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Sarah Ann Stokes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Open educational resources (OER) are digital and non-digital resources for teaching, learning, and research that are available for no cost and licensed with various open licenses, permitting their widespread modification and use. While these resources afford benefits to post-secondary students in terms of reduced cost, ease of access, and…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Sustainability, Foreign Countries, Barriers
Yuqing Liu – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Few studies on teachers' social networks have extended their scopes from schools to online, leaving gaps and the potential to study how school and district colleagues as well as online-only peers can exert a network influence on teachers' online resource curation activities. These studies have underused the relational-event social-influence model…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Internet, Social Networks, Social Influences
Yin, Steven – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This thesis studies four independent resource allocation problems with different assumptions on information available to the central planner, and strategic considerations of the agents present in the system. We start off with an online, non-strategic agents setting in Chapter 1, where we study the dynamic pricing and learning problem under the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Resource Allocation, Educational Planning, Educational Strategies
Nyamwange, Jackson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Many school districts, particularly in inner-city communities, face numerous barriers to students' academic success. Unfortunately, the school paradigm is not constructed to address the glaring social/emotional conditions affecting millions of children (Anderson-Butcher et al., 2017). As a result, educators and social reformers have urged school…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Community Schools, School Districts
Neeru Deep – ProQuest LLC, 2022
During the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the primary concerns of the university leaders was students' mental health. Through the action research cycle, a university-based Center was created to promote the well-being of college students. The current research is an observation phase of the action research. The purpose of this study is…
Descriptors: College Students, Well Being, Social Support Groups, Program Effectiveness
Kathleen Kassie M. Silvas – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The cost of a college degree has caused students, higher education institutions, and government representatives to investigate alternative education designs that are advertised as cheaper, more flexible, and based on skills rather than classroom seat time. Students question the rising cost of tuition, increased time to degree completion, and the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Community College Students, Costs
Safia A. O. E. A. Malallah – ProQuest LLC, 2022
There are many concerns from early childhood educators regarding allowing children to use technology, pointing to the adverse effects of screen time and barriers such as lack of resources. To support advocating CT in early childhood settings using technology, this dissertation proposes solutions and resources for early childhood educators by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Computation, Thinking Skills
Greg Frehner – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Public Act 100-0465 or the Evidence-Based Funding for Student Success Act was signed by Illinois Governor, Bruce Rauner, on August 31, 2017. According to the Illinois State Board of Education's Evidence-Based Funding webpage, "This law enacts evidence-based funding (EBF) and comprehensively changes the way that school districts receive the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Rural Schools, Resource Allocation, Evidence Based Practice
Douglas Anthony Taylor – ProQuest LLC, 2021
McMillan Public Schools (MPS) is a public school system in the southeastern part of the United States that serves approximately 28,000 students. Gregory Middle School (GMS) is one of 52 schools within MPS that serves 985 students. I used MPS and GMS as pseudonyms to anonymize the school system and school. In July 2019, I was appointed as the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Educational Environment, Poverty, Disadvantaged Schools
Glazer, Randy – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Employee turnover continues to be discussed as an outcome in Human Resources (HR), but comparatively few studies have examined the relationship between turnover as the independent variable and institutional outcomes. Although the call to HR practitioners has often been made over the past 20 years regarding the importance of tying HR programs and…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Employees, Correlation, Human Resources
Kevin J. Stensberg – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The internationalization of higher education has resulted in a growing number of Western expatriate higher education administrators working as expatriates worldwide. The accelerated development of higher education in several countries on the Arabian Peninsula has included the global mobilization of student affairs and services administrators from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, International Education
Bossley, Jon P. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Environmental stewardship is an underlying theme in outdoor education (OE) and environmental education (EE), but maintaining natural areas in a sustainable balance between conservation and preservation requires knowledge about how natural areas respond to anthropogenic disturbance. My five-part study investigated the effects of disturbance on…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Outdoor Education, Conservation (Environment), Natural Resources
Yang, Peilin – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Information Retrieval (IR) is one of the most evolving research fields and has drawn extensive attention in recent years. Because of its empirical nature, the advance of the IR field is closely related to the development of various toolkits. While the traditional IR toolkit mainly provides a platform to evaluate the effectiveness of retrieval…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Research Tools, Educational Resources, Computer Uses in Education
Jennings, Amanda Brooke – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Children construct meaning from their economic experiences in the form of naive theories and use these theories to explain the relationships between their actions and the outcomes. Inevitably, due to their lack of economic literacy, these theories will be incomplete. Through curriculum design that acknowledges and addresses these naive theories,…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Economics, Theories
Simmerman, Kayla Suzanne – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The high rate of burnout experienced among teachers was the driving problem addressed throughout this study. Burnout has long been an issue in public service arenas, and, within education, costs school districts across the nation millions of dollars annually. The purpose of this investigation was to examine perceptions of burnout in relation to…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Teaching Conditions, Educational Methods, Models
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