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Hass, Christopher A. F. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Over the past 50 years physics education research (PER) has grown into a thriving subdiscipline of physics. PER grew out of a desire to approach education research and development from a disciplinary perspective, operating under the assumption that good physics education is deeply rooted in the disciplinary knowledge and practices of physicists.…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Researchers, Physics, Educational Researchers
Jennifer L. Bloom – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this exploratory sequential mixed methods study was to understand the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on job burnout for elementary school principals, as it relates to Maslach's Multidimensional Theory of Burnout, and how to increase the stability of principals in their roles, post-COVID-19, to avoid an exodus of principals from…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Principals, COVID-19, Pandemics
Panagiota Patty Klibansky – ProQuest LLC, 2021
An arts curriculum director of an urban, Pre-K-12 school district north of Boston, Massachusetts researched literature about feelings of connectedness and professional learning among itinerant, art teachers. The study employed a framework of communities of practice for itinerant art teachers. The strands found across the literature were the state…
Descriptors: Art Education, Urban Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Professional Development
Tessa Bry Taylor – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This art-based research study seeks to examine teaching artists' current perspectives on the models of training and support provided to them by their employers. The study was conducted with a group of teaching artists exploring two key research questions: What models of training and support do teaching artists receive? What are teaching artists…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Teachers, Artists, Professional Development
Seisay, Benson M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The professional learning community (PLC) is a powerful tool in education, one that is intended to reform failing schools and improve student achievement. This research gathered data to determine teacher perceptions about challenges of teacher collaboration within a PLC school. The key conceptual framework for this case study originated from work…
Descriptors: Professional Isolation, Academic Achievement, Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice
Hill, Tracy A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In recent years, enrollment and overall student performance in rural schools have declined. Research shows that principals are critical to the success of a school system and that implementing a virtual community of practice (CoP) at the principal level has solved some of the issues associated with rurality in some organizations. Such…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Communities of Practice, Computer Mediated Communication, Principals
Plagens, Marcia L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore how teachers use collaboration to improve practice in a Midwest elementary school. A case study approach was used for this research utilizing qualitative research techniques including surveys, individual interviews, and review of teacher reflective journals. This methodology was selected because the focus…
Descriptors: Campuses, Qualitative Research, Trust (Psychology), School Culture
Normoyle, Tre Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation is a narrative study of the professional developmental experiences of women who were becoming clinical psychologists in midlife. The role of gender in professional identity development as described in gender socialization, the social construction of gender and developmental theories formed the conceptual basis for the study. I…
Descriptors: Evidence, Females, Psychologists, Interviews