018-05-11)
To meet the demands of increased student achievement, schools are implementing professional learning communities as a means of driving school improvement efforts. For the professional learning community structure to be ...
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEACHER BELIEFS ABOUT RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION AND STUDENT OUTCOMES: AN ATTEMPT TO GAIN TEACHER BUY IN AND INCREASE STUDENT OUTCOMES
(2018)
Response to Intervention (RtI) is a tiered system of supports designed to offer early prevention services, blend general and special education services, focus on research-based strategies, and emphasize data-based decisions. ...