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Jennifer Crawford – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The rise in autism and shifts in federal laws have driven a move towards inclusive education, aiming to offer equal opportunities and support for autistic students facing challenges in communication, social skills, and repetitive behaviors. Yet, placing students in the least restrictive environment can strain general education teachers without…
Descriptors: Correlation, Faculty Development, Educational Quality, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Victoria Patricia Elder – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Problem: This study explored how high-stakes testing (HST) and burnout affected the quality of primary school teachers in Trinidad and Tobago. HST refers to school exams often required by government agencies that are used to make key decisions pertaining to students, teachers, and schools (Embse & Hanson, 2012). Burnout is defined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Burnout, Standardized Tests
Smalls, Rahsirearl D. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to analyze and examine the support that is available to students at a North Central Texas Higher Education Institution. There is a global and national effort to increase the number of individuals entering STEM professions. Overall, there are not enough trained individuals to fill the number of STEM jobs that are…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, STEM Education, STEM Careers
Lisa Corbin – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Despite the increased need for counselor educators, less than half of graduates of counselor education and supervision (CES) programs enter into faculty positions after graduation. There is also a significant lack of diversity among counselor educators. Some researchers found that the quality of a mentoring relationship influences the mentee's…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Doctoral Students, Career Choice
Luis Christopher Armona – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation contains three essays discussing government policy in higher education, the effects of online social networks during college on students after graduating, and how to use search data as a tool to recover characteristics of both products and customers to estimate demand. In the first chapter, co-authored with Shengmao Cao, we study…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Social Media
Saidy, Awa K. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The unprecedented increase in the number of students enrolled in colleges and universities in Africa coupled with growing unemployment and underemployment of higher education graduates calls for a comprehensive and in-depth inquiry into the quality of higher education for the entire continent. The purpose of this study is to identify factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Birth Rate
Hannon, Shawn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine whether factors of social comparison theory influence public school choice in Indiana. There were two arms in the study. One arm used three district-level variables (parent education level, socioeconomic status, and homogeneity of race) associated with social comparison theory (SCT) and five…
Descriptors: School Choice, Public Schools, Social Theories, Educational Quality
Paulina Veronica Morales Cardenas – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This mixed methods study explores how market-oriented policies, specifically privatization and decentralization of the educational system in Chile have impacted students' academic achievement since the Change in the Constitution in 1980. First, using teachers' interviews I identify variables that influences students' academic achievement and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrative Organization, Privatization, Teacher Attitudes
Qamrah Alsubaie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study explored students' perceptions of classroom quality in gifted and non-gifted education settings in Saudi Arabia. The researcher used the Zone of Proximal Development theory and Expectancy Value Theory to frame the study. The research was conducted across three public schools (458 students) and two private schools (353 students) that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Educational Quality, Gifted Education
Dogan, Selcuk – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Professional learning of teachers and instruction have paramount importance if improved student performance is desired. Despite their recognized importance, there is a clear paucity of research on the field of professional development (PD) and instruction. Moreover, the association between professional development and instruction has not been well…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Faculty Development, Instructional Effectiveness, Communities of Practice
Samantha Brooks – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Background: For decades, public education, particularly in urban communities, has failed to ensure students of color are able to experience sustained academic success. As a result, campuses within these communities often find themselves vacillating between impending school improvement reforms and short-lived school improvements, only to return to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, Principals, Teacher Leadership
Vetter, Matthew K. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Despite decades of research on student involvement, few studies have examined how co-curricular experiences promote holistic student success outcomes. Fewer still have differentiated the characteristics of co-curricular involvement to determine practices most likely to predict student success. This study investigates the relationship between the…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Student Participation, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
DeSouza, Lisette M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this research was to assess student progress in and completion of a career-technical education (CTE) program. This study focused on the Williamson College of Trades (WC) in Media, PA and explored the relation between student strengths of school engagement and vocational identity, and contextual assets, of program quality and family…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement, Self Concept
Little, Michael H. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study examines whether the physical location of Pre-K programs--whether in elementary school buildings or stand-alone centers--leads to differences in student outcomes in elementary school. Over the past several decades, public investment in Pre-K programming has burgeoned. According to the National Institute for Early Education Research, 32…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Kindergarten, School Buildings, Educational Facilities
Brittany Alexander – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Quality in early childhood education (ECE) is central to equitable child development and preparation for formal schooling and has been widely studied by researchers and of interest to policy makers. As the federal pre-k program, Head Start is a key ECE context to understand quality and its implications for equity. One central measure of classroom…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services