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Barner, Rayford E. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This research study sought to determine a connection between antiterrorism education training and police officer's perception of the cultural communities implicated in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The study employs a mixed-methods research design using surveys and interviews. The sample is taken from 52 police officers of a police…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Correlation, Police, Training
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Sweeney, Shannon M.; Von Hagen, Leigh Ann – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: Active travel to school has been on the decline, despite its beneficial influence on children's current and future well-being. Adults' safety perceptions have been shown to influence children's active travel. Children's perceptions, particularly of safety, may be an important link not only to their present health and travel behaviors,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Mixed Methods Research, Educational Environment
Blue, Katina Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2014
While women have made significant inroads and gains in the twentieth century, there remain challenges and barriers in regard to their satisfaction with career advancement opportunities. This mixed-method research study investigated perceptions of challenges and barriers to career advancement by women administrators at Group 2 institutions in the…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Females, Administrator Attitudes, Barriers
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Winkle-Wagner, Rachelle – Review of Educational Research, 2015
Contradictory trends emerge relative to Black women's college success: They have doubled their enrollment rates in thirty years but their graduation rates remain behind those of White and Asian women. This integrative, interdisciplinary review of both student- and institutional-level factors explores the role of individual characteristics and…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, College Students, African American Students
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Moorosi, Pontso – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
This article explores the notion of leadership identity construction as it happens through a leadership development programme. Influenced by a conception that leadership development is essentially about facilitating an identity transition, it uses an intersectional approach to explore school leaders' identity construction as it was shaped and…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Professional Identity, Educational Experience, Learning Experience
Mundy, Alma Christienne – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this mixed method study is to explain the ecology Black males experience as they transition from elementary school to middle school in terms of behavior. The Black male graduation rate is well below 50% nationally (Orfield, Losen, Wald, & Swanson, 2004; Schott Foundation for Public Education, 2010). Graduating from high school…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, African American Students, Males, Elementary School Students