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Social interaction phenomena in the first-year college experience.
(2005)
The transition from high school to college is not an easy process. New freedoms and new independence provide for an exciting first year. There is little debate as to the importance of starting college off well. However, ...
Exploring the differences between traditional and alternative schools for educationally disengaged students.
(2004)
The intent of both programs is to intervene with students whose academic and social behaviors are indicators of at-risk characteristics for not graduating from high school. The E.D.G.E. and F.A.M.E. Academies are both ...
An assessment of teacher concerns about classroom technology integration in Southeast Oklahoma.
(2005)
Three hundred sixty-two teachers volunteered to complete the survey instrument. Based on the findings of this study, the following conclusions were made: (a) Teachers were at the Stage 5, collaboration; (b) teachers had ...
Educators' attitudes toward the integration of electronic grading software into the classroom.
(2002)
This study focused on the secondary educator population of two school districts located in the southwestern region of the United States. The study developed and tested five research questions and hypotheses using the EATEGS ...
Rural school superintendents' spiritual journeys.
(2005)
This study used the heuristic methodology to analyze the implications, characteristics, resemblances, and essences of the question, "How do rural school superintendents' perceptions of spirituality influence their leadership ...
School initiatives as means for teachers' inquiries and considerations of changes toward their own instructional practices.
(2004)
A naturalistic research method, phenomenology, permitted this researcher to examine the perspectives of these five participants. The qualitative nature of the study provided a forum to gather participant data. Through ...
An analysis of meaning, malaise, mattering and marginality and their relationship to discretionary effort among regional university staff employees.
(2004)
Recommendations for administrators and other practitioners included: increase the awareness of the various perceptions of the university that different groups hold; provide opportunities for staff to be involved in the ...
Joy, passion and tenacity: A phenomenological study of why quality teachers continue to teach in high-challenge urban elementary schools .
(2007)
Over the last decade, research into the importance of teacher quality has shown that the quality of the teacher in the classroom plays a very important role in student achievement. (Bembry, Jordan, Gomez, Anderson & Mendro, ...
Fiscal equity comparison between current and capital education expenditures and between rural and non-rural schools in Oklahoma.
(2005)
Accordingly, the data to be analyzed with resource accessibility measures and wealth neutrality measures was reported by schools through the Oklahoma Cost Accounting System (OCAS). Specifically, all current expenditures ...
Educator perceptions of principal technology leadership competencies.
(2005)
The populace of the twentieth century is increasingly obsessed with new communication and information technologies that potentially may impact education and raise achievement levels of students (Spencer, 1999). In an ...