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William James Schneider – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The aim of this dissertation is to inform policy makers when designing and making decisions on performance measure and performance-based funding models. While performance measures are designed to incent and inform college efforts to increase levels of student success, many of the models unfairly assess college outcomes and fund based on those…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Theory Practice Relationship, Measurement Objectives, Measures (Individuals)
Pellegrino, Lauren Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2018
For more than 10 years, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) regional accrediting body has required all of the nearly 800 institutions under its umbrella to prepare and execute a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) as part of the reaccreditation process that occurs every 10 years. Pursuant to the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Community Colleges, Accreditation (Institutions), Program Implementation
Colvin-King, Vadrin – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study sought to evaluate the efficacy of service learning through the lens of faculty members, community partners, and student learning outcomes at a midsized community college in North Carolina. As a teaching tool integrating community service with instruction, service learning depends on the collaboration of multiple stakeholders and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Service Learning, College Faculty, Statistical Analysis
Kradel, Robert L., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
With the demands on schools to prepare its students to be globally competitive in the 21st century, schools are forced to examine new ways to meet those demands. One of the new reform ideas is that of restructuring traditional high schools into small schools within schools. Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the North Carolina…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Barriers, Rural Schools, High Schools
Calix, Alexandra – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined the effect of foster care experience and characteristics on educational outcomes. The typical strategy in examining the effect foster care has on educational outcomes is to compare the educational achievement of youth with foster care experience to that of their peers or to national norms. This strategy fails to take selection…
Descriptors: Placement, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement
Leary, Mary – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This evaluation was conducted at Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, located approximately 40 miles south of the Virginia state line. ECSU, a historically Black institution of higher learning, was founded in 1891 and is one of 17 constituent universities in The University of North Carolina system. The…
Descriptors: Employees, Job Satisfaction, African American Institutions, Leadership