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Snyder, Seth Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2017
College persistence and completion rates for students from families earning low incomes are consistently lower than for students from wealthy families. Some of these inequitable gaps may be associated with students' perceptions of fit and belonging at higher education institutions dominated by upper-middle-class systems and norms. This…
Descriptors: College Students, Low Income Students, Academic Persistence, Decision Making
Arabeyyat, Talal Hashem – ProQuest LLC, 2017
There is no doubt that teachers' knowledge and beliefs play a significant role in shaping how students learn mathematics. Nevertheless, research regarding the knowledge and beliefs of preservice teachers, including the cultural dimension, is very limited (Xenofontos & Andrews, 2012). The purpose of this study is to investigate the similarities…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Preservice Teachers, Beliefs, Mathematics Instruction
Carmody, Heather Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Students' motivational and affective responses to mathematics are related to their academic performance. This mixed methods study involved survey results from 394 middle and high school high ability students. Data revealed that students believed success was possible, and that the usefulness and enjoyment of mathematics precipitated high…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Middle School Students, High School Students, Student Motivation
Kyriakidou-Christofidou, Athina – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The present mixed-methods quasi-experimental study (embedding a case study and a mixed factorial within-between ANOVA test), conducted in a private English school in Limassol, Cyprus, investigated how the use of the schematic learning aids (researcher-made color-coded flash-cards and grids) influence year-2 children's ability to read, write and…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Mixed Methods Research, Quasiexperimental Design, Intervention
DeBerry, LaMonnia Edge – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore the effects of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's work in partnering with professors from universities across the United States during a 1-year collaborative partnership through an educational program referred to as Belfer First Step Holocaust Institute for Teacher Educators (BFS…
Descriptors: Museums, Teacher Education Programs, Nonschool Educational Programs, Program Evaluation
Oh, Sae Rhim – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Advancements in technology have greatly influenced how students write, the ways they interact with readers, and the genres they create. In order to reflect real-world writing behaviors in the assessment setting and to be able to generalize test-takers' performance from the assessment to their true writing ability, the current study investigated…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Task Analysis, Academic Discourse
Chasmar, Justine – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation presents multiple studies with the purpose of understanding the connections between undergraduate engineering students' motivations, specifically students' Future Time Perspectives (FTPs) and Self-Regulated Learning (SRL). FTP refers to the views students hold about the future and how their perceptions of current tasks are…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Student Motivation, Time Perspective
Cirillo, Joseph John – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This mixed-methods study with a narrative component explored the effect athletic participation played on the academic achievement of senior student-athletes and non-athlete in a public school in Northern New Jersey. The motivation for the study was the conflicting perceptions and research as related to the impact athletic participation had on…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Athletes, Academic Achievement, High School Students
Phelps, Shannon – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Parent-child sexual health communication (PCSHC) can have a positive impact on adolescents' sexual health choices, outcomes, and capabilities for communicating with others about sexual health. Many parents are hesitant and feel unprepared for and uncomfortable with communicating about sexual health with their children. Other parental factors as…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Sexuality, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Decision Making
Buchanan, Gregory S. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This research study examines the various decision-making processes that superintendents may encounter within the field. The degree to which public school superintendents and public school systems are being held accountable has increased in recent years. The recent unethical decisions made within the last decade in both the public and private…
Descriptors: Mentors, Public Schools, Superintendents, Ethics
Glassett Farrelly, Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Alternative schools operate today as a hidden, parallel educational system, providing a separate and often unequal education to many at-risk students, with little to no accountability. The number of alternative schools, and enrollment in alternative schools, is increasing, due in part to excessive use of zero tolerance policies. Students of color,…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Student Experience, At Risk Students, Student Needs
McClintock, Patricia – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This mixed methods sequential explanatory study was designed to investigate students' persistence in an online Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) Program by researching the implications of goal orientation and other academic, institutional, and student-related factors of non-traditional students enrolled in such a program at the University of St.…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Goal Orientation, Academic Persistence, College Students
Koh, Nancy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of the study was to validate a theoretical model of diagnostic, formative classroom assessment called, "Proximal Assessment for Learner Diagnosis" (PALD). To achieve its purpose, the study employed a two-stage, mixed-methods design. The study utilized multiple data sources from 11 elementary level mathematics teachers who…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Formative Evaluation, Mixed Methods Research
Zirkle, Laura – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to identify what leadership behaviors are associated with each of Spillane's (2006) three conceptually distinct forms of distributed leadership, and to determine whether specific influence tactics (Yukl, Seifert & Chavez, 2008) are differentially associated with each form. A two-phased, mixed methods design was…
Descriptors: Leadership, Participative Decision Making, Behavior, Mixed Methods Research
Lesh, Jennifer J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate secondary school staff's beliefs, practices, and skills concerning Response to Intervention (RtI), now known as multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS). The majority of research in RtI/MTSS has focused on the elementary level; however, little research has addressed its implementation at the secondary…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Urban Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Beliefs
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