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Perspectives Of Administrators On Practices Leading To Discipline Disproportionality Among African American Students With Disabilities, Delicia Goodman-Lee
Perspectives Of Administrators On Practices Leading To Discipline Disproportionality Among African American Students With Disabilities, Delicia Goodman-Lee
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Discipline disproportionality among African American students with disabilities is well documented in empirical research; however, there are limited studies about school administrators' perspectives on practices leading to disproportionality for this population. The purpose of this study was to examine school administrators' perspectives on practices and issues leading to discipline disproportionality in a large southeastern U.S. state. Social justice leadership, coupled with disability studies and critical race theory, served as the conceptual framework. A basic qualitative design with open coding and thematic analysis was used to answer the three research questions. Data were collected via virtual semistructured interviews with six administrators …
High School Teacher Perceptions About Reading Strategies That Support African American And Hispanic Students, Sherrie Sudler
High School Teacher Perceptions About Reading Strategies That Support African American And Hispanic Students, Sherrie Sudler
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The problem addressed by the study was African American and Hispanic students’ literacy scores remain the lowest of all ethnicities at high schools in a district, despite the implementation of numerous initiatives and curricular platforms. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to investigate how high school teachers perceive their implementation of instructional strategies in reading to support African American and Hispanic students’ academic achievement. Using Freire’s theory of critical pedagogy, high school teachers’ perceptions of their implementation of instructional strategies in reading were explored. Data were collected using semistructured interviews of 10 participants who met the inclusion criteria …
Human Service Professionals Perceptions About Support From Supervisors During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Ericka Booker
Human Service Professionals Perceptions About Support From Supervisors During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Ericka Booker
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The United States Department of Human Services provided information about how to administer services remotely to human service organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic, but multiple challenges arose including lack of support, ethical concerns, and difficulty in building a rapport with clients remotely. The problem that was addressed in this study was the negative impacts on clients due to the issues with human service professionals providing virtual services during the pandemic. This generic qualitative study aimed to explore perceptions about the support human service professionals received from their supervisors during the pandemic. Bandura’s self-efficacy theory was used to explore participant perceptions …
Exploring Spanish Translation Accommodations For English Learning Students, Lea Mendoza
Exploring Spanish Translation Accommodations For English Learning Students, Lea Mendoza
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The problem is that translations of language in standardized mathematics tests are not provided, which reduces the achievement scores of native-Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs) in Grades 4 and 8. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore teachers’ perceptions of language translation for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to uncover strategies of language translation to support the math scores of Spanish-speaking ELLs in fourth and eighth grades in a northeastern state. Underpinned by Krashen’s theory of comprehensible input, this study addressed the research question regarding how teachers of ELLs perceive language translation strategies for the …
White Clinical Social Workers’ Comfort With Black People’S Mental Illness, Lushunda Wood-Buckson
White Clinical Social Workers’ Comfort With Black People’S Mental Illness, Lushunda Wood-Buckson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Social workers constitute one of the largest clinically trained groups in the helping professions delivering mental health services in the United States. Most U.S. social workers are White and provide mental health services to diverse people. The social work literature has limited information about White clinical social workers’ comfort with delivering mental health services to Black people with mental illness. The aim of this study was to better understand how White clinical social workers who self-identify as culturally competent describe their perceptions of comfort when delivering mental health services to Black people with mental illness. This basic qualitative study was …
Early Career Nurses’ Perceptions Of Quality And Safety In The Operating Room, Gilda H. Gilbert
Early Career Nurses’ Perceptions Of Quality And Safety In The Operating Room, Gilda H. Gilbert
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
With an ongoing shortage of operating room nurses, novices may be hired into circulator positions. Over 50 million people will undergo surgery in America this year, and many will be cared for by circulators with less than five years of experience. Little is known about how this burgeoning group of circulators perceive and experience quality and safety. In this qualitative descriptive study, the perceptions of quality and safety were explored in nurses who completed a postgraduate perioperative curriculum embedded with quality and safety competencies. Nurses were viewed through Benner’s characteristics of nurse competence and Bloom's domains of learning framed interpretations …
Higher Education Faculty Perceptions Of Soft Skill Gaps In Components Of Emotional Intelligence Among Recent Community College Graduates, Bryce Timothy Wiley
Higher Education Faculty Perceptions Of Soft Skill Gaps In Components Of Emotional Intelligence Among Recent Community College Graduates, Bryce Timothy Wiley
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The problem addressed by this basic qualitative study was that recent college graduates may lack the soft skills needed for success in the job market. This gap may cause graduates to lack the skills required for employability. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore faculty perceptions of soft skill gaps in components of emotional intelligence—self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills—among recent college graduates. The study was conceptualized through the lens of Goleman’s emotional intelligence theoretical framework. Research questions asked college faculty about their views of soft skill deficits among recent college graduates in self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, …
Perceptions Of Developmental Disability Service Providers, On How The Judicial System Responses To Persons With Developmental Disabilities., Donna Whilby
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The situation or issue that prompted me to search the literature was observing the persons with developmental disabilities circling the judicial system due to multiple encounters with law enforcement. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how the Northeast Florida judicial system could improve the outcomes of persons with developmental disabilities by reducing and preventing multiple encounters. The empowerment theory was the most appropriate theory for my study. Empowerment theory indicates that it is imperative to encourage people, especially those who have a psychological deficit, to lean into their resources to gain and utilize their power in society. …
Law Enforcement Public Administrators’ Emotional Intelligence And Transformational Leadership Behaviors, Larry Allen Jacobs
Law Enforcement Public Administrators’ Emotional Intelligence And Transformational Leadership Behaviors, Larry Allen Jacobs
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Policing needs public administrators willing to implement the strategies and objectives of transformational leadership (TL) and emotional intelligence (EI) to integrate and effectively incorporate elements of the presidential Executive Order 14074 to address the public policy issues of policing in communities. This qualitative study aimed to explore the EI and TL behaviors of law enforcement public administrators through the lens of six subordinate personnel. The foundational constructs for this dissertation were TL theory, trait EI theory, and process theory. The research questions sought the experiences of subordinate personnel regarding law enforcement public administrators’ EI and TL behaviors. The study also …
Effects Of Mckinney Vento Act Of 1987 With Homeless Students In Mississippi, Denetra Jackson
Effects Of Mckinney Vento Act Of 1987 With Homeless Students In Mississippi, Denetra Jackson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Services for students who are homeless allows students and their families to deal with their living situation psychologically and offer them resources need to succeed educationally. The purpose of this research was to examine how services to homeless students in one area of Mississippi inform policy makers of the needs that are addressed with the McKinney Vento Act. The McKinney Vento Act was passed to benefit homeless students because they deserve the same quality of education, transportation to and from school, access to meals as well as various needed academic support as those that are not homeless. Being homeless places …
Influence Of Social Media On Mothers’ Decision-Making Regarding Vaccinations, Wendy Michele Patterson
Influence Of Social Media On Mothers’ Decision-Making Regarding Vaccinations, Wendy Michele Patterson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
This study involved determining why mothers hesitate to vaccinate their children and where they get their information about vaccinations. This descriptive qualitative study guided by the health belief model explored the influence social media has on mothers’ perceived barriers to vaccinating their children. A descriptive qualitative approach was used, and one-on-one audio interviews were conducted via Zoom or in person with 19 participants. Participants were mothers 19 or older, had children between zero and 18, made medical decisions for their children who resided in their household, and sought information about vaccinations via healthcare providers, social media platforms, friends, or family. …
Racial Stressors, Resiliency, And African American Women Counselors, Barbara Ann Bazemore
Racial Stressors, Resiliency, And African American Women Counselors, Barbara Ann Bazemore
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
African American women therapists are the second largest group of counseling providers, with many displaying behavioral health symptoms differently than other cultures. This quantitative correlational cross-sectional study explored the resiliency of African American women counselors related to racial-specific stressors inclusive of self-identity, COVID-19 anxiety, and daily discrimination. Initially, three research questions were selected to investigate the relationship between demographic factors (age, education level, active years as a counselor), racial-specific stressors (self-identity, COVID-19 pandemic anxiety, and everyday discrimination), and resiliency in 112 African American women counselors. Emails and an online survey were sent to collect data to answer the research hypotheses. …
Music Educators' Experiences Integrating Jazz Studies Into The Music Curriculum, Gail Johnson
Music Educators' Experiences Integrating Jazz Studies Into The Music Curriculum, Gail Johnson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The inclusion of jazz studies in the secondary school curriculum varies widely across the United States. School district personnel could miss opportunities to instruct students about cultural diversity, self–expression, and collaboration. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore the experiences of music educators' challenges integrating jazz studies into their curriculum. Elements from constructivism and culturally relevant pedagogy formed the conceptual framework. The research questions focused on how music educators described their challenges and what skills and strategies were needed to integrate jazz studies into the curriculum. Data were collected through semistructured interviews with 12 participants across three …
School Administrators’ Perceptions Of Possible Reasons Contributing To High Rates Of Disciplinary Exclusion For Special Education Students, Lauren Mackenzie Hooks
School Administrators’ Perceptions Of Possible Reasons Contributing To High Rates Of Disciplinary Exclusion For Special Education Students, Lauren Mackenzie Hooks
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The application of exclusionary discipline practices among students with disabilities (SWDs) receiving special education (SPED) services is a widespread concern. In a local school district in Texas, SWDs receiving special education services are experiencing higher rates of disciplinary exclusions than the state’s acceptable total disciplinary removals rate. The purpose of this basic qualitative project study was to investigate the possible reasons for higher rates of disciplinary exclusions among SWDs receiving special education services. The conceptual framework was Skinner’s operant conditioning theory. The research questions focused on local school administrators’ perceptions of the possible reasons for higher rates of disciplinary exclusions …
Sex Offenders’ Cognitive Self-Change In Group Treatment: A Pre-/Posttest Study, Malinda Rae Peterson
Sex Offenders’ Cognitive Self-Change In Group Treatment: A Pre-/Posttest Study, Malinda Rae Peterson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Wisconsin policy makers implement sex offender treatment programs with the purpose of decreasing reoffending while increasing safety for victims and communities. Research has suggested that the cognitive behavioral therapy group curriculum, Thinking for a Change (T4C), has been effective for offenders; however, this program’s key component of cognitive self-change among sex offenders has yet to be researched. The purpose of the current study was to fill a gap in T4C research and, specifically, explore whether sex offender probationers gained the T4C component of cognitive self-change as compared to non-sex offender probationers from Wisconsin. Beck’s cognitive behavioral theory was used as …
Open Educational Resources For Community College Health Career Instruction: Identifying Best Practices For Distance Learning, Marybeth Cregger
Open Educational Resources For Community College Health Career Instruction: Identifying Best Practices For Distance Learning, Marybeth Cregger
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The problem explored in this study is the limited use of Open Educational Resources (OER) by health career community college faculty. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate local community college faculty members’ perceptions about the use of OER in their program classrooms, the barriers to its use, and what resources they need to overcome the barriers. The unified theory of acceptance use and technology (UTAT) pertains to attitude, performance, expectancy, technology self-use efficacy, and facilitating conditions; it will be used as the conceptual framework for this basic qualitative study. This study explored community college faculty perceptions about …
Parents’ Perceptions Of Bullying In A Local Middle School, Clifphene Reid
Parents’ Perceptions Of Bullying In A Local Middle School, Clifphene Reid
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Bullying is known to have far-reaching negative implications for students and the school community. One important first step toward successfully preventing and addressing school bullying is to ensure that all members of the school community have a common understanding of the nature of bullying. The problem investigated in this study was the significant disparity between substantiated and unsubstantiated bullying reports made by parents, students, and staff in the local middle school. Given that parents at the local middle school had not received ongoing bullying prevention training, the purpose of this study was to investigate parents’ perceptions of bullying and the …
A Correlational Study Of Technical And Social Factors That Affect Agile Software Project Success, Christopher Joel Fry
A Correlational Study Of Technical And Social Factors That Affect Agile Software Project Success, Christopher Joel Fry
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Agile software development team composition can lead to budgetary and timeline overruns, ultimately affecting software development project success. IT leaders and software development project managers must identify the critical success factors that affect agile software development project success, as unsuccessful project outcomes can make an organization seem inefficient and incapable by stakeholders. Grounded in the critical success factors theory, the purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to examine the relationship between software development team size, experience, the level of effort estimation accuracy, and agile software development project success. Survey data (N = 61) were collected from software development project …
Experiences Of Online Faculty When Peer-To-Peer Incivility Is Observed, Juliet Lockwood
Experiences Of Online Faculty When Peer-To-Peer Incivility Is Observed, Juliet Lockwood
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Incivility in the college classroom distracts from the learning process. Students who are uncivil to their peers often shame and embarrass them in front of others, and uncivil students distract from learning opportunities by arguing with professors and coercing them for grades that were not earned. Incivility by students is counterintuitive to the goals of higher education which include offering a space for meaningful learning. The literature describes incivility by students in the physical classroom, yet lacking from current research is how peer-to-peer incivility in the online classroom affects student learning. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to …
Symbolic Play And Imagination In Child-Centered Play Therapy, Stephanie Anderson
Symbolic Play And Imagination In Child-Centered Play Therapy, Stephanie Anderson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Child-centered play therapy (CCPT) is based on the theory that a child’s natural means of communication is through play. However, there is a lack of research into how this communication occurs in CCPT sessions. This grounded theory study explored the processes utilized by child-centered play therapists and their clients to communicate with each other using symbolic play and imagination. Data were gathered through semi structured interviews with six child-centered play therapists and three archival videos of CCPT sessions to gain a holistic understanding of how communication occurs in sessions. This study’s data analysis revealed 20 selective and six subcodes associated …
Factors Influencing Donation Decisions To Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations, Fernando Alferd Crocheron
Factors Influencing Donation Decisions To Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations, Fernando Alferd Crocheron
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
While philanthropic studies have been conducted for centuries, little information exists regarding factors that impel donors to make financial donations to environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs). The phenomena surrounding human motivation have been studied via numerous lenses providing information focused on various domains of interest e.g., poverty alleviation, provisioning of educational opportunity, disease eradication, disaster relief, etc. The theoretical framework for this study was Self-Determination Theory (SDT). This study focused specifically on U.S. citizens and the motivational factors that impel said citizens to make monetary contributions to ENGOs. Ten participants ages 18 and over who had donated to an ENGO in …
Servant Leadership Impact On Generation Z Employees’ Workplace Engagement, Maria Helena Morrison
Servant Leadership Impact On Generation Z Employees’ Workplace Engagement, Maria Helena Morrison
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Workplace engagement with the Gen Z cohort born between 1995 and 2012 continues to be a challenge within the United States. The specific research problem addressed through this study was that it remained unknown whether the servant leadership characteristics exhibited by organizational leaders impacted Gen Z employees’ workplace engagement in Florida. These seven servant leadership characteristics include: (a) emotional healing, (b) creating value for the community, (c) conceptual skills, (d) empowering, (e) helping subordinates grow and succeed, (f) putting subordinates first, and (g) behaving ethically. Greenleaf’s servant leadership theory, Blau’s social exchange theory, and Khan’s employee engagement theory grounded this …
Understanding Access To Preventive Health Screening For Working Women Through The Lens Of The Socioecological Model, Charlotte R. Bonner
Understanding Access To Preventive Health Screening For Working Women Through The Lens Of The Socioecological Model, Charlotte R. Bonner
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Many U.S. working women lack access to routine preventive health screenings due to their 40-hr workweek, problems with transportation, and lack of workplace flexibility as clinic hours often coincide with their work schedules. Research is currently limited on how mobile health clinics (MHC) may enhance access to preventive health screenings for working women. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how working women experienced access to preventive health screenings through MHCs. The socioecological model served as the conceptual framework. The study population was working women over 21 years of age who were not homemakers, who worked 30 or …
Leadership Practices And Instructional Strategies To Advance Student Achievement In Title 1 Elementary Schools, Paula Michelle Watson
Leadership Practices And Instructional Strategies To Advance Student Achievement In Title 1 Elementary Schools, Paula Michelle Watson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
This qualitative single case study aimed to explore how administrative team members perceived their leadership practices and instructional strategies that advance student academic outcomes on annual mathematics and literacy state assessments. Transformational leadership was the conceptual framework for data collection and analysis. Three research questions focused on how elementary administrative team members perceived leadership practices to advance student achievement in mathematics and literacy, their perceptions of the effectiveness of the leadership strategies used, and their perceptions of instructional strategies used to advance student achievement in mathematics and literacy. This single case study included the cases of three elementary school administrative …
Pandemic Impact On Feedback Environments Among Remote And Traditional Office Workers, John Bryan Gianneschi
Pandemic Impact On Feedback Environments Among Remote And Traditional Office Workers, John Bryan Gianneschi
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Research on feedback-seeking, a critical component of employee self-regulatory behavior, has heavily relied on conventional offices, laboratories, and classrooms. Researchers have called for studies in varied workplaces and remotely situated work locations, but opportunities were constrained by organizational limits on deploying workers beyond organizational offices. The COVID-19 pandemic’s forced dispersal of office workers to work remotely from their homes overcame these organizational limits. This quantitative survey study compared 232 employee ratings of feedback environments and leader-member exchange relationships to assess their relative effectiveness among employees dispersed by the COVID-19 pandemic to remote locations with those of employees remaining in conventional …
Perception Of African Immigrants Living In The United States Towards Latent Tuberculosis Infection Treatment Hesitancy, Akinwale O. Obatayo
Perception Of African Immigrants Living In The United States Towards Latent Tuberculosis Infection Treatment Hesitancy, Akinwale O. Obatayo
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
About 80% of active tuberculosis (TB) cases are caused by untreated latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), with most being foreign-born United States residents. Despite the availability of preventive therapies, African immigrants living in the United States are hesitant to accept LTBI treatment. Although researchers have explored LTBI treatment hesitancy among foreign-born United States citizens, no study has explored the perspectives of African immigrants living in the United States. This generic qualitative study explored the perception of African immigrants living in the United States on LTBI treatment hesitancy. Participants’ inclusion criteria include those 18 years and older with a positive TB test, …
Dimensions Of Emotional Intelligence As Predictors Of Emotional Labor Strategies Among Ems Professionals, Joseph Mctaggart
Dimensions Of Emotional Intelligence As Predictors Of Emotional Labor Strategies Among Ems Professionals, Joseph Mctaggart
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Emergency medical service professionals face frequent demands of emotional labor, requiring them to regulate their emotions to best provide patient care in critical situations and handle emotional upset in the public they serve. Surface acting (faking emotions to meet work expectations) is associated with outcomes like burnout, increased turnover intent, and reduced job satisfaction. Emotional intelligence has been identified as a factor influencing emotional labor strategies; however, more research is needed. This research examined the extent to which dimensions of emotional intelligence (self-emotion appraisal, others’ emotion appraisal, use of emotion, and regulation of emotion) predict emotional labor strategies among emergency …
Multiple Location Retailer Online Training Strategies For Improving Customer Support And Relations, Shaun Paythress
Multiple Location Retailer Online Training Strategies For Improving Customer Support And Relations, Shaun Paythress
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Online customer services have always been difficult for companies to handle using either employees or management. The general business problem is that leaders of retail organizations face challenges to satisfy and retain customers. The specific business problem is that some corporate retail leaders in retail organizations with multiple locations lacked effective strategies to train employees to improve online customer support. Grounded in the theory of diffusion of innovation and transformational leadership, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry was to explore strategies corporate retail leaders use to train employees to improve online customer support in multiple locations. These developments implement …
Impact Of Institutional Memory Loss On Novice Labor And Delivery Nurses’ Quality Of Care Delivery, Anthea Irene Thomas
Impact Of Institutional Memory Loss On Novice Labor And Delivery Nurses’ Quality Of Care Delivery, Anthea Irene Thomas
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The social phenomenon institutional memory loss (IML) negatively impacts patient safety and quality of care. As experienced labor and delivery (L&D) nurses retire, incoming novice nurses lack expert knowledge and are challenged with a more complex patient population. Unresolved, the vulnerabilities from IML will impact the healthcare organization’s competitive edge and hamper progression of the sustainable development goals regarding maternal, infant, and child health. IML in the labor and delivery unit has not been covered in the current literature. In this phenomenological study the perspectives of labor and delivery nurse managers on the impact of IML on care delivery of …
Assessing The Effectiveness Of Treatment Programs Among Veterans With Opioid Use Disorder In New York State, Olatoye Oluwaseyi Itaniyi
Assessing The Effectiveness Of Treatment Programs Among Veterans With Opioid Use Disorder In New York State, Olatoye Oluwaseyi Itaniyi
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
New York State (NYS) is home to millions of veterans and has the fifth-largest veteran population in the country. Veterans represent a vulnerable population and are at higher risk for mental and physical health struggles. The focus of this quantitative study was to assess if there is any significant difference between pre- and post-OUD 24-hour detoxification treatment services, residential/rehabilitation treatment services, ambulatory outpatient treatment services, frequency of opioid use at discharge, and mental disorder among veterans with opioid use disorder in NYS when controlling for age, gender, race, and marital status. The study utilized the harm reduction framework and the …