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Patton Corley, Myrna Loy – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The need to improve student academic performance and school reform continue to receive national attention, but there is limited empirical data that explicates the positive impact of programs that are designed to address this phenomenon. Educators are presented with seemingly herculean challenges in meeting the needs of students from cultural…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Program Implementation, Individualized Instruction
Doty, Laura S. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
During the 1960s, a community college movement spread across the United States providing for the expansion of education beyond high school to local communities. Ohio took part in this movement under the vision of Governor James A. Rhodes who wanted community colleges established to provide technical training and retraining to meet the needs of the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment Management, Surveys, Statistical Analysis
Grubaugh, Jessica Rene – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this quantitative, non-experimental, causal-comparative research study was to see what differences existed, if any, between voluntary and involuntary adjunct faculty on levels of job dimensions (motivation and hygiene), job satisfaction, and institutional loyalty of part-time faculty teaching at private, four-year institutions in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Job Satisfaction, Private Colleges
Ferguson, Heather Loraine – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Problem: Higher education serves many stakeholders including students, parents, faculty, staff, university administrators, and other contributors. Those stakeholders are all linked with one purpose: the success of the student. That success or failure is most commonly measured by achievement through grade point average (GPA). The academic demands…
Descriptors: Motivation, Self Efficacy, Correlation, Academic Achievement
Lewis, Adam H. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined key approaches that could be used in evaluating and improving employee training in universities. The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which employee training opportunities at one university used collaboration and technology, identify the foci of the training opportunities, and describe employees'…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Job Training, College Students, Employer Attitudes
Huff-Franklin, Clairie L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study is to explore the correlation between state-recorded value- added (VA) scores and academic optimism (AO) scores, which measure teacher self-efficacy, trust, and academic emphasis. The sample for this study is 87 third through eighth grade Reading teachers, from fifty-five schools, in an urban school district in Ohio who…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Urban Teaching, Reading Teachers, Psychological Patterns
Stinson, John Kevin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
It has become standard practice for teachers to step into the role of "teacher leaders" and perform a variety of curriculum, instruction and assessment tasks for schools and school districts. The literature regarding these Ohio K-12 teacher leaders, who may perform these tasks in addition to or in lieu of regular teaching assignments,…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Leadership, Teacher Role, Elementary School Teachers
Jackson, Linda Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2018
College graduation rates have been on the academic and political agenda. The United States graduation rate is 59%, however, 68% of nontraditional students do not graduate with baccalaureate degrees within the time frame of six years. Scholars are attributing the decreasing graduation rates to barriers encountered by nontraditional undergraduate…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Experiential Learning, Learning Theories, Case Studies
Grashel, Mark A. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this single case study was to examine a grant-funded program of professional development (PD) at a small rural high school in Ohio. Evidence has shown that the current model of technology professional development in-service sessions has had little impact on classroom technology integration. This PD program focused on 21st Century…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Technology Integration, Case Studies, Educational Technology
Downing, Pamela R. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Education reformers are calling for increased accountability for the nation's public schools. Teacher evaluation has experienced a shift in focus from what teachers do to accomplish the task of teaching to student growth as a result of what teachers do in the classroom (Achieve, Inc., 2007). Additionally, a connection between teacher job…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Job Satisfaction, Accountability, Correlation
Mauk, Brianna – ProQuest LLC, 2017
First-year composition pedagogy and course communication (especially as implicitly endorsed by institutionally presented means) is often limiting in modes and modalities, which juxtaposes vibrant composing practices in the daily lives of students. Additionally, writing program requirements tend to value primarily alphabetic texts despite…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Web 2.0 Technologies, Writing Instruction
Escobedo, Patricia Villarreal – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Schools have dynamic and changing social environments which present a variety of challenges to campus leaders. Administrators have a multitude of responsibilities to school stakeholders for all facets of organizational life on the campus. School leaders can benefit from a better understanding of how greater levels of principal influence serves as…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Principals, Elementary Schools, Surveys
Theis, Jennifer Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of technology use and facilitation of inquiry-based teaching across the curriculum through the implementation of a one-to-one technology pilot. This study also explored which technology related factors (Teacher Tech Use, Student Tech Use, Tech Barriers, Teacher Comfort) best predict the use…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Predictor Variables
Porter, Lori A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Interprofessional education (IPE) for health care students may be one approach to improving health care outcomes by increasing collaboration among health professionals. However, the influence that IPE experiences are having on collaborative competency is unknown. Collaboration competency is crucial for physician trainees because they will practice…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Professional Education, Medical Students, Cooperation
Hamblin, Nathan Churchell – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe high school general education teachers' experiences with academic dishonesty in the digital age in rural school districts in southwest Ohio. Academic dishonesty in the digital age is defined as student use of digital technologies to receive credit for academic work beyond their own ability…
Descriptors: Ethics, Rural Schools, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Teacher Attitudes
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