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Robertson, Jordan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined the strength and direction of the relationship between the STAAR exam's reading and mathematics portions and the FitnessGRAM's cardiovascular portion for fourth grade students located in Region 6 from the state of Texas. Using existing, archival data consisting of 4,215 students from 36 elementary schools, a non-experimental…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement
Williams, Leslie K. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research indicates that approximately 70% of college students engage in some form of cheating (Austin, Simpson, & Reynen, 2005; Bowers, 1964; Leming; 1978; McCabe & Trevino, 1993, 1996; McCabe, Trevino, & Butterfield, 2001a). College students overwhelmingly agree that cheating is morally wrong; yet, their actions are not reflective of…
Descriptors: Cheating, Research Design, Moral Development, Undergraduate Students
Glazier, Stephen Gene – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Purpose, Scope, and Method of Study. The population of interest in the study consisted of white and Hispanic high school graduates in the United States who attended college and completed a college developmental mathematics course. Data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 were employed, and a longitudinal, quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Research Design, Graduation Rate, Graduation, Educational Attainment
Houpt, Jessica Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to (a) identify sources of job satisfaction/dissatisfaction in selected nonpublic schools that serve exceptional special education students in California; (b) identify the sources of dissatisfaction; (c) ascertain any significant difference between male and female perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Careers, Research Design, Private Schools, Organizational Culture
Banning, Bryan James – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This quantitative study examined the relationships between cultural intelligence (CQ) and four predictor variables: gender, degree level, major, and prior travel abroad, through a post-test only research design. Participants included undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in one of three large, public, research universities in the southeast…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Intelligence, Research Design
Armstrong, Lenora E. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study explored career pathways for becoming an athletic director (AD) at National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Divisions I, II, and, III member institutions with consideration of gender and race/ethnicity. The study employed an exploratory, descriptive research design using a quantitative electronic survey tapping a census of all…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Career Choice, Career Development, Administrators
Rader-Brown, Lucy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Using responses from a survey of elementary teachers from the state of Ohio, this study analyzed the influences of teachers' professional training (both pre-service training and in-service professional development), teachers' attitude towards ELLs, teachers' bilingualism, schools' percent of ELLs, and schools' resources (both socioeconomic status…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Research Design, Socioeconomic Status, School Size