NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Source
ProQuest LLC216
Audience
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Does not meet standards1
Showing 76 to 90 of 216 results Save | Export
Poindexter, Beryle Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative case study is an exploratory study to examine what contributes to the failure of the persistence of non-residential single-parents pursuing a college degree. The participants of this study included ten non-residential single-parent students between the ages of 21 and 50. The site of the interviews was in the…
Descriptors: One Parent Family, College Students, Academic Persistence, Case Studies
Scott, Jamila Kapuki – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the effect of in-state resident tuition (ISRT) by the Maryland DREAM Act on student outcomes (awarded associate degrees, earned certificates, and retention) of undocumented immigrant students at a Maryland community college. Specifically, the study examined whether there were differences in…
Descriptors: State Legislation, In State Students, Tuition, Undocumented Immigrants
Hampole, Menaka – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Chapter 1 investigates asks the question how do financial frictions affect the type of human capital investments that students make in college? To study this question, I build a novel dataset covering more than 700,000 U.S. students, merging commencement records with address histories, credit bureau records, and professional resumes. I document…
Descriptors: Money Management, Educational Finance, Student Financial Aid, Human Capital
Oswalt, Katie Laurel West – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The rural brain drain, an event wherein a rural locale's educated youth out-migrates, is speculated to be the root cause of nonmetropolitan human capital exhaustion. This study promotes the speculation that community colleges hold promise in reversing the brain drain, as they are primed to elevate the human capital level of stayers while offering…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Community Colleges, Rural to Urban Migration, Human Capital
Buzzard, Ruth Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this comprehensive multi-faceted research investigation was to collect evidence from various sources related to the impact of school building closings on rural communities. The researcher employed quantitative, qualitative, and US Census data analysis to collect information and comprehensively evaluate the impact of school closings…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Closing, Social Capital, Human Capital
Sannicandro, Tom – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The low employment rates of individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) are a major concern. In 2011 only 34% of adults with ID were employed compared to 76% of adults without disabilities (Siperstein, Parker, & Drascher, 2013). Higher educational attainment is associated with higher employment rates for students with ID (Smith, Grigal,…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Postsecondary Education, Education Work Relationship, Employment
Birch, Matthew Richard – ProQuest LLC, 2018
We investigate relationships between several financial aid policies and student enrollment behavior. Chapters 1 and 2 (co-authored with Robert Rosenman) use proprietary data from a public research university to address institution level policies affecting enrollment. Chapter 3 (co-authored with Benjamin Cowan) utilizes government data address a…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Educational Policy, Enrollment Trends, Public Colleges
Cheng, Ya-Fang – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This research project focuses on teachers' important role in the era of standards-based education and explores how teachers' beliefs and literacy practices are associated with their implementation of the Wisconsin Early Literacy Learning Standards (WELLS). I utilized a mixed-method approach that combines survey research with a case study to…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Role, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
Klocek, John Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this comparative, phenomenological, qualitative study is to evaluate the perceptions of expert teacher practitioners and their administrators on the impact that their participation in VCOPs has had on what Hargreaves and Fullan (2012) coined the Professional Capital of their organizations. How has the teachers' development of a PLN…
Descriptors: Teacher Participation, Computer Mediated Communication, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development
Brown, Ivey – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how and why the human, cultural, and social capital (or lack thereof) of students from rural North Carolina counties of persistent poverty impacted their decision to attend a historically black college or university (HBCU). Students from counties of persistent poverty in their first semester…
Descriptors: Counties, Poverty, Social Capital, Decision Making
Konrad, Lubomyr Stephan – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This qualitative, phenomenological study examined teachers' experiences of the policy context of the fall of 2013 in the School District of Philadelphia. It was an extremely turbulent time resulting from a cascading policy environment with origins in federal government mandates. The study focused on ten teachers' perceptions of policy…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Policy, Program Implementation, School Districts
Zhao, Shanke – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Wage differentials across college majors are huge and have been increasing. The type of college education becomes important for college students in terms of future earnings. Understanding the treatment effect of major choice in a certain occupation is difficult because of the sorting behavior and the effect of occupation choice. In order to…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Career Choice, Education, Majors (Students)
Thomas-Wollmann Fuller, Jeffrey – ProQuest LLC, 2019
At no other time in American history has the need for post-secondary educational attainment been so pervasively necessary. Since 2007, three in every four jobs created has required a bachelor's degree or higher. Such a prerequisite to fiscal viability occurs parallel with rising costs of college attendance, a nebulous financial aid process,…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, College Choice, Undergraduate Students, Middle Class
Kinlow, Cheryl L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The focus of the descriptive study utilizing a sequential explanatory design was to develop a comprehensive examination of ongoing development and improvement of an Administrative Professional Program at "Midwest College," a vocational-technical college in the Midwest. A Career Pathway (CP) is a logical, expressed grouping of dynamic…
Descriptors: Colleges, Technical Education, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship
Richardson, Jennifer L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative study explores the case of an elementary school known for its high levels of collaboration. The participants included two classroom teachers, a literacy interventionist, and a literacy coach. The purpose of this collective case study was to examine the influences of mediation on decision-making and determine how this influenced…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Literacy Education, Computer Mediated Communication
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  ...  |  15