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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)....
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...
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...
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...
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...
In the frontier days of America, the school and the community supplemented one another. Frontier life as simple and the requirements for existence on the frontier were, more often than not, a strong back rather than a strong mind. The...
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...
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 study examined the factors contributing to the underrepresentation of women studying undergraduate Computer Science (CS) at Florida Research University (FRU), a preeminent public university. Even as the growing popularity of...
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...
School violence is a problem that affects students, families, teachers, staff, and administration (Crews, 2019). Restorative justice is a proactive, alternative method to penal discipline (Payne & Welch, 2018). My study sought to...
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...
The transition to college represents a pivotal period in the lives of young adults, marked by the promise of growth and new opportunities. However, it is also a time when students commonly experience mental health challenges. This...
This comparative case study explores the agency of two teacher leaders (TLs) as they facilitate their respective teacher-organized lesson study groups. Applying sociocultural theory, I describe TL agency as manifesting at two levels: (1)...
This qualitative exploratory case study examines how low-income, Black boys, who are eligible for accelerated curricular courses at Amos P. Godby High School, decide to pursue or to not pursue accelerated coursework. The research...
This three article mixed methods dissertation is titled "Three Studies on the Leadership Behaviors of Academic Deans in Higher Education." Each of the three articles offers a distinct thesis regarding administration in academic...
States are running out of qualified teachers. However, data from numerous studies indicated that the problem is not a shortage of teachers, but a problem of teacher turnover (Darling-Hammond, 2000). The purpose of this study is to...
The purpose of this Dissertation in Practice was to explore the relationship between cultural intelligence and burnout in teachers. This purpose was rooted in a growing trend of teachers reporting a significant degree of burnout and...
ABSTRACT This case study explored the leadership processes and procedures one principal and her administrative team used to implement planned educational change at North Valley Middle School, a pseudonym given to a predominately African...
This study determined whether differences existed between the teaching styles of male and female community college instructors who teach online. It was significant because distance education literature highlights a learner-centered...
Traditionally, women's leadership has been overlooked and underappreciated by researchers and policymakers although this leadership has been vital to America's ultimate success and infrastructure. Simply stated, contributions of female...
As microblogging tools like Twitter and now Yammer become more prevalent, and as students from the Millennial generation continue to increase their enrollment in online courses, instructors and instructional designers need more...
Cultural Identity Crafting Across Different Cultures in the U.S.: An Ethnographic Study of Temporary Migrant Korean Secondary Students Chogi-Youhacksangs and Girugi Students
This study explores the significantly growing number of Korean secondary students' study abroad experiences in the U.S. This study examines how these students deal with potential cultural conflicts as they move between Korea and the U.S....
Students do not learn from experience but from reflection upon experiences. Reflection is a significant component of experiential learning including leadership learning. Leadership educators utilize reflection to enhance students'...
Research literature suggests that school leadership matters, and that their influence on student achievement is typically observed through indirect means. Following suit, the purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of school...
Elite private institutions, renowned for their exceptional academic offerings and rigorous selection processes, attract top-tier students and faculty; however, exclusive private schooling has perpetuated social and economic disparities...
Although important strides towards gender parity have been made in several scientific fields, females remain underrepresented in the physical sciences, engineering, mathematics, and computer sciences (PEMC). This study examines the... In this study, researchers investigated the perceive competence, academic performance, and completed high school courses by men and women who majored in the physical, and computer sciences (PEMC). Findings...
The shift from the traditional self-contained classroom to the departmentalized classroom structure in upper-elementary classrooms is increasing as the stakes are higher than ever for public schools. Teachers prefer departmentalization...
Principals implement a variety of strategies to improve the quality of instruction within their school buildings. These strategies can range from teacher development to professional learning communities to teacher evaluation systems to...
This dissertation utilizes a basic qualitative exploratory approach to examine the schooling experiences of eight Black high school males in a predominantly White community. It seeks to understand how they define and make sense of their...
School Is Always Hard. With the Covid Stuff, It's Just Hard in a Different Way: Voices of African American, Male Teenage Students during a Global Pandemic
This dissertation utilized a reflective narrative inquiry to document the authentic, lived educational experiences of African American, male, ninth grade students who navigated their middle school years during the COVID-19 global...
As leadership educators we aim to provide students with opportunities necessary to gain knowledge and appropriate leadership skills. Valuable opportunities developed through Student Affairs and Academic Affairs collaborations which...
School choice has been regarded as an important strategy to improve the educational system in the U.S. for several decades. This topic has received strong attention from scholars and an increasing body of research has investigated the...
The rate at which teacher turnover is taking place in Hawai'i is a concern for many administrators and staff members in K-12 schools because of the negative impact it is having throughout the schools. Hawai'i ranks first in the country...
Problem of Practice: School principals have a powerful effect on student achievement, school culture, and teacher turnover. According to the National Association of Secondary School Principals (2020), the average career of a school...
There are widespread concerns about disparities in educational attainment in the United States. Unfortunately African American, Hispanic, Native American, and low-income Broward County Public Schools high school students participate in...
This qualitative research study examined how junior-level undergraduate students clarify their values in the environment of a leadership course. Previous research indicated the concept of values clarification is a dynamic process in...
In the late 20th century, states began approving community colleges to offer four-year baccalaureate degrees, signifying the emergence of the community college baccalaureate (CCB) movement. From 1989 to 2007, 16 states included in this...
School counselors are the first personnel called on in a school to provide daily student mental health support. However, complications such as additional non-counseling duties and high student to counselor ratios exist which limit the...
Public education in the United States has seen many changes over the years. Some of those changes came in response to what are now recognized as clear problems with religious liberty in the common education system adopted in the mid 1800...
College prices have risen at a dramatic pace, with tuition increasing over 200% since 1989. Federal and state aid programs have long provided support to students' efforts to cover the costs of college; however, some argue that aid...
Research on self-efficacy and how it is developed in K-12 educational spaces has primarily focused on traditional classroom spaces and activities. Little research has focused on self-efficacy development in the context of outdoor...
All 28 colleges of the Florida College System (FCS) have made space in their budgets and on their campuses in order to attract upper-division partners, colleges and universities that represent the State University System (SUS), ...
Decades of research demonstrate that college students benefit from positive interaction with faculty members, although that same evidence suggests that those interactions are far from common, particularly outside the classroom. Moreover, ...
The Leadership Role of School Librarians in the Adoption of Digital Textbooks: Evaluating School Librarians' Stages of Concern in Florida and South Korea
In our fast-paced, high-tech society, school librarians' leadership role in technology integration has been receiving particular attention. Because school libraries are usually the first place to introduce new educational technologies, ...
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