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Caskurlu, Secil – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this three-manuscript dissertation was to examine the construct and predictive validity of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework (i.e., teaching, cognitive and social presence) through a confirmatory factor analysis, meta-analysis, and qualitative synthesis. The first paper was a confirmatory factor analysis study that…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Construct Validity, Predictive Validity, Factor Analysis
Christensen, Mary Candace – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The present study focuses on the need for sexual assault prevention interventions among college student populations. A review of the literature indicates that theatre-based prevention interventions are effective in preventing sexual violence among student populations. Chapter 2 of this dissertation is a literature review synthesizing scholarship…
Descriptors: Social Change, Sexual Abuse, Violence, Females
Hacke, Wendy – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Current quantitative research on the effectiveness of the National Board certification has resulted in contradictory findings. Consequently, this meta-analysis synthesized the results of 12 studies on National Board Certification and student achievement. Of those, 9 studies were used to calculate effect sizes for reading, and all 12 were used to…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Teacher Certification
Chappell, Shanan L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The 2001 renewal of the United States' Title I program, which provides federal funds to schools with large populations of low-income students, instituted the Supplemental Educational Services (SES) program in which schools in their third year of failing to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) are required to offer after-school tutoring in core…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, School Effectiveness, Low Achievement, Tutoring