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Bingham, Pamela Ann Haynes – ProQuest LLC, 2017
To determine if demography impacted the success of graduate students in the online learning environment, this non-experimental study used age, gender, ethnicity, enrollment status, financial dependency, employment status, program (master's or doctoral), and marital status as the independent variables to determine their impact on four dependent…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Graduate Students, Electronic Learning, Success
Raveling, Joyce Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigates gender differences in personal and institutional factors that impact women's advancement to academic leadership roles at research intensive universities. It uses data from a 1993 national collection of information on post-secondary faculty. Academic leaders were defined as faculty who served as department chairs, deans,…
Descriptors: Females, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Role, Women Administrators
O'Dair, Katherine G. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Master's education is the largest segment of graduate education in the United States yet there is a paucity of research about how master's students experience their programs. Empirical research on student engagement--defined as the time and effort students devote to activities that are linked to educational outcomes and what institutions do to…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Statistical Analysis, Learner Engagement
Andreyko, Tammy A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined the relationship of stress, burnout, and coping strategies among middle school principals in Western Pennsylvania. This study assessed coping skill preferences among middle school principals, especially regarding their age, gender, marital status, experience, and school enrollment. A review of the literature included studies…
Descriptors: Expertise, Stress Management, Marital Status, Job Satisfaction
Gittings, Glenn Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2010
More than a decade after the state of Kentucky enacted higher education reform that provided specific direction to the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville, this research study sought to examine the effect of student characteristics and program characteristics on doctoral degree completion. This study attempted to address the…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Marital Status, Employment Level, Doctoral Degrees
Mamboleo, George Isaboke – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Disability rights issues are an emerging area of discourse in Kenya. Persons with disabilities in Kenya face many barriers to integration into the larger Kenyan society possibly due to barriers such as societal negative attitudes. Research has indicated that the greatest barrier to rehabilitation of persons with disabilities is negative attitudes…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Employees, Negative Attitudes, Disabilities