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Yanli Xie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this dissertation is to develop principles and strategies for and identify limitations of multisite cluster randomized trials in the context of partially and fully nested designs. In the first study, I develop principles of estimation, sampling variability, and inference for studies that leverage multisite designs within the context…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Research Design, Computation, Sampling
Dowiak, Shawn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Are fraternities still relevant to the college student experience? By examining the moral, student, and leadership development of IFC fraternity men, while controlling for institutional and student characteristics, the current study analyzed the roots of the purported value-added nature of fraternities using data from the Multi-Institutional Study…
Descriptors: Fraternities, College Students, Leadership, Student Characteristics
Brockbank, Kevin C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this quantitative non-experimental study is to determine the leadership competencies most desired by members of the community college board of trustees and faculty for a community college president. The study will examine the alignment of those competencies between the trustees and their faculty groups to determine if the two groups…
Descriptors: Trustees, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Leadership Qualities
Moreno, Samson Alexander – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Purpose: Four purposes were present in this journal-ready dissertation. The first purpose was to examine the degree to which the percentage of beginning teachers in traditionally configured elementary, middle, and secondary Texas schools differed as a function of two distinction designations (i.e., Academic Achievement in Reading/English Language…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Student Characteristics, Accountability, Beginning Teachers
Sutovsky, Peter – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The main goal of this research is to design, implement, and evaluate a novel explanation method, the hierarchical explanation method (HEM), for explaining Bayesian network (BN) inference when the network is modeling a population of conditionally independent agents, each of which is modeled as a subnetwork. For example, consider disease-outbreak…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Networks, Statistical Inference, Models
Li, Tiandong – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In large-scale assessments, such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), plausible values based on Multiple Imputations (MI) have been used to estimate population characteristics for latent constructs under complex sample designs. Mislevy (1991) derived a closed-form analytic solution for a fixed-effect model in creating…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Statistical Analysis, Educational Assessment, Test Theory
Olson, Diane M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to determine teachers' perceptions of the effectiveness of the professional development that they received to implement the Charlotte Danielson Framework for Teaching Model in South Dakota. The population for this study was K-12 teachers from 12 pilot schools selected by the Department of Education (DOE) in South…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Likert Scales, Teacher Attitudes, Program Effectiveness
Garrett-Rainey, Syrena – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to compare the achievement of general education students within regular education classes to the achievement of general education students in inclusion/co-teach classes to determine whether there was a significant difference in the achievement between the two groups. The school district's inclusion/co-teach model…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Inclusion, Models, Standardized Tests
Rodriguez Jaime, Luis Francisco – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Little is known about students' perceptions of online enrollment processes. Student satisfaction is part of the assessment required for accreditation, but evidence suggests that college administrators are oriented to retention and graduation rates rather than to consumer perception. The purpose of this descriptive quantitative study was to develop…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Enrollment Influences, Higher Education, Student Attitudes
Harrigan, Anne M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study explored social presence and interactivity in an online undergraduate program designed for adult students. Although social presence and interactivity have been shown to be important contributors to student satisfaction, and therefore essential to student recruitment and retention in online programs, the ultimate goal for the examination…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Assignments, Instructional Design, Online Courses
Taylor, Robert Pernell – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the differences in teacher quality, student achievement, and graduation rates among select North Carolina urban high schools based on their racial segregation when measured by the entropy index. The entropy index is a measure of evenness among racial groups used to determine the level of segregation…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Research Design, High Schools, Race
Churchwell, Don Wesley – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined the relationship between STAR Math gains and TCAP composite scores. The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a significant relationship between STAR Math pretest and posttest gains over the course of the 2005-2006 academic year through the use of the STAR Math software program and TCAP math composite scores at…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Mathematics Achievement, Pretests Posttests, Computer Software