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Teacher Leadership In Community Colleges: Transforming Teaching And Organizational Governance, Pamela Miller
Teacher Leadership In Community Colleges: Transforming Teaching And Organizational Governance, Pamela Miller
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The purpose of this study was to describe and interpret the experiences of community college teachers in order to understand their perception of theirleadership role and the impact of teacher leadership on institutional governance and student success. This research addressed gaps in the teacher leadershipliterature by contributing a quantitative analysis of the leadership perceptions of community college faculty. The results of the study should be of interest tocommunity college faculty and administrators, teacher educators and teacher preparation institutions, and policy makers as they work to implement change efforts related to curriculum and instruction, professional development, institutional leadership, and governance.
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Automotive Service Technology Intersectional Skills Proficiency Assessment, David L. Macquarrie
Automotive Service Technology Intersectional Skills Proficiency Assessment, David L. Macquarrie
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This dissertation focused on the creation and validation of a criterion referenced credentialing assessment of automotive service technicians' intersectional skills (ASTIS) proficiency. These intersectional skills are prerequisite and common to multiple job level tasks that an automotive service technician (AST) performs on the job. An assessment of the ASTIS was created to aid automotive technician employers in the evaluation of hiring prospective technician employees and is not duplicated by current certifications (e.g. ASE) as they do not uniquely assess these skills.
This dissertation focused on the ASTIS skills and the information an employer can obtain pertaining to a prospective employee's …
Sustaining Innovation In Career And Technical Education, Brenda S. Clark
Sustaining Innovation In Career And Technical Education, Brenda S. Clark
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There has been little research done in education to determine what makes programs sustainable once the person who started the program has left or funding has decreased or disappeared. Innovative and successful programs are frequently started only to close or to reach a dead end. This study will seek to determine what components are necessary to sustain and grow a Career and Technical Education program. The primary audiences for the research study will be community college and university teacher preparation departments and career and technical education departments.
A survey was sent to Occupational Education Studies (OES) students and to OES …