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Communication Culture In Law Enforcement: Perceptions From Officers And Supervisors, Katherine Gerspacher Jan 2014

Communication Culture In Law Enforcement: Perceptions From Officers And Supervisors, Katherine Gerspacher

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This study assessed the perceived differences in organizational culture between patrol officers and their supervisors, specifically testing role ambiguity, trust in supervision, organizational culture and communication, and transformational leadership behaviors. A sample of supervisors and their subordinate officers were surveyed to assess these variables. The data was analyzed using independent sample t-tests and bi-variate correlations to determine: (1) if there is a perceived division of culture between patrol officers and supervisors, (2) the factors that contributed to the perceived cultural division, (3) the role the leader plays in balancing communication culture, and (4) the relationship between perceived communication culture from …

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Facility Matters: The Perception Of Academic Deans Regarding The Role Of Facilities In Higher Education, Wallace Harris Jan 2014

Facility Matters: The Perception Of Academic Deans Regarding The Role Of Facilities In Higher Education, Wallace Harris

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine how academic deans perceived the characteristics of facility built environment and its impact on learning in higher education. Q methodology was used as the means to explore the subjective opinions of academic deans within the State of Florida regarding the facility built environment’s impact on learning in higher education. For this Q study, the concourse statements were the result of communications taken from the subject literature and participant responses to this study’s online concourse questionnaire. The resulting 32 item Q sample was sorted online by 43 academic deans, associate and assistant deans. …

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Learning Strategies And Leadership Behaviors Of Small Business Leaders In Northeast Florida, Terikay Rumancik Jan 2014

Learning Strategies And Leadership Behaviors Of Small Business Leaders In Northeast Florida, Terikay Rumancik

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The intent of this study was to examine the leadership behaviors and learning strategies of Successful Small Business Leaders (SSBLs) in Northeast Florida. Information gathered during this study may help current and future small business owners develop, maintain, and make their organizations more productive through the use of the learning strategies and leadership behaviors employed by SSBLs. Through a two-prong approach, the study examined both leadership and learning. The study addressed the following two questions: 1) What learning strategies are used most by successful small business leaders? and 2) What leadership behaviors are exhibited most by successful small business leaders? …

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Building A Professional Learning Community At The University Level: A Case Study Of An Information Fluency Initiative, Susan Bennett Slavicz Jan 2014

Building A Professional Learning Community At The University Level: A Case Study Of An Information Fluency Initiative, Susan Bennett Slavicz

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

An examination of the research regarding the problems associated with student academic writing indicated that two abilities, writing abilities and information literacy skills, intersect, and that an accepted term for this intersection is information literacy. The University of Central Florida’s Information Fluency Initiative recognized information literacy as a key component in developing students’ information fluency skills. This qualitative case study of the initiative used semi-structured interviews, study of documents, and observations to gather data in order to describe how the university planned, developed, and implemented the initiative. Study of relevant literature, narrative analysis (Tierney & Lincoln, 1997), inductive analysis (Hatch, …

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A Multiple-Case Study On How Fifth Grade Students Experience Reading, Tiffany Tate Jan 2014

A Multiple-Case Study On How Fifth Grade Students Experience Reading, Tiffany Tate

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The research from this study provides information for teachers, leaders, and administrators to review and analyze how fifth grade students experience reading. It will be important to adjust or change the strategies to promote reading and / or the curriculum for fifth grade students. Fullan (2011), a noted change theorist, identified five characteristics of effective leadership for change: (a) moral purpose, (b) understanding the change process, (c) strong relationships, (d) knowledge sharing, and (e) coherence, or connecting new knowledge with existing knowledge that served as the theoretical framework from which the data was viewed. The information from this study is …

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Knowing The Indigenous Leadership Journey: Indigenous People Need The Academic System As Much As The Academic System Needs Native People, Dawn Elizabeth Hardison-Stevens Jan 2014

Knowing The Indigenous Leadership Journey: Indigenous People Need The Academic System As Much As The Academic System Needs Native People, Dawn Elizabeth Hardison-Stevens

Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses

This dissertation explores the research question, “How can we create the best learning environments for Indigenous students through good leadership at all levels?” A bridge between cultures provides learning opportunities toward academic success between Indigenous students, families, leaders, and communities. Through personal experience as a practitioner, professional, and education, my research examines and identifies results from personnel and students at five schools, tribal and public, their tribal communities, and two Indigenous people in high profile leadership positions indicating an educational philosophy recognizing Indigenous people need the academic system as much as the academic system needs Native people. Portraits and interviews …

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Presidential Arcs: What Institutional Histories Can Tell Us About The Office, Jennifer A. Carlo Jan 2014

Presidential Arcs: What Institutional Histories Can Tell Us About The Office, Jennifer A. Carlo

Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses

This comparative case study defined and examined the presidential arc at three small, private colleges in the Northeast. The study of an institution's presidential arc is proposed as a more effective means of assessing the success or failure of higher education presidencies than examination of a single presidency in isolation. The presidential arc, a concept introduced in this study, is defined as a comprehensive and integrative examination of: each individual presidency, or, at institutions with a history of short-term presidents who left little impact on, groups of presidencies; the level of success of each presidency, as determined by a definition …

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Faculty Motivation & Intent To Teach Online, Michael S. Casdorph Jan 2014

Faculty Motivation & Intent To Teach Online, Michael S. Casdorph

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The unified theory of user acceptance of technology, Motivation Orientation Scale – Faculty Version, and Individual Innovativeness Scale were used to predict faculty intent to teach online, to better understand what motivates faculty to teach online, and the relationship between faculty innovativeness and their intent to teach online. A sample of 348 self-selected full-time faculty at a large, public, comprehensive research university with integrated academic health center in the Southeast United States responded to an online survey. Results demonstrated that slightly more faculty than not reported a behavioral intent to teach online. Multiple regression analysis indicated that performance expectancy, effort …

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Motivations For Under-Reporting Concussions In Collegiate Athletics, Susan Davies, B. Bird Dec 2013

Motivations For Under-Reporting Concussions In Collegiate Athletics, Susan Davies, B. Bird

Susan C. Davies

Poster session

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Supporting Students With Concussion: Getting School Psychologists Into The Game, Susan Davies Dec 2013

Supporting Students With Concussion: Getting School Psychologists Into The Game, Susan Davies

Susan C. Davies

Half-day workshop for educational psychologists and other education professionals

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Traumatic Brain Injury Assessment Training: Current Practices In Graduate Programs, Susan Davies, S. Powers Dec 2013

Traumatic Brain Injury Assessment Training: Current Practices In Graduate Programs, Susan Davies, S. Powers

Susan C. Davies

Poster session

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Supporting Students With Concussion: Getting School Psychologists Into The Game, Susan Davies, G. Gioia Dec 2013

Supporting Students With Concussion: Getting School Psychologists Into The Game, Susan Davies, G. Gioia

Susan C. Davies

Documented session

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Principles Of Leading Change: An Inductive Analysis From Post-Katrina New Orleans, Brian R. Beabout Dec 2013

Principles Of Leading Change: An Inductive Analysis From Post-Katrina New Orleans, Brian R. Beabout

Brian R. Beabout

Despite over forty years of research on theories of educational change, little is known of the change theories-in-use of school-based administrators, often tasked with implementing externally imposed reform mandates. Capitalizing on the unique case of post-Katrina schooling, this qualitative study examines the ways in which ten principals spoke about leading change in their schools. In a city where the district has been almost wholly decentralized, these principals are not implementing changes decided upon by superiors, but have significant autonomy in their choice of change goals and change processes. Despite rarely finding unitary theories of change in the words of New …

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Studying Leadership: Traditional And Critical Approaches, Sherry L. Early Dec 2013

Studying Leadership: Traditional And Critical Approaches, Sherry L. Early

Sherry Early

No abstract provided.

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Closing The Achievement Gap, Tashlai Mckinstry Dec 2013

Closing The Achievement Gap, Tashlai Mckinstry

Tashlai McKinstry Ed.S.

No abstract provided.

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Policy Presentation, Tashlai Mckinstry Dec 2013

Policy Presentation, Tashlai Mckinstry

Tashlai McKinstry Ed.S.

No abstract provided.

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Mentoring And Academic Achievement, Tashlai Mckinstry Dec 2013

Mentoring And Academic Achievement, Tashlai Mckinstry

Tashlai McKinstry Ed.S.

No abstract provided.

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A Persistent Quandary: The Rural School Improvement Project, 1953-1957, Richard E. Day, Lindsey N. Devries, Amanda L. Hoover Dec 2013

A Persistent Quandary: The Rural School Improvement Project, 1953-1957, Richard E. Day, Lindsey N. Devries, Amanda L. Hoover

Richard E. Day

Berea College's Rural School Improvement Project worked directly with more than 5,000 children and 63 teaching fellows in 39 different schools over 13 counties, and one independent school district, involving 10 county school supervisors. Project estimates claimed an indirect impact on approximately 45,000 children within the RSIP school districts. The RSIP represented the thinking of national leaders of rural education in the 1950s who promoted improved administration of the schools combined with an active community engagement program based on “full respect for human personality” and “shared judgments.” Following so many decades of poverty and isolation, it is no easy task …

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Building On Trust In A Complex World: Educational Research And Technology, John A. Henschke Edd Dec 2013

Building On Trust In A Complex World: Educational Research And Technology, John A. Henschke Edd

John A. Henschke

The author began researching trust in the late 1980s. The technology of his practice and research converged in an instrument which indicated the strongest factor being "teacher trust of learners," and which he sought to enact in practice as "my trust of learners" were quite consistent with each other. This instrument has been used in 16 doctoral dissertations with findings of the strongest factor being "teacher trust of learners," including a study indicating the technology of his scholarship and practice being congruent. Trust is indicated in some of the general adult education literature, even in a highly unlikely place like …

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Measurable Performance Indicators (Mpi) For Lifelong Learning: Reorientation Of A Traditional Higher Education Institution, John A. Henschke Edd Dec 2013

Measurable Performance Indicators (Mpi) For Lifelong Learning: Reorientation Of A Traditional Higher Education Institution, John A. Henschke Edd

John A. Henschke

This chapter is designed to address: the introduction of lifelong learning from ancient times; dimensions of maturation as guides for lifelong learning; considering the andragogical approach in early adult, and lifelong learning; counseling adult learners contributes added dimensions to facilitating lifelong learning; assessing life' challenges within the decades of lifelong learning, core value and human systems; 1997 - CONFINTEA V - Hamburg, Germany - lifelong learning emphasis only on older adults; 2009 - CONFINTEA VI - Belem, Para, Brazil - lifelong learning emphasis being throughout life; prominent role of higher education institution changing toward lifelong learning; developing definition of lifelong …

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The Education Doctorate- A Degree For Our Times, Jill A. Perry Dec 2013

The Education Doctorate- A Degree For Our Times, Jill A. Perry

Jill A Perry

Special Edited Issue of Planning and Changing Journal

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The Cped Claim: A Counter Response, Jill A. Perry Dec 2013

The Cped Claim: A Counter Response, Jill A. Perry

Jill A Perry

No abstract provided.

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