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Rural Elementary Educator Perceptions About Mathematics Instructional Resources And Strategies, Kristina Gabrielle Anderson Jan 2020

Rural Elementary Educator Perceptions About Mathematics Instructional Resources And Strategies, Kristina Gabrielle Anderson

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An increasing number of students in a rural elementary school have not met the mathematics proficiency benchmark. Despite these changes made to mathematic curriculum and instruction, student data continued to indicate an increasing number of students in Grades 3–6 had not met the mathematics proficiency standard. The purpose of this study was to investigate perceptions of elementary mathematics teachers in Grades 3–6 and administrators regarding instructional resources, strategies used to teach mathematics, and professional development for teaching mathematics. Archer and Hughes’ concept of explicit instruction formed the conceptual framework that guided this study. The research questions for this study addressed …

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Third Grade Math Teachers’ Perceptions Of Their Preparedness To Teach The Standards For The Staar Math Test, Diana L. Everman Jan 2020

Third Grade Math Teachers’ Perceptions Of Their Preparedness To Teach The Standards For The Staar Math Test, Diana L. Everman

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Teacher professional development (PD) is acknowledged as an effective approach for changing teachers’ beliefs, practices, and behaviors to raise student academic achievement. A rural school district identified that 3rd grade math teachers felt inadequately prepared to teach the College and Career Readiness and Academic Standards (CCRS) standards for the state math assessment (STAAR). The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore third grade math teachers’ perceptions of their preparedness to meet the demands of the new third grade STAAR math test. Vygotsky’s constructivist theory from an adult learning perspective and Bandura’s self-efficacy theory guided the study. The research …

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Elementary-Level Instructional Coaches’ Perspectives On Roles And Teacher Effectiveness, Amanda Miliner Jan 2020

Elementary-Level Instructional Coaches’ Perspectives On Roles And Teacher Effectiveness, Amanda Miliner

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Instructional coaches help improve teacher effectiveness to ultimately help improve student performance. The roles of instructional coaches often vary depending on the leadership or recent trends of a school district. This inconsistency impedes the instructional coach’s ability to improve teacher effectiveness. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore elementary-level Title I instructional coaches’ perspectives on their roles and how these roles improved teacher effectiveness. Organizational role theory served as the conceptual framework for this study. This study consisted of a convenience sampling of 7 Title I instructional coaches in one school district in a Southern state. The …

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Patient Risks And Clinical Care Disruptions In Rural Hospital Mergers, Gabriel Muzanenhamo Jan 2020

Patient Risks And Clinical Care Disruptions In Rural Hospital Mergers, Gabriel Muzanenhamo

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Over 440,000 U.S. citizens are dying annually from avoidable, hospital-associated adverse events, with rural inhabitants experiencing more significant health threats than any other group in the United States. The trend of large health systems acquiring and consolidating rural hospitals (RHs) to improve the coordination of clinical care is backfiring, and accumulating patient safety risks. Although arguments for supporting hospital mergers in the past have focused on efficiency and presented a chance for struggling RHs with a financial survival mode, limited research has explicitly examined the impact of rural hospital mergers (RHMs). This study was constructed to explore the relationship between …

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Autonomy-Supportive Behaviour And Academic Intrinsic Motivation As Mediators Between Parental Authority And Academic Achievement, Andy Andrew Baldwin Jan 2020

Autonomy-Supportive Behaviour And Academic Intrinsic Motivation As Mediators Between Parental Authority And Academic Achievement, Andy Andrew Baldwin

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A lack of student skill acquisition has hindered students between the ages of 11 and 14, from being academically successful. In addition, parental authority (PA) has been shown to initiate or hinder the development of intrinsic motivation (IM) and autonomy-supportive behavior (ASB). Literature has shown that IM and self-autonomy positively predict academic achievement (AA). The purpose of this study was to determine whether academic intrinsic motivation (AIM) and autonomy-supportive behavior (ASB) mediate the relationship between PA and AA. The theoretical foundation was based on self-determination theory, which has previously been used to examine relationships between PA, IM, ASB, and AA. …

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Management Accounting Systems For Small Business's Competitive Advantage, Renato (Denver) Alcazar Jan 2020

Management Accounting Systems For Small Business's Competitive Advantage, Renato (Denver) Alcazar

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AbstractSmall businesses providing ancillary services to the motion picture industry fail at alarming rates due to leadership's lack of strategies for service diversification and business expansion. Grounded in the contingency theory of management accounting, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore management accounting systems (MAS) strategies leaders of ancillary service providers use for business diversification. The data collection included face-to-face semistructured interviews with 10 small business owners who successfully used MAS strategies for business diversification in California. The data analysis entailed using keyword frequency comparisons and coding techniques that facilitated the verification and triangulation of key …

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Exploration Of Ehr Implementation Strategies: A Qualitative Study, Scot Eric Loerch Jan 2020

Exploration Of Ehr Implementation Strategies: A Qualitative Study, Scot Eric Loerch

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AbstractElectronic health record system implementations have a high failure rate when properly developed strategies are not used. These implementation failures affect healthcare workers and practitioners core roles through a lack of documentation practices, which decreases the quality of the care of the patients. Grounded in the technology acceptance model, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore the strategies information technology systems engineers use for the implementation of Health Information Management Systems. The participants were 10 information technology systems engineers from three healthcare organizations in the greater Tennessee area. The data were collected through recorded participant interviews …

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Strategies For Small Businesses Negotiating Contracts With Hospitals, Patricia Gale Mccoy Jan 2020

Strategies For Small Businesses Negotiating Contracts With Hospitals, Patricia Gale Mccoy

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Failure to successfully negotiate contracts can have negative impacts on business survivability. Contract negotiations are ways medical suppliers and hospitals establish mutually beneficial relationships to increase profitability and longevity while innovating to improve patient care. Grounded in the resource dependency theory and the grand theory of negotiation, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies used by Texas physician preference item (PPI) suppliers to successfully negotiate contracts with hospitals to improve profits and sustain their small business beyond 5 years. The participants comprised 11 small business leaders in Texas who successfully negotiated contracts with hospitals to …

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Information Technology Strategies Automotive Retailers Use To Improve Customer Retention, Alexious Mulemba Jan 2020

Information Technology Strategies Automotive Retailers Use To Improve Customer Retention, Alexious Mulemba

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Business managers in the automotive retail industry face challenges in retaining customers in sales operations. Automotive business managers' failure to retain customers negatively affects sales, revenue, and sustainable business performance. Grounded in expectation-confirmation theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore the IT strategies some business managers use in the automotive retail industry to retain customers. The participants comprised 4 business managers from 2 automotive retail dealerships in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia, who used IT strategies to retain customers. Data were collected from semistructured interviews, interview notes, and company documents. Four themes emerged: customer …

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A Secure And Strategic Approach To Keep Iot Devices Safe From Malware Attack, Christopher Ray Murray Jan 2020

A Secure And Strategic Approach To Keep Iot Devices Safe From Malware Attack, Christopher Ray Murray

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Through the advances in technology, businesses can now utilize the Internet of Things (IoT) devices to improve workflow and provide better services to customers. However, without a strategy to secure these devices, Information Technology (IT) security professionals are left with vulnerable equipment. Grounded in routine activities theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to determine strategies IT security professionals used to protect IoT devices in their environment. The participants were 6 IT professionals from 2 medium to large size healthcare facilities based in the Buffalo, New York, and the Washington D.C. area, who possessed strategies to protect …

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African American Males' Perceptions On Increasing Retention And Graduation Rates, Edwan L. O'Neal Jan 2020

African American Males' Perceptions On Increasing Retention And Graduation Rates, Edwan L. O'Neal

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African American males have the lowest retention and graduation rates of all races and genders. The problem at the local study site was that lower number of African American males from two public 4-year institutions were graduating from college as compared to all other ethnic groups and genders. The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify college experiences that had a positive impact on retention and graduation, as perceived by African American males. Tinto's persistence theory, describing the development of student identity and student retention in higher education, guided the study. The research questions explored African American male students' …

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Teacher Perceptions Of Integrating Technology Tools, Larry Schuessler Jan 2020

Teacher Perceptions Of Integrating Technology Tools, Larry Schuessler

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AbstractTechnology underutilization in educational settings is a problem that costs school districts time and money. This problem grounded the purpose of this study to explore teachers' perceptions of factors that influenced technology integration in a rural school district so that research-derived recommendations could be provided to improve future technology initiatives. The conceptual framework of this study was the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology. Four research questions guided the exploration of K-12 teachers' perceptions about technology utilization based on the framework's tenets of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influences, and facilitating conditions that influence teachers' technology utilization. The …

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A Narrative Approach To Understanding Career Attrition For Women Engineers, Brian Merritt Scott Jan 2020

A Narrative Approach To Understanding Career Attrition For Women Engineers, Brian Merritt Scott

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More women exit the engineering profession than enter, leaving a talent void that incurs lost business value from unrealized business revenues. Without new insights about how to address the continued attrition of women engineers, the profession is unlikely to sustain the human capital needed to achieve competitive advantages through innovation, increased productivity, and improved firm reputation. This qualitative narrative inquiry explored the career attrition phenomenon of six former women engineers in the Northern Tier States region of the United States who left engineering within the past 4 years and were either an engineer-in-training or professional engineer. The conceptual framework for …

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How High School Teachers In Guam Use Facebook For Instructional Purposes To Promote Interactions, Sanjay Sharma Jan 2020

How High School Teachers In Guam Use Facebook For Instructional Purposes To Promote Interactions, Sanjay Sharma

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Despite the popularity of Facebook amongst students and teachers for personal use, the problem is a lack of understanding of how high school teachers use Facebook for instructional purposes to promote learner-learner and learner-instructor interactions. Focusing on how and why some high school teachers incorporate Facebook in their teaching practice may broaden the range of teachers' instructional tools to use Facebook. The purpose of this case study was to explore the mastery experiences of how and why high school teachers decide to use Facebook activities for instruction. Vygotsky's social constructivism theory and Bandura's self-efficacy form the conceptual framework for types …

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Strategies Leaders In Nonprofit Organizations Use To Expand Capacity, Reginald A. Stanley Jan 2020

Strategies Leaders In Nonprofit Organizations Use To Expand Capacity, Reginald A. Stanley

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Nonprofit organizations impact the community and make substantial contributions to organizations, individuals, communities, and the environment, but many struggle to continue to grow. Supporting growing demands to provide support to communities with a reduction in available resources threatens nonprofit organizations' survivability and effectiveness. Grounded in general system theory, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore strategies leaders of a small nonprofit organization in southern California used to grow their organization to serve a larger population. The participants comprised 3 nonprofit leaders with documented success at developing and growing their business. Data were collected from semistructured interviews …

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The Perceptions And Lived Experiences Of Female Students In A Computer Science Program At A Community College, Terry Voldase Jan 2020

The Perceptions And Lived Experiences Of Female Students In A Computer Science Program At A Community College, Terry Voldase

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America's higher education institutions have aligned computer science curricula with today's modern technology. Despite these efforts, data have shown that there is slow growth among young women majoring in computer science and even slower growth in this area at community colleges. Higher education institutions have also acknowledged a gap between men and women entering the computer science field and a need to explore options for computer science programs to engage women in the industry. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to gain an understanding of the perceptions and lived experiences of female students enrolled in computer classes at New …

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Multidimensional Strategies To Mitigate Counterfeiting, Tan Vu Jan 2020

Multidimensional Strategies To Mitigate Counterfeiting, Tan Vu

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Counterfeiting causes substantial negative impacts on intellectual property and opportunity costs to businesses worldwide. Anticounterfeiting department executives who lack multidimensional anticounterfeiting strategies to mitigate fakes may incur substantial financial loss and intellectual property theft. Grounded in the systems theory, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore the strategies that anticounterfeiting department managers use to mitigate counterfeiting. The participants comprised 4 anticounterfeiting representatives of a consumer products company in a metropolitan area of Georgia who successfully devised and implemented anticounterfeiting strategies. Data were collected from semistructured interviews and the firm's online resources. Thematic analysis was used to …

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Employee Retention Strategies Within Information Technology Small Businesses, Felicia Tetee Washington Jan 2020

Employee Retention Strategies Within Information Technology Small Businesses, Felicia Tetee Washington

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AbstractThe retention of high talent employees is vital to the success of any organization. Organization leaders who lack effective strategies to retain high talent employees are at risk for business performance failure. A lack of managerial strategies to motivate employees and a lack of understanding of employees' needs lead to increased employee turnover rate in organizations. Grounded in Herzberg's two-factor theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies information technology (IT) small business leaders use to retain high talent employees. Data were collected from phone semistructured interviews and review of the organizations' employee handbook, policies, …

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Teachers' Perceptions Of Teaching Reading And Mathematics In Inclusion Classrooms, Cherise Tabano Wesley Jan 2020

Teachers' Perceptions Of Teaching Reading And Mathematics In Inclusion Classrooms, Cherise Tabano Wesley

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The 2004 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act mandated that students with disabilities be educated with their nondisabled peers in the least restrictive environment. In a large urban district elementary school in the U.S. southwest inclusion classrooms were created to address this mandate. The problem for this study was that 3rd to 5th grade general education teachers at this school struggled to teach reading and mathematics to students with special needs in inclusion classrooms. The purpose of this study was to investigate (a) elementary general education teachers' perceptions about teaching reading mathematics to students using special education services in inclusion classrooms …

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Effectively Managing Energy Costs In The Resort Industry, Justin Whitesides Jan 2020

Effectively Managing Energy Costs In The Resort Industry, Justin Whitesides

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Hawaii's commercial consumers pay the highest electricity rate in the United States;these costs are expected to rise 3-3.5% in 2021. Management in the Hawaiian resort industry that lacks adequate knowledge of controlling these rising costs is at a competitive disadvantage. Utilizing the diffusion of innovation theory, the purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore strategies used in the resort industry to control energy costs. The participants comprised of 10 energy management professionals with successful experience managing energy consumption in the resort industry. Data were collected through telephone interviews, archival documentation, and field notes. Using Yin's 5-step process of …

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Cybersecurity Using Risk Management Strategies Of U.S. Government Health Organizations, Ian Cornelius Wilkinson Jan 2020

Cybersecurity Using Risk Management Strategies Of U.S. Government Health Organizations, Ian Cornelius Wilkinson

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Seismic data loss attributed to cybersecurity attacks has been an epidemic-level threat currently plaguing the U.S. healthcare system. Addressing cyber attacks is important to information technology (IT) security managers to minimize organizational risks and effectively safeguard data from associated security breaches. Grounded in the protection motivation theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore risk-based strategies used by IT security managers to safeguard data effectively. Data were derived from interviews of eight IT security managers of four U.S. government health institutions and a review of relevant organizational documentation. The research data were coded and organized to …

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Blended Learning Success In The Classroom, Alisanda Michelle Woods Jan 2020

Blended Learning Success In The Classroom, Alisanda Michelle Woods

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An early elementary school in the Midwest, some economically disadvantaged students perform below grade level in math achievement. The blended learning model (BLM) is utilized within the district, however, there is a lack of data to support its effectiveness with underachieving, economically disadvantaged students. The purpose of this sequential mixed methods study was to investigate if there was a difference between the implementation of (BLM) and student achievement for economically disadvantaged students who are performing below grade level in math. The study was grounded in the technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPCK) theoretical framework. Three quantitative research questions examined if …

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Using Student Engagement And Reengagement To Reduce Chronic School Absenteeism, Janet Lassiter Dennis Jan 2020

Using Student Engagement And Reengagement To Reduce Chronic School Absenteeism, Janet Lassiter Dennis

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AbstractChronic absenteeism is a problem in an urban school district in Virginia. This problem not only affects the staff and administrators, but it also affects the surrounding communities, students, and parents. The purpose of the study was to the investigate the perceptions of teachers and administrators in the local school district regarding students’ chronic absenteeism. Bowen’s family system theory comprised the conceptual framework that guided this study. The research questions focused on the perceptions of Grade K-12 teachers and administrators about the causes of chronic absenteeism in the local district and their views of the effectiveness of methods that have …

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The Perspectives Of Early Childhood College Faculty On The Role Of Play, Susan Paula Mckoy Jan 2020

The Perspectives Of Early Childhood College Faculty On The Role Of Play, Susan Paula Mckoy

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AbstractEarly Childhood and Care Education (ECCE) educators are expected to understand the role of play and implement play in their classrooms, but specific classes on the role of play at the college level are not offered. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to examine the perspectives of full-time ECCE faculty at a Southeastern state technical college teaching preservice teachers to determine their students’ understanding of the role of play, the inclusion of play in their lesson plans, and how play is being implemented in their classrooms. The conceptual framework guiding the study was Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development. …

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Head Start Parent Perspectives Of Their Roles In Their Children’S Preschool Education, Fawn Thomas-Brown Jan 2020

Head Start Parent Perspectives Of Their Roles In Their Children’S Preschool Education, Fawn Thomas-Brown

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Head Start expects parent involvement as part of parents’ in-kind contribution to the program, but data from a multi-center Head Start agency in the southeastern United States indicated many parents do not meet this expectation. Lack of parental involvement in Head Start children’s education was the problem of focus in this study. The purpose of this study was to increase understanding of the perspectives of Head Start parents regarding their roles in their preschool children’s education. The work of Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler formed the conceptual framework for this study. The research questions focused on how parents describe their responsibilities for …

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Strategies Universities’ And Colleges’ It Leaders Use To Prevent Malware Attacks, Felix Agyei Jan 2020

Strategies Universities’ And Colleges’ It Leaders Use To Prevent Malware Attacks, Felix Agyei

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Information systems at universities and colleges are not exempt from the threat of malware. Preventing and mitigating malware attacks is important to universities’ and colleges’ IT leaders to protect sensitive data confidentiality. Grounded in general system theory, the purpose of this exploratory multiple case study was to explore strategies universities’ and colleges’ information technology (IT) leaders use to prevent and mitigate malware attacks. Participants consisted of 6 IT leaders from 3 universities and colleges in Southern California responsible for preventing and mitigating malware attacks. Data were collected through semistructured video teleconferences and 7 organizational documents. Three significant themes emerged through …

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E-Commerce Strategies Small And Medium Enterprises Use To Market Products In Ghana, Joseph Kwaku Amaglo Jan 2020

E-Commerce Strategies Small And Medium Enterprises Use To Market Products In Ghana, Joseph Kwaku Amaglo

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Small and medium enterprise (SME) business owners face challenges in adopting e-commerce strategies to market products. By utilizing e-commerce technology and tools, SME business owners could reach more customers and improve their business performance. Grounded in the technology acceptance model, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore the strategies some SME business owners in the furniture industry used to adopt e-commerce to market products in Ghana. The participants comprised 5 SME business owners from 5 different furniture firms in Ghana who adopted e-commerce strategies to market products. Sources of data included semi-structured interviews, interview notes, and …

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Newly Hired Teachers' Perspectives On Factors That Influence Their Attrition Or Retention, Deaneth A. Brown Taylor Jan 2020

Newly Hired Teachers' Perspectives On Factors That Influence Their Attrition Or Retention, Deaneth A. Brown Taylor

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Newly hired teacher attrition has increased across the nation and is one of the main contributors to the current teacher shortage. This study specifically addressed a suburban school district located in the Mid-Atlantic region that had experienced a high rate of attrition of newly hired teachers (NHTs). This issue is important because NHT attrition affects school budgets and student achievement. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the professional experiences of NHTs, and how those experiences contributed to their decisions to leave or remain employed. The conceptual framework that grounded this study was Ingersoll’s concept of teacher …

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Customer And Employee Social Media Comments/Feedback And Stock Purchasing Decisions Enhanced By Sentiment Analysis, Drew Mikel Hall Jan 2020

Customer And Employee Social Media Comments/Feedback And Stock Purchasing Decisions Enhanced By Sentiment Analysis, Drew Mikel Hall

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) warns professional investors that sentiment analysis tools may lead to impulsive investment decision-making. This warning comes despite evidence showing that aided social sentiment investment decision tools can increase accurate investment decision-making by 18%. Using Fama's theory of efficient market hypothesis, the purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine whether customer Twitter comments and employee Glassdoor feedback sentiment predicted successful investing decisions measured by business stock prices. Two thousand records from 3 archival U.S. public NASDAQ 100 datasets from March 28, 2016, to June 15, 2016 (79 days) of 53 companies with …

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A Retrospective Program Evaluation Of Existing Quality Improvement Project Colorectal Cancer Screening, Laveda Lynn Roberts Jan 2020

A Retrospective Program Evaluation Of Existing Quality Improvement Project Colorectal Cancer Screening, Laveda Lynn Roberts

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The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) makes recommendations on preventive health screenings based on the level of evidence. Colorectal Cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer. The practice problem for this DNP QI project, is that providers are not following the USPSTF Guidelines on colorectal cancer screening with the FQHC scores below the HRSA expectation of 80% showing only a 43% screening compliance rate for patients age 50 -75 years. The purpose of this DNP QI project was to evaluate the effectiveness of the existing QI initiative for provider colorectal screening of patients age 50-75 years, then …

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