Browsing by Department "Education Foundation, Leadership, and Technology"
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Training the Emerging Pilot Workforce: Does Generation and Gender Influence Curriculum Development?
(2022-03-04)
This study investigated the learning styles of pilots and non-pilots and then focused on the gender and generational differences among the pilots surveyed. Invitations to participate in an anonymous online Qualtrics survey ...
Transactional Distance Versus Student Characteristics and Their Effect on Academic Outcomes
(2017-05-23)
The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between perceived transactional distance, course satisfaction and student characteristics (demographics, grade point average, previous online experience, ...
U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools Award
(2016-06-17)
This study was conducted in two phases. The first phase was a deep descriptive analysis of the schools who received the United States Department of Education Green Ribbon School (ED-GRS) award over the first three years ...
Uncovering the Social Organization of Women PhD Students' Experiences in Biology: An Institutional Ethnography
(2022-05-01)
Biological science programs enroll and graduate more women than other STEM disciplines; nearly 60% of undergraduate students are women, and women and men enter graduate programs at equal rates. This suggests that the field ...
Undergraduate Business Students: Multiple Intelligences and Academic Majors
(2023-08-04)
This study explored the potential relationship between multiple intelligences and academic majors declared by undergraduate business students in the largest college at a mid-size public university in the southeast. To ...
Understanding First-Year College Students’ Perception of Academic Rigor and Help-Seeking Behavior in College using BCSSE and NSSE
(2018-04-24)
The first-year students join college with several expectations in their mind about their upcoming academic endeavors and their career. The first-year of college is the most crucial year of a students’ college career. This ...
Understanding the Distributed Leadership Experiences of Principals, Assistant Principals, and Teacher Leaders in High Schools
(2017-04-25)
The theory of distributed leadership is a relatively new concept; thus, it has been under researched.
It is important to understand distributed leadership because there is a need to
acknowledge an even broader perspective ...
University Educational Leadership Program Coordinators' Perceptions of University-School District Partnership Development
(2016-05-06)
This qualitative case study investigated the role of the university educational leadership coordinator in partnership development, the facilitating and hindering factors of partnership development, and the positive and ...
Unpacking the Triggers of Interest in Academic Material: An Appraisal Perspective
(2010-08-02)
A study was conducted to apply a recent model of interest (Silvia, 2006) to educational goals and an educational context. The model is based on appraisal theory, and contends that interest is an emotional state dependent ...
The Uses of Systems Thinking Tools for School Improvement
(2013-11-01)
Cornfield High School is a school located in St. Louis, Missouri, serving just over a
thousand students, grades nine through twelve. While sharing many similarities of other high
schools throughout the United States, ...
Using online student polling for continuous improvement planning
(2010-07-20)
This study examines the use of Internet polling at schools to gain student input for the improvement of learning conditions to assist in the continuous improvement planning. The study consists of 2006 respondents and three ...
Using Polling to Understand High School Students' Perspectives on Internet Learning and Peer Support
(2017-04-21)
This study explores students’ perceptions of Internet and peer-supported learning using student learning polls. Schools are expected to make improvements annually to increase student learning and achievement. The Learning ...
Using Student Voice to Strengthen Tutoring Services in Middle Schools
(2010-11-29)
This study examines the use of student learning polls as indicators of student perceptions
for tutoring services for the purpose of continuous improvement planning. As an integral part of
the educational reform known as ...
Using the Voice of Educators to Strengthen Teacher Evaluation: Implications for Improved Performance
(2018-04-24)
Purpose: Our nation’s leaders view the quality of teaching as important; however, how legislators have influenced the importance of teaching quality is disputed. The nation’s focus on legislating teaching quality has been ...
Veteran Teacher Commitment: Veteran Teachers in Their Own Words
(2014-12-10)
The commitment of veteran teachers is vitally important to schools. Their commitment to public education can be used in leadership roles to identify challenges and remove barriers of public education. The current literature ...
Virtual Reality in Higher Education: A Case Study at the Air University's Squadron Officer College
(2017-04-25)
For decades, constructivist educational theorists such as Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky, Papert, and Bruner have advocated that for deep learning to occur, learners should have some type of experience related to the subject ...
Walking-On: A Narrative Inquiry of Division II Non-Scholarship Student-Athletes’ Identity Development and Pursuit of Success
(2023-04-13)
Student-athletes have long been a population of interest to researchers regarding identity development and academic success. More specifically, researchers have looked into the identity foreclosure of student-athletes; its ...
What strategies do principals in highly effective elementary schools utilize to foster teacher leadership, from both the principal and teacher leader perspective?
(2020-04-17)
The purpose of this study was to identify the strategies used by elementary school principals, in highly effective schools, to foster teacher leadership. This study examined teacher leadership from both the principal and ...
When Being Black Isn’t Enough: Experiences and Persistence Strategies of Six African American Administrators at a PWI
(2010-10-27)
This phenomenological study explored the experiences and persistence strategies of African American administrators at Broussard University, a pseudonym given to a predominantly White university located in the southeastern ...