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Billie Jo Lorius – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation is about North Dakota's political structures and culture spanning the past 30 years through a case study approach examines the modern identity of politics that derive meaning into how policies are decided upon, and ultimately, the dynamics of those policies for the state's system of higher education. Individual interviews and…
Descriptors: Agenda Setting, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Higher Education
Sandra Rocha – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study applies the policy process framework and bounded rationality theory to look at a specific program, about specific stakeholders, within a policy process, and during a specific timeframe. The purpose of this study was to document the process of establishing and describing how the program's stakeholders navigate, collaboratively, through…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Educational Policy, Cooperation, Policy Formation
Meghan Elizabeth Fay – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study explores teacher enactment of education policy, specifically Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), in a large suburban Midwestern high school. Participating educators constructed policy meaning while they sought to understand it, over a multi-year rollout process. Data were gathered using five teacher and…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, High Schools
Allyson Michelle Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Technology use has been identified as a key contributor to the decrease in youth mental health (Children's Bureau, 2019; Lebrun-Harris et al., 2022; Dwyer, 2022; Mojtabai et al., 2016; Yasakci, 2019; Odgers & Jensen, 2020). The purpose of this qualitative instrumental case study was to investigate how school district administrators are…
Descriptors: Administrators, Well Being, Technology, Elementary School Students
Silva, Aulii-Ann P. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Native Hawaiians have long been underrepresented among Hawai?i's university graduates, yet there is a dearth of studies that explore factors that have contributed to these disparities. My dissertation investigated how multiple factors: prejudices among education administrators, erasures of early advocates from dominant narratives, and failures to…
Descriptors: Hawaiians, Indigenous Populations, Higher Education, Decision Making
Phyllis Marie Yucatonis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated the determination eligibility practices for Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) within Mississippi school districts, framed by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 2004 (IDEA) and Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) guidelines. A survey of 139 educational professionals in Mississippi offered insights into…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Jennifer Reitz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Researchers have documented the underrepresentation of women in leadership positions in higher education in the United States and across cultures as an attempt to address potential workplace inequalities (Berkinshaw & White, 2017; Hornak & Garza-Mitchell, 2016; Stead, 2013; Tessens et al., 2011). Gender-based inhibition in the advancement…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Disproportionate Representation, Gender Bias, Experience
Jesus D. Montoya Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study applied the concept of Institutional Neglect to a higher education setting and explored how federal Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) requirements, along with the implementation choices at a public university, facilitated Institutional Neglect for financial aid dependent students, especially Students of Color. This study…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Administrators, Educational Policy, Academic Achievement
J. Jesus Contreras – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine and analyze the decision-making and policy development of local governing boards acting in response to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Quantitative and qualitative data was gathered through open-ended items in a mixed-methods survey and through a focus group interview. This research sought to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Governing Boards, State Policy
Castro, William – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study investigated the lived experiences of (12) elementary and middle school principals in the Northeast United States throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of the emergency COVID-19 guidelines that have been implemented across schools in the United States, the purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand how principals…
Descriptors: Principals, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Experience
Hoylman, Elizabeth Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This non-experimental, descriptive study explored the perceptions of PK-12 policymakers in West Virginia regarding the sources of information they use in the decision-making process; whether and how evidence-based research is relied upon; whether evidence-based research is considered credible and usable; and what barriers, facilitators, and…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Decision Making, Boards of Education, Researchers
Lynmara Colon – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Critical approaches to policy suggest that policy, even in the most apparently democratic polity or institution, codifies and extends the interests of those who disproportionately wield power (Levinson et al., 2009). While many people are involved in conversations and decision-making processes related to the implementation of grade retention or…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Principals, Grade Repetition, Elementary School Students
Ford, Cheryl – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Over the past 30 years, public health Practitioners worldwide have increasingly relied on Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) as a tool for informing decision makers of the potential health impacts of proposed policies, programs, and planning decisions. Adoption of the HIA is significantly less common in the United States than in international…
Descriptors: Public Health, Outcome Measures, Qualitative Research, Grounded Theory
Gonyer, Howard A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this general inductive study was to understand how senior student affairs officers (SSAOs) have managed the response to bias on college campuses. The literature is clear about the negative effects of bias on targeted populations; however, there is a large gap in the literature when it comes to how bias incidents are managed. The…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Student Personnel Services, Administrators, College Administration
Miller, Lisa M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Community colleges have been important open access entry points into education and employment. In order to improve the community college average retention rate of 60%, this study began looking at other areas that may have been impacting student retention without having been previously quantified. To evaluate the impact of faculty inclusion in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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