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Lorena Ivonne Ballester – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study is to examine how land-grant universities engage with the public in the era of globalization; to explain the institutionalization of engagement processes accounting for the global context; and, to integrate this analysis into a Global Engagement Model for Land-Grant Universities (GEM) implementing a grounded theory…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Models, Land Grant Universities, Grounded Theory
Sterling, Tracey – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Closing the achievement gap among culturally and linguistically diverse students has been challenging for educators, school leaders, and policymakers. With the growing diversity of the K-12 public school student body, schools must prepare to confront this divide systematically and vigorously. Policies that promote culturally responsive teaching…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Elementary Secondary Education, Achievement Gap, Teacher Effectiveness
Roberson, Deborah C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Traditional research often excludes the voices of marginalized populations such as African Americans, who are usually written about instead of being allowed to tell their own stories (King, 2005). This research gives African Americans the opportunity to "tell their stories" of segregation and integration. Leaving the telling of our…
Descriptors: African Americans, Personal Narratives, Racial Segregation, Racial Integration
Hesson, Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation study compared the three most common pathways of traditional preparation for novice middle level teachers (elementary, middle level, and secondary) and attempted to answer the central question of which group felt best prepared for middle level teaching. Selected novice teachers from each of the three pathways were interviewed and…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Teacher Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs
Reynolds, Nora Pillard – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Given the tormented history of development projects around the globe and the fact that global service learning and engineering-for-development often engages students in development interventions, it is critically important to explore the impact of global service learning projects and partnerships not only on student learning, which has received…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Global Approach, Case Studies
Van Deusen, Nathan P. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Evidence has found a lack of transformational leadership qualities among building level administrators across central Pennsylvania. The purpose of this project study was to identify the leadership styles of principals in central Pennsylvania and ascertain the link between background variables and leadership qualities held by building-level…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Qualities, Administrator Characteristics, Correlation
Holland, Alice R. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The outcomes of The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) child sexual abuse scandal have left many scholars and individuals questioning the university's collective identity. The goal of this research was to uncover the dominant themes that describe a problematic institutional response to the child sexual abuse incidents in order to provide…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Crisis Management, College Role
Woods, Phillip K. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study is to interview high school teachers of English Language Arts and special educators who are partners in a co-teaching model. It is important to understand the perceptions of teachers using co-teaching models to learn about the strengths of the program, as well as areas for improvement. In 1975, public education changed…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers
Raykes, Jeffrey Stuart – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Colleges and universities are being increasingly recognized as key contributors to the well-being of the places in which they are located. However, in spite of the promise and potential of place-based engagement, there is little agreement about what place and place-building means or how these concepts can be operationalized in within the context…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Case Studies, Higher Education, Partnerships in Education
Bialka, Christa Saggiomo – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation examines pre-service teachers' developing dispositions related to students with special needs and addresses their beliefs about students with disabilities through analysis of their experiences as members of the 2011-2012 cohort in the Teacher Education Program (TEP) at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Disabilities, Student Experience, Inclusion
Levy, Anna – ProQuest LLC, 2015
E-government is often defined as the public organization's use of information and communication technologies for the production and delivery of information and services. Since the early 1990s, e-government initiatives have been understood as a technological innovation mechanism aimed at reaching greater levels of efficiency, effectiveness, and…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Web 2.0 Technologies, City Government, Comparative Analysis
Grant-Williams, April Renee – ProQuest LLC, 2012
African American students have been underrepresented in higher education since the 1960s. The study of this disparity has caused many researchers to consider the social and institutional correlating relationships that could contribute to the declining retention rates for African American students in higher education. The purpose of the grounded…
Descriptors: African American Students, Educational Attitudes, Higher Education, Student Attitudes
Boylan, John C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to identify, investigate, and describe the espoused Pennsylvania Principal Mentoring Network (PPMN) training program and protocols for the principals who served as mentors for newly hired principals in Pennsylvania. This study posed three research questions: (1) what was the espoused training provided…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Qualitative Research, Mentors, Training
VanDeusen Gaddis, Linda Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how a curricular choice majors program influenced teacher motivation and student performance at a charter high school in Pennsylvania from the perception of the administration and teachers. The theoretical foundation for this study was the attribution motivation theory. This theory…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Teacher Motivation, Case Studies, Charter Schools
Ventresca, Melissa Weida – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the role of storytelling in the transformation of female cocaine addicts in Narcotics Anonymous. For this research the primary investigator utilized a theoretical orientation of transformative learning theory and storytelling. The rationale for employing transformative learning theory is that…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Qualitative Research, Females, Addictive Behavior
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