Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Institution
-
- Selected Works (28)
- Georgia State University (16)
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (13)
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas (12)
- Walden University (6)
-
- SIT Graduate Institute/SIT Study Abroad (5)
- Technological University Dublin (5)
- University of Kentucky (5)
- University of South Florida (5)
- University of Southern Maine (5)
- Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) (3)
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (3)
- Western Michigan University (3)
- Old Dominion University (2)
- University at Albany, State University of New York (2)
- University of Massachusetts Boston (2)
- Georgetown University Law Center (1)
- Sacred Heart University (1)
- University of Denver (1)
- University of Northern Iowa (1)
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1)
- University of Texas at El Paso (1)
- William & Mary (1)
- Keyword
-
- Direito Constitucional (10)
- Crise (7)
- Political Philosophy / Political Science (7)
- Education (6)
- Filosofia do Direito (6)
-
- Constituição (4)
- Democracia (3)
- Essential Programs and Services (3)
- Evaluation (3)
- Kentucky (3)
- Regional skills (3)
- República (3)
- Rural education (3)
- Biblioteca (2)
- Creationism – Study and teaching; Education – Political aspects; Evolution—Study and teaching; Intelligent design (Teleology) – Study and teaching; Science – Curricula; Science – Political aspects (2)
- Disabilities (2)
- Diversity (2)
- Education policy (2)
- Educational Leadership Preparation (2)
- Elementary (2)
- Filosofia, Literatura e Arte (2)
- HLM (2)
- High school students with disabilities (2)
- Luis Alberto Warat (2)
- Maine Learning Results (2)
- Music education (2)
- Poder (2)
- Policy design (2)
- Revisão Constitucional (2)
- Sample size (2)
- Publication
-
- Paulo Ferreira da Cunha (28)
- Educational Policy Studies Dissertations (16)
- Policy Briefs (9)
- Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies (6)
- Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection (5)
-
- School Funding - Essential Programs and Services (EPS) (5)
- UNLV Libraries-Greater Western Library Alliance Conference (5)
- UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones (5)
- MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects (4)
- Articles (3)
- Dissertations (3)
- Education Report Card (3)
- Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Faculty Publications (3)
- Higher education research (3)
- Data Note Series, Institute for Community Inclusion (2)
- Festival of Communities: UG Symposium (Posters) (2)
- Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024) (2)
- USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations (2)
- Arkansas Education Reports (1)
- College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research (1)
- Conference Papers (1)
- Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications (1)
- Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects (1)
- Doctoral Dissertations (1)
- Education Faculty Publications (1)
- Educational Foundations & Leadership Theses & Dissertations (1)
- Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works (1)
- Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance (1)
- Graduate Research Papers (1)
- Human Rights & Human Welfare (1)
- Publication Type
Articles 31 - 60 of 122
Full-Text Articles in Education
2011 Arkansas Benchmark Test Results: District By District Scores, Nathan C. Jensen, Gary W. Ritter
2011 Arkansas Benchmark Test Results: District By District Scores, Nathan C. Jensen, Gary W. Ritter
Policy Briefs
One day after the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) released the results from the spring 2011 Arkansas Benchmark exams, the OEP received a call from a local constituent asking how districts in Northwest Arkansas compared to the rest of the state. Surprisingly, this type of question - often asked by educators, policymakers, researchers, parents, and concerned citizens - is not that easy to answer by simply glancing at the ADE-provided data. 1 Therefore, we put together a little policy brief to make the data more clearly understood.
Student Demand Projections: Supporting Analysis: Gippsland Tertiary Education Plan, Daniel Edwards, Paul R. Weldon
Student Demand Projections: Supporting Analysis: Gippsland Tertiary Education Plan, Daniel Edwards, Paul R. Weldon
Higher education research
There is considerable interest in the provision of, and access to, tertiary education within Victoria by the State Government. In 2010, a Tertiary Education Plan was released by the Government, detailing various targets and policy objectives in this sector. Despite a change of Government, the broad objectives in the plan continue to be pursued. As such, a number of more specific plans, based on geographic locations within Victoria, are being constructed. One such plan is being constructed for Gippsland. An Expert Panel has been formed to create the plan for Gippsland, chaired by Professor Kwong Lee Dow. This document provides …
The Impact Of The Higher Education Regulatory Environment On For-Profit Higher Education Institutions, Rhonda L. Myers
The Impact Of The Higher Education Regulatory Environment On For-Profit Higher Education Institutions, Rhonda L. Myers
School of Public Service Theses & Dissertations
The growing presence and transient nature of for-profit higher education institutions in the US pose governance and regulatory challenges for bureaucratic structures, legislatures and non-profit postsecondary institutions. One such challenge is the perceived lack of governance and regulation of for-profit higher education institutions. This paper examines the impact of the higher education regulatory environment in the US on the presence of for-profit higher education institutions. Ordinal logistic regression is employed to determine whether state higher education governance structure, regulatory characteristics, and/or regional accreditation agency jurisdiction influence the prevalence of for-profit colleges and universities. State higher education governance structure and two …
The Status Of Students With Special Needs In The Instrumental Musical Ensemble And The Effect Of Selected Educator And Institutional Variables On Rates Of Inclusion, Edward C. Hoffman Iii
The Status Of Students With Special Needs In The Instrumental Musical Ensemble And The Effect Of Selected Educator And Institutional Variables On Rates Of Inclusion, Edward C. Hoffman Iii
Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance
The purpose of this study was to describe the current status of students with special needs in the instrumental musical ensemble and to examine the effect of selected educator and institutional variables on rates of inclusion. An online survey was designed by the researcher and distributed electronically to 600 practicing K-12 instrumental music educators in the states of Idaho, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, and Rhode Island. While 13.6% of the total school-aged population nationwide received special education services, demographic data provided by respondents revealed that students with special needs accounted for 6.8% of all students participating in bands, orchestras, …
Building A World-Class System In Ireland’S Financial Crisis, Ellen Hazelkorn
Building A World-Class System In Ireland’S Financial Crisis, Ellen Hazelkorn
Articles
Irish higher education faces particular difficulties given the severity of its economic crisis. Like other countries, it is engaged in significant system restructuring coupled with managed policy direction. Where Ireland does differ is in its emphasis on a 'whole of country strategy' and commitment that teaching and research go hand-in-hand. This paper looks at the fortunes and mis-fortunes of Irish higher education.
Student Profile: Supporting Analysis: Gippsland Tertiary Education Plan, Daniel Edwards, Catherine Underwood
Student Profile: Supporting Analysis: Gippsland Tertiary Education Plan, Daniel Edwards, Catherine Underwood
Higher education research
There is considerable interest in the provision and access to tertiary education within the Victoria by the State Government. In 2010, a Tertiary Education Plan was released by the Government, detailing various targets and policy objectives in this sector. Despite a change of Government, the broad objectives in the plan continue to be pursued. As such, a number of more specific plans, based on geographic locations within Victoria are being constructed. One such plan is being constructed for Gippsland. An Expert Panel has been formed to create the plan for Gippsland, chaired by Professor Kwong Lee Dow. This document provides …
Industry, Employment, And Population Profile: Supporting Analysis: Gippsland Tertiary Education Plan, Daniel Edwards, Paul R. Weldon, Tim Friedman
Industry, Employment, And Population Profile: Supporting Analysis: Gippsland Tertiary Education Plan, Daniel Edwards, Paul R. Weldon, Tim Friedman
Higher education research
There is considerable interest in the provision and access to tertiary education within the Victoria by the State Government. In 2010, a Tertiary Education Plan was released by the Government, detailing various targets and policy objectives in this sector. Despite a change of Government, the broad objectives in the plan continue to be pursued. As such, a number of more specific plans, based on geographic locations within Victoria are being constructed. One such plan is being constructed for Gippsland. An Expert Panel has been formed to create the plan for Gippsland, chaired by Professor Kwong Lee Dow. This document provides …
Biblioteca Aberta, Jornal Positivo, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha
Biblioteca Aberta, Jornal Positivo, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha
Paulo Ferreira da Cunha
Se o jornalismo quotidiano nos conta desgraças em cima de desgraças, e com o relato da intriga e dos ataques entre políticos nos deixa irritados ou sem esperança, o jornalismo cultural, quando não é pretexto para os mesmos sectarismos, não só nos descansa como edifica, além de instruir. No II Aniversário de "As Artes entre as Letras" editamos um pequeno texto sobre essa publicação em que regularmente colaboramos, mas de que também somos assíduo e entusiástico leitor: pelo descanso e pela formação que propicia, qual museu imaginário e biblioteca ideal em permanente reconstrução.
'Pior Não Fica', Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha
'Pior Não Fica', Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha
Paulo Ferreira da Cunha
Normalmente, somos crítico do Presidencialismo. Mas o nosso sistema parlamentarista tem um problema também: o da qualidade dos nossos representantes. O texto ficcional proposto encena as angústias de um parlamentarista que entende a política como um clubismo, mas que mesmo assim precisa de ir digerindo as escolhas das máquinas partidárias para candidatos a deputados. Obviamente tal não pretende levar água nem ao moinho dos que pretendem reduzir o seu número, tornando o parlamento numa sensaboria bicolor, nem dos que gostariam de círculos uninominais, em que seria eleitos candidatos mediáticos ou caciques locais.
Sample Size In Ordinal Logistic Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Allison M. Timberlake
Sample Size In Ordinal Logistic Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Allison M. Timberlake
Educational Policy Studies Dissertations
Most quantitative research is conducted by randomly selecting members of a population on which to conduct a study. When statistics are run on a sample, and not the entire population of interest, they are subject to a certain amount of error. Many factors can impact the amount of error, or bias, in statistical estimates. One important factor is sample size; larger samples are more likely to minimize bias than smaller samples. Therefore, determining the necessary sample size to obtain accurate statistical estimates is a critical component of designing a quantitative study.
Much research has been conducted on the impact of …
Women's Empowerment In The Context Of Microfinance: A Photovoice Study, Camille Sutton-Brown
Women's Empowerment In The Context Of Microfinance: A Photovoice Study, Camille Sutton-Brown
Educational Policy Studies Dissertations
The assumptions underlying the relationships between microfinance and women’s empowerment are typically rooted in a financial paradigm, wherein the prevailing belief is that increases in economic resources necessarily lead to increases in women’s empowerment. This results in a conceptual erasure of the multi-dimensionality of empowerment and disregards the influences that microfinance has on women that extend beyond the economic sphere. This study explored how 6 women in Mali perceive and experience empowerment in relation to their participation in a microfinance program using photovoice. Photovoice is a qualitative methodology wherein participants document, reflect on, and represent their community and experiences using …
Tipping Point: The Diversity Threshold For White Student (Dis) Engagement In Traditional Student Organizations, Dhanfu E. Elston
Tipping Point: The Diversity Threshold For White Student (Dis) Engagement In Traditional Student Organizations, Dhanfu E. Elston
Educational Policy Studies Dissertations
During a time when most institutions of higher education are in search of underrepresented student participation, Georgia State University (GSU), a majority White institution, has observed a lack of involvement of White students in co-curricular activities. The purpose of the research study was to critically examine White students’ (dis) engagement in traditional student organizations at this university that has a significant student of color population. I used case study methodology that allowed for a breadth of conceptual frameworks and research options. The methods of collecting data included interviews (formal, informal, and oral history) of current and former students, as well …
Life After Disability Diagnosis: The Impact Of Special Education Labeling In Higher Education, Nathan Joshua Camara
Life After Disability Diagnosis: The Impact Of Special Education Labeling In Higher Education, Nathan Joshua Camara
Educational Policy Studies Dissertations
There has been an increasing number of students with learning disabilities attending colleges and universities over the past two decades. As a result of federal legislation, institutions of higher education are required through an office of student support services to provide accommodations and modifications for students with disabilities in order to receive federal monies. This semi-structured interview-based qualitative study seeks to understand how four higher education students with disabilities make the choice to “come out” as possessing a learning disability in order to seek academic assistance from the office of student support services. The foundation for this inquiry emerges out …
Factors That Influence Cross-Validation Of Hierarchical Linear Models, Tracy Widman
Factors That Influence Cross-Validation Of Hierarchical Linear Models, Tracy Widman
Educational Policy Studies Dissertations
While use of hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to predict an outcome is reasonable and desirable, employing the model for prediction without first establishing the model’s predictive validity is ill-advised. Estimating the predictive validity of a regression model by cross-validation has been thoroughly researched, but there is a dearth of research investigating the cross-validation of hierarchical linear models. One of the major obstacles in cross-validating HLM is the lack of a measure of explained variance similar to the squared multiple correlation coefficient in regression analysis.
The purpose of this Monte Carlo simulation study is to explore the impact of sample size, …
Teacher's And Teacher Leaders' Perceptions Of The Formal Role Of Teacher Leadership, Jerry D. Kelley
Teacher's And Teacher Leaders' Perceptions Of The Formal Role Of Teacher Leadership, Jerry D. Kelley
Educational Policy Studies Dissertations
ABSTRACT
TEACHERS’ AND TEACHER LEADERS’ PERCEPTIONS
OF THE FORMAL ROLE OF
TEACHER LEADERSHIP
by
Jerry Kelley
The accountability and responsibilities of schools have intensified greatly over the past two decades and school improvement has become a strong focus of many schools, thus requiring a greater understanding and use of formal teacher leadership if schools are to meet high standards. This research studied teachers’ and teacher leaders’ beliefs concerning the formal role of teacher leadership in three elementary schools. A qualitative study was conducted, utilizing surveys and interviews to collect data concerning teachers’ and teacher leaders’ perceptions of the formal role …
Re-Imagining Arts-Centered Inquiry As Pragmatic Instrumentalism, Leann F. Logsdon
Re-Imagining Arts-Centered Inquiry As Pragmatic Instrumentalism, Leann F. Logsdon
Educational Policy Studies Dissertations
Arts education must continually provide justification for its inclusion in the K-12 curriculum. This dissertation utilizes philosophical and conceptual analysis to probe the tensions, ironies, and contradictions that permeate the arts education advocacy discourse. Using evidence from advocacy materials published online, scholarly critiques of themes in the advocacy discourse, and research reports describing school-based arts programs, I construct an argument that posits generative consequences for student learning when arts-centered inquiry is reimagined as pragmatic instrumentalism. Such a reimagining of arts-centered inquiry seeks to draw a distinction between utilitarian justifications for the arts and instrumental benefits the arts provide individual students …
Improvements For Differential Functioning Of Items And Tests (Dfit): Investigating The Addition Of Reporting An Effect Size Measure And Power, Keith D. Wright
Improvements For Differential Functioning Of Items And Tests (Dfit): Investigating The Addition Of Reporting An Effect Size Measure And Power, Keith D. Wright
Educational Policy Studies Dissertations
Standardized testing has been part of the American educational system for decades. Controversy from the beginning has plagued standardized testing, is plaguing testing today, and will continue to be controversial. Given the current federal educational policies supporting increased standardized testing, psychometricians, educators and policy makers must seek ways to ensure that tests are not biased towards one group over another.
In measurement theory, if a test item behaves differently for two different groups of examinees, this test item is considered a differential functioning test item (DIF). Differential item functioning, often conceptualized in the context of item response theory (IRT) is …
Student Perceptions Of Engagement In Schools: A Deweyan Analysis Of Authenticity In High School Classrooms, Gloria D. Richards Perry
Student Perceptions Of Engagement In Schools: A Deweyan Analysis Of Authenticity In High School Classrooms, Gloria D. Richards Perry
Educational Policy Studies Dissertations
ABSTRACT
STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF ENGAGEMENT IN SCHOOLS:
A DEWEYAN ANALYSIS OF AUTHENTICITY
IN HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOMS
by
Gloria D. Richards Perry
This qualitative study of the nature of engagement in schools explored how students viewed the work assigned to them by their teachers. Using normative and theoretical frameworks, research was conducted to determine whether students found work to be authentic and engaging in the manner that Dewey proposes school work should be.
Phenomenological interviews were used with individual participants as well as in a focus group session. Interviews and further questioning probed for information in order to gain a greater …
2011 Report Card On Arkansas Public Schools, Gary Ritter
2011 Report Card On Arkansas Public Schools, Gary Ritter
Education Report Card
No abstract provided.
Tennessee Teacher Evaluation Policies Under Race To The Top: A Discursive Investigation, Rachael Elisabeth Gabriel
Tennessee Teacher Evaluation Policies Under Race To The Top: A Discursive Investigation, Rachael Elisabeth Gabriel
Doctoral Dissertations
Teacher effectiveness has been a rallying cry for education reform over the last decade. The push for policies that aim to increase teacher effectiveness, fire ineffective teachers and recruit or retain effective teachers unite educational stakeholders; yet, specific, operational definitions of effectiveness remain elusive and divisive. It is easy to say that teacher effectiveness is the single most important factor in student achievement, but difficult to say what it means to be effective. In this study I take up a Critical Discursive Psychology (Wetherell, 1998) approach to the text of the current Framework for Teacher Evaluation and Professional Growth in …
Ready For Life — An Evaluation: Factors Relating To Truancy And Promising Practices, Clayton Nichols, Shenita Harper, Maria Thomas, Mikaela Louve, Christina Vela
Ready For Life — An Evaluation: Factors Relating To Truancy And Promising Practices, Clayton Nichols, Shenita Harper, Maria Thomas, Mikaela Louve, Christina Vela
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Truancy has been linked to serious delinquent activity in youth and to significant negative behavior and characteristics in adults. Truancy is one of the most common factors leading to dropout and students not meeting graduation standards. Nevada has arguably the highest high school dropout rate in the nation. This evaluation was prepared for Ready for Life: A movement created by Nevada Public Education Foundation (NPEF), to connect youth to school and work by age 25, but can be of use to several audiences. Practitioners who work with struggling students, court representatives and parents, teachers and administrators, and anyone who has …
World-Class Universities Or World-Class Systems? Rankings And Higher Education Policy Choices, Ellen Hazelkorn
World-Class Universities Or World-Class Systems? Rankings And Higher Education Policy Choices, Ellen Hazelkorn
Other resources
Is it always a good thing when a university rises up the rankings and breaks into the top 100? Do rankings raise standards by encouraging competition or do they undermine the broader mission to provide education? Should rankings be used to help decide educational policy and the allocation of scare financial resources? Should policy aim to develop world-class universities or to make the system world-class?
University rankings have dominated headlines and the attention of political and university leaders wherever or whenever they are published or mentioned. Politicians regularly refer to them as a measure of their nation’s economic strengths and …
Licensing Policies Of Public School Principals, Jerri Mausbach
Licensing Policies Of Public School Principals, Jerri Mausbach
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
A descriptive rationalist policy analysis was used to examine current licensure policies in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. The differences and similarities between states that received Race to the Top competitive grant funds and those that did not were examined, in addition to the proposed policy reforms included in recipients of Race to the Top competitive grant funds. The demands made of public school principals in the 21st century have increased significantly. In addition to the continuing role of school manager, today's principals are also expected to be instructional leaders, and in some cases exemplary leaders.
With …
Cyberbullying In Schools: A Research Study On School Policies And Procedures, Brian Wiseman
Cyberbullying In Schools: A Research Study On School Policies And Procedures, Brian Wiseman
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
A mixed-methods research design first using quantitative then qualitative data was used in order to explore what cyberbullying policies are being employed by principals in the state of Nevada. Electronic surveys were given to all 118 middle school principals in Nevada. Middle school was chosen because it is the age where cyberbullying behaviors are most prevalent. Out of the 118 surveys that were deployed, 66 principals responded. A series of independent t-tests and a chi-squared analysis was conducted using the survey data. The survey concluded by asking principals if they were willing to participate in a one-on-one interview regarding the …
Analyzing The Relative Efficiency Of Nevada Secondary Schools, Jesse Welsh
Analyzing The Relative Efficiency Of Nevada Secondary Schools, Jesse Welsh
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
A definitive answer to how to allocate school-level expenditures to yield the greatest "bang for the buck" has continually eluded education finance researchers. With increased regulation, oversight, and sanctions resulting from the No Child Left Behind Act, paired with financial strains on states' education budgets, measuring schools' production and efficiency has become urgent.
The methodology for this study was comprised of two phases. Phase I analyzed the per-pupil expenditures of middle and high schools over a three-year period and developed descriptive statistics that revealed the expenditure patterns by category. Phase II used a micro-level economic approach, data envelopment analysis, to …
Filosofia E Constituição. Simbolismo Das Origens. A Lição De Brotero, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha
Filosofia E Constituição. Simbolismo Das Origens. A Lição De Brotero, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha
Paulo Ferreira da Cunha
Afinal, parece que a primeira aula de Direito Constitucional no mundo foi dada em português, em São Paulo. Mas o seu autor tinha uma sensibilidade e um programa também jurisfilosófico. O que prova o casamento perfeito de Filosofia Jurídica e Constituição.
Exploring Student Perceptions To Explain The Relationship Between Physical Activity And Academic Achievement In Adolescents: A Mixed Methods Study, Megan J. Hylok
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
A nationwide survey conducted by the Center for Disease Control in 2007 reported 65% of high school students did not meet the recommendation that youth participate in at least 60 minutes of physical activity most days of the week (CDC, 2008). While research has focused its attention primarily on bodily health, growing evidence supports the benefits of physical activity on brain health (Ratey & Hagerman, 2008). Physical activity is important and many adolescents are not meeting the recommendation, therefore, it is important to explore the adolescent perceptions to understand which factors influence physical activity participation. The significance of this study …
Intelligent Design And Its Place In The Classroom, Victor Trinh, Mekdelawit Mezgebu
Intelligent Design And Its Place In The Classroom, Victor Trinh, Mekdelawit Mezgebu
Festival of Communities: UG Symposium (Posters)
Creationism, is the dominant belief held by the public. Evolution, on the other hand, is the competing theory of the mechanisms of creation. The recent dispute among the scientific and political field that has furthermore complicated the question of intelligent design being integrated into the curriculum of public schools is addressed here. We attempt to give both sides of the argument, along with analyzing the components of each theory. Intelligent design advocates are for the idea of accommodating what they have coined “intelligent design” into the classrooms of American schools. The opponents of intelligent design (evolution supporters); however, claim that …
Should Intelligent Design Be Taught Alongside Evolution In Public Schools?, Chelsea Opdendyk, Christina James
Should Intelligent Design Be Taught Alongside Evolution In Public Schools?, Chelsea Opdendyk, Christina James
Festival of Communities: UG Symposium (Posters)
Evolution being the creation of life through a scientific method and ID being the creation of life through a religious point of view. The overall proposing question to be discussed throughout this project is whether or not ID should be taught in schools alongside Evolution within science classes. The first phase of this project involves research of the positive teachings of ID within the school system and how it can be beneficial to students. The second part of this project involves the negative aspects of educating students the proposed theory of ID. The final phase revolves around the favored conclusion …
2010 Report Card On Arkansas Public Schools, Gary Ritter
2010 Report Card On Arkansas Public Schools, Gary Ritter
Education Report Card
No abstract provided.