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Assessment Of Students' Interviewing Skills, Shannon Edminster, Christine Haruta Feb 2019

Assessment Of Students' Interviewing Skills, Shannon Edminster, Christine Haruta

Pacific's Annual Assessment Conference

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Connecting Courses To Capstone, Kieran Holland Feb 2019

Connecting Courses To Capstone, Kieran Holland

Pacific's Annual Assessment Conference

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Assessment Of An Undergraduate Research Outcome: To Explore Effective Ways Of Helping Students Get Engaged In Undergraduate Research, Qingwen Dong Feb 2019

Assessment Of An Undergraduate Research Outcome: To Explore Effective Ways Of Helping Students Get Engaged In Undergraduate Research, Qingwen Dong

Pacific's Annual Assessment Conference

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Using Guided Self-Assessment And Peer Review To Enhance Student Learning, Stephanie Thompson Feb 2019

Using Guided Self-Assessment And Peer Review To Enhance Student Learning, Stephanie Thompson

Pacific's Annual Assessment Conference

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Developing A Sense Of Self And Belonging In Residential Life, Maria Lazaro, Leticia Caballero, Tavaris Baxter Feb 2019

Developing A Sense Of Self And Belonging In Residential Life, Maria Lazaro, Leticia Caballero, Tavaris Baxter

Pacific's Annual Assessment Conference

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Using Institutional Data To Assess Program (And Student) Success, Melanie Hash, Eileen Camfield Feb 2019

Using Institutional Data To Assess Program (And Student) Success, Melanie Hash, Eileen Camfield

Pacific's Annual Assessment Conference

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Do You Know What To Do If Your Financial Aid Does Not Cover Your Balance?, Michelle Yan, Ashton Ricketts Feb 2019

Do You Know What To Do If Your Financial Aid Does Not Cover Your Balance?, Michelle Yan, Ashton Ricketts

Pacific's Annual Assessment Conference

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The Associations Between The Perception Of Helpfulness Of Teacher Induction Programs, Teacher Self-Efficacy, And Anticipated First-Year Teacher Retention In Shanghai Public Primary Schools, Xiaotian Han Jan 2019

The Associations Between The Perception Of Helpfulness Of Teacher Induction Programs, Teacher Self-Efficacy, And Anticipated First-Year Teacher Retention In Shanghai Public Primary Schools, Xiaotian Han

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the study was to: (a) determine to what extent the formalized teacher induction programs (TIPs) in Shanghai are perceived to be helpful for first-year public primary school teachers; (b) measure teacher self-efficacy and anticipated job retention of first-year teachers in Shanghai public primary schools; and (c) examine the degree to which these perceptions of helpfulness, teacher self-efficacy, and anticipated job retention are associated. In this study, retention is defined as remaining in a public primary school in Shanghai. Shanghai TIPs are one-year long, mandatory programs for first-year teachers in Shanghai public primary schools. The conceptual framework of …


Improving Teacher Retention By Addressing Teachers' Compassion Fatigue, Jacquelyn Ollison Jan 2019

Improving Teacher Retention By Addressing Teachers' Compassion Fatigue, Jacquelyn Ollison

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

California is experiencing a massive teacher shortage, and urban schools are disproportionately affected by it negatively. Retention efforts to date have not included strategies to address Compassion Fatigue (burnout and secondary trauma) teachers experience when working with traumatized students at urban schools. This dissertation explores whether Compassion Fatigue is an unaddressed reason for teacher attrition at urban schools. A mixed method practical action research approach using the Professional Quality of Life Scale Version Five (ProQOL 5) and qualitative interviews, portions of which were turned into illustrative vignettes drove the exploration. Approximately 114 teachers completed the ProQOL 5. Statistical analysis of …


Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs In Relation To Perceived English Proficiency And Teaching Practices: An Investigation Of Chinese Primary English As A Foreign Language (Efl) Teachers, Yun Zhang Jan 2019

Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs In Relation To Perceived English Proficiency And Teaching Practices: An Investigation Of Chinese Primary English As A Foreign Language (Efl) Teachers, Yun Zhang

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Research on self-efficacy has been a productive field and abundant research has shown that teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs influence teachers’ actions and performances and thus affect students’ learning outcomes. However, there is a lack of literature on EFL teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs and even less research was set in Chinese EFL contexts. On the one hand, this study was conducted to provide a general picture of the current status of EFL teachers’ perceived English proficiency, self-rated self-efficacy beliefs and self-reported teaching practices in terms of some demographic perspectives; On the other hand, it aimed to explore the correlations among Chinese primary EFL …