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Environment And Affect: Toward An Emotional Geography Of Student Persistence, Jamison R. Miller, Michael Donlan Nov 2014

Environment And Affect: Toward An Emotional Geography Of Student Persistence, Jamison R. Miller, Michael Donlan

The William & Mary Educational Review

Student persistence is a perennial problem for higher education. From lost revenue for colleges and universities to lost opportunity and development for students, educational scholars have had much incentive to examine the problem. In this paper, we review some of the prominent assessments of student persistence in research from various theoretical perspectives. Further, we explore how scholars have studied environmental factors in persistence and to a lesser extent student affect, yet we find the relationship between these two to be only lightly engaged in the literature. The emerging discipline of emotional geography offers to draw out new insights at the …


An Exploration Of Compliance Predictors Of The Institutional Effectiveness Requirements Of The Southern Association Of Colleges And Schools Commission On Colleges' Baccalaureate Instittutions Between 2008 And 2012, Benjamin Ninjo Djeukeng Jan 2014

An Exploration Of Compliance Predictors Of The Institutional Effectiveness Requirements Of The Southern Association Of Colleges And Schools Commission On Colleges' Baccalaureate Instittutions Between 2008 And 2012, Benjamin Ninjo Djeukeng

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Choosing Mental Health: An Investigation Of The Relationship Between College Student Help Seeking And Self-Authorship, Kendra A. Surmitis Jan 2014

Choosing Mental Health: An Investigation Of The Relationship Between College Student Help Seeking And Self-Authorship, Kendra A. Surmitis

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An Analysis Of State And Local Alignment Of Teacher Evaluation In Maryland, Serene N. Peterson Jan 2014

An Analysis Of State And Local Alignment Of Teacher Evaluation In Maryland, Serene N. Peterson

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This study explored the components of Maryland's newly-implemented teacher evaluation framework and compared state requirements with evaluations to three local school systems' evaluation procedures. The study sought to investigate the relationship between three evaluation protocols in comparison to the state requirements.;Three local school districts were selected based on their student population served and the availability of their evaluation documents. Howard County Public Schools, Anne Arundel County Public Schools, and Montgomery County Public Schools were selected. State evaluation documents were also included in the study, coming from the Maryland State Department of Education. Evaluation documents underwent a qualitative data analysis using …


Curricular Pathways To Algebra I In Eighth Grade, Melinda Rose Griffin Jan 2014

Curricular Pathways To Algebra I In Eighth Grade, Melinda Rose Griffin

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Korean Elementary Teachers' Perceptions Of Giftedness And Support For Talent Development, Youngeun Son Jan 2014

Korean Elementary Teachers' Perceptions Of Giftedness And Support For Talent Development, Youngeun Son

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Examining The Development Of Self-Authorship Among Student Veterans, Sharon L. M. Stone Jan 2014

Examining The Development Of Self-Authorship Among Student Veterans, Sharon L. M. Stone

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