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Loewen, David Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This exploratory correlational study seeks to answer the question of whether a relationship exists between student average test score gains on state exams and teachers' rating of values on the Schwartz Values Survey. Eighty-seven randomly selected Kansas teachers of math and/or reading, grades four through eight, participated. Student test score…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Reading Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Grade 4
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Myers, Scott – Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice, and Research, 2011
This quantitative study, utilizing the backward method of multiple regression, examined the relationship between the length of tenure of a superintendent and academic achievement as defined by the percentage of students who scored "Proficient" or better on the 2008 Third Grade Kansas Reading Assessment. To put this relationship into…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Superintendents, Multiple Regression Analysis, Tenure
Myers, Scott P. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the relationship between the length of tenure of a superintendent and academic achievement as defined by the percentage of students who scored "Proficient" or better on the 2008 Third Grade Kansas Reading Assessment. To put this relationship into context, five other predictive…
Descriptors: Tenure, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Multiple Regression Analysis
Hatley, Richard V.; Croskey, Frank L. – 1976
This study was initiated to investigate the relationship between voters' socioeconomic and attitudinal characteristics and their behavior in school district financial referenda. Using a survey instrument developed through pilot study application and factor analysis techniques, data were collected from 1,030 registered voters in three Kansas school…
Descriptors: Bond Issues, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Conceptual Schemes