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Emily J. Barnes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative study investigates the predictive power of machine learning (ML) models on degree completion among adult learners in higher education, emphasizing the enhancement of data-driven decision-making (DDDM). By analyzing three ML models - Random Forest, Gradient-Boosting machine (GBM), and CART Decision Tree - within a not-for-profit,…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Higher Education, Models, Prediction
Timothy M. Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many teachers have become dissatisfied with their jobs, leaving their school district or the field of education to purse other careers outside of education. Recently, teacher attrition has been a problem for schools in Tennessee. The shortage of teachers in Tennessee led to the elimination of the Teacher Performance Assessment by the Tennessee…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Teacher Attitudes, Principals, Teaching Experience
Jovonne A. Delgado – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative study explored the relationship between perceived leadership behaviors and follower satisfaction, accounting for demographic variables like gender, age, education, and role. The research collected data from 234 faculty and staff members using three surveys. The demographic survey captured information on the follower's gender,…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Satisfaction, Gender Differences, Age Differences
Charlotte Anne Caraker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative study explores the impact of educational level, specific school culture behaviors, and job satisfaction on career retention among K-12 teachers in the South Texas Coastal Bend region. Teacher retention is a critical issue that affects educational continuity, student outcomes, and the financial stability of school districts. Using…
Descriptors: School Culture, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Persistence, Elementary Secondary Education
Roney, Elizabeth S. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A study was conducted to determine if previously incarcerated employee age, postsecondary education (PSE) attainment, prior incarceration status, and assessed self-efficacy predict job satisfaction. It also considered if organizational commitment had a moderating effect on the predictors ability to forecast the criterion. Two underlying theories…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Educational Attainment, Postsecondary Education
Braxton Dywayne Stowe – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Traditional research agrees that only effective school principals can fully influence student achievement, and school leaders are pivotal to the success of schools in America. Researchers have linked positive student outcomes to further illustrate the point, including student achievement, to high-quality school leadership. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Principals, Personnel Evaluation, Age, Sex
Kimberly Beets – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Using descriptive statistics and logistic regressions, this study compared U.S. Census data from 22-24-year-old women in 1980 and 2020 to determine the individual and contextual variables most predictive of bachelor's degree attainment. The regressions were conducted for women overall, women who have ever enrolled in college, mothers, and mothers…
Descriptors: Females, Adults, College Graduates, Time to Degree
Garcia, Kimberly Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Not all students who enroll in college complete their degree. Students who drop out of college and fail to graduate represent a dilemma for higher education administrators. Determining factors that may lead to attrition has been a topic of discussion amongst educators. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there are any relationships…
Descriptors: Student Attrition, College Students, Predictor Variables, Correlation
Stephanie S. Lesperance – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Students who enroll in college come from many different, unique communities to pursue a degree. For the intent of this study communities were categorized into four types--city, suburban, town, or rural. The purpose of this study was to understand if there is a relationship between school community type (i.e., city, suburban, town, or rural) where…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Geographic Location, Rural Schools, Urban Schools
Mary Ebejer – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study explored graduate student self-determination as a writer, need for cognition, and sense of belonging as predictors of their confidence today in their program completion. The data set consisted of 2,390 graduate students at universities across the United States. The data analysis was conducted using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM),…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Self Determination, Writing (Composition), Sense of Community
Williams, Erika J. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative study examined factors of internal preparation practices (i.e., coursework in college teaching, fieldwork in college teaching, and frequency of supervision) and external pedagogical experiences (i.e., holding a bachelor's or master's degree in teaching and adjunct faculty experiences in higher education) and their potential…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Self Efficacy, Self Concept, Teacher Effectiveness
Hise, Matthew – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Attracting and retaining teachers may be a problem in many rural school districts. According to previous research, teacher attrition is greater in rural regions due to various demographic and other factors. Retention was also cited as a key issue in these rural school districts. The number of teachers quitting their professions before they can…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Public School Teachers, Rural Schools, Beginning Teachers
Joseph Leon Knight – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A state-wide Individual Student Alternative Education Plan (ISAEP) seeks to assist high school (HS) students at risk of not graduating in completing HS credentials. The problem was that there was no formal state-wide process for monitoring the program to understand its impact. The purpose of this quantitative exploratory study was to determine…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Educational Attainment, Nontraditional Education, Predictor Variables
Alassaf, Uhuud – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Researchers have been looking into the stressful nature of teaching for quite some time. Kyriacou (2001) maintains that teaching is one of the top five most stressful careers, while Stoeber and Rennert (2018) indicate that teachers exhibit a higher level of stress than any other profession (Bowen, 2016, p. 1205). Much educational and psychological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Stress Variables, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Motivation
Chadwick W. McKay – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study examined the factors that statistically predict student's degree attainment within agricultural education as a course of study. The study is based on a population of first year agriculture students (n = 616) at a private four-year college in Southwestern Ohio. The study is correlational design, which employed cross-sectional archival…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Graduation, Educational Attainment, Student Characteristics