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Elizabeth Farmosa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The retention of high-achieving students in a university honors program is a significant challenge for academic institutions. This dissertation evaluates how well an honors college at a large, urban, public university retains students in the Honors College. The evaluation is a mixed-methods utilization-focused evaluation conducted by an internal…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, School Size, Honors Curriculum, Academic Persistence
Liu, Lijun Catherine – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Undergraduate medical education aims to train the students to develop the required clinical skills and preparation for the residency. The validity of the assessment on clinical competence is primarily ignored or uncompleted, especially in the clinical clerkship. The current study was multifaceted and accomplished multiple evaluation and research…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Medical Education, Internal Medicine, Program Evaluation
Bernard L. Dillard – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Upward Bound Math and Science (UBMS) program at Temple University (TU) seeks to guide first-generation, low-income high school students from Philadelphia in their quest to obtain postsecondary STEM degrees that lead to related careers. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of the program by analyzing its students' performance in light of…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Statistical Analysis, Program Effectiveness, College Preparation
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
White, Joshua E.P. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
School Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Support (SWPBIS) is a broad approach providing school personnel with tools and skills to enhance student academic achievement and improve socially relevant behavior (OSEP-TAC on PBIS, 2016). SWPBIS is a 'technology' with four core features: (1) behavioral strategies; (2) integrated interventions; (3)…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Program Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Referral
Dillard, Christina – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Many districts and schools are having difficulty implementing Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) in school settings. This quantitative study set out to examine the stage of MTSS implementation schools are at and identify factors from the implementation science framework that account for the different reported student outcomes related to MTSS…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Program Implementation, Outcomes of Education, Principals
Trejo, Arturo – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The present quantitative correlational research study explored relationships between Emotional Intelligence (EI) competencies, such as self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management, and project management outcomes: scope creep, in-budget project cost, and project timeliness. The study was conducted within the…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Correlation, Emotional Intelligence, Predictor Variables
Rasmussen, Tanna – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The need for higher enrollment, along with a greater focus on educational access and making college more accessible has created an urgent need for community colleges and universities to develop retention and persistence strategies for students who are not prepared academically and may lack the resources to be successful in college (Bailey &…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Success, Postsecondary Education, Academic Persistence
Cornelius, Annette Sargent – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the effectiveness of a system-wide Response to Intervention (RTI) program on the mathematical achievement of seventh and eighth grade students. The study consisted of five district schools with a total of 502 participants. The students were identified as belonging to one of two tiers, which…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 7, Grade 8
Davis, Wanda – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The inclusion of college preparation programs promote and forecast academic success in postsecondary studies among individual at-risk, African American urban high school students. Past research has shown ongoing, college acceptance, performance, and graduation gaps between at-risk, African American urban high school students when compared to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Comparative Analysis, College Preparation, Urban Schools
Luo, Yuan-Chun – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study was intended to measure construct validity for the Outward Bound Outcomes Instrument (OBOI) and to predict outcome achievement from individual characteristics and course attributes using multilevel modeling. A sample of 2,340 participants was collected by Outward Bound USA between May and September 2009 using the OBOI. Two phases of…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Individual Characteristics, Adventure Education, Leadership
Griffin, Jill – ProQuest LLC, 2013
One to One technology initiatives are a national trend, but something districts must weigh heavily as they are costly. The purpose of this study is to explore the One to One initiative in a middle school as it relates to student achievement and reducing economic disparity. Bourdieu's Cultural Capital Theory applies to this study as one would…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Technology Uses in Education, Influence of Technology, Academic Achievement
Plony, Doreen A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this ex post facto study was to analyze archive data to investigate the effects of Read 180, a computer-based supplemental reading intervention, on students' academic achievement for the academic school year 2011-2012. Further analyses examined if influences existed in variables such as grade level, gender, and ethnicity of the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains
Langbein, Michele L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The mixed method study was conducted to determine the extent of difference in leadership practices, as measured by the LPI, of undergraduate students entering and graduating from a nontraditional business degree program. A second purpose was to determine the extent of difference in leadership practices of students about to graduate from the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Industry, Program Effectiveness, Work Experience
Mamantov, Tonya Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A challenge for todays instructional leaders is identifying the most effective method of educating English Language Learners (ELLs) who participate in the English as a Second Language (ESL) program. The primary purpose of the study was to compare the effectiveness of three programs used for ESL students in twelve elementary schools in a Urban…
Descriptors: Investigations, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English Language Learners
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