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LaTonia M. Amerson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this journal-ready dissertation was to determine the extent to which African American boys and girls might differ in their performance on the Texas state-mandated Algebra I End-of-Course exam. Specifically, the degree to which differences might exist between African American boys and girls on the Approaches Grade Level,…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Tests, Academic Achievement, African American Students
Bailey, Kayla – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on ninth-grade students' mathematics achievement in a rural school district located in South Carolina. Students enrolled in ninth grade prior to the COVID-19 pandemic (2018- 2019 school year) Algebra I EOC scores were compared to the students enrolled in ninth grade for…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Grade 9, High School Students
Bhatt, Suman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study investigated the factors influencing students' performance in science subjects at different schools in a school district in the midland area of South Carolina. For the convenience of the study and to maintain confidentiality, the school district is named Midland School District 2022. The population of this study included students in…
Descriptors: Influences, Academic Achievement, Science Education, Comparative Analysis
Bradley Hayes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation in practice explores the intersection of computer science education, specifically computational thinking and programming, with mathematics achievement among 15- year-old students in selected English-speaking countries. The research addresses a gap in understanding whether skills developed through computer science can positively…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Mathematics Achievement, Secondary School Students
Vanady A. Daniels – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In a large school district in Florida, many third-grade students have been retained over a 7-year period. Enrollment documents, such as summer school registration forms and seven annual summer reading camp evaluations in 2013-2019, indicated that 13,693 students attended the 4-week summer reading camp during this period. Summer reading camps are…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Reading Achievement, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Christopher Bwalya Yaluma – ProQuest LLC, 2024
How government delivers public services can have broad societal effects, beyond the impact on programmatic outcomes. Such societal effects are particularly likely in the delivery of public education, as educational concerns drive residential and school choices, and public schools are the second largest public employer in the United States. My…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Education, School Administration, Social Differences
Victor G. Frias Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Exploring how school leaders address underrepresented student voices, meaning those of marginalized experiences along the continuum of social identity including though not limited to race, class, gender, immigration, and LGBTQ issues in schools is more essential than ever following the novel coronavirus of 2019 (COVID-19). Principals' social…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Concept, School Districts, Race
Paz Elizondo Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between the 9th grade state assessment test scores for Disadvantaged Hispanic students who are taking the English I State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness End-of-Course exam. The group analyzed was comprised of the 2016-2017 cohort students from a South Texas High School. [The…
Descriptors: Grade 9, High School Students, Academic Achievement, Standardized Tests
Emily E. Usher – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Today's modern landscape of leaders fails to accurately represent societal diversity. This inequity, as in all inequities, is not accidental, but instead the results of socially constructed norms that begin in childhood. In this dissertation, I question how internalized norms of white supremacy and patriarchy perpetuate racial and gender aligned…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Equal Education, Social Differences, Whites
Michael C. N. Littrell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This correlational study examined factors that defined the experiences of high school students who navigated the postsecondary pipeline in pursuit of a postsecondary education. Data for this study were obtained from the 2002 Education Longitudinal Study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics. The factors explored were related to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Influences, Student Experience, Postsecondary Education
Lynn Emily Meissner – ProQuest LLC, 2021
From its inception in the early 1900s, vocational education in American high schools was designed to prepare students for jobs that did not require any formal postsecondary education. In the last decades of the 20th century, growing concern about how separating students into "college" and "non-college" tracks often perpetuated…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Career Choice, Socioeconomic Status, Social Differences
Patrick Tumwine – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Grade repetition is one of the bottlenecks to Uganda's vision of producing skilled human capital to transform the nation's status from peasant to middle class. This study explored how education stakeholders perceived the implication of students' grade repetition at a secondary school level. I employed a qualitative approach with an embedded…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Secondary School Students, Correlation, Public Schools
Monique Helene Harrison – ProQuest LLC, 2022
My dissertation "Choice and Inequality in Higher Education" describes the way seemingly benign choices predict course and campus experiences and can perpetuate inequality. I draw on literatures of capital, habitus, identity development, and gender status beliefs and contribute to literature on stratification and sociology of education. I…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Equal Education, Higher Education, Student Experience
Kimberly A. Meyer – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This mixed-methods outcomes study investigated the number of in-school and out-of-school suspension reports before and after the implementation of a preventative-based discipline method, classroom circles. The study was guided by five research questions, (1) What is the relationship between the use of classroom circles school-wide and ISS and OSS…
Descriptors: Discipline, Classroom Techniques, Program Effectiveness, Middle School Students
Buchbinder, Shelley Krischer – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Since the 1980s, capital mobility and state restructuring have increased precarity in older industrial regions, such as eastern Connecticut (CT). These changes reconfigured labor markets, changing the work available, including the types, conditions, and skills required. Greater responsibility devolved onto poor and working-class people to navigate…
Descriptors: Job Training, Health Services, Manufacturing Industry, Labor Force
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