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O'Connor, Marquita Renee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative case study addressed the problem that there is a lack of best practices guidelines for post-secondary education institutions to provide a holistic education for students who experience trauma. Traditional education fails students by neglecting holistic education and connectedness. Traumatic life experiences have created gaps…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Postsecondary Education, Trauma Informed Approach, Trauma
Oliphant, Jennifer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In the original "No Pass/No Play" legislation (enacted by Texas State Legislature in 1985), students had to pass all classes with at least a 70% average to participate in sports or extracurricular activities. Since then, no pass/no play regulations have been enacted across the nation with little evidence regarding their effectiveness. Questions…
Descriptors: High School Students, Athletes, Sanctions, Social Development
Kustigian, Brett M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to look at mission driven school district leadership in Massachusetts public schools and attempt to identify any relationship, or lack thereof, between district mission statements and student achievement. In this study, 288 Massachusetts public school districts are ranked according to their 2011 high school graduation…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Correlation, Academic Achievement, Institutional Mission
Simonee, Saundra W. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Successful multicultural adult orphans who were not adopted pose an interesting challenge in their history, their physical, psychological, social emotional and personal identity development. One must understand their journey from orphanhood to adulthood and their current prominent status in life to build a contextualized personal story (Banks,…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Success, Coping, Adults
Konerza, Judith Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine if the Gearing Up for Kindergarten program created a significant impact on parent understanding of children's development and aspects of school readiness. Parent perceptions of their child's readiness to make the transition to school were also assessed. The study also measured the Gearing Up for…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, School Readiness, Kindergarten, Program Effectiveness
Gillham, Andrew D. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Coaching success is often defined in terms of won-loss records. However, the effort to operationalize more comprehensive strategies for examining coaching success, particularly the development of self-report measures, dates back three decades (e.g., Smith, Smoll, & Curtis, 1979). This project for developing the Coaching Success Questionnaire-2…
Descriptors: Athletes, College Athletics, Athletic Coaches, Questionnaires