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Goods, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In this dissertation, I explore what it means to different people, in different places throughout life's spectrum, to create a space to learn. This dissertation is a collection of work that I have written throughout my time at the CUNY Graduate Center. The chapters herein represent an arch of my learning over the past five years. The title,…
Descriptors: Space Utilization, Learning, Track System (Education), Science Education
Soong, Shelley – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Three studies were conducted for this dissertation around the broader topic of improving undergraduate health research training programs for Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Peoples (NHOPP), and increasing the likelihood of NHOPP pursuing health science research careers. The first study systematically examined existing published literature on…
Descriptors: Student Research, Undergraduate Students, Research Training, Disproportionate Representation
Khary Fletcher – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the social and cultural instructional process on independent reading. In addition, the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the administrator-teacher relationship on educational practices in a lab site classroom. Using an action research design, data was collected through…
Descriptors: Cultural Literacy, Grade 9, English Teachers, Teacher Researchers
Hoylman, Elizabeth Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This non-experimental, descriptive study explored the perceptions of PK-12 policymakers in West Virginia regarding the sources of information they use in the decision-making process; whether and how evidence-based research is relied upon; whether evidence-based research is considered credible and usable; and what barriers, facilitators, and…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Decision Making, Boards of Education, Researchers
Van Lieu, Sandi Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Two of the most significant changes in higher education over the last decade have been the reconceptualization of faculty scholarship and the increase in the hiring of adjunct faculty, yet these topics rarely merge together in the literature. The purpose of this qualitative narrative inquiry was to understand how adjunct English faculty conceive…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, English Teachers, Scholarship
Forte, Christine E. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This exploratory study applies social network analysis techniques to existing, publicly available data to understand collaboration patterns within the co-author network of a federally-funded, interdisciplinary research program. The central questions asked: What underlying social capital structures can be determined about a group of researchers…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Expertise, Educational Researchers, Communities of Practice
Higgins, Mary Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This phenomenological study investigates the ways in which practitioner inquiry influences preservice teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning. The study followed five teacher candidates (interns) completing an internship in a K-4 Professional Development School (PDS). This study focused on the interns' engagement in practitioner inquiry and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Researchers, Educational Research, Teacher Interns
Thomer, Andrea K. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Research conducted at scientifically significant sites produces an abundance of important and highly valuable data. Yet, though sites are logical points for coordinating the curation of these data, their unique needs have been under supported. Previous studies have shown that two principal stakeholder groups -- scientific researchers and local…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Scientific Research, Researchers, Administrators
Eisenhower, Tracy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to analyze and develop an in-depth understanding of the characteristics of an R3, predominantly undergraduate institution of higher education with a high-performing externally-funded research portfolio. This study used a qualitative single-bounded case study approach and utilized a focus group structure for the…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Grantsmanship, High Achievement, Undergraduate Study
Murray, Connie L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation, using a heuristic self-search inquiry (HSSI), provides a research vehicle for creative personal exploration seeking insight into the process of self-transformation with the intention of ultimately targeting the catalyst for life transformation. The study seeks to answer the research question: How does the use of drawings in an…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Art Activities, Art Expression, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
DeBerry, Tealia N. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Adult education is a reciprocal relationship between adult learners and adult education practitioners. As such, it is essential to understand the experiences of adult educators and adult education practitioners as they teach adults. This study focuses on how ideas about race and racism are examined in the graduate-level classroom and the adult…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Students, Racial Bias
Christopher, Justin – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study is to assess issues that arise in the context of epistemological claims in narrative educational research by means of narrative analysis and epistemological evaluation. The research questions which guided the study were: 1) To what extent is epistemology considered by narrative educational researchers?; 2) What issues do…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Educational Research, Coding, Personal Narratives
Calica, Corinna Dy-Liacco – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The study is a comprehensive ethnographic investigation into how a campus children's center and laboratory school site can simultaneously serve six major population groups (i.e., parents, college students, teachers, faculty, administrators, and researchers) while maintaining program operations. The study carefully examines the converging and…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Child Care Centers, Laboratory Schools, Parents
Cox, William R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study focuses on discovery of what combination of scaffolds will allow 8th grade social studies students to successfully interact with primary source historical documents. The teacher-researcher examined the impact of scaffolding on two obstacles to learning in the discipline of history: (a) the inability of students to navigate successfully…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Thinking Skills, Middle School Students, Grade 8
Kaplan, Rebecca G. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The three articles in this dissertation explore in-service educator learning through participatory approaches, with an aim toward equity in education. Combining sociocultural theories of learning as increasing participation within social and cultural practices (Gutierrez, & Rogoff, 2003), and the political commitments of participatory action…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Equal Education, Teacher Collaboration, Social Justice