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50-State Higher Education Disability Policy Review 2008-2019: A Content Analysis, Marie Orlin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

More students with disabilities are present on higher education campuses. This study examines enacted legislation of the 50 United States throughout an 11-year period of students with disabilities in higher education. Racialization of disability and representation in states’ legislation is examined. As the student body expands on higher education campuses, diversity comprehensively racially, ethnically and culturally grows. Four major federal laws: Americans with Disabilities Act and Amendments Act, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 form the state disability legislation backbone applicable to postsecondary students. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 …

University Interactions: Forms, Peculiarities And Tensions, Nkechinyem Omeife, Conor Horan

Conference papers

Interactions between university and industry or society mainly occur in the form of transfer and/or collaborations. However, both forms have mostly been discussed as transfer thus, the underpinnings of both forms are not often discussed. As a result, the tensions (contradictions, dialectics and paradoxes) embedded in the interactions are also overlooked (not explored). This paper proposes to explore the underpinnings of the both forms of interaction and the tensions therein. Transfer is often linked with incubation and acceleration with concerns around absorption and diffusion of knowledge and through channels such as publications, conferences, teaching and pedagogy, joint research and knowledge …

Reflective School Library Practitioners: Use Of Journaling To Strengthen Practice, Elizabeth A. Burns

STEMPS Faculty Publications

Reflection is a skill educators of school librarians hope to foster in their students. Widely used in teacher preparation (Hodgins 2014), reflective journaling is a pedagogical strategy that aligns with the text-based nature of library and information studies coursework, especially as more library schools move online (Kymes and Ray 2012). This study explores use of structured dialogic journaling as a pedagogical approach to inform and shape the reflective practice of pre-service school librarians. Journals were introduced in an early school library methods course and structured using Schon’s Reflective Practitioner model (1987). Additional opportunities to engage with dialogic journals continued through …

Maximising Board Governance Effectiveness In Small And Medium-Sized Australian Independent Schools, Matthew Bambach

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

My experience of working with boards of independent schools has led me to conclude that boards often struggle to know how they might make their governance more effective. Very little has been written and few empirical studies have investigated governance of independent school boards in Australia, despite the considerable responsibility and power entrusted to them. This study asks how well such boards are governing and what they could do to engender fully effective governance.

Currently, there are no standards or instruments for assessing the effectiveness of board governance. This study identified seven governance effectiveness factors (GEFs) from the literature on …

New Teacher Induction: Improving Teacher Self-Efficacy, William Jesse Bacon

Theses and Dissertations--Educational Leadership Studies

Induction programs are comprehensive initiations or introductions to a position that provides beginning teachers with the necessary tools for starting their teaching careers, as well as specific guidance aimed at helping them meet performance standards. Induction programs may include mentoring, assistance in planning, professional development, and evaluation. Other terms used for induction include support, orientation, training, internship, assistance or assessment programs, retention programs, beginning teacher program, transitional program for existing teacher, cohort program, phase-in, professional development, and workshops. School districts across the country have turned to effective induction programs in response to rising teacher attrition rates. Comprehensive induction programs that …

A Comparative Study Of Leadership Styles In International Special And General Education Schools In The United Arab Emirates, Kaitlin M. Jackson

Theses and Dissertations--Education Sciences

This study attempted to identify leadership styles of school leaders in international special and general education schools in the United Arab Emirates. Additionally, this study sought to explore the influence of various demographic factors on perceived leadership styles. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (Avolio & Bass, 2004) was given to teachers across eight schools for the purpose of obtaining their perceived rating for leadership behaviors of school leaders at equivalent levels. Descriptive statistics were examined to identify prevalent leadership styles and trends in the demographics of survey respondents. Hierarchical linear models were conducted to determine the statistical significance of leadership style …

Muslim College Students And Civic Engagement, Aus Abdulwahhab

Theses and Dissertations--Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation

This study explores the nature of civic engagement of Muslim college students in the United States. The Community of Practice Theory is used as a conceptual structure to explore the relation between meaning, practice, identity and organization for Muslim students active in civic engagement through campus-based Muslim Student organizations. Pluralism, as shared values that combine different people and advocates wider civic participation, was adopted as part of the conceptual framework to see how the Muslim students think, serve, learn, and develop throughout the process of engagement on campus and in the local community. Particular attention is paid to the impacts …

Strengthening The Capacity To Serve Undocumented Students In A Rural California State University, Carlos Alvarado Sanchez

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Undocumented students face many obstacles while seeking a higher education degree. As undocumented students apply and are accepted to colleges and universities, they should have the means and resources to complete their higher education degree like all students. An array of strategies can be considered and implemented to have educators and school administrators in higher education be better equipped to serve all students, but specifically undocumented students.

Educators and administrators could continue their acquisition of knowledge base and comfortability about the different implications that surround undocumented students. Therefore, this thesis seeks to examine the efficacy of self-reports on a pre- …

Holistic Student Development In Higher Education: Perspectives And Practices Of Holistic Student Development At A Public California University, Francisca Ann Crutchfield

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Within traditional American public colleges and universities, there is an emphasis on academic student success within the structures and values of educational programs, and the lack of a holistic approach to higher education may be negatively impacting college student development and well-being. By balancing academic knowledge with other areas of knowledge, including a heightened sense of community and mental and emotional well-being, higher education can cultivate students who apply their skills with reduced stress, a sense of belonging, and freedom of expression. This qualitative phenomenological study seeks to identify characteristics, educational priorities, and programming approaches of university student service programs …

Understanding Educators’ Experiences During Long-Term School Closures, Jessica Pryor, Jessica Pryor

Murray State Theses and Dissertations

In the spring of 2020, many public places closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most public schools in the United States suddenly closed buildings as educators and students scrambled to adapt to distance education. This phenomenological, qualitative study holistically explores elementary educators’ experiences during the extended school closures. The 18current elementary educators who participated in individual interviews, served rural, elementary students. Individual interviews allowed participants to discuss and explain their experiences concerning methods, materials, time commitments, and communication with colleagues, parents, and students. They also discussed how they used feedback to alter their teaching. The interviews were conducted during …

Clicking In The Dark: Are Student Financial Aid Websites Accessible For Students With Disabilities?, Zachary W. Taylor

Journal of Student Financial Aid

The United States (U.S.) Access Board, a branch of the federal government responsible for advancing the inclusion of people with disabilities into U.S. society, recently amended Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). On January 18th, 2018, the final Section 508 amendment required all Title IV institutions of higher education in the United States to conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG) at the Level-A and Level-AA thresholds. As students with disabilities are often minoritized from the U.S. higher education system, this study explored the web accessibility of institutional .edu financial aid websites (n=450) to learn if …

Study Abroad For Low-Income Students: The Relationship Between Need-Based Grant Aid And Access To Education Abroad, Melissa Whatley, Ashley B. Clayton

Journal of Student Financial Aid

This study explores factors related to low-income students’ decisions to participate in study abroad while focusing specifically on the role of need-based grant aid in this decision-making process. Estimates account for systematic differences between students receiving and not receiving need-based grant aid using propensity score modeling (PSM) before disaggregating models by need-based grant aid status. Results indicate that need-based grant aid significantly increases a student’s probability of participating in study abroad. Additionally, disaggregated models show that the study abroad decisions of students receiving need-based grant aid differ significantly from those not receiving this aid, particularly when considering other forms of …

Education Tax Credits: A Different Trajectory For Federal Funding Of Higher Education And Remediation For Effectual Policymaking, Anna C. Bartel

Journal of Student Financial Aid

Education tax credits provide federal financial aid to a wide expanse of American taxpayers; however, little research or analysis has been done on these costly programs. There has been little evidence of its link to college enrollment growth. This descriptive paper outlines the establishment of education tax credits, their original intent, and the lack of evidence of effectual federal policy over the past two decades. Thus, the purpose of this article is to assess how the federal government has reached an $18.9 billion annual expenditure for education tax credits with little to show in returns on investment. Further, this paper …

Start To Finish: Examining The Impact Of The El Dorado Promise Program On Postsecondary Outcomes, Elise Swanson, Gary Ritter

Journal of Student Financial Aid

The El Dorado Promise program is a universal, first dollar Promise program that guarantees a full tuition scholarship to students who attend the El Dorado School District from grades K-12, and a partial scholarship for those enrolled for at least 9^th through 12^th grade. We use a difference-in-differences framework to examine the impact of the El Dorado Promise program on college enrollment and bachelor’s degree completion. We find that, overall, the Promise was associated with a 14.0 percentage point increase in postsecondary enrollment, no change in associate’s degree completion, and an 8.8 percentage point increase in bachelor’s degree …

Expectations And Incentives: Parental Financial Support For College During The Transition To Young Adulthood, Allyson Flaster

Journal of Student Financial Aid

This study provides new insight into enrollment disparities by examining how the financial support adolescents expect to receive from parents as they transition to young adulthood differs by parent and family characteristics and whether they attend college. I do this by estimating expectations of cash and in-kind co-residency support in the year after high school completion using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The results indicate that children whose parents are highly educated, who have high solidarity with their parents, and whose parents hold norms of adolescent financial dependency have particularly large financial incentives to attend college—particularly a …

Case Studies On The Transfer Of Knowledge Within The Interdisciplinary Steam Curricula Construct, Laura Rachel Fattal

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

Sharing anecdotal case study research documents the vibrancy of personal communication to reveal both spontaneous reactions and profound thinking on the transfer of knowledge in the interdisciplinary STEAM curricula construct. With the growing research and attention to arts-integration and STEAM curricula development, a critical assignment in a graduate course in Arts-integration: Interactive Strategies for (STEAM) teaching and learning required the in-service teachers, who were the students in the course, to be teacher/researchers. In a two-to-three page case study, the students documented evidence of one or two K-12 students’ transfer of knowledge between two or more disciplines – science, technology, engineering, …

Quarterly Report - 2nd Quarter, Period Ending December 31, 2019, Etsu Foundation, East Tennessee State University

ETSU Foundation Quarterly Reports

No abstract provided.

Ua19/16/1 Hilltopper Football 2019 Bowl Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Media guide for the First Responder Bowl, WKU vs. Western Michigan University.

2020 Military Times Best For Vets College Rankings: Georgia Southern Unranked, Grant Gearhart

Faculty Senate: Index

No abstract provided.

The Association Between Household Wealth And Nutritional Status Of Preschool Children In Tanzania: Evidence From The 2012/13 National Panel Survey, Samwel Lwiza

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

This study aims to investigate the association between household wealth and nutritional status among preschool children in Tanzania. The analysis is based on a nationally representative sample of 2,120 children from the Tanzania National Panel Survey (NPS), 2012/13. Household wealth was measured by wealth index constructed using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA); whereas child stunting and underweight were used to determine the nutritional status of a child. Results indicate that the prevalence of children stunting and underweight were 40% and 21%, respectively. Multivariate logistic regression model shows that the proportion of stunting and underweight in the poorest 20% households were …

Teachers’ Demographic Characteristics And Their Implications For Retaining Teachers In Tanzanian Remote Secondary Schools, Raymond Mwemezi

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

The paper explores the demographic characteristics (age, gender, experience, and education levels) among teachers in remote public secondary schools in Tanzania and their implications for teacher retention. The data were collected using a survey questionnaire involving 152 teachers from 23 remote schools, located in three districts of Kondoa, Mpwapwa and Chemba in Dodoma region, the central part of Tanzania. The results showed that most of the teachers in remote public secondary schools are males (76.3%), aged between 23–30 years (65.1%); and the majority are below 36 years (89.4%), with bachelor’s degree as their highest education qualification (58.6%), and have stayed …

Ua3/10/2 Winter Break, Wku President's Office - Caboni

WKU Administration Documents

Email from WKU president Timothy Caboni to faculty & staff.

Quantum Mechanics And Features Of Its Training, Gulom Bazarbaevich Samatov, Rustam Ummatqulovich Elmurodov

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

The article discusses the issues of the formation of quantum mechanics, the creation of a mathematical apparatus, physical interpretation, the dialectics of new patterns and the originality of events in quantum mechanics. In quantum mechanics, the duality of micro-objects and other peculiar properties are studied. This article discusses the revival of quantum mechanics, the formation of the mathematical apparatus, their physical interpretation, the dialectics of new laws, the peculiarity of quantum-mechanical events and microparticles. At the end of the 19th century, physicists of developed countries could not explain, on the basis of the mathematical apparatus of classical physics and experimental …

National Characteristics In The Image Of Aldar Kusа, Yarmuxammat Madaliev

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

Aldar Kusa is found in fairy tales, short anecdotes, epics and stories. In all of them, Aldar Kusa is portrayed as a cunning, funny, clown-like hero. But depending on each case, its qualities change. Even the name itself is translated as Sly, Deceiver. Aldar is the beloved son of the Kazakh people, he left the people and serves his people, a caring son, not sparing himself, his strength for the sake of justice, honesty, he appears to us in the form of a hero-defender of the weak and defenseless. Kazakh jokes about Aldar Kus are constantly told, updated and serve …

Didactic Potential Of The Chess Game And Its Impact On Students 'Academic Performance, Muksin Tadjievich Xodjiev, Аbdulxalim Xamidovich Maxmudov, Baxtier Xudayberdievich Raximov

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

One of the main tasks of modern schools is the development of children's creative potential and the formation of socially significant personal qualities. At school, they should not receive ready-made knowledge, but a model of adaptation to rapidly changing conditions. According to a number of psychological and pedagogical indicators, the chess game is an ideal explanatory model that allows students to form skills for successfully solving practice-oriented problems. Our research is devoted to revealing the didactic possibilities of this explanatory model, where the authors define approaches to the content interpretation and content of the concept of "didactic potential of chess", …

Current State Of Preparation Of Future Teachers Of Mathematics In Higher Education Institutions, Barno Sayfuddinovna Abdullayeva, Ganisher Abdurashidovich Nafasov

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

An innovative society puts forward new requirements for the training of future mathematics teachers. In modern conditions, there is a need for teachers who are able to carry out independent professional education and personal growth, to develop a future educational route and a position that must be achieved professionally. This competitive math teacher is an indicator of higher professional education. given in the form of one of the tasks of the federal state educational standard and is a sign of the development of cognitive competence in a mathematics teacher. The development of cognitive competence among teachers of mathematics is carried …

Features Of Social And Individual – Biological Development Of The Person In The Educational Process, Аtanazar Karimovich Raximov, Gulyor Аtanazar Qizi Karimova

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

The article describes the interaction of many subjects despite pedagogy in the formation of personality the existence of specific stages in the mental, physical and physiological development of pupils, their role in the system of human relations and their originality and the importance of reading in the formation of spirituality, moral education and the virtues of humanity. It also describes the socio-historical environment, the specific conditions of life and upbringing, the individual, specific biological, hereditary, anatomical-physiological features of the personality, and the connection with the effectiveness of education. The existence of genetic differences between intelligence, talent and ability in humans …

Features Of The Use Of Information And Communication Technologies In The Educational Process, Doniyor Baxodirovich Аbduraximov, Muzrob Doniyor OʼGʼLi Baxodirov

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

The article describes the features of the use of information and communication technologies in the educational process. As a result of the introduction of information and communication technologies in various fields, the concept of informatization of an informed society arises. Informatization of society means the process of using information as the wealth of society, which ensures economic development, scientific and technological progress of the country, accelerating the process of democratization and intellectualization of society. Public awareness is an objective process related to the increasing role of intellectual activity in all spheres of human life. Informatization of society serves to improve …

Innovative Ict-Based Foreign Language Learning: Evaluation Techniques, Assisted Learning And Foreign Language Teaching, Zaynab Аbduamitovna Karimova

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

В этой статье мы рассмотрим, как ИКТ (информационно-коммуникационные технологии) могут быть использованы в оценке преподавания английского языка. За прошедший период мы выработали лучшее понимание того, как мы могли бы помочь выучить язык, и эти изменения должны быть отражены в нашей оценке. Нам нужно развивать навыки и быть «пользователями» языка. Изменилась и цель оценки: речь идет не об оценке уровня умений студентов, а о мотивации и саморефлексии. В настоящее время ИКТ (информационно-коммуникационные технологии) имеют важнейший аспект в образовании и существенную роль в овладении иностранным языком, а также значительную проблему в современном образовании во всем мире, которая будет способствовать овладению студентами и …

The Roots Of The Spiritual Process Of Ancient Central Asian People, Nasimxon Аsqarovich Rahmonov

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

The article refers to the fact that the written monument of the ancient Turkic tribes “Oltun Yorug” (Golden Light), based on Buddhism, served to improve the spiritual environment in Central Asia. In addition, the article analyzes the influence of the religious movements of Buddhists and monists on the social and spiritual life of Turan during the period when this work was translated from Chinese into ancient Turkic language. The author of the article also notes the harmony of the images of the ancient Indian Vedas with images in the Avesto and the Golden Light. Particular attention is paid to the …