Browsing by Department "Education Foundation, Leadership, and Technology"
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Socialization of Female and Male Assistant Principals
(2017-04-13)
Assistant principals have one of the hardest jobs in the school, if not the hardest. Their role in a school generally consists of discipline, buses, textbooks, working with angry parents, and many more. Their hours are ...
The Soft Side of Leadership: Principals’ Enactment of the Love Languages and Leadership Frames in Influencing School Culture
(2015-07-28)
The culture of a school defines how the school works in regards to rules, relationships, and attitudes. The current research focuses primarily on the principal’s academic intelligence and how it impacts school culture. ...
Sorority/Fraternity Facilities: Does Type Make a Difference in the Member Experience?
(2020-04-20)
The physical environment on a college campus plays an important role in enhancing student learning and positive well-being (Garcia, 2017; Strange & Banning, 2015) and can influence a student’s sense of community and campus ...
Spinning the Web to Stay: Teacher Retention Factors and Job Embeddedness in Alabama's Rural Public Schools
(2024-05-30)
Retaining quality teachers is an assurance of successful schools. Moreover, research shows that high teacher turnover has academic and social impacts that are detrimental for students. Unfortunately, teacher turnover is ...
Stakeholders Perspectives of Factors that Facilitate and Hinder Student Success in High Achieving, High Poverty, High Minority Rural High Schools in Alabama
(2016-08-05)
This study investigated high performing, high poverty, and high minority rural high schools in Alabama. Three types of schools, fringe, distant and remote formed the sample. The study examined key stakeholders’ perceptions ...
Status and Need: A Study of Women in Intercollegiate Athletic Administration
(2010-05-05)
This study of women in athletic administration in higher education was conducted to obtain information related to the administrative placement of women in athletic administration in intercollegiate athletics. This study ...
Still I Rise: Agency of Black Collegian Women
(2023-05-02)
The research and discourse surrounding Black women in college has continued to expand in its scope in recent years. Scholars have written about Black college women in several ways describing the intersections of their ...
Stories of the Benefits and Challenges of Implementing Character Education in Southeastern High Schools
(2020-11-24)
Character education has the potential to increase student academic performance as well as social and emotional skills regardless of socio-economic level, race, gender, or grade level. Yet prior theory and research suggests ...
Stress in Alabama’s Education Employees: Intensity, Manifestation, Connection to Turnover Intentions, and Alleviation Techniques
(2023-04-27)
Schools across America are filled with educators who are skilled in their craft but stressed with their work, which is leading to alarming rates of burnout, turnover, and attrition. Much of the existing professional ...
Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) of an Extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to Report Web Technology Adoption Behavior in Higher Education Institutions
(2013-11-08)
Web technologies used in higher education institutions are aimed to offer practical value to faculty members and students in facilitating their teaching learning and other academic processes. However, a number of recent ...
Student Affairs Practices: Perceptions of Student Support Services and Retention
(2016-11-09)
Student affairs and adult education professionals in colleges and universities are inundated with increasing demands on resources, placing stress on allocation of time, energy, human capital, and finances. Contributing to ...
Student Perspectives of Supporting and Hindering Factors in School Integration and the Role of Racial Identity in the Process
(2015-12-04)
May 17, 1954 would be an important historic day and would influence education in the lives of African American students in the United States with the unanimous verdict of Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas that ...
(Student) Activism as a Queer Worldmaking Disruption to White Supremacy and Heteropatriarchy within and Beyond Higher Education
(2022-07-15)
The purpose of this study was to explore how queer (student) activists challenge, disrupt, and transform higher education. With queer schools of thought as the theoretical framework, I positioned (student) activism as a ...
Students' Perceived Learning Effectiveness: The Relationship between the Level of Fidelity in Nursing Simulation, Traditional Clinical Experiences, and the Learning Objectives
(2014-11-06)
There is an increase in the use and acceptance of simulation in nursing education. Conflicting data exists regarding the level of fidelity required for effective learning. With the increasing use of simulation in nursing ...
Students’ Characteristics, Self-Regulated Learning, Technology Self-Efficacy, and Course Outcomes in Web-Based Courses
(2010-07-29)
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among students’ characteristics, self-regulated learning, technology self-efficacy, and course outcomes in online learning settings. Previous research provided ...
Students’ Satisfaction with Interactions in Online Courses at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
(2020-07-20)
Student satisfaction is an important factor when analyzing online courses. Research has shown that student interactions in online courses are linked to overall satisfaction and success in their courses. However, student ...
A study of campus fraternity and sorority advisors regarding alcohol education strategies used on college campuses
(2012-10-29)
“There is no greater public health hazard on American college and university campuses
than the abuse of alcohol” (Misch, 2010, p. 232). The purpose of this study was to examine
alcohol education strategies presently used ...
A Study of Complex Leadership Theory in a Title One Middle School During the CoVID-19 Outbreak of 2020
(2023-08-10)
The COVID-19 pandemic caused worldwide disruption, including the closure of public
schools in the United States. This dissertation introduces a conceptual framework of complex
leadership, based on complexity leadership ...
A Study of the Impact of Changes to International Student Visa Policy and Procedures since the 9/11 Attacks
(2011-07-28)
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, U.S. international student visa policy and procedures underwent drastic changes having an obvious and immediate impact on foreign students, higher education institutions, international ...
A Study of the Impact of the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program in Alabama Schools
(2016-12-09)
This study examined the fruit and vegetable intake of a large sample of Alabama school children in elementary schools receiving fifty percent or more free or reduced priced lunch who qualify for the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable ...