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Odonna D. Hastings – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Multiply marginalized learners (MMLs), students with two or more marginalized identity factors (Annamma et al., 2013), are America's most vulnerable K-12 student population. MMLs face significant challenges, including increased opportunity- and academic achievement gaps (Hanushek et al., 2019; McClellan et al., 2018). They are disproportionately…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Urban Schools, Special Education Teachers, Critical Race Theory
Jamie Winters – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In response to globalization, many higher education institutions have focused on internationalization, which has been shaped by various rationales and manifests through various activities. The variation and complexity of the internationalization process, and associated benefits and challenges, make this topic important to understand at the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Education, Global Approach, Educational Benefits
Elizabeth Brizan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The disproportionate number of African Americans in special education has been an issue receiving a lot of attention throughout the years. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine influencing factors contributing to the disproportionate number of African Americans in special education being served. This qualitative research study…
Descriptors: African American Students, Students with Disabilities, Disproportionate Representation, Special Education
Kyle M. Dunbar – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Project-based (PBL) learning has been found to improve student achievement, engagement, and interpersonal and intrapersonal skills; however, it is not widely implemented in K-12 schools in the United States. Prior research has established several barriers and challenges to implementing PBL in K-12 schools including challenges related to teacher…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Self Efficacy, Cooperation
Samantha Jo Peterson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Professionalism is a required curricular component in accredited medical laboratory science (MLS) programs in the United States and is a critical element for career success and optimal patient care. A standardized definition of professionalism in MLS, however, has yet to be established. This poses a challenge to MLS programs when pertaining to…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Professionalism, Undergraduate Students, Medical Education
Valerie Rivera-Santana – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem was the lack of SEL and social presence practices in online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused student engagement to decline. The purpose was to explore educator perceptions of how SEL social presence practices affect student engagement during the transition from traditional learning. Grounded in social constructivism…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, COVID-19, Pandemics, Learner Engagement
Bularzik, Emily – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative case study explored how grading can be used to support learning by analyzing the implementation of a skills-based grading system in a high school English department. Black and Wiliam's (2018) model for assessment in relation to pedagogy was used as a lens through which to examine the relationship between the grading system and…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), English Instruction, High School Students, Case Studies
David M. Kessel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation seeks to understand how a work-based learning project develops the skills, attitudes, behaviors, and Jewish sense of self for three Jewish Federation professionals participating in a larger, 18-month professional development initiative focused on experiential Jewish education. Using case study methodology, this research also…
Descriptors: Judaism, Religious Education, Faculty Development, Experiential Learning
Ariel Teresa Leigh Petersen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Social emotional learning is commonly referred to as the "fifth curriculum" in addition to math, literacy, social studies, and science. However, educators cannot teach what they do not understand, practice, or model. The problem addressed by this study was some educators in private schools lack training in social emotional learning,…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Faculty Development, Experiential Learning, Private Schools
Farris, Rachel L. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Experiential learning (EL) is often perceived as valuable to education and prioritized in higher education curricula. The value of EL from the student perspective has been researched, but few have explored faculty perspectives in business programs. The purpose of this study was to explore faculty perceptions of the meaning of EL, implementation…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Business Administration Education, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Chambers-Turner, Ruth C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Supplemental instruction (SI), a peer assisted learning model, improves course performance, retention, and graduation rates of post-secondary education students. Researchers have questioned if the success of SI is due to students becoming more aware of assessment demands or if SI also promotes construction of new knowledge. The purposes of this…
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, Case Studies, Community Colleges, Grounded Theory
Olivar, Sarah Mae – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In this qualitative study, the author used case study research methods to explore school practices for engaging racially, ethnically, linguistically, socioeconomically, and structurally diverse families in their children's education. In addition, this study explored how families perceive their roles in their children's education and provided space…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Cultural Background, Family School Relationship, Case Studies
F. Michelle Bringas – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While little research has been conducted on Asian undocumented students in higher education, it was the powerful story of an Asian undocumented high school student, Tereza Lee, that inspired Senator Richard Durbin to co-author immigration legislation known as the 2001 DREAM Act. Tereza's story represents an important counter-story to what many…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, High School Students, Immigration, Legislators
Joi Lin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation describes a qualitative research study that grows our understanding of the career development experiences, supports, and barriers of social entrepreneurs who are gifted adults (SEGA) so that we may nurture the career development of future SEGA. Research questions for this study probed the career development experiences, supports,…
Descriptors: Gifted, Adults, Entrepreneurship, Criticism
Adam Liter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation presents a series of case studies concerned with whether the signal in a given set of measurements that we take in the course of linguistic inquiry reflects grammatical competence or performance factors. We know that performance and competence do not always covary, yet it is not uncommon to assume that measurements that we take…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grammar, Linguistic Competence, Measurement Techniques
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