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Direct linkAnn Marie Wilkinson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Students with disabilities are faced with overwhelming challenges as they transition from high school to postsecondary education, careers, and independent living. Legislation has mandated that schools provide services for students with disabilities to prepare them for these transitions into adult life (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act,…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Students with Disabilities, High School Students
Windham, Melissa H. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Although close to half of all community college students leave before obtaining their stated goals, most retention studies are still being conducted at the four-year college and university level. There is still little research conducted at the community college level. In order to determine what student characteristics increase community college…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, College Freshmen, Academic Persistence
Hollifield-Hoyle, Heather – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Poverty in the US is growing at an alarming rate. The current economic climate demands higher education to embrace the economic diversity of all students and to prepare them, regardless of economic class, for a globally competitive workplace. Unfortunately, the higher education community is not as adept at serving low-income students, as it is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Interviews, Poverty
McCormick, Silvana – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Program evaluation can play a critical role in supporting high quality implementation of social programs to help them achieve their goal of social impact. Evaluation scholars have developed a wide range of strategies to help build programs' internal evaluation capacity in an effort to support meaningful use of evaluation. However, the evaluation…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Institutional Characteristics, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Utilization
Soine, Karen M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This primary purpose of the study was to expand the work of Garet, Porter, Desimone, Birman, and Yoon (2001) by creating and psychometrically testing an instrument designed to measure teachers' perceptions of characteristics of professional development. Elementary teachers (n = 406) from five school districts in Washington State participating in a…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Construct Validity, Predictive Validity, Factor Analysis
Evaluation of Preparation Program for Teachers Specializing in Learning Disabilities in Saudi Arabia
Hussain, Omer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to provide an evaluation of the undergraduate special education teacher preparation program at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A final sample of 160 LD teachers provided the data used for analysis. Data for the study were collected by a survey consisting of five subscales: coursework, internship quality,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Skills, Special Education Teachers, Teaching Experience
