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Tiffanie N. King – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Planning for principal succession has become necessary for school districts to improve and sustain student academic success. As a result, some school districts prepare for principal succession by building capacity through acquired experiences and increased leadership competency in potential principal candidates using the "grow your own"…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Management Development, Competence
Yelenna Rondon – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Human capital theory suggests that lifetime income and socioeconomic status is a function of investments in human capital (Becker, 1962 & 1994; Becker & Tomes, 1986; Tomes, 1981). More recent developments show that human capital accumulation depends on mental health (Fletcher, 2008), in addition to ability, and access to resources to…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Mental Health, COVID-19, Pandemics
Deowarski D. McDonald – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Statement of Purpose and Method of Study: The purpose of this study is to describe the perspectives, processes, and experiences identified during the implementation of the SIG Transformation Model in a rural school district in Mississippi. The Transformation Model is one of the four approved prescriptive models identified by the federal government…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Grants, Program Implementation, Rural Schools
Corey Pech – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Americans often believe that a college degree is the key that unlocks the door to the middle class. However, a college degree no longer ensures stable middle-class employment. To increase their chances of post-graduation employment, many students now major in "practical arts" disciplines like Business and Engineering. Graduates of…
Descriptors: College Seniors, Employment Potential, Majors (Students), Practical Arts
Avery Regina Calkins – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Chapter 1 studies the change in women's college major choices in response to the dot-com crash. Although the dot-com crash had similar labor market effects for new graduates in engineering and computer science, it had different effects on who chose each major: women disproportionately left computer science, but not engineering. I investigate the…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Gender Differences, Human Capital, Decision Making
Shuqiao Sun – ProQuest LLC, 2020
An extensive literature documents the instrumental role of early childhood in improving individuals' life chances. This dissertation consists of three connected chapters that study the effects of early childhood circumstances on human capital formation and its economic consequences. The first chapter examines the impact of family size on…
Descriptors: Economics, Human Capital, Economic Factors, Family Size
Isaac Ahimbisibwe – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Human capital development is crucial for economic growth. Policymakers must understand the factors influencing human capital accumulation since they may vary by setting and sector. For example, micro-enterprise employees enhance their skills through on-the-job training or vocational programs. In educational institutions, family and school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Economic Development, Higher Education
Tadesse, Azeb – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The convergence of a digital transformation and a growing youth population in Africa represents an opportunity to harness digital and demographic dividends to boost human capital development. Higher education institutions play a central role in this process as the demographic dividend is accrued from the rise in the proportion of educated…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Online Courses, Higher Education, Information Technology
Scott L. Matteson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to determine if implementing student response technology (SRT) and case studies into a largely populated university undergraduate course would influence student engagement. When student engagement is influenced the potential for positive learning outcomes occurs leading to a higher likelihood of student success (Swap…
Descriptors: Student Reaction, Technology Uses in Education, Courses, Learner Engagement
Ruth Evangeline Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation is a qualitative study that investigated the experiences of Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) higher education professionals who hold a position in the President's Cabinet of a public university in the Western United States. The study utilized human capital theory, social capital theory, and social cognitive career…
Descriptors: College Administration, Public Colleges, Minority Groups, Career Pathways
Xu, Rui – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation presents three separate essays. The first two essays explore the gender wage gap and its dynamics in urban China from 1995 to 2018. The first chapter decomposes the gender wage gap based on the observed wage for workers with a precise measure of the hourly wages. The first chapter examines the observed average gender wage gap in…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Salary Wage Differentials, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement
Courtney Lennartz – ProQuest LLC, 2020
An overwhelming majority of the chief academic officers at our nation's top research universities are white men. In a time where institutions are actively trying to recruit diverse talent, enhance student outcomes, and generate revenue, this lack of diversity in academic leadership is preventing them from achieving these goals and making…
Descriptors: College Administration, Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, Faculty Promotion
Mustapha, Rafiu Aderemi – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Despite the well-established benefits of technological advances, a lack of adequate tacit knowledge sharing is one of the major setbacks affecting the development of human capital in technology industries. The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to explore the experiences technology managers will need to support the transfer of…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Technology Education, Human Capital, Informal Education
Myriam Milfort Sullivan – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Registered apprenticeship (RA) programs have emerged in recent years in response to the nation's critical workforce needs. Since 2015, there has been a resurgence of federal and state investments to modernize and diversify the RA system to attract new entrants and new high-demand industries. This study uses human capital theory (HCT) as a lens for…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Phenomenology, African American Students, Females
Deborah Coleman Malone – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Although the Every Student Succeeds Act sets the parameters for parents and families to be involved in their children's education, there are no specified guidelines on how that involvement should be designed to best impact student achievement. The purpose of this study was to compare Grade 3-5 students' mean Milestones test scores in English…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4
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