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12-Month Enrollment 2017-2018, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

IPEDS 12-month Enrollment

The 12-Month Enrollment component collects unduplicated student enrollment counts and instructional activity data for an entire 12-month period. Using the instructional activity data reported, a full-time equivalent (FTE) student enrollment at the undergraduate and graduate level is estimated. Institutions with Doctor's-professional practice students will also report the FTE enrollment of those students. NCES uses the FTE enrollment to produce indicators such as expenses by function per FTE as reported in the IPEDS Data Feedback Report.

Academic Libraries 2017-18, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

IPEDS Academic Libraries

Welcome to the IPEDS Academic Libraries (AL) survey component. The purpose of the AL component of IPEDS is to collect information on library collections, library expenses, and library services for libraries in degree-granting postsecondary institutions.

Admissions 2017-18, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

IPEDS Admissions

Welcome to the IPEDS Admissions (ADM) survey component. The primary purpose of ADM is to collect basic information about the undergraduate selection process for entering first-time, degree/certificate-seeking students. This includes information about admissions considerations, admissions yields, and SAT and ACT test scores (if test scores are required for admission). ADM will be collected only from institutions that do not have an open admissions policy for entering first-time students.

Completions 2017-18, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

IPEDS Completions

Welcome to the IPEDS Completions survey component. The Completions component is one of several IPEDS components that is conducted during the Fall data collection period. It collects the number of degrees and certificates awarded by field of study, level of award, race/ethnicity, and gender. The reporting period for the Completions component is during the 12-month time period beginning July 1 of the previous calendar year and ending June 30 of the current calendar year; therefore, for this year’s Completions component, the reporting period is between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017. The Completions component is also collecting the number …

Fall Enrollment 2017-18, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

IPEDS Fall Enrollment

The Fall Enrollment component collects student enrollment counts by level of student, enrollment status, gender and race/ethnicity. In addition, first-time student retention rates and the student-to-faculty ratio are collected. Every other year data on residence of first-time undergraduates is required and in opposite years, enrollment by student age is required to be reported.

Student Financial Aid 2017-18, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

IPEDS Financial Aid

Welcome to the Student Financial Aid (SFA) component. The purpose of the SFA component is to collect information about financial aid provided to various groups of undergraduate students and military/veteran educational benefits for all students at your institution.

America’S Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, And The Bridge To A New America, Emily L. Callon

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

No abstract provided.

The Manhattan Project At Oak Ridge: Photographs Of Ed Westcott, 1942-46, Teresa S. Welsh

Faculty Publications

The photographs of Ed Westcott, a civilian hired to document the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, are a valuable educational resource for school children as well as scholars. During the war years, Westcott was the official government documentarian of the construction and operation of Oak Ridge as well as photojournalist for the local newspaper. His photographs, which are a cultural and historical record of that unique time and place, have been published in numerous books on the history of the Manhattan Project. This study is based on historical documentation as well as a lecture by and interviews with Westcott.

The Effects Of Overcrowding On Student Academic Performance In Kentucky High Schools, Maura Shirley

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

Overcrowding in schools has been a popular topic reported by local newspapers across the state of Kentucky. Concerned parents often write letters to the editor, pleading their case for new school construction to alleviate the overcrowding that their students are facing. Approximately 27 percent of Kentucky high schools have experienced overcrowding for three consecutive years between 2002 and 2015. The National Center for Education Statistics reported in 2005 that only 18 percent of schools reported that they were overcrowded, a decrease from the 1999 study when 22 percent reported overcrowding. Overall, the problem of overcrowding is trending downward, but for …

Assessing Student Performance In Written Communication: An Evaluation Of The University Of Kentucky's Quality Enhancement Plan, Abigail Stockwell

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

University of Kentucky assessment findings reveal that UK undergraduate students are not meeting expectations in the area of written communication. More specifically, compared to other four-year institutions, UK students are not achieving expected levels of value-added from their junior to senior year in analytic writing tasks. In response to these findings, UK launched the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), Presentation U – a multimodal communication training initiative. One of the initiative’s core components is the Faculty Fellows Program. Faculty members who choose to participate in the program receive training in oral, written, and visual communication instruction. UK has invested a great …

Education's Loss Of The Public: An Archival Exploration Of American Public Schools' Diminishing Social Returns And The Emerging Utility Of Social Entrepreneurship, Tia Ha-Quyen Ho

Scripps Senior Theses

The literature presented in the following pages explores the shortcomings of the American public education system in the context of creating long-term, sustainable social change. Using financial illiteracy and its relationship to low quality of life as an entry point, the first section exposes public schools’ shortcomings as agents of social change by delving into the hardships endured by the original public school promoters of the 19^th century, the pitfalls of President George W. Bush’s 2001 enactment of No Child Left Behind, and the shortcomings of the financial literacy programming that found traction in urban schools following the subprime …

From Wearing To Wondering: Treating Wearable Activity Trackers As Objects Of Inquiry, Joel R. Drake, Ryan Cain, Victor R. Lee

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

Wearable technologies represent a rapidly expanding category of consumer information and communications technologies. From smartwatches to activity tracking devices, wearables are finding their way into many aspects of our lives, changing the way we think about ourselves and the world around us. The rapid adoption of these tools in everyday life hints at the possibilities these devices may hold in school and other educational settings. Drawing on examples taken from a five-year study using wearable fitness tracking devices in elementary and middle school classrooms, this paper presents two examples of how wearable devices can be appropriated for use in school …

Contradictions And Control: Michigan Elementary Teachers' Lived Experiences Of Legislated Teacher Evaluation, Kathryn N. Coffey

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The Michigan Teacher Quality and Tenure Reform bill was signed into law in July 2011. The law mandated specific requirements for annual performance evaluation of all teachers and prohibited teacher evaluation as a subject of collective bargaining. The purpose of this phenomenological, collective case study was to describe the lived experiences of Michigan elementary teachers in traditional public schools as they experienced the phenomenon of having their performance evaluated under this state-legislated teacher evaluation policy, to understand the meanings they ascribed to the phenomenon, and to synthesize those meanings to describe the essences of that experience.

Using semi-structured in-depth phenomenological …

Investigating Program Directors' Milestone Assessment Practices In Graduate Medical Education, Kadriye O. Lewis, Susan B. Hathaway, J F. Knapp, Denise Bratcher, Douglas Blowey

Posters

The purpose of this study is to investigate the current assessment practices as well as identify the needs and challenges of the Program Directors in implementing ACGME's Milestones for assessment in graduate medical education at a pediatric hospital. The ultimate outcome of this study will be to fairly deliver our support and services to all programs equally providing expertise/consulting, guiding, mentoring/advising, and distributing resources.

Media Exposure On Student Work: Spotlight On Undergraduate Research, Dominic Klyve

Mathematics Faculty Scholarship

This paper describes efforts by the author to engage and motivate students in undergraduate research by giving them a large audience and engaging the media in disseminating their work. I provide an introduction to public relations from the point of view of a mathematics professor, and describe some lessons I’ve learned in my own attempts to engage newsprint, radio, and television sources in stories about undergraduate research in mathematics. After describing some partially successful early attempts, the paper discusses a recent event in which undergraduate research in mathematics became, briefly, a “hot news item” in Central Washington. The paper concludes …

Assessing Stem Literacy In An Informal Learning Environment, Maureen Ann Lafemina Cavalcanti

Theses and Dissertations--Education Sciences

This mixed methods study investigated methods for assessing STEM literacy amongst middle grades students participating in an informal learning environment, specifically, a summer STEM camp. Adopting a situated perspective on STEM literacy, this dissertation employed psychometric techniques and discourse analysis to answer the overarching research question: How can STEM literacy amongst middle school students be assessed in the context of a summer STEM camp? An integrated review of literacy within and across STEM disciplines first offered a new direction for conceptualizing STEM literacy. With this understanding, subsequent research methods applied novel approaches for investigating STEM literacy in the context of …

Work Placement Reflective Assessments And Employability Enhanced Through Highlighting Graduate Attributes, Julie Dunne

Articles

This paper reports on a study which investigated the effect of activities to promote awareness of specific prioritised graduate attributes on the quality of reflection displayed in student work-placement reflective blog assessments. The focus of the paper is on the results from a thematic analysis of reflective writing assisted by NVivo software from a control and research group, using the a priori codes of ‘reflection’ and ‘graduate attributes’, as part of a Participatory Action Research study. The findings show an increase in reflection associated with graduate attributes in the research group compared to the control group. More importantly, there is …

Quality Measures Of Universities And The Determinants Of Tuition In South Korea, Young Hoon Ko

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

University tuition had increased in highly excess of the inflation rate from 1990s until 2008. Many people are wondering whether the quality of university education is proportional to the tuition level. Thus, this capstone project examines whether the quality measures in higher education can predict the tuition level.

After analyzing eight-year data of 146 private universities in South Korea, I get the result that university tuition is not a function of quality measures in terms of educational costs. However, tuition is a function of quality measures related with attractiveness, accomplishment, and satisfaction. Incoming student recruitment rate, and drop-out rate have …

Piano Music As A Behavioral Intervention At The Ellensburg, Wa Developmental Preschool, Christopher Hull

All Master's Theses

Limited empirical support presently exists for the use of music as a behavioral intervention for students with disabilities. The purpose of this research was to study whether the social behaviors of children enrolled in a developmental preschool classroom changed in response to live piano music. The principal investigator hypothesized an increase in dyadic and/or other group-oriented play in the presence of live piano music, compared to when no piano music played. This eight-week study used a single-subject, A-B-A-B-C withdrawal design and a 30-second partial interval sampling procedure to sequentially observe and analyze the frequency of six operationally defined behaviors among …

Reframing Health Professions Leadership Education, Courtney E. Vannah

CETL Mini-Grant Research Papers

As leadership training becomes more common in allied health professions curricula, efforts must be made to tailor training to student need. As such, understanding the frames through which health professions students view leadership is essential. According to Bolman and Deal, there are four leadership frames (human resource, structural, symbolic and political) and although most people access most readily one frame or another, the most effective leaders are able to access all four frames. This study describes what leadership frame(s) preference exists among an allied health professions student population in order to alert educators that frame preferences do exist so as …

Concept Mapping As A Tool To Promote Cognitive Integration, Douglas B. Spicer, Sean M. Kilgallen, Rebecca J. Rowe, Kathryn H. Thompson

CETL Mini-Grant Research Posters

For 20 years there has been a push to integrate the basic and clinical sciences in medical school curricula. Recently, studies have suggested that cognitive integration by the student is best achieved when the relationships between basic science and clinical domains are explicitly demonstrated. Concept mapping in response to a prompt, which asks students to create relationships among clinical and basic science concepts, should provide explicit connections that lead to a deeper conceptual understanding of the material. We designed a study to test the hypothesis that concept mapping improves the ability of students to diagnostically discriminate between multiple endocrinopathies when …

Guide To The Office Of Institutional Research Records, University Of San Diego Office Of Institutional Research

University Records

The Office of Institutional Research records consist of documents and data compiled for national surveys and reports, accreditation, institutional analysis and planning. These are the records compiled to use in the University of San Diego Fact Books, federal and state accreditation mandates, and planning purposes for improving the institution. These records include data compiled for the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (AICCU), the California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Systems (IPEDS), and the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS). A large …

ผลของประเภทข้อมูลย้อนกลับและการเปลี่ยนคำตอบที่มีต่อผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน คะแนนที่เพิ่มขึ้น และความสามารถในการแก้โจทย์ปัญหาฟิสิกส์ของนักเรียนชั้นมัธยมศึกษาปีที่ 4, กิตติทัศน์ หวานฉ่ำ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยเชิงทดลองนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อ (1) เปรียบเทียบผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน คะแนนที่เพิ่มขึ้น และความสามารถในการแก้โจทย์ปัญหาฟิสิกส์เมื่อได้รับข้อมูลย้อนกลับแบบให้คำชี้แนะคงที่ แบบให้คำชี้แนะลดลง และแบบบอกผลการกระทำ (2) เปรียบเทียบผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน และความสามารถในการแก้โจทย์ปัญหาฟิสิกส์ของนักเรียนที่ไม่ได้รับและได้รับโอกาสให้เปลี่ยนคำตอบ และ (3) วิเคราะห์ปฏิสัมพันธ์ระหว่างประเภทข้อมูลย้อนกลับและการเปลี่ยนคำตอบที่ส่งผลต่อผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน และความสามารถในการแก้โจทย์ปัญหาฟิสิกส์ ตัวอย่างวิจัย คือ นักเรียนชั้นมัธยมศึกษาปีที่ 4 จำนวน 381 คน ได้มาจากการสุ่มแบบหลายขั้นตอน เครื่องมือวิจัย คือ (1) แบบสอบผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนเรื่องงานและพลังงานซึ่งทดสอบโดยใช้คอมพิวเตอร์และมีการให้ข้อมูลย้อนกลับ 3 ประเภท จำนวน 2 ฉบับ ที่มีความเป็นคู่ขนานกัน (2) แบบสอบความสามารถในการแก้โจทย์ปัญหาฟิสิกส์จำนวน 2 ฉบับ ที่มีความเป็นคู่ขนานกัน และ (3) แบบสอบถามเกี่ยวกับโปรแกรมการทดสอบและข้อมูลย้อนกลับ วิเคราะห์ข้อมูลโดยใช้สถิติเชิงบรรยาย สถิติทดสอบที (t-test) การวิเคราะห์ความแปรปรวน (ANOVA) และการวิเคราะห์ความแปรปรวนหลายตัวแปร (MANOVA) ผลการวิจัยสรุปได้ดังนี้ 1. นักเรียนที่ได้รับข้อมูลย้อนกลับต่างประเภทกันมีผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน คะแนนที่เพิ่มขึ้น และความสามารถในการ แก้โจทย์ปัญหาฟิสิกส์แตกต่างกันอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05, Wilks' Lambda = .93, F(6, 752) = 4.37, p < .001, ηp2 = .03 นั่นคือ นักเรียนที่ได้รับข้อมูลย้อนกลับต่างประเภทกันมีผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนแตกต่างกันอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05 โดยนักเรียนที่ได้รับข้อมูลย้อนกลับแบบให้คำชี้แนะคงที่และแบบให้คำชี้แนะลดลงมีผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนสูงกว่านักเรียนที่ได้รับข้อมูลย้อนกลับแบบบอกผลการกระทำอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติ อีกทั้งนักเรียนที่ได้รับข้อมูลย้อนกลับต่างประเภทกันมีความสามารถ ในการแก้โจทย์ปัญหาฟิสิกส์แตกต่างกันอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05 โดยนักเรียนที่ได้รับข้อมูลย้อนกลับแบบให้คำชี้แนะคงที่และแบบให้คำชี้แนะลดลงมีความสามารถในการแก้โจทย์ปัญหาฟิสิกส์สูงกว่านักเรียนที่ได้รับข้อมูลย้อนกลับแบบบอกผลการกระทำอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติ อย่างไรก็ตาม นักเรียนที่ได้รับข้อมูลย้อนกลับต่างประเภทกันมีคะแนนที่เพิ่มขึ้นไม่แตกต่างกันอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05 2. นักเรียนที่มีรูปแบบการเปลี่ยนคำตอบต่างกันมีผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน และความสามารถในการแก้โจทย์ปัญหาฟิสิกส์แตกต่างกันอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05, Wilks' Lambda = .93, F(2, 378) = 14.84, p < .001, ηp2 = .07 นั่นคือ นักเรียนที่ได้รับการเปิดโอกาสให้เปลี่ยนคำตอบมีผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนสูงกว่านักเรียนที่ไม่ได้รับการเปิดโอกาสให้เปลี่ยนคำตอบอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05 อีกทั้งนักเรียนที่ได้รับการเปิดโอกาสให้เปลี่ยนคำตอบมีความสามารถในการแก้โจทย์ปัญหาฟิสิกส์สูงกว่านักเรียนที่ไม่ได้รับการเปิดโอกาสให้เปลี่ยนคำตอบอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05 3. ไม่มีปฏิสัมพันธ์ระหว่างประเภทข้อมูลย้อนกลับและการเปลี่ยนคำตอบที่ส่งผลต่อผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน และความสามารถในการแก้โจทย์ปัญหาฟิสิกส์ที่นัยสำคัญทางสถิติระดับ .05, Wilks' Lambda = .98, F(4, 748) = 1.81, p = .13, ηp2 = .01 ทั้งนี้ไม่มีปฏิสัมพันธ์ระหว่างประเภทข้อมูลย้อนกลับและการเปลี่ยนคำตอบที่ส่งผลต่อผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนที่นัยสำคัญ ทางสถิติระดับ .05 อย่างไรก็ตาม มีปฏิสัมพันธ์ระหว่างประเภทข้อมูลย้อนกลับและการเปลี่ยนคำตอบที่ส่งผลต่อความสามารถในการ แก้โจทย์ปัญหาฟิสิกส์อย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05

A View On Research In Mathematics Education In Republic Of Srpska During 2010–2015 Through Quantitative Analysis Of Published Texts, Ryan Nivens, Daniel Romano

ETSU Faculty Works

Studies of the publishing practices in mathematics education have situated sets of journals in tiers of quality. These reports document the rankings and prestige of only a subset of the wealth of journals available for publishing in mathematics education. We posit that there is value, quality, and purpose to be found in journals that present studies that are of value on a regional level, and that the studies are extremely important to the field. This is particularly important for journals published in languages other than English, and the studies referenced above are almost entirely English-language journals. In this paper we …

How Much Is Enough? Teachers’ Perceptions Of Literacy Instruction And Common Core State Standards, Carol L. Butterfield, Sulee P. Kindle

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

As public school districts and teachers seek to understand the Common Core State Standards and what it means for literacy instruction, preservice teachers in universities are also learning about literacy and standards. The International Literacy Association (2016) defines literacy as "Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, compute, and communicate using visual, audible, and digital materials across disciplines and in any context." How is this definition applied to real-life teaching in the classroom? In this study preservice teachers are involved in analyzing interview data in regards to practicing teacher perceptions and attitudes about literacy instruction and the CCSS.

Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (Sea-Plm) Assessment Framework, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer), Southeast Asian Ministers Of Education Organization - Seameo, Unicef

Assessment and Reporting

This assessment framework for the South-East Asia Primary Learning Metric (SEA-PLM) assessment program outlines an approach to assessing mathematical literacy (Chapter 2), reading literacy (Chapter 3) and writing literacy (Chapter 4). It also puts forward a conceptual framework for the context questionnaires (Chapter 5). The orientation implied by these labels is intended to emphasise that the curriculum arrangements in participating countries, which are necessarily at the centre of a regional assessment program, have as a major purpose the preparation of young people to participate effectively as members of society in such a way that they can use what they have …

Campus As Home: An Examination Of The Impact Of Student Housing At The University Of Kentucky In The Progressive Era, James W. Thomas

Theses and Dissertations--Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation

This dissertation explores how student housing impacted the college campus of the University of Kentucky in the Progressive Era. Student housing has long been part of the college ideal but lacked full engagement by many administrators. Through three examinations, housing will be shown to have directly influenced the administrative, social, and staffing elements of the college campus. The role student housing played in the interaction of political, rural, and sociological changes on the campus during the time period allows exploration in detail while addressing the changes within those areas of the state as well. While housing was an afterthought by …

The Departmental Work Lives Of Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty, Pamela Jane Clouse

Theses and Dissertations--Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation

This qualitative phenomenological dissertation explored The Departmental Work Lives of Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty (FTNTT) at two public four-year universities located in the Southeastern region of the United States. This study is based on interviews with twelve (FTNTT) faculty members representing departments traditionally associated within the College of Arts and Sciences. This study found FTNTT faculty participants highly credentialed and reasonably satisfied in their positions. This study adds the descriptor heterogeneous to FTNTT faculty members’ job roles, work environments, daily engagements, and work experiences and contradicts existing literature that finds FTNTT faculty positions to be resource deficit and administratively non-supporting. …

Support Networks Of “Educational Pioneers”: A Methodological Approach For Examining The Impact Of A Residential Learning Community On First-Generation Students, Ryan R. Setari

Theses and Dissertations--Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the use of social network analysis to examine the peer involvement and supportive relationships of students living within an exclusively first-generation RLC. Using network surveys targeted toward a first-generation population, the networks of first-year residents were visualized and measured. The supportive peer relationships that provided students with encouragement, validation, and academic assistance were identified, as well as the networks for friendship and study partnership. The networks identified for this study were examined to find if change occurred between the start and the end of the semester. Multiple regression QAPs were performed to …

The Exploration Of Teacher Efficacy And Influences Of Context At Two Rural Appalachian High Schools, Justin Aaron Blevins

Theses and Dissertations--Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation

This study examines teachers’ sense of personal and collective efficacy in two similar schools in Appalachian communities that achieved different results regarding students’ accountability test scores. Prior work in teacher efficacy, which is predominantly quantitative, is extended by the addition of teacher interviews that explore how teachers define the problems they face regarding student performance and how they work individually and collectively on strategies to support students’ success. The findings support that teachers with higher levels of efficacy in their work are associated with higher levels of student success. Further, the study offers insights into how teachers perceive problems and …