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The Effective Practices Of Tasa Honor School Boards In Texas: A View Through The Lens Of Scott's Three Pillars Of Institutional Theory, Kendra Leigh Nelson
The Effective Practices Of Tasa Honor School Boards In Texas: A View Through The Lens Of Scott's Three Pillars Of Institutional Theory, Kendra Leigh Nelson
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations
Quality public schools are linked to the effectiveness of their school boards, and voting for local trustees, elected lay men and women, impacts the overall condition of local communities (Foster, 2014). Experts believe school board adeptness and efficiency can be increased by improving procedures (Sell, 2005). Looking through the lens of institutional theory, the purpose of this study was to examine the implementation of Richard Scott’s three pillars of institutionalization (regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive forces) through exploring specific procedures of TASA Honor Boards as compared to demographically similar boards. This study relied on content analysis of school board meeting minutes …
Recipients Of Major Scientific Awards A Descriptive And Predictive Analysis, Andrew Calvin Barbee
Recipients Of Major Scientific Awards A Descriptive And Predictive Analysis, Andrew Calvin Barbee
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations
Recent trends demonstrate an increase of women in leadership roles, STEM fields, and participating in higher education including graduate and doctoral programs, which is a result of Title IX. This quantitative study considered major scientific awards awarded to females and examines demographic characteristics of awardees from the Nobel, National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and National Science Foundation (NSF). More specifically, the following awards were examined the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the NAS Public Welfare Medal, and the NSF National Medal of Science within the discipline of Physical Science. Also, this study focused on equality to determine if a fair playing …
An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Supervision And Job Satisfaction Factors Among Residence Directors And Resident Assistants, Stephen A. Berg
An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Supervision And Job Satisfaction Factors Among Residence Directors And Resident Assistants, Stephen A. Berg
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations
Supervising Resident Assistants (RAs) on college campuses is one of the most critical roles of housing staff members. The RA position is difficult based on the number of responsibilities the job requires; it is filled with multiple stressors, such as role ambiguity and role conflict. Supervision is a critical skill for student affairs professionals to possess yet there remains little research on the supervision of RAs. In this study, the relationship between perceived levels of synergistic supervision, training, and job satisfaction factors was examined among residence directors (RDs) and RAs. The researcher sought to fill this gap the in the …
Examining The Social Effects Of Community-Based Mentoring On At-Risk Adolescent Girls, Nina L. Price
Examining The Social Effects Of Community-Based Mentoring On At-Risk Adolescent Girls, Nina L. Price
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study is to examine which strategies of mentoring, if any, have a positive impact on adolescent girls who engage in potentially at-risk social behaviors, which may negatively affect their self-esteem academic performance. The female students who participated in this study attend a large high school in Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, are between the ages of 15 and 18, and are mentored by volunteers of The TurnAround Agenda Outreach Center. The study is informed by two theroretical frameworks which seeks to guide a study of human interactions: social learning theory (Bandura,1997) and attachment theory (Bowlby, 1980). …
Gender Behavior Types, Teacher-Student Interactions, And Mathematics Performance: An Empirical Analysis Of Texas High School Students, Sheila Gayle Fleming
Gender Behavior Types, Teacher-Student Interactions, And Mathematics Performance: An Empirical Analysis Of Texas High School Students, Sheila Gayle Fleming
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to explore the gender behavior types for both female and male high school students. Using the gender behavior types as a lens, the study examined the existence of any differences in teacher-student interactions and mathematics performance by gender behavior type, and investigated factors that predict students’ mathematics performance A survey was used to collect data concerning student self-concepts, student perceptions of teacher-student interactions, background characteristics, and course enrollment. The sample was drawn from high school students at a North Texas High School enrolled in Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 during Spring 2015. The …
Ideological And Legal Predictors Of U.S. Court Of Appeals Justices’ Voting In Title Vii National Origin Employment Discrimination Cases In K-16 Education, Lori Marie Del Bosque (Reyes)
Ideological And Legal Predictors Of U.S. Court Of Appeals Justices’ Voting In Title Vii National Origin Employment Discrimination Cases In K-16 Education, Lori Marie Del Bosque (Reyes)
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations
This study investigated the influence of: (1) judges’ political ideology as measured by party-of-the- appointing president and DW-nominate scores; and (2) legal precedent as measured by voting which occurred before or after the 1991 amendments to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on judges’ liberal and conservative voting between 1964 and 2015 at the United States Court of Appeals in Title VII national origin decisions impacting K-16 education, using binary logistic regression as its main statistical tool. The principal findings for this group of K-16 decisions are: (1) ideology, as determined by party-of -appointing president, is an effective predictor of …
Understanding The Perceptions Of Mattering, Feelings Of Burnout, And Job Satisfaction Of Resident Assistants At Four-Year Midwestern Universities, James C. Stoner
Understanding The Perceptions Of Mattering, Feelings Of Burnout, And Job Satisfaction Of Resident Assistants At Four-Year Midwestern Universities, James C. Stoner
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations
Since first conceptualized in the 1970s, employee burnout has received much scholarly attention in various service-oriented fields. While some disciplines have benefited from an abundance of burnout research (e.g., nursing, education), other specific jobs have received limited attention. One such position is the Resident Assistant (RA) job on college campuses. RAs serve a critical, service-oriented role in higher education and have a wide range of difficult job responsibilities. As such, RAs are not immune to burnout. The limited existing research on RA burnout has failed to address the foundational cause of burnout; that is, the relationships between RAs who provide …
Fourth Amendment Knowledge In Student Housing: A Study Of Texas Public University Officials, Gregory L. Hladik
Fourth Amendment Knowledge In Student Housing: A Study Of Texas Public University Officials, Gregory L. Hladik
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations
The purpose of this quantitative study was to analyze Texas public college and university housing professionals’ knowledge of constitutional Fourth Amendment law using a 20-question True/False/Unsure survey. This survey was designed to investigate the legal literacy of housing officials in order to determine what they know and what predictors are associated with greater or less knowledge. The participants in the study were full and part-time employees and student resident assistants of Texas public college and university housing programs. In total, 245 participants completed the survey in its entirety. The survey results were analyzed using Qualtrics where multiple regression was used …
Mentoring Academically At-Risk Students: What Are The Effects, Adam J. Washburn
Mentoring Academically At-Risk Students: What Are The Effects, Adam J. Washburn
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to determine if participating in the mentoring program Movement Towards a Future had any effect on a student’s academic achievement and yearly attendance. By analyzing the number of credits obtained each year and the number of absences by year, a matched sample t-test was conducted to determine if there was any significant difference between the matched pairs. A total of 50 students made of the 25 matched pairs participating in the study. Students participating in Movement Towards a Future were matched with students not participating in Movement Towards a Future by the socio-economic status, …
An Exploratory Study On The Manifestations Of New Public Management (Npm) In Teacher Education, Ricardo Garcia
An Exploratory Study On The Manifestations Of New Public Management (Npm) In Teacher Education, Ricardo Garcia
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations
Scholars have written extensively on the impact of neoliberal ideology on global economies and society, in general. Included in these studies has been the impact of neoliberalism on public education in the US and the spawning of a neoliberal-based form of organizational management known as new public management (NPM). Beginning in the 1980s, literature on NPM began to emerge as scholars reported findings associated with the management system’s pervasive principles in public organizations, including institutions of higher education. Absent from this scholarship, however, are the effects of NPM on traditional four-year university teacher preparation programs. Perhaps even more unexplored are …
Analysis Of An Alternative High School's Graduates And Dropouts: A Phenomenological Study, Marina E. Flores
Analysis Of An Alternative High School's Graduates And Dropouts: A Phenomenological Study, Marina E. Flores
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations
In 2013, just over two-thirds of students graduated from high school in the prescribed four years. Some students continued to attend traditional high schools for a fifth year; others entered an alternative high school and earned a high school equivalency certificate, qualifying them as completers. Some joined the workforce or dropped out of school altogether. Other students enrolled in an alternative high school during the prescribed four years and either graduated on time, graduated in their fifth year, or dropped out. In this phenomenological study, deciding factors for school disengagement and reengagement were explored, via self-determination theory, by examining how …
Teachers' Perspectives On The Efficacy Of Inclusion For The General Education Student, Valayne May
Teachers' Perspectives On The Efficacy Of Inclusion For The General Education Student, Valayne May
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations
Laws require special education students to be educated in the least restricted environment, which often means placing special education students with their general education peers in inclusion classroom settings. Inclusion classroom research has focused mainly on the efficacy for special education students, ignoring the effects of inclusion on the general education students, who make up the majority of students in K-12 education. Therefore, the purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the perceptions of four content and three special education teachers who teach in inclusion classrooms in a successful middle school in Texas regarding the efficacy of inclusion for …
The Power Of Community: Building Social Networks Through The Advancement Via Individual Determination (Avid) College Readiness System, Travis Wayne Horton
The Power Of Community: Building Social Networks Through The Advancement Via Individual Determination (Avid) College Readiness System, Travis Wayne Horton
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations
This case study fills the gap in research on college and career readiness and the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) College Readiness System by examining the experiences of 11 AVID campus community members on a urban high school in Texas to gain their perspectives on the concept of family-feel, as identified by Watt, Johnston, Huerta, Mendiola, and Alkan (2008). It goes further by attempting to understanding the role family-feel plays in college and career readiness. Through their experiences in the AVID community at North High School, over the course of a three-year period, the students, teachers, tutors, and administrator were …
Teaching Creative Writing In The Age Of Common Core, Casey Unverferth
Teaching Creative Writing In The Age Of Common Core, Casey Unverferth
Honors Projects
The core of my honors project includes a 12-day unit plan for teaching creative writing in the form of narratives. I created lessons for 12 days, created the materials needed for each day, and created a website where my work has been displayed for my future classroom. The website link is: teachcreatewrite.weebly.com. All materials for the unit plan are broken down by day, and I chose to expand upon 3 days in a short lesson plan template.