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Andress, Blair J. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Each day, in schools across America, teachers willingly embrace the often daunting task of educating the nation's youth. Students who share little more than a common birth year are placed together with a teacher who is expected to take them from wherever they happen to be academically at the beginning of the year to where they simply must be by…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Program Evaluation, Nontraditional Education, Nontraditional Students
Murphy, Amy Fowler – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation used a combination of case study and phenomenological research methods to investigate how individual teachers of middle school science in the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI) program sustain their use of inquiry-based methods of teaching and learning. While the overall context for the cases was the AMSTI…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Science Instruction, Inquiry, Case Studies
Sivley, Stacey Moore – ProQuest LLC, 2013
With open door admission policies, lower tuition rates, and convenient locations, community colleges are enrolling more and more academically unprepared students who are placing into developmental mathematics courses. Many of these community colleges need to assess their developmental education programs, instructors, courses, and students to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Developmental Programs, Remedial Mathematics, Community Colleges
Hendrickson, Carol F. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Modern zoos serve as tourist attractions and recreational facilities, while providing educational outreach programs in ecology, conservation, and animal needs. However, in the 21st century, there has been a negative backlash of people associating zoos with animals being shut away in cages or pits. This case study included an examination of the…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Recreational Facilities, Ecology, Social Change
Essary, Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In the 2000s, changes in the external environment, including changing student demographics, increased competition, and declining government support, are affecting public higher education administrators. The growth in online enrollment is increasing at a rate higher than the total higher education enrollment, and the majority of university…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Leadership, Values, Decision Making
Edwards, LaWanda – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the extent to which school counselors in Alabama are engaged in accountability practices consistent with the ASCA National Model and other contemporary views of the school counselors' roles and responsibilities. This study includes a sample of 420 professional school counselors. Participants…
Descriptors: School Counseling, School Counselors, Counselor Role, Accountability