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Since the early 1980's, there have been significant institutional efforts to support student success in the first year of college, most notably in the form of the contemporary first-year seminar (Greenfield, Keup & Gardner, 2013)....
Over the last two decades, the charter school movement has arguably become the most widespread school reform in the United States. Charter schools differ tremendously in terms of where and when they form and the entities and...
One Year Later: A Study of the Motivational Profiles of Students Who Participated in a Grit and Growth Mindset Themed First-Year Experience Course at an Urban Community College
The issue of low community college retention and completion rates has become an important concern in recent years. The lack of persistence among college students has led to a variety of institutional initiatives including first-year...
Over the last 30 years, college women's drinking has steadily increased from 6% to 49%. While colleges across the country have attempted to deal with alcohol-related issues by implementing a multitude of programs and policies, the data...
In the last few decades, the growth of administration costs on higher education campuses surpassed the growth of instructional costs. The escalating costs of higher education, which are now outpacing general price levels, have raised...
College dropout crisis has become one the major problems in U.S. Higher Education. Over the past decade, universities nation-wide have been trying to better understand the specific factors that influence undergraduate degree completion...
This dissertation explores the campus climate of a Historically Black University in the Southeastern United Sates by providing an overview of the campus' sexual assault policy and Black women students' and administrators' perceptions of...
This dissertation examined the relationship between student engagement in college and subsequent employment status and early career earnings in a public university. This study sought to understand whether or not student academic and...
Online courses have become an important part of a student's academic career. The variety and number of online course offerings grow each year. Unfortunately, there are a few drawbacks to current online courses, including differences...
The study conducted in Dolphin County School District offers a comprehensive exploration of teacher beliefs among K-8 educators, specifically focusing on perspectives related to mathematics instruction. The findings reveal a diverse...
Since the reauthorization of the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act in 2018, national and state educational policies are prioritizing career and technical education (CTE). A longstanding part of the...
This study created a model to assess the general retirement literacy and level of intention to save for retirement of recent Millennial college students about to graduate from four-year public universities in the United States. The study...
The purpose of this study was to determine if a semester of study abroad influenced the development of global-mindedness among students enrolled in International Programs at Florida State University. The primary research question focused...
Florida's 2009 Excess Credit legislation created a tuition penalty structure for undergraduate college students who attempted credit hours above a determined threshold to incentivize efficient graduation. Due to the structure of the law, ...
Florida's Gold Seal Quality Care program, created in statute in 1996, serves as a policy lever to improve program quality in childcare and serve as a symbol of quality for parents when choosing a childcare provider for their children....
Research has established that one of the most important functions assistant principals can learn is how to be an instructional leader. Some school districts have incorporated problem-based learning (PBL) in their building-level principal...
An Explanatory Mixed Methods Content Analysis of Two State Level Correctional Institutions' Pre-Release Handbook Curriculum Designs, Looking Through the Lenses of Two Philosophical Orientations of Education.
The purpose of this study was to discover how Minnesota's Department of Corrections, Making a Successful Transition: Adult Pre-Release Handbook (2005), and Indiana's Department of Corrections, Pre-Release Re-Entry Program Offender...
ABSTRACTThe quality of care children receive from birth to kindergarten sets them on a trajectory for successful entry to school. Children who receive high-quality care, which is provided by qualified early educators with demonstrated...
Students need proficient literacy skills if they are to be successful in school and in life. Students typically master foundational literacy skills in the primary grades, and their abilities continue to develop throughout middle and high...
Akademi Komunitas is a policy borrowing or policy transfer in Indonesian higher education system from the U.S. community college system. This policy officially started in 2012 under the Indonesian Law No.12/2012 on Higher Education with...
Black male student-athletes are not graduating near or at the same rates as their counterparts. Moreover, many are leaving college underprepared professionally and personally. These young men often dream and work toward competing...
The current study evaluated the Merit Scholars program of Bright Futures to determine its effect on student success in postsecondary education, particularly among African American students in the State of Florida by comparing high school...
The low quality of educational services in the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro is well documented (e.g., Abramo, 2003; Alves, Franco & Ribeiro, 2008; Cano, 2012; Cavallieri e Coelho, 2003; Frigotto, 2004; Henriques, 2000; Henrique &...
The Dynamics of Implementing Continuing Professional Education Legislation: A Case Study of the Vocational Rehabilitation Comprehensive System of Personnel Development
The state/federal Vocational Rehabilitation program assists eligible individuals with disabilities in entering or returning to employment. In 1998, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, was further amended to require vocational...
This dissertation presents an overview of the accountability measures that shape kindergarten teachers’ definition and perceptions of effective teaching in racially diverse classrooms. The impact of school reforms such as No Child Left...
AbstractAfter developmental education (DE) reform took place among the 28 Florida College System (FCS) institutions in 2014, different colleges adopted the policy with various resources, perspectives, and reactions. This study seeks to...
This evaluation assesses the Alternative Route to Licensure (ARL) program of the Clark County School District (CCSD), in Clark County, Nevada from the program participants' perspectives. The program was implemented to reduce teacher...
African and Hispanic American businesses lag behind in the utilization of electronic commerce. As the global market expands, electronic commerce utilization will be important to the survival of these businesses. This research sought to...
Online graduate education accounts for the fastest rising portion of new graduate students in the United States (Allum & Okahana, 2015). Yet, their experiences are missing from the literature, and we know little about what drives their...
This dissertation presents a framework for understanding how beliefs about difficulty and talent in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) influence students’ subsequent decisions to major and complete degrees in those...
The fire chiefs of today realize the importance of higher education. This is evident in the seminal works of the 1966 Wing Spread I conference and the United States Fire Administration’s Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education...
In this study, I analyzed the Florida anti-bullying law and compared it to the adopted anti-bullying policies at the district and school levels to describe if there were significant discrepancies between the state-level anti-bullying law...
Landlocked Malawi ranks among the world’s least developed countries. The country faces numerous social and health problems such as widespread household poverty and a high rate of HIV/AIDS infections, with severe consequences for children...
Many educators and business people are awakening to the growing need to better equip students with an international perspective and understanding. One common method to promote these goals is accomplished via a variety of study abroad...
A Longitudinal Comparison of Vocational and Non-Vocational Education Students in Leon County Public Secondary Schools: A Study of May 1999 & May 2000 High School Graduates
The purpose of this study was to compare vocational and non-vocational education students in public secondary schools in Leon County, Florida, to see whether high school graduates who were in vocational education programs in their 9th...
The dissertation sought to provide insight to the unique experiences of foster care alumni in graduate education pursuits. For many, higher education serves to increase opportunities in the workforce and higher lifetime earnings; as the...
Researchers such as Tinto (1993), Astin (1975) and Kuh (1995) have found that most students who are engaged with their college environment have a greater connection with the institution and in some instances, higher rates of persistence...
Understanding the experiences of Chicanas in doctoral study remains salient because of pervasive doctoral program attrition rates and severe underrepresentation in the professoriate. Chicanas doctoral students engage in these unfamiliar...
One of the reported problems in the Honduran education system is teacher absenteeism. Although precise rates have not been provided, it is generally understood that the absenteeism rates tend to be higher in rural schools because of...
For close to a decade, the Jefferson County School District (JCSD) was characterized by failed academic performance and financial instability. Some of the factors that drove these outcomes include school board dysfunction, poor use of...
Intercollegiate athletics has become a business enterprise which exists and thrives on higher education campuses. As the growth of intercollegiate sport has continued, women have been noticeably absent from leadership roles in this...
Some 300 years after the founding of the first American institution of higher education, developing students into future leaders remains a central objective of contemporary colleges and universities (Astin, 1993; Johnson, 2000; Komives, ...
The purpose of this longitudinal study is to explore the relationship between the national unemployment rate and college enrollment and success outcomes (retention, and completion), controlling for student characteristics (gender, race...
An Analysis of FEMA Curricular Outcomes in an Emergency Management and Homeland Security Certificate Program— a Case Study Exploring Instructional Practice
In the United States, the higher education community is charged with the academic education of emergency management professionals. The present rate of natural disasters as well as the evolving threat of terrorist attacks have created a...
Every year, more students in the United States participate in international service learning (ISL) programs through their universities (IIE, 2016; Boone, Kline, Johnson, Milburn, & Rieder, 2013). Over the past two decades, the...
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a better understanding of the policy making process by developing a policy model and a Blended Framework to apply to the Juvenile Justice Educational Enhancement Program policy. Three...
Accountability pressures have impacted pedagogy in many K-12 schools in the United States. Low achievement on standardized assessments may be attributed to many factors, including instructional strategies. Differentiated instruction has...
This quantitative study examines the current status of Black women higher education administrators in comparison to other higher education administrators of another race and/or gender. Specifically, years of service, social support, ...
Researchers have given extensive consideration to public school teachers' retention. Yet, despite independent schools enrolling approximately 12% of our nation's students, the work that has been completed on teachers at independent...
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