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Direct linkMark Jeremy Colwell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Middle-management leaders are in a crucible. In addition to managing their extensive regular duties and leading groups toward common goals, they must navigate conflicting expectations and competing demands from their superiors and subordinates. The challenges in middle-management leadership are exacerbated in fast-paced, high stakes, large-scale…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Organizational Change, Leadership, Virtual Schools
Allison Galvin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Even with the increase in virtual learning, there remains a stigma that virtual schools are not successfully supporting students based on traditionally lower graduate rates and state assessment data. The problem is statewide educational decision-makers lacked an understanding of the prior academic performance, specifically credit attainment, among…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Public Schools, Charter Schools, High School Students
Peer reviewedNespor, Jan; Fitz, Julie – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
Schools produce multiple products and digitization articulates with them in different ways. In this paper we expand the frame for analyzing instructional automation by examining its implications for three scholastic products -- embodied learning, grades and test scores, and the narratives that connect the two. We draw on data from interviews with…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Automation, Virtual Schools, Elementary Schools
Cooper, Lacresha L. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This applied dissertation was designed to provide concise information and research to delineate the role of the virtual school principal (VSP). The research available was outdated, scarce, or inadequate. The role of VSPs and the challenges that are faced were unclear. This researcher has found very little evidence to establish whether virtual…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Principals, Administrator Responsibility, Educational Innovation
Beck, Dennis; French, Seth D.; Allred, Johnny B.; Goering, Christian Z. – Cogent Education, 2022
Virtual schooling in America is a complex notion, one riddled with simultaneous claims of provenance coupled with poor achievement results when compared to other forms of schooling. Recruitment practices for virtual schools, specifically available television-length advertisements from a national list of fully online schools, comprised a data set…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Content Analysis, Television, Advertising
Download full textYeol Huh; Dabae Lee; Charles M. Reigeluth – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2024
Studies have indicated that self-regulated learning is critical for 21st century learners and lifelong learners, and it can also explain students' learning outcomes. In the current learner-centered instruction, especially in online learning environments, self-regulated learning has become a more critical element for students' success. Given the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Virtual Schools, Self Management, Technology Uses in Education
Ebner, Aviva – Journal of Online Learning Research, 2023
Schools are typically highly structured institutions, so any shifts in processes can potentially generate anxiety, confusion, and even anger among staff. As such, when there is frequent change, initiatives often fail to achieve their intended goals. Well-intentioned initiatives can go awry when not consistently implemented correctly by all staff;…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Change Strategies, Reliability, Access to Information
Ian Seth Kingsbury – Journal of School Choice, 2023
A survey tasks young adults who graduated from virtual charters managed by a large education management organization to assess the degree to which virtual schools prepared them for postsecondary and career success. The same survey questions were also administered to a nationally representative group of American adults ages 18-29. Overall,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Technology Uses in Education, Virtual Schools
Dennis Beck – Cogent Education, 2024
At-risk students face a variety of challenges that encompass cultural, social and environmental contexts and identities. Full time virtual schools offer help for at-risk students through the provision of a personalized learning option where students can catch up with past work or complete school work in a non-traditional environment. The purpose…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, At Risk Students, Parent Attitudes, Virtual Schools
Kingsbury, Ian; Maranto, Robert; Beck, Dennis – Journal of School Choice, 2021
Cyber charter schools may increase access to a range of educational offerings, but they substantially underperform traditional public schools on measured academic performance, as demonstrated in a range of studies with distinct samples and methods. Artificial testing conditions offer a possible explanation. In contrast to face-to-face students,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Virtual Schools, Academic Achievement, Standardized Tests
Courtney M. Leidner; Christine H. Roch – Educational Policy, 2025
Enrollment in online schools (OS) has increased significantly in recent years. Due to advancements in technology, OS are able to provide education entirely online to K-12 students. Despite their growth, there has been little research on the working environments of OS. This paper explores teacher perceptions about working conditions in OS. We use…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, Online Courses, Virtual Schools, Teacher Attitudes
Willermark, Sara; Islind, Anna Sigridur – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore virtual leadership work within educational settings in the light of social disruption. In 2020, a global pandemic changed the way we work. For school leaders, that involved running a virtual school overnight. Although there is a stream of research that explores leadership in solely virtual communities, there is…
Descriptors: Leadership, Affordances, Virtual Schools, COVID-19
Winton, Sara – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The phenomenon of high school dropouts is a silent epidemic that has been plaguing the United States. This study examined the effects of online education on mental health and student retention of online students within the scope of secondary education. The data for this mixed methods study was collected through anonymous online questionnaires sent…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Mental Health, Dropout Prevention, High School Students
Paulina Aravena-Bravo; Alejandrina Cristia; Rowena Garcia; Hiromasa Kotera; Ramona Kunene Nicolas; Ronel Laranjo; Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo; Silvia Benavides-Varela; Titia Benders; Natalie Boll-Avetisyan; Margaret Cychosz; Rodrigo Dal Ben; Yatma Diop; Catalina Durán-Urzúa; Naomi Havron; Marie Manalili; Bhuvana Narasimhan; Paul Okyere Omane; Caroline Rowland; Leticia Schiavon Kolberg; Andrew Sentoogo Ssemata; Suzy J. Styles; Belén Troncoso-Acosta; Fei Ting Woon – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to work on language development, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition, a free 5-day virtual school for early career researchers. In this paper, we describe the school, our experience organizing it, and lessons…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Acquisition, Virtual Schools, Educational Researchers
Sherry Inez Bumpus-Barnett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative non-experimental correlational study is to test the relationship between children having special needs and the rate of homeschooling and to test the relationship between parental dissatisfaction with the learning environments in public or private schools and the choice to homeschool. The theoretical framework in…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Special Needs Students
