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Embracing A Culture Of Evidence: A Phenomenological Study Of Faculty Experience Within A Transitioning Assessment Culture, Jennifer A. Galipeau

All Theses And Dissertations

This phenomenological study sought to give voice to the lived experiences of faculty within a transitioning assessment culture at an institution of higher education accredited by the New England Association of Colleges and Schools (NEASC). Current literature concerning outcomes assessment (OA) in higher education is highly focused on the need for campuses to foster a robust and pervasive culture around assessment, often termed a culture of evidence. The study site provided a unique opportunity to examine this phenomenon as it was at the mid-point of a multi-year initiative focused on transforming institutional assessment culture. During the study, full-time faculty at …

Improving Student Achievement Of Private School Students Receiving Title Services: A Positional And Dispositional Change Plan, Dr Shandowlyon L. Hendricks-Williams

Dissertations

This change plan examined the current competencies, conditions, culture and context of a for-profit education corporation which resulted in low student achievement, “As Is”. As a means of developing strategies and actions for change, the competencies, conditions, culture and context necessary to increase student achievement was explored “To Be”. A change plan was developed and implemented. The change plan addressed my personal immunities to change as well as strategies and actions needed to improve student achievement. Private school students receiving title services were assessed using the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test in May of 2014. The results of that …

Ad Hoc American Studies: Michigan And The Hidden History Of A Movement, Alexander I. Olson, Frank Kelderman

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

This essay uses the history of the American Culture program at the University of Michigan as an occasion for rethinking the early years of American Studies more generally. Our archival research has found that the program was founded in 1935—seventeen years earlier than previously thought—making it the oldest American Studies degree program in the world. These forgotten years challenge conventional genealogies tracing the field’s origins to the “myth and symbol” school at Harvard. Instead, Michigan’s history reveals a deep engagement with interdisciplinary movements in the 1930s that shared an interest in critiquing American democracy, particularly human ecology, institutionalist economics, and …

The Influence Of Building Configuration On Academic Achievement, Attendance, And Demographic Variables In Selected Midwestern School Districts, Catherine A. Macarthur

Dissertations

This study examined the influence of building configuration on the academic achievement and attendance of students who were considered chronically absent. A longitudinal nonequivalent groups research design was used to test the study’s six hypotheses. Data were collected from over 10,000 students within 38 K-8 schools and 40 6-8 middle schools in 24 urban school districts. These districts belonged to the Middle Cities Education Association (MCEA) in a Midwestern state. Student achievement data were collected from this state’s Department of Education’s Center for Educational Performance and Information (CEPI) database that focused specifically on 6th (2009) and 8th-grade (2011) achievement and …

Principals’ Experiences Adapting To A New State-Mandated Administrator Evaluation Process: A Phenomenological Study, Kathleen Ann Teed Ramirez

Dissertations

In the early stages of Michigan’s enactment of new educator evaluation statutory requirements, there is an opportunity to examine the readiness of Michigan’s principals to adapt to the new evaluation models and processes by engaging a sample of administrators who are in the process of adapting to both new teacher and new administrator evaluations. We can potentially get out in front of emerging patterns of impeding factors and reinforce enabling factors that impact the adaptation and transition process and impinge upon the potential for enactment of new educator evaluation models and processes to actually result in acceleration of the growth …

Relational Leading: Practices For Dialogically Based Collaboration. By Lone Hersted & Kenneth J. Gergen., Stanley E. Patterson Phd

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

RELATIONAL LEADING: PRACTICES FOR DIALOGICALLY BASED COLLABORATION By Lone Hersted & Kenneth J. Gergen. Chagrin Falls, OH: Taos Institute Publications (2013). Kindle edition, 197 pages.

The Taos Institute and the authors have made a valuable contribution to the leadership community by providing not only a theoretical base for relational leadership but also a description of a practical application of the concept. The model is explored primarily in the corporate management context where “new and highly complex problems require linking many different kinds of knowledge; cooperation across cultural borders is increasingly necessary; work teams are needed to supply continuous innovation. Successful …

Experiences Of Students With Specific Learning Disorder (Including Adhd) In Online College Degree Programs: A Phenomenological Study, Seleta Bunch

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Enrollment in online degree programs is rapidly expanding due to the convenience and affordability offered to students and improvements in technology. The purpose of this hermeneutical phenomenological study was to understand the shared experiences of students with documented specific learning disorders (including Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) enrolled in online degree programs at a large, faith-based university in the Southeast United States. Colleges and universities must follow federal mandates as recommended by the Office of Civil Rights for students with documented disabilities in both traditional and online settings. Research is lacking in the area of understanding the experiences of students with specific learning …

The Impact Of Organizational Change Management In Job Satisfaction Among Employees In Organizational Field Study To Explore The Views Of A Sample Of Employees In Baghdad Plant (Tents)/ Baghdad-Waziriya, Hamza Mohammed Al-Jubouri

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The organizational change management, follows the approach to the transfer or transmission of the individual, or team, or the organization of the current case to the case of a future planned. It is an organizational process aimed at helping stakeholders to accept and then the changes in their business environment. And job satisfaction can be defined as the individual's sense of happiness and satisfaction during the performance of his work and achieved compatibility between what the individual expects from his work and how much it actually gets in this work, and job satisfaction is to pay the individual components of …

The Role Of The School Leader In Collaboration Between Regular And Special Education Teachers, Jospeh Raymond Sciullo

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Theses & Dissertations

In 2004, the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) aligned to language found in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA 2004). This reauthorization required students with disabilities to have access to the same curriculum as their non-disabled peers. This languages means that practices in instruction and assessment for students with disabilities must be aligned to the academic content standards established in each state (Parrish & Stodden, 2009). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of school leadership within the context of teacher collaboration and the factors that contribute to their level of …

Personal Sustainability: Listening To Extension Staff And Observing Organizational Culture, Leslie Forstadt, Aileen Fortune

Journal of Extension

Extension staff are increasingly challenged to do excellent work and balance their lives. University of Maine Cooperative Extension committed to a 2-year participatory action research project to support staff and to an organizational climate that encourages personal sustainability. With tools from ethnography and appreciative inquiry, staff engaged with colleagues through surveys, interviews, focus groups, and informal conversations. This article describes the richness of the process, the methodology, and the findings. Actions began early, as awareness was raised and people felt empowered. Recommendations resulting from the project address ways to support work-life balance, collegiality and connection, and staff connection to organizational …

Big Data Sustainability: An Environmental Management Systems Analogy, Dennis D. Hirsch, Jonathan H. King

Washington and Lee Law Review Online

Today, organizations globally wrestle with how to extract valuable insights from diverse data sets without invading privacy, causing discrimination, harming their brand, or otherwise undermining the sustainability of their big data projects. Leaders in these organizations are thus asking: What management approach should businesses employ sustainably to achieve the tremendous benefits of big data analytics, while minimizing the potential negative externalities?

This Paper argues that leaders can learn from environmental management practices developed to manage the negative externalities of the industrial revolution. First, it shows that, along with its many benefits, big data can create negative externalities that are structurally …

Development And Use Of The Simulation Culture Organizational Readiness Survey (Scors), Kim Leighton, Colette R. Foisy-Doll

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016: The use of simulation in nursing education and in clinical practice has grown dramatically over the past several years. The release of findings from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing's landmark simulation study (Hayden, et al., 2014) may be the catalyst to further increase use of simulation as results showed that up to 50% of clinical time could be replaced with simulation if specific conditions were met. This may be a crucial part of the answer to the ongoing challenges of lack of adequate clinical sites, …

Report Of The 2007 Dri Symposium, Hamline University School Of Law

DRI Symposia

No abstract provided.

Understanding Millennial, Generation X, And Baby Boomer Preferred Leadership Characteristics: Informing Today’S Leaders And Followers, Lee-Volker Cox

Dissertations

Purpose. This quantitative study’s purpose was to describe and determine the degree of difference and importance of leadership characteristics as perceived by Baby Boom, Generation X, and Millennial generational cohort followers in STEM-related U.S.-based or headquartered aerospace and computer organizations as measured by the Multigenerational Leadership Characteristics Questionnaire (MLCQ).

Methodology. This was a cross-sectional, nonexperimental, comparative and correlational quantitative, ex post facto study. A web-based MLCQ was developed after conducting an academic literature review. Participants used a 6-point Likert scale identifying the importance of 30 characteristics with 2 aggregation questions identifying the most and least important characteristics; 408 members of …

Overhaul Facility Planning And Control Tool Selection And Implementation Analysis, Santiago L. Martin

Theses and Dissertations

The Argentine Air Force Materiel General Directorate (AAFMGD) has initiated an effort to assure logistical support and to gradually increase the productivity and efficiency of related processes. Within the efforts of increased productivity and efficiency over the AAF Overhauling Facilities, the Planning and Control Departments (PCD) became targets for improvements. These departments are tasked with providing the best certainty and visibility of all assets within their facilities to feed the logistics pipeline, and better support air operations. This thesis, sponsored by the MGD, is focused on achieving improvements in the PCD processes, through an academically rigorous evaluation of confounding factors …

A "Big Bang" Versus A "Small Bang" Approach: A Case Study Of The Expeditionary Combat Support System (Ecss) And The Maintenance, Repair, And Overhaul Initiative (Mroi), George B. Lafiguera

Theses and Dissertations

In 2003, the United States Air Force embarked on one of the largest and most comprehensive logistical transformation to delineate the logistics community’s strategy for supporting the warfighter. A key aspect of this campaign plan was to leverage information technology through an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution called the Expeditionary Combat Support System (ECSS), a “big-bang” approach. In early 2012, the ECSS program was cancelled mainly due to uncontrollable increases in costs and schedule overruns. In late 2012, the Air Force Sustainment Center (AFSC) launched the Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul initiative (MROi), a “small-bang” approach, to increase enterprise visibility and …

Cost Analysis Reform: Where Do We Go From Here? A Delphi Study Of Views Of Leading Experts, Thomas W. Lamb

Theses and Dissertations

The Department of Defense (DOD) has faced many fiscal challenges in recent years, and these challenges have driven cost saving initiatives across all services and career fields. Many improvement initiatives or new policies aimed at better estimating, controlling, and reducing costs have been initiated to meet fiscal challenges. The senior leaders within the cost analysis workforce are faced with the challenge of managing change within their organizations to improve cost analysis processes and practices, while continuing to provide key decision support in the form of ongoing quality cost estimates.

This purpose of this research is to generate applicable research thrust …

The Adaptable Emphasis Leadership Model: A More Full Range Of Leadership, Benjamin Staats, Captain, U.S. Army

Servant Leadership: Theory & Practice

No abstract provided.

Enthusiastic Skepticism: The Role Of Sltp In Advancing Servant Leadership, Phillip Bryant, Ph.D., Steven Brown

Servant Leadership: Theory & Practice

No abstract provided.

Implementing Servant Leadership At Cleveland Clinic: A Case Study In Organizational Change, Joseph M. Patrnchak

Servant Leadership: Theory & Practice

No abstract provided.

Getting To Know The Elephant: A Call To Advance Servant Leadership Through Construct Consensus, Empirical Evidence, And Multilevel Theoretical Development, Stephen Brown, Ph.D., Phillip Bryant, Ph.D.

Servant Leadership: Theory & Practice

No abstract provided.

Introduction – Volume 2, Issue 1, Stephen Brown, Ph.D., Phillip Bryant, Ph.D.

Servant Leadership: Theory & Practice

No abstract provided.

Adjunct Faculty Sensemaking In The Context Of A Student Success Initiative At A Community College, Denise-Marie Coulter

Theses and Dissertations

Now that community colleges are being pressured by external forces to improve student completion and transfer rates, it is important to determine how part-time faculty are conceptualizing change and implementing it in their practice. They comprise the majority of the teaching staff at these schools, so they are a vital component to ensuring comprehensive change. I undertook an embedded case study to examine how adjunct faculty teaching a gateway English course make sense of the shift in mission to emphasize one school’s commitment to improving student success and whether or not their understanding of this change is impacting their pedagogy. …

The Murray Ledger And Times, March 21, 2016, The Murray Ledger An Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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A Nurse Leaders Journey To Improve Geriatric Outcomes In The Acute Care Setting, Rhonda R. Davis, Claudia Jean Beverly, Tina M. Savdoval

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015:

Improving Geriatric Outcomes through a Nurse Led Interprofessional Team in the Acute Care Setting The Geriatric Nurse Leadership Academy (GNLA) is an 18 month mentored leadership experience that is designed to operationalize learned leadership behaviors by assisting and supporting the fellow in developing and implementing a project that is centered on improving geriatric outcomes. Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare has a culture of continuous quality improvement and leadership development and therefore chose to participate in the 2014-2015 GNLA cohort recognizing that as an organization the advancement of nursing practice …

Implementation And Evaluation Of Transitioning Newborns At The Bedside Maternal-Child Leadership Project, Shakira Lita Ismay Henderson, Sonya L. Clayton, Katheryn B. Arterberry

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015:

Background: Traditionally, mothers and babies are separated after birth. However, strong evidence exists that immediate skin-to-skin contact after birth between mother and baby has positive outcomes for both mother and baby. Babies who transition with their mothers have better breastfeeding rates and mothers who transition with their babies are more satisfied with the birthing process. Nonetheless, nurses are challenged daily with promoting skin-to-skin, especially after a cesarean delivery. West Kendall Baptist Hospital embarked on a journey to implement a change process of transitioning all eligible newborns at the …

A World View Of Person And Family Centered Care, Joanne Disch

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015:

Although substantial work is being done in many countries to advance the concept of person and family-centered care, there is no universal definition that has been adopted. The international Alliance of Patients' Organizations (2007, p. 2) uses the term patient-centred healthcare to "describe healthcare that is designed and practiced with the patient at the centre." However it has become clear over the past 20 years that this definition can encompass working with, doing for or doing to - with patients and their families having little say in the design, delivery or evaluation of …

Family In The Resuscitation Room: Polish And Finnish Nurses' Experience And Attitudes Towards Family-Witnessed Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation In A Hospital Setting, Natalia Sak-Dankosky, Pawel Andruszkiewica, Paula R. Sherwood, Tarja Kvist

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015:

Background: Family-witnessed resuscitation offers an option for patients' families to be present during in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). It represents principles of the Family-Centered Care Theory which recognizes needs of family members and emphasizes their important role in patients' health and sickness. Due to the research suggesting possible benefits of family-witnessed resuscitation (Clark et al. 2013), many nursing and medical organizations, such as Emergency Nurses Association, European Resuscitation Council and American Heart Association, have officially recommended this practice. There is evidence that while in some countries family-witnessed resuscitation is accepted and implemented, there are …

Taking Charge: Engaging Patients As Full Partners, Mary Walton

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015:

A growing body of evidence demonstrates that improving the patient experience and developing partnerships with patients/families correlates with improved health outcomes. Patients who are more involved in their care are better able to: manage complex chronic conditions, seek appropriate assistance, have reduced lengths of stay, avoid readmissions and emergency department visits, and experience increased satisfaction. To achieve this, health care professionals need to engage patients and families in partnered relationships, and equip them with the relevant information, resources, access and support to fully engage in and/or direct their health care experience. This includes …

Evidence-Based Leaders And Leadership, Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Today's healthcare environment is increasingly complex and ever changing. Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been identified as a critical requirement to achieve the Triple Aim in healthcare. Although it is well established that evidence-based practice (EBP) improves healthcare quality and patient outcomes as well as reduces morbidities, mortality, medical errors, and costs of healthcare services, it is not standard practice by the majority health professionals in healthcare systems. Many healthcare providers, across the care continuum, continue to deliver care based upon tradition, outdated policies and procedures, and information learned years ago in their educational programs. It is essential for healthcare organizations …