Demographic changes among the Latina population across the United States depict evidence that there is a need to develop current principals to become administrative leaders at the central office leadership level. These leaders would in turn represent the rapidly changing population. This study aims to understand the career pathway that Latina…

Undergraduate premedical students are increasingly traveling to developing nations as a way to combine an interest in service, travel, and career exploration. The purpose of this interpretative phenomenological analysis is to understand the developmental and admissions impact of international medical service trips on the students who participate.…

Building Bridges and Bonds (B3), a federally funded study of Responsible Fatherhood programs, is testing a set of innovative approaches designed to help fathers advance their parenting and employment skills. One of these innovations is a new smartphone-based application called DadTime. It is one of the first mobile applications specifically…

The purpose of this study was the effectiveness of a life skills training based on the response to intervention model on improving disruptive behavior of preschool children. The sample of the study comprised of 61 children (53 males and 8 females, Mean age= 5.2 years, SD = 0.87) attending two pre-schools in Baltim Town, namely Sanabil Kids and…

School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) is an evidence-based framework that provides a continuum of supports for students across multiple tiers (Tiers 1, 2, and 3). The implementation of SWPBIS is associated with improvements in student behavior, academic outcomes, and school climate (Bradshaw, Koth, Bevans, Ialongo,…

Nearly half of students enrolled in colleges and universities today are adult learners, who often must balance their education with other family or work-related priorities. However, institutional policies and practices continue to be largely developed based on the needs of traditional students. Drawing on national research findings, widely cited…

The purpose of this study was to build on the research already completed by the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) in the development of ACTE's quality Program of Study Framework and accompanying evaluation instrument to examine the validity of the instrument's results and its utility when used independently by local educators…

Research indicates a connection between successful outcomes for students with significant intellectual disabilities and the individual education program (IEP) team's efforts in the IEP development process. However, little research has been conducted on the perceptions of parents and teachers of students with significant disabilities about parent…

The purpose of this study was to describe the use and perceived impact of situated learning activities in ASL-English interpreter education in the United States. A mixed methods approach consisting of two separate studies was employed for the investigation. The first study was a survey of teaching methods used by interpreter educators to discover…

Access to health care is, in part, determined by the availability of physicians, a function of the physician supply. Policymakers have demonstrated a long-standing interest in access to care, both in general and for specific populations. Moreover, federal support for medical residency training (a.k.a., graduate medical education [GME]) is the…

A safe school environment is crucial to the healthy academic and social development of students, and the safety of a school environment affects a range of factors, from staff retention to parent satisfaction. Perhaps most important, student perceptions of safety affect their academic achievement. When students feel safe, they are better able to…

Adolescence is a developmental stage during which American students are typically disengaged (Pianta, Hamre, & Allen, 2012), yet learning depends upon engagement (Finn & Zimmer, 2012; Reschly & Christenson, 2012). For middle school students who struggle to read, school-based reading support represents a last chance to help them succeed…

The purpose of this research study was to determine the effectiveness of four different class schedules on students' academic achievement on end-of-course testing and whether a specific class schedule is more conducive to student academic achievement on state-mandated standardized tests. Georgia Department of Education provided archived public…

The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to synthesize relevant research and resources on the effective integration of culturally responsive/sustaining practices in special education. The strategies and interventions that have produced positive academic outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students with and at risk for…

As students transition from one phase of the education pipeline to the next, support programs are often put in place to make the transition and onboarding process as smooth as possible. While support programs for first-year students entering college directly from high school are common place at most institutions, onboarding practices for transfer…