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Conway, Thomas Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study explores the impact of the electrical and technology curriculum of an urban charter high school in Philadelphia for the alumnae of the school. The study found a positive impact that empowered the alumnae to face gender and racial discrimination in their apprenticeship program. It also found a positive impact for alumnae that are not…
Descriptors: Racial Discrimination, Urban Schools, High Schools, Females
Sarkar, Sreela – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation studies the promise of inclusion in the global information society for marginalized groups in India, a nation that represents a modular case for technology and modernization initiatives in the global South. There has been significant research on the problematic notion of the "digital divide," based on the premise that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Social Influences, Access to Computers
Owney, Catherine Sanders – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Social justice allies make important contributions to fighting oppression in campus environments and in their communities after college. However, knowledge of how one becomes a social justice ally is limited. This qualitative, phenomenological study was designed in an effort to better understand the social justice ally development process and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Campuses, Social Justice, Citizen Participation
Foster, Kathy J.; Link, Ryan R.; Scott, Michael L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This report describes a problem based learning project focusing on educational change and gender in the superintendency. Superintendent tenure is influenced by the ability to facilitate and navigate the change process. Superintendent leadership and organizational change have been shown to be related to student achievement; therefore, successful…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Student Projects, Educational Change
Scott, Michael L.; Link, Ryan R.; Foster, Kathy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This report describes a problem based learning project focusing on educational change and gender in the superintendency. Superintendent tenure is influenced by the ability to facilitate and navigate the change process. Superintendent leadership and organizational change have been shown to be related to student achievement; therefore, successful…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Student Projects, Educational Change
Link, Ryan R.; Scott, Michael L.; Foster, Kathy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This report describes a problem based learning project focusing on educational change and gender in the superintendency. Superintendent tenure is influenced by the ability to facilitate and navigate the change process. Superintendent leadership and organizational change have been shown to be related to student achievement; therefore, successful…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Student Projects, Educational Change
Hunter, Iris Renell – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research study examines nine African American women educators during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina. Additionally, the study conducts an analogous study of the lifeworks and contributions of Septima Clark, an African American woman educator who made significant community activist contributions during this period. For its…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Women Faculty, Minority Group Teachers
Ferguson, Dionne J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
While African American women have been participating in higher education for more than a century, they remain significantly underrepresented among college and university professors in America. This study was pursued in an attempt to address the underrepresentation of African American women faculty at public and private universities within the…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Women Faculty, College Faculty, Females
Litzler, Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Gender inequality in engineering persists in spite of women reaching parity in college enrollments and degrees granted. To date, no analyses of educational sex segregation have comprehensively examined segregation within one discipline. To move beyond traditional methods of studying the long-standing stratification by field of study in higher…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Higher Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Engineering
Sanderson, Larry P. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Over the coming years an increasing number of college presidencies will change hands. Choice of a new president who will effectively lead an institution is a decision of great importance to individuals within the organization and to the community the college serves. Most colleges employ a search process composed of representatives of key…
Descriptors: Search Committees (Personnel), Ethnography, Confidentiality, Males
DiPonio, Joseph M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The primary object of this study was to determine whether racial and/or gender bias were evidenced in the use of the ICIS-Principal. Specifically, will the use of the ICIS-Principal result in biased scores at a statistically significant level when rating current practicing administrators of varying gender and race. The study involved simulated…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Gender Bias, Racial Bias, Test Bias
Caesar-Richardson, Nadia Monique – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative study examines first person accounts of college experiences provided by Black female college students with mental health concerns at a predominantly White institution. Utilizing the theoretical frameworks of disability studies and critical race feminism to develop the study and analyze the collected data, this study considers the…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Critical Theory, Race
Speidel, Lisa – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Research has shown that one of the most effective responses for women to thwart sexual assault is through competence in physical fighting techniques. Various studies also reveal multiple benefits beyond the actual defensive moves learned and the impact of women's self-defense classes on gender identity; however, the primary focus has been on white…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Racial Bias, Sexual Abuse, Females
Yoon, So Yoon – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Working under classical test theory (CTT) and item response theory (IRT) frameworks, this study investigated psychometric properties of the Revised Purdue Spatial Visualization Tests: Visualization of Rotations (Revised PSVT:R). The original version, the PSVT:R was designed by Guay (1976) to measure spatial visualization ability in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Test Bias, Guessing (Tests), Construct Validity
Hough, Mayra Alayon – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The increase number of females in leadership positions provides new opportunities to observe them as leaders. The purpose of this research was to study leadership and to identify the contextual, societal and cultural factors that determined and influenced the styles of leadership of female executives in higher education. The study profiled the…
Descriptors: Females, Higher Education, Leadership Styles, Cultural Influences
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