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Hood, David C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
As of late, regulation and increased scrutiny of Higher Education (HIED) has caused a shift in campus operations, and, correspondingly, in HIED chief executives' duties (Nelson, 2009). As a result of these demands, trends suggest that a new approach in supporting HIED executives now goes beyond that of a clerical staffer and instead demands a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Administrator Role, Personality Traits, Leadership Qualities
LeBreton, Angela Drysdale – ProQuest LLC, 2018
With the current trend in education toward instructing all students inclusively in the general education setting it is necessary to determine whether general and special educators are adequately equipped to provide instruction, which takes place inclusively, for students with the disability classification Emotional Behavior Disorder. An…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, General Education, Inclusion
Butler, Eartha S. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Introduction: Obtaining higher education increases the amount of stressors physically, mentally, and emotionally. College is more than parties, pledging, and freedom from authoritative figures. For many young adults, it is the time to learn independence, responsibility, and roads to success. Today's students are making life-altering decisions…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, College Students, African American Students, Black Colleges
Whitmore, Debra Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to describe the impact of the South Carolina U.S. History End of Course Exam (EOCE) on teachers' perceptions of autonomy and self-efficacy for high school U.S. History teachers in the Midlands region of South Carolina. The theory guiding this study was Bandura's (1994) theory of…
Descriptors: United States History, Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes, Educational Policy
Hall, Marva M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Scholarly community engagement in higher education historically focused on the 4-year university, as a result there is limited research on how community colleges engage with their communities. In 2006, The Carnegie Foundation established a new Elective Community Engagement classification for higher education institutions. Research on Carnegie…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Case Studies, Community Colleges
Dewey, Nelson Peter – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation is a qualitative, single case study of an international school in Brazil that explores how school administrators and teachers conceptualize international mindedness, and how it is developed within the curriculum of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. I provide a rich description of the context, developing four themes…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Classification, Semi Structured Interviews
Davidson, Shelby L. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This qualitative phenomenological research study used narrative inquiry to investigate rural superintendents' experiences with the application of principle-centered leadership in their districts. Ten superintendents from rural districts in east Texas were interviewed. Narratives were analyzed by organizing, describing, classifying, and…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Superintendents, Leadership Effectiveness, School Districts
Straw, Eric M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The current research used grounded theory methodology (GTM) to construct a conceptualization of personal knowledge within a knowledge management (KM) perspective. The need for the current research was based on the use of just two categories of knowledge, explicit and tacit, within KM literature to explain diverse characteristics of personal…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Grounded Theory, Knowledge Level, Individual Characteristics
Hutto, Lori Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative multiple case study analysis included the exploration of the phenomenon of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) from a cultural standpoint, rather than the traditional view of deficits caused by disability. This effort was undertaken to determine if those within this population would be better served by the educational system and more…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Qualitative Research
Twu, Ming-Lii – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to employ the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards for Students as taxonomy to classify educational mobile application (app) software into seven categories and empirically examine the influence on students' technology literacy. A purposeful sample of fifth grade core subject…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Handheld Devices, Technological Literacy, Influence of Technology
Argov, Sharon R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Sense-making theory involves a sociological/communications science approach to the need of students to make sense of their environment and the information they are seeking to find. With many digital resources to choose from, non-traditional students often have difficulty finding the best resource for their assignments, opting for the easiest path…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Student Behavior, Nontraditional Students, Self Esteem
The Impact of Response to Intervention on Learning Disability Identification: School Based Practices
Smith, Tina B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The "Response to Intervention Guidance for New York State School Districts" (2010) document indicates Response to Intervention (RTI) is a mandated general education process intended to provide early interventions to struggling at-risk students. The multi-level RTI framework is structured to include targeted evidence-based interventions…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, School Districts, Early Intervention, At Risk Students
McClure, Donald Robison, II – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Since the 1990s, Ireland has experienced a significant increase in racial, cultural, and ethnic diversity due, in large part, to immigration. A major cause for immigration in Ireland has been economic growth, although other influences, such as social factors, have played a role, too. Perhaps one of the most visible effects immigration and…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Citizenship, Self Concept, Case Studies
Banks, Jaime – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Massively multiplayer online roleplaying games, or MMOs, present an increasingly popular digital media experience whereby identity emerges as players contribute materially to play but contributions are governed by affordances and constraints of the game. Unique to this medium is the player's ability to create and control a digital body--an…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Self Concept, Postmodernism, Identification (Psychology)
Casey, Rae L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this basic interpretive qualitative study (Merriam, 2009) was to understand the factors that excellent online faculty perceived as important to the development of presence in their online courses. Eight faculty members at two institutions in the northwest region of the United States participated in the study. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Online Courses, Faculty Workload, Teacher Effectiveness