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Kane, Kevin T. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Today's superintendents face increasingly non-routine and complex problems that are educational, managerial, and political in nature. This study investigated occupational stressors and job satisfaction of school superintendents in Pennsylvania. This was accomplished through self-report of superintendents and through the perspective of school board…
Descriptors: Superintendents, School Districts, Stress Variables, Job Satisfaction
Aghekyan, Rosa – Science Education International, 2019
This article describes the development and validation of an instrument called science identities, expectations of success in science, values of science, and environmental attitudes (SIEVEA). The instrument is a convenient online survey that can be used to measure students' SIEVEA. First, 1764 high school students from 11 school districts in New…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Self Concept, School Districts
DiLella, Anthony R., IV – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this quantitative non-experimental correlational study was to investigate how professional development, specifically the PIL professional development initiative, influenced principals' and assistant principals' self-perceived leadership behaviors. A purposive sampling of public school principals and assistant principals located in…
Descriptors: Principals, Assistant Principals, Correlation, Faculty Development
Vizza, Jill Pinnola – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study was designed to identify factors that might influence Pennsylvania public school superintendents in the decision regarding the potential use of single-subject acceleration as a practice for meeting the needs of students in the elementary setting. The research targeted public school superintendents in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Districts, Superintendents, Decision Making
Phillips, Lorraine Denise – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In suburban schools in Western Pennsylvania, students, educators, parents, and community members are experiencing the negative effects caused by school bullying. Some educators cannot identify bullying, do not perceive bullying as problematic, or are not trained to intervene in bullying events. The purpose of this quasi-experimental, single group,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Bullying, Quasiexperimental Design, Pretests Posttests
Lueken, Martin F. – EdChoice, 2016
This report follows up on previous work that examined the fiscal effects of private school voucher programs. It estimates the total fiscal effects of tax-credit scholarship programs--another type of private school choice program--on state governments, state and local taxpayers, and school districts combined. Based on a range of assumptions, these…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Tax Credits, Educational Vouchers, Private Schools
Provinzano, Kathleen; Riley, Ryan; Levine, Bruce; Grant, Allen – Metropolitan Universities, 2018
Public school districts are locally controlled and funded through local property taxes. Funding schools this way perpetuates structural inequities in poorer school districts and as a result, students living in poverty have minimal access to critical resources that support student learning. Community schools are resurfacing in many of these urban…
Descriptors: Community Schools, College School Cooperation, Public Schools, Partnerships in Education
Schafft, Kai A.; Borlu, Yetkin; Glenna, Leland – Rural Sociology, 2013
Recent advances in gas and oil drilling technology have led to dramatic boomtown development in many rural areas that have endured extended periods of economic decline. In Pennsylvania's Marcellus gas fields, the recent development of unconventional shale gas resources has not been without controversy. It has been variously framed as a major…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Rural Areas, Sustainable Development, Community Development
Shapiro, Edward S.; Gebhardt, Sarah; Flatley, Katie; Guard, Kirra B.; Fu, Qiong; Leichman, Erin S.; Calhoon, Mary Beth; Hojnoski, Robin – School Psychology Quarterly, 2017
The development and psychometric qualities of a measure using teacher judgment to rate performance in reading comprehension for narrative text is described--the Rating Scales for Academic Skills-Reading Comprehension Narrative (RSAS-RCN). Sixty-five teachers from the third, fourth, and fifth grades of 8 elementary schools completed the measure on…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Rating Scales, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3
Stollar, Lori J. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study of a suburban school district in south central Pennsylvania employed a mixed method design to explore teachers' perceptions of their professional learning community (PLC) and the impact of such on teaching effectiveness and student learning. Perceptual data was collected through the Learning Community Culture Indicator (LCCI) teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Communities of Practice, Suburban Schools, School Districts
Freeland, Julia; Hernandez, Alex – Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, 2014
What software tools do school systems actually want? Demand-side analyses typically reflect the loudest voices in the market that companies are eager to please--in the case of education technology, the largest urban districts with the largest technology budgets. But half of the nation's 48 million public school students attend approximately 3,700…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Public Schools
Erica Lynn Kolat – ProQuest LLC, 2014
National surveys regarding blended and online programs continue to document an increased enrollment of K-12 students. However, the overall research base for this age group remains limited. Although some states collect and report data of fully online programs, information regarding blended and online programs in traditional school districts…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Online Courses, Urban Schools, Rural Schools
Weiland, Sunny Minelli – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study implemented a qualitative approach to examine the phenomenon of "inquiry-based science pedagogy or inquiry instruction" as it has been experienced by individuals. Data was collected through online open-ended surveys, focus groups, and teacher reported self-reflections to answer the research questions: 1) How do middle level…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Field Experience Programs
Ackell, Robert J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This mixed methods triangulation approach examined the perceptions of administrators, teachers, parents, and community residents about a consideration of a secondary school consolidation in a school district in central Pennsylvania. These groups are referred to as "stakeholders" in this study. The purpose of this research was to develop…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
Haxton, Clarisse L.; Neild, Ruth Curran – Journal of School Choice, 2012
We examine parents' knowledge of discrete, verifiable facts--what we call "hard knowledge"--in a high school application process. Using parent survey data (n = 658) from the School District of Philadelphia, this study examines whether parents knew the admission criteria and acceptance rate at the high school they most wanted their child…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, School Choice, Urban Schools, Parent Education