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School Counselor Supervision And Evaluation In Minnesota, Billie Jo Kruse Steen

Culminating Projects in Higher Education Administration

The purpose of this study was to examine the state of school counselor evaluation procedures in Minnesota through counselor responses to a survey instrument. School counselors, like many other school support personnel, receive little supervision and feedback on their performance. School counselor evaluation and supervision provides many challenges to school administrators. Counselors are often evaluated by administrators with little knowledge of what the school counselor does or should do in the educational setting . . Consequently, counselors are either seldom evaluated, or evaluated using instruments that were developed to assess classroom teachers. One hundred members of the Minnesota School Counselor …

An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Higher Education And Police Misconduct In The New Jersey State Police, Steven C. Gerding

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Evaluation Of An Adult Education Technology Program, Iwasan D. Kejawa Ed.D

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the adult education technology program at a chartered alternative adult education center in Florida. The adult education center had a low rate of students passing the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). This study examined the impact of the use of computer technology in an effort to improve student learning in mathematics, reading, and science. Computers at the institution were used by all students for tutorials to prepare them for the FCAT and to obtain a high school diploma. The research questions for this study were as follows: 1. Is the education technology …

2007 Fall Faculty Conference: The Role Of Scholarship And Creative Work At Otterbein College, Academic Affairs

Fall Faculty Conference

The 2007 Fall Faculty Conference features remarks by Dr. Scott Colley, the former president of Berry College, and breakout discussion groups.

Diversity In Kansas Adult Education Programs, Dianne Glass

Educational Considerations

Kansas is not typically considered a state with a great deal of diversity. In the past few years, however, Kansas has become more ethnically diverse. Kansas adult education programs could serve as a bellwether for diversity across Kansas.

The Changing Fabric Of Adult Basic Education In Kansas, Jeff Zacharakis

Educational Considerations

Globalization is changing the demographic fabric of a world in which people are not only mobilizing in search of jobs and economic opportunity but so are technology and capital mobilizing in search of cheap labor.

Kansas: Themes In Multicultural Adult Education Resonating Across The Nation, Adult Learning, Jeff Zacharakis, Gabriela Díaz De Sabatés, Dianne Glass

Educational Considerations

Across the country in our communities, our schools, and our businesses, we are experiencing a cultural shift as new immigrants of many ethnic backgrounds arrive speaking different languages and adhering to different beliefs. From the beginning, the United States has always been a destination for people around the world seeking a better life.

Mirrors Reflecting Latinas' Realities In An Urban Community, Gabriela Díaz De Sabatés

Educational Considerations

What are the realities of Latina adult learners? This question guided the design of this research project. Utilizing a focus group approach, six Latinas in Kansas City, Kansas, had the opportunity to speak freely about themselves and to share their stories with each other.

Voices From Lawrence, Kansas: Diverse Adult Learners In A University Community, Angela White, Norma Herrod

Educational Considerations

Nestled in a neighborhood of modest bungalows, the Lawrence Adult Learning Center (LALC) is a part of the greater Lawrence High School campus. The high school annex building houses LALC, along with Native American Student Services, special education offices and personnel, and Lawrence Public Schools Nursing Services.

Garden City: Multicultural Issues In Adult Education, Hector Martinez, Debra J. Bolton

Educational Considerations

Kansas adult education is faced with the growing challenge to prepare its programs for serving the needs of a socioculturally diverse student population. It is imperative that Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs develop effective learning techniques for multicultural student populations. These issues continue to be important topics for educators, administrators, and politicians.

Improving "Adequacy" Concepts In Education Finance: A Heuristic Examination Of The Professional Judgment Research Protocol, R. Craig Wood, R. Anthony Rolle

Educational Considerations

State legislatures, policy analysts, and researchers are attempting, in many instances, to measure levels of equity as well as the levels of adequacy provided by public elementary and secondary education funding mechanisms.

Praeger, Susan Interview For The Miami Valley College Of Nursing And Health Oral History Project, Donna M. Curry, Carol Holdcraft, Stacy French, Anna Roach, Susan Praeger

Wright State University - Miami Valley College of Nursing and Health Oral History Project

Donna Miles Curry, Carol Holdcraft and two graduate students, Stacy French and Anna Roach, interview Susan Praeger about her education and journey to Wright State and her time as a member of faculty.

Strategic Directions For Gettysburg College, June 2007, President's Office

Reports from the President’s Office

Gettysburg is a college deeply rooted in the American experience. It was born of democratic values, strong optimism, and the firm conviction that only a liberal arts education fully awakens and prepares people to live purposeful lives as citizen leaders. Our founders were champions of freedom and liberty, progressive thinkers, and staunch believers in the power of the liberal arts to prepare leaders to meet the challenges of our young nation.

Those beliefs were tested on the fields that surround our campus where a century and a half ago men gave their lives in a battle that defined our nation’s …

The Express: April 13, 2007, Taylor University Fort Wayne

2006-2007 (Volume 11)

Greek Professor Retires — Housing Changes at Taylor — The Last Music Major — Cost of Education — Taylor Faculty: Masters of Mayhem? — Sometimes You Want to Go Where Everybody Uses a Different Name — In good Hands with Larry White — Does He Want to go by Andy or Andrew? Crimes of Fashion — Athlete Profile — How to Handle Transfer Students Properly

New Rules, New Roles: Technology Standards And Teacher Education, Becky Pasco, Phyllis G. Adcock

Educational Considerations

The digital age is infiltrating colleges of education around the country, but while some faculty are jumping on the bandwagon and working hard to improve their own technological literacy and that of their students, other faculty are resistant, afraid that technology may “dehumanize” education.

Teaching One Way And Testing Another: An Interview With Scott Howell, Scott L. Howell, James L. Morrison

Faculty Publications

I first met Scott Howell in 2005 in Jekyll Island, Georgia at the annual Distance Learning Administration (DLA) conference, which was sponsored in part by the Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration (OJDLA). Scott is co-editor of the three-volume book series Online Assessment and Measurement (2005) published by IDEA group and is this year's chair of the University Continuing Education Association's (UCEA) Distance Learning Community of Practice (DLCoP). His keynote speech at the DLA conference featured a number of assessment issues and best practices. However, when I sat down to interview him, he quickly focused on one topic for which …

The Social Construction Of Authorship: An Investigation Of Subjectivity And Rhetorical Authority In The College Writing Classroom, Johannah Rodgers

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Although we use the term author on a daily basis to refer to certain individuals, bodies of work, and systems of ideas, as Michel Foucault and other critics have pointed out, attempting to answer the question “What is an Author?” is by no means a simple proposition. And, starting from the position that there is no single, or definitive answer to this complex question, this dissertation seeks to contribute to the ongoing discussion of the genealogy of authorship by investigating the ways in which conceptions of the author have informed models of the writing subject in the field of rhetoric …

Plagiarism Pitfalls: Addressing Cultural Differences In The Misuse Of Sources, Nancy E. Fawley

Library Faculty Publications

As a branch campus of an American university operating in the Middle East, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar must take into account the cultural differences that pertain to plagiarism and the misuse of sources before the school can begin to develop methods to address and prevent the problem. Differences in educational philosophies, students’ previous scholastic training and cultural differences in individual motivation are all factors that must be considered

The Self-Perceived Leadership Style And Comprehensive Profile Of African-American Women In The Role Of President At Four-Year Historically Black Colleges And Universities (Hb Cus) In The United States, Tasha Chantey Toy

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The Role Of The President In Achieving Balance Between Athletics And Academics At Division I-A Institutions, Kristen Koehler

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The Relationship Between The Advisory Working Alliance And The Ability To Cope Among Psychology Doctoral Students, Margaret Jones Farrelly

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A Case Study Of The Differences In Ratings On Faculty Course Evaluations Based On Faculty Type In A Graduate Education Program At A Private College In New Jersey, John Defilippis

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A Pilot Study Of Approaches To Management Evaluation Of Information Technology At Fifteen New Jersey Colleges And Universities, Nicholas Paul Tworischuk

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The Effectiveness Of Strategic Planning And Self Study Programs In Leading To Improvements In Institutional Performance And Organisational Learning In An Irish Higher Education Institute, Deirdre M. Lillis

Theses

Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) worldwide are investing increasing resources in strategic planning and self-study activities, in order to meet accountability and quality assurance requirements and to improve their performance. Despite this, little empirical research exists which can definitely answer the question as to whether these activities are effective in leading to improvements in institutional performance and organisational learning, let alone shed light on the reasons why.

This study investigated three strategic planning and three self study programs which were undertaken in one HEI in Ireland over an 8 year period from 1997 to 2006. The first research question determined whether …

Considering Family And Significant Others In The Faculty Recruitment Process: A Study Of Social Work Recruiting Practices, Michael E. Sherr, Johnny M. Jones

Social Work Faculty Publications

One of the most important facets of quality social work education is the recruitment and retention of faculty. This mixed methods study uses findings from an on-line survey of 106 recent (within three years) faculty hires and their (n=24) spouse/partner/significant others (S/P/SO) to determine the degree to which family- integrative recruitment strategies were being used in recruiting social work faculty and the impact with which the presence or absence of these strategies have on retention. A majority of respondents reported that S/P/SO were excluded from the recruitment process.Though the few respondents who felt included were pleased with their current position …

An Analysis Of Image Repair Strategies: A University In Crisis, Kathleen Donohue Rennie

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The Influence Of Higher Education On The Levels Of Professionalism In The New Jersey State Police, Stephen J. Hoptay Jr.

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How Revenue Sources Have Adjusted To Changes In State Appropriations At The Three New Jersey Public Research Universities From 1994-2003, Tsung Y. Soo Hoo

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