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Mallika Stubbs – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research study evaluated the effects of the Comprehensive Supports and Improvement (CSI) program on the performance of fifty-six participating schools after one year of school improvement technical assistance. Specifically, it investigated whether the geographic locations of schools, the percentage of inexperienced teachers, and school…
Descriptors: Technical Assistance, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Educational Improvement
Harper, Shana Lenita – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study was designed to examine whether there is a significant difference in the English Language Arts and mathematics achievement of third, fourth, and fifth-grade students enrolled in Priority Schools in South Carolina. In an effort to provide a quality education by way of improving state standardized assessments results, nation-wide many…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Technical Assistance, Elementary School Students, Language Arts
Alexandra Lee Wright – ProQuest LLC, 2022
During the spring of 2020, a South Georgia school implemented distance learning due to COVID-19, with little administrative support for the teachers for online instruction. This quick transition may have impacted teachers' self-efficacy beliefs about teaching online. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore middle school…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics
Linehan, Patrice Cunniff – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined how one state approached the integration of policy and practice by forming communities of practice (CoP), defined as groups of people who share a set of problems and interact regularly to solve them (Wenger, McDermott, & Snyder, 2002). Policymakers have created strategies known as technical assistance (TA) to bridge the…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Technical Assistance, State Government, State Officials
Ausburn, Jerry Paul – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This descriptive study of the twenty regional Education Service Centers in Texas is an exploratory analysis of programs and services that promote school improvement. Data collected from each service center website enabled the researcher to determine which programs and services are available to school districts and also allowed the researcher to…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement, School Districts, Educational Change
Duong, Hanh Thi Hong – ProQuest LLC, 2009
An old saying about learning that has been passed down from generation to generation in Vietnam states, "The success of learning is determined by intelligence but the passing of an examination is determined by luck." Whether this idea is simply to comfort those who fail or not, it sheds light on the Vietnamese psyche on learning as well…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Universities, Doctoral Dissertations