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McConnell, Kimberly Joy – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The Resident Assistant (RA) position is arguably the most demanding and time-intensive student leadership position on a university campus with responsibilities that include crisis management, counseling, referral, administrative tasks, teaching, leadership, community building, individual student assistance and role modeling (Blimling, 2003). The…
Descriptors: Resident Advisers, Student Leadership, Leadership Training, Qualitative Research
Liesen, Joseph J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The higher education industry uses the very latest technologies to effectively prepare students for their careers, but these technologies often contain vulnerabilities that can be exploited via their connection to the Internet. The complex task of securing information and computing systems is made more difficult at institutions of higher education…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Barriers, Small Colleges
Brueck, Stefan R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This inquiry explores Integral Theory's prospective value to assist interpreting student teachers' communicated awarenesses for how they make sense of their own pedagogies, acknowledging student teachers' partial existence within post-secondary teacher education circumstances along with emerging twenty-first century conditions. Accordingly, this…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Reflective Teaching, Teaching Methods, Interviews
Mohammad, Esam Sohail – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In the second decade of the new century, America's public higher education institutions (PHEIs) face several key challenges: rising demands of accountability, a steady drop in public funding, and competition from virtual and for-profit entities. Limited research had been conducted on the applicability of social enterprise theory to these…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Case Studies, Questionnaires, Entrepreneurship
Fleming, Antoine – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Advances in technological uses within public schools provide increased methods to collect and store non-public personal information (NPI) or personally identifiable information (PII) from both students and employees. Consequently, the sensitive information collected is susceptible to unauthorized disclosure, as various public school employees are…
Descriptors: Information Security, Case Studies, Qualitative Research, Holistic Approach
Hubbard, Christina – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Employers seek employees with skills that have been correlated with specific credentials including academic certifications, industry certifications, and college degrees. In order to meet these demands, policymakers are pressing higher education institutions to facilitate higher rates of credential completion among college students. This requires…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Adult Students
Rusk, Robert Brian – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This qualitative case study explored how the classroom management practices of sampled teachers in a private school in central Oregon influenced classroom disruptions. Through the study, the researcher was able to provide insight on the differences in specific classroom management processes between teachers who had a high number of Positive…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Qualitative Research, Private Schools
Doiel, Patrick W. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The North Carolina Occupational Course of Study (NCOCS) program is an alternative diploma track with a vocational focus toward post school employment to assist students who would not otherwise graduate with a standard course of study. The purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore the local causes of low post-school employment…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Vocational Education, Career Readiness, Interviews
Grella, Melissa A. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of the study was to explore the aesthetic foundation of the Waldorf pedagogy in order to understand how art and aesthetic experiences may develop care toward the environment. A form of humanistic education developed by Rudolf Steiner in the early twentieth century, Waldorf education is a learning model envisioned as a framework for…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Teaching Methods, Art, Conservation (Environment)
Barkley, Heather R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The limited research on adult learners and spiritual formation has created a knowledge gap regarding whether bachelor's degree-completion students value the faith aspects of their education at Christian colleges. As this population grows, so does the need to better understand if the spiritual components of adult programs are having an impact and…
Descriptors: Christianity, Church Related Colleges, Spiritual Development, Transformative Learning
Mitchell, Bridgitt Lenore – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Despite state mandated early childhood education (ECE) teacher competencies, many children are removed from preschool settings for behaviors related to socioemotional problems. This study's rationale was the propensity of expulsions among children exhibiting challenging behaviors in preschool programs. Guided by Bronfenbrenner's ecological model…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Behavior, Case Studies, Preschool Teachers
Akst, Leslie Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation is a qualitative study of a curriculum I designed for composition students in the Fall of 2012. The curriculum I created is informed by the Freirean edict that a self-generated desire to "create knowledge" is far more likely to result in meaningful, holistic learning than simply "banking" information. In the…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, College Faculty, College English
Snow, Victor Adams – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Teachers worldwide are adapting to meet educational needs caused by increased immigration. Germany has many immigrant students and ranks high in international education. This case study investigated experiences of English-speaking native-born German educators in Germany's public primary schools when responding to refugee and immigrant students.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Needs, Refugees, Immigrants
Albarran, Alejandra S. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Disparities in academic achievement begin in early childhood, before children step foot into a classroom. These early gaps, often along racial and economic lines, widen throughout children's academic careers because children who are well-prepared at entry are able to take full advantage of school, while children who enter less prepared spend more…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Urban Areas, Academic Achievement, Interviews
Rude, David A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation examines the experiences of effective Federal Government leaders in developing their emotional intelligence (EI). Using a conceptual framework of adult learning, leadership, and leader development, this study focused on experiential and situated learning to discern how EI develops. The researcher in the context of this…
Descriptors: Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Government Employees, Federal Government
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