Browsing by Department "Education Foundation, Leadership, and Technology"
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The Helicopter Parent Phenomenon: Examining the Effects of Strong Parental Attachment on the Transition of Millennial Emerging Adults from College to the Workplace
(2016-12-19)
Helicopter parents are recognized for meddling in all aspects of the academic, social, and professional lives of their children. As a result, these children may be hindered in the development of essential applied skills, ...
High School Student Opinion Polling on Career Exploration
(2011-10-19)
This study examines the use of student learning polls as indicators of student perceptions and influences on career exploration. No Child Left Behind requires schools that fail to make adequate yearly progress for two ...
High-Impact Practices and First Destination Outcomes of Liberal Arts Graduates
(2021-11-30)
The adult learning theories of andragogy, experiential learning, and self-directed learning were utilized as the framework for this study as these theories guide educators in their work with students to seek experiences ...
Higher Education as a Gendered Organization: An Institutional Ethnography
(2023-10-16)
Within higher education, women are employed more often within the ranks of staff or faculty rather than leadership positions, particularly senior leadership positions such as president, provost, or vice president. Only 22% ...
How a Black Female School Leader Navigates Structural Constraints to Foster Black Female Students’ Agency in an Alabama Black Belt Public School
(2023-11-08)
Using Kimberlé Crenshaw’s (1990) intersectionality theory as the theoretical framework, this intersectional narrative study focused on how a Black, female school leader in an Alabama Black Belt public school navigated ...
How Does Engaging with On-campus Systems of Care Services Contribute Toward On-Time Graduation: Perceptions of Recent Graduate Participants and Advice to School Leaders
(2022-11-10)
For decades, schools have sought to level inequities facing students through programs focusing on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: feed them and keep them safe and they can succeed. Though traditional services including free ...
How It All Adds Up: Factors That Affect Mathematics Achievement for Eighth Grade Students in the United States
(2016-08-01)
The sample of this study consisted of 1,077 eighth grade students and 442 eighth grade teachers from nine states—Alabama, California, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and North Carolina ...
How the Interplay of Technology, Public Policy and Teacher Discourses in Education Construct the Teacher Subject
(2016-04-29)
This study applies a Foucauldian critical analytic to investigate how different discourses that are present in one Alabama public school are shaping various aspects of the teacher-self. In an environment of increasing ...
Hybrid Grouping: The Relationship to Student Learning Outcomes, School Leadership and School Climate
(2016-05-11)
This study examined the implementation of Hybrid Grouping at Angel Elementary
School. The Hybrid Grouping model consisted of three elements, achievement grouping,
departmentalization and self-contained classes. The data ...
The Identification and Implementation of Key Characteristics of Exemplary Career and Technical Education Programs in Rural Areas
(2020-07-22)
The increased demand for a skilled workforce has placed new challenges on rural school districts. Students are provided the opportunity to obtain the skills required to fill the workforce needs through exemplary career and ...
Identifying Effective Teaching Behaviors of Pharmacy Faculty Master Teachers
(2016-07-20)
This study aimed to examine the similarities and differences of effective teaching qualities and behaviors identified by student pharmacists and pharmacy faculty. Using an online survey, participants were asked to identify ...
The Impact of a Structured Mentoring Program on New African-American Superintendents in Alabama
(2018-03-07)
This study investigated the structured mentoring program provided to novice superintendents by the SSA (School Superintendents of Alabama). This study examined new African American superintendents’ perceptions of the ...
Impact of Computer Assisted Learning/Computer Assisted Instruction on Academic Achievement in the Area of Fourth Grade Reading and Mathematics
(2018-11-27)
Today in the field of education, as a result of the accountability movement, public school administrators, teachers, students, and parents are faced with continuous pressure to raise standardized test scores. Test ...
The impact of Freshman Year Learning Community Participation on Students' Self-reportedacademic self-efficacy, sense or meaning in life and commitment to academic major at the beginning of the second acae
(2011-08-05)
Student retention is one of the most studied areas in higher education. Much of the focus has been on providing services to aid in retention efforts from the first to the second academic year. Freshman seminar classes as ...
The Impact of Mentoring Relationships and Influences on the Career of Women Superintendents of Alabama
(2010-08-04)
Women make up the majority of personnel in today’s school systems yet few hold the highest position of superintendent. According to the Digest of Education Statistics, in 2001, 79 percent of all public school teachers ...
Impact on Student Academic Performance of a Self-Directed Primer E-Book in a Follow-On Organic Chemistry Course
(2019-11-11)
Retention of knowledge from school courses has long been a concern of educators and administrators. Bahrick (1979) offered the general sentiment that “much of the information acquired in classrooms is lost soon after final ...
The Impacts of Basic Psychological Needs and Big Five Personality Traits on Academic Engagement
(2023-05-01)
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the impacts of basic psychological needs and the Big Five personality traits on college students’ academic engagement. Grounded in self-determination theory: basic ...
In Her Own Voice: A Narrative Study of the Persistence Strategies of Eight African American Women Vice Presidents for Student Affairs at Predominately White Institutions
(2012-05-04)
This narrative study explored the personal and professional experiences of eight African American women vice presidents for student affairs (VPSA) employed at predominately White institutions (PWIs) and the persistence ...
Increasing enrollment of EL students in Georgia: A multiple case study of school leaders at high-EL schools
(2022-05-05)
English learners (ELs) are increasing in US schools; however, their achievement
and graduation rate continues to lag as compared to non-Hispanic white students. In
Georgia, where the EL population has increased significantly ...
The Individual Graduate Teaching Assistant Negotiating Current Preparation Models: A Case Study of Four Composition Graduate Teaching Assistants
(2010-04-23)
Graduate teaching assistants are common fixtures on college campuses, and their roles encompass a wide range of duties, including supervising labs, working alongside mentors, and teaching a variety of beginner courses to ...