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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...
Policy on Morals and Influences, as approved by the Florida Board of Control and presented to the Florida State University Council of Deans. The policy instructs the university to screen faculty, staff, and students for "Communistic...
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...
"It is the purpose of this paper to record some of the activities in Barwick High School during the first three years of participation in a Cooperative Study, to analyze the experience for values derived from the experience for possible...
For a great many years American schools were able to fit themselves into a definite pattern without confusion as to their aims. Their function was to provide an opportunity for formal education. Each child either conformed to the pattern...
"The author, who is engaged in the supervision of health and physical education in Escambia County, has for his purposes in preparing this paper: (1) to study the scope of the school health program, (2) to examine and analyze good...
This action-research study was designed to determine the impact of the interactive electronic whiteboard in middle school mathematics. The researcher taught two seventh grade mathematics classes during a unit on transformations. The...
Promoting Conceptual Understanding of Fractions: Effects of Pedagogical Content Professional Development on Teachers' Confidence, Math Anxiety, and Student Achievement
When designing professional development for math teachers, teacher confidence, math anxiety, and student performance are factors to consider. St. Lucie Public Schools in Florida has seen a decline in performance in fifth-grade...
Making Symbolic Meaning Through the Engagement of Intercultural Exchanges: The Relationship Between Intercultural Communication and Global Competnecy on a U.S. University Campus
This study reveals how participants in cross-cultural programs engage in intercultural communication with one another and reflect on global competency. Researchers agree that many U.S. students graduating from universities today are not...
The Role of Early Experience in the Development of a Professional Knowledge-Base and Identity as a Teacher: Investigating Teacher Preparation in Belize
Contrary to the norm in developed countries where teachers pursue undergraduate degrees and professional certification before they are employed, many teachers in Belize are employed as high school or junior college graduates and they...
The goal of this study was to describe the factors that influence education for sustainable development (ESD) in American universities. Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) was employed as the theoretical lens to analyze the...
This quasi-experimental, concurrent mixed methods study investigated whether less-proficient readers in seventh-grade language arts classes using the Reading VITALS supplemental curricular intervention exhibited improved reading...
Attrition among Emotional/Behavioral Disorder (EBD) teachers in El County School District (ECSD) has been a problem. This study aimed to identify the leading causes of EBD teacher attrition within ESCD. Two research questions were...
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...
Understanding science teachers' beliefs is important for science teacher educators, because such understanding is a prerequisite for promoting change within the framework of educational reform. The worldview model developed by Graves ...
"I intend to show in this paper the reasons, favorable and unfavorable, for teacher evaluation. In Chapter IV I will attempt to emphasize some underlying factors of a true teacher evaluation plan"--Introduction.
The word evaluation, according to the definition given in the dictionary means "to appraise carefully". The Fletcherville School faculty has found, in the course of its study to date, that the word implies much more. It means now, among...
"This study will deal with the principal types of faculty meetings as they have developed in America over the past thirty years. It will also consider methods and techniques of conducting faculty meetings, including the following: who...
"The purpose of this paper is to make a study of some of the Supreme Court decisions that have affected education. The cases to be cited are the ones thought to be of most value to the writer in the field of school administration. No...
"The purpose of this paper is not to set up policies for the Wakulla County school but rather to bring together some of the policies expressed in the minutes of the Wakulla County Board of Public Instruction, and other statements of...
"The purpose of this study is to survey articles on administration and supervision of business education that have appeared in professional literature between January 1, 1942, and December 31, 1952"--Introduction.
"The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of the functions carried on by the Deans of Girls (or deans' equivalents) in the Florida Secondary Schools of four hundred and fifty or larger enrollment. This is an analysis based on...
The purpose of this text is to bring together a series of historical/cultural/political strands which, when integrated, provide the raison d'etre of a teacher education program which maintained its identity and purpose since 1947. At...
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...
The impetus of this paper is a survey conducted in Taylor County, Florida, by the writer. The survey was more extensive than intensive; for example, fifty people were submitted a questionnaire containing five questions; and were chosen...
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...
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...
"It is the purpose of this paper to present to the beginning or inexperienced principal a survey of the problem of internal accounting, a brief history of internal accounting, and an examination of the responsibility of a principal in...
Mathematics involves abstract concepts and students often find it difficult to understand this complex subject (Ramani & Patadia, 2012). In order to succeed and wrestle with the difficulties in math, students should use different...
This paper is the report of a study of school organization and of the elementary program of studies in general and of the application of specific principles evolved from such study to the Trapnell Elementary School, Hillsboroug County....
"Administrators trying to use more cooperative planning in their school systems are urged on all sides to do this and to do that. The writer felt there was a need for analysis of what has been said, together with some examples of what...
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