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Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2023
Public schools are the cornerstone of this nation's communities, democracy, and economy. The challenges and deep inequities facing schools today are largely the result of decades of disinvestment, compounded by a global pandemic. All of this has led to a breaking point for the system of public education. In 2023, lawmakers and stakeholders are…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Teacher Recruitment, Diversity (Faculty), Teacher Persistence
Valerie K. Brablec Seales – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The pipeline of college students seeking teaching positions is shrinking. The teacher shortage makes finding and retaining new teachers even more challenging. The cost of replacing existing teachers who leave is tremendous, and new teachers leave the profession at an alarming rate. This dissertation explored the lived experiences of new teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Orientation, Mentors, Teacher Persistence, College Students
Jarrett, Taner – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Students with disabilities are 200% more likely to be restrained by school personnel compared to nondisabled peers (Katsiyannis et al., 2020). The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (NVCI) in de-escalating the risk behavior of children with disabilities from exceptional children (EC) teacher…
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Students with Disabilities, Child Behavior, Risk
Pittman, Charlene – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Providing students access to effective teachers is a challenge that school districts all over the nation face. Students from high poverty environments and rural settings have less access than their counterparts to effective teachers at disproportionate rates. This disproportionality may present as an insurmountable barrier for some youth in…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Program Evaluation, Small Schools, Rural Schools
Allyson Gunn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
One of the most persistent barriers within the education system preventing students of color from accessing and persisting in higher education is the deficit lens that the education system uses to judge college-worthy students. To combat this deficit lens, strengths-based programming has shown promise in validating the strengths and students bring…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Postsecondary Education, Program Evaluation, Minority Group Students
Weisbrod, Jonathan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Many institutions of higher education offer research opportunities for undergraduates, but community college students often do not get to benefit from this high-impact educational practice. There are several reasons for this problem, including that community college faculty and students have limited time availability for research and the mission…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Community Colleges
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Cai, Qijie Vicky; Hong, Huili; McNary, Scot W.; Song, Liyan – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
To broaden participation in robotics education, a free, after-school robotics program has been designed and developed at a public university. As part of a longitudinal study, this paper reports the first iteration of the program, offered to 12 students from Grades 3 through 7 in spring 2022. Three preservice teachers were trained as…
Descriptors: Program Development, Robotics, Computation, Thinking Skills
Denise D. Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2023
"When a group of people come together to share a vision for an organization, each person brings a unique visualization of an amazing running institution and each shares a responsibility for the establishment to run effectively" Senge (2006). This dissertation in practice (DiP) was aimed at addressing a performance gap of low engagement…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, After School Programs, College Preparation, High School Students
Renee Rana Kazemipour Paquier – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study responds to a national conversation about the role that Career Technical Education (CTE) might play in meeting workforce demand for soft skills. It is challenging for CTE programs to offer soft skills for several reasons. Both educators and employers tend to associate CTE with hard skills, or technical skills and therefore the programs…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Soft Skills, Community Colleges, Public Colleges
Lindy Marie Messer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Many departments seek to improve their equity, diversity, and inclusion using data-informed methods; however, not much is known about how closely department leadership aligns their review practices with appropriate theory. This dissertation seeks to explore four areas: 1) how are equity, diversity, and inclusion are being conceptualized (implied…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Diversity, Inclusion, Program Evaluation
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Stephen M. Ponisciak; Karen M. Morris – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2023
The Advanced Placement Teacher Investment Program in Indiana (AP-TIP IN) program trains teachers to prepare students for college with rigorous math, science, and English coursework using the College Board Advanced Placement Program®. The program's goals are to increase enrollment in math, science, and English Advanced Placement® courses, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Faculty Development, Advanced Placement Programs, Enrollment
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Kirk Vanacore; Erin Ottmar; Alison Liu; Adam Sales – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background: Implementation quality is a significant factor in determining whether a program has its intended impact (Durlak and DuPre, 2008; List et al., 2021). Therefore, when studying a program's efficacy, researchers must ensure that the program is implemented as intended to estimate its impact. To evaluate whether a program is being…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Fidelity, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
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Rachel Rennie; Leah Smart – International Journal of Nurture in Education, 2023
This article starts with an outline of how the core concepts of attachment, child development, neuroscience and the impact of trauma have influenced the educational landscape in Scotland. An account is provided of how key Scottish education policies promote nurturing relationships as beneficial for children and young people's wellbeing and healthy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Caring
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Kathleen D. Dyer – Family Science Review, 2023
Outcomes assessment in an academic family science program led to the accidental discovery of grade inflation that was causing impaction problems in upper-division major courses. The current analysis evaluates the effectiveness of a policy intervention designed to improve academic rigor in previously grade-inflated classes. The new policy required…
Descriptors: Family and Consumer Sciences, Grade Inflation, Grading, Program Evaluation
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Kathy Dowell; Catherine Snyder – Grantee Submission, 2023
BoSTEM, implemented by United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley and Boston Afterschool and Beyond, is a network of STEM-focused after school programs in the Boston area that provide high-quality science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) opportunities to Boston middle school students. Through an innovative citywide coalition of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Program Evaluation, Middle School Students, After School Programs
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