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Monique Studevent Curry – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In January 2000, the Alternative and Safe Schools Instructional and Support Division (ASSIS) of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI) was charged with developing guidelines that determined how districts could establish and maintain effective Alternative Learning Programs (NC DPI, 2014). In 2003, ASSIS produced the first…
Descriptors: High School Students, Nontraditional Education, Student Placement, Referral
Waverly R. L. Whisenant – ProQuest LLC, 2024
At the center of teacher preparation is the student teaching placement experience. However, research on student teacher placements often overlooks the nuanced perceptions and attitudes of student teachers (STs). These factors significantly influence educator outcomes and programmatic success. This research delves into the attitudes and perceptions…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Student Placement, Student Teaching, Student Teacher Attitudes
Hancock, Nicole L. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Community colleges are trying to reform their placement procedures from use of a single placement test score to a system that collects multiple measures to be used either as a replacement solitary measure or in conjunction with other measures for more accurate placement into writing courses than what occurred with the placement test, which often…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Placement, Writing Instruction, Student Evaluation
Harper, Jason M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This causal comparative study examined group differences in college readiness using the "Redefining Ready" college readiness indicators for rural community college students. Additional analysis focused on evidence supporting a high school experience, or combination of high school experiences, that most accurately correlates with academic…
Descriptors: College Students, Community College Students, College Readiness, Prediction
Andrea Lisa Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Although nearly half of community college students require some type of remediation, less than one-third of the students who start in developmental education graduate within eight years (Park, Tandberg, Hu, & Hankerson, 2016). As such, there is great uncertainty regarding the effectiveness of developmental education (Ari et al., 2016; Bailey…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Elective Courses, Remedial Instruction, Program Effectiveness
Kimberly Sanborn McGlinchey – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Educational policies and practices have had a long-standing emphasis of conducting incoming literacy screenings to determine who is at risk for school failure. Response to intervention (RTI) is an intervention program designed to deliver educational resources to students who fall below what is deemed an acceptable level of proficiency as viewed…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Response to Intervention, Elementary School Students, Program Effectiveness
Van Hassel, Stephanie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study explores the impact of implementing a peer mediation program in a middle school setting through an action research framework, presented as a series of case studies. The group of students receiving the intervention are on one "team" in the middle school, sharing the same group of teachers. The team is on a lower academic track,…
Descriptors: Literacy, Middle School Students, Peer Mediation, Program Effectiveness
Lorna Marie Porter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Students classified as English learners (EL) are a protected class of students with core legal rights. There are clear opportunities to strengthen education policies and practices to improve opportunities and outcomes for EL-classified students. This dissertation is comprised of three studies examining key issues in EL education with the goal of…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Outcomes of Education, English Language Learners, Educational Policy
Feliciano, Nikole E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Research has consistently shown that community college students lack the necessary skills to achieve successful academic performance and are highly likely to drop out of their studies prior to degree attainment. Community colleges have introduced developmental courses to prepare students for their transition into college-level courses.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Freshmen, Two Year College Students, Developmental Studies Programs
Woods, Adrienne D. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation is comprised of three studies using restricted data from the ECLS-K:1998 to address the questions who is placed in special education? and what happens after they are placed? Though these questions have been extensively studied, existing research has largely ignored the intersection of longitudinal developmental pathways and…
Descriptors: Student Placement, At Risk Students, Special Education, Academic Achievement
Dimian, Adele F. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Introduction: Early Intensive Behavioral Interventions (EIBI) is an applied behavior analysis approach that can be effective for remediating autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms for some individuals (Reichow, 2012). From a population perspective, timely access to early intervention services is assumed to be important for facilitating long term…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Early Intervention, Behavior Modification
Timlin, Kevin – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study is to determine which factors influence the achievement of program objectives for Kyrgyz Republic alumni of the U.S. governmentally sponsored UGRAD program. The UGRAD program was designed to provide university students from the former Soviet Union an opportunity to study at an institute of higher education in the United…
Descriptors: Exchange Programs, Educational Objectives, Program Descriptions, Alumni
Webert, Candice D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study addressed the impact of VAM, concerns with VAM data, uses and interventions educational leaders provided teachers, and components perceived as necessary for VAM effectiveness as an evaluation tool. The demographics used for this study were position, school size, and experience. Due to the documented need for educational accountability…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Educational Administration, Leadership Effectiveness, Educational Practices
Clayton, Grant Alexander – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Despite the large number of universities that require remedial writing courses of incoming students identified as not postsecondary ready, very little empirical evidence of the effect of these programs is available to inform policy decisions. This study examined the effect of required remedial writing coursework at a land-grant university for…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Land Grant Universities, Remedial Programs, Writing Achievement
Sagyndykova, Galiya – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Education today is inseparable from the accumulation of human capital. "The New York Times" called human capital the most important asset in our portfolio. In my dissertation, I analyze the effectiveness of different educational policies and programs in Mexico and the United States. In the first chapter of my dissertation I study the…
Descriptors: Microeconomics, Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Educational Policy
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