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Withrow, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This phenomenological action research study examined the experiences of minority students who participated in service learning activities at Northern Kentucky University. Five individual interviews were completed with students, consisting of undergraduate, graduate, and university alumni. Interviews uncovered five overarching themes. The five…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Minority Group Students, Whites, Institutional Characteristics
Culross, Richard – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In Kentucky, over 100 school principals are replaced yearly. In many cases assistant principals will be the replacement principals, but they must have the leadership experience and skills necessary to prepare them for the principalship. This descriptive action research gathered principals' recollections about their own preparedness levels in the…
Descriptors: Principals, Assistant Principals, Action Research, Instructional Leadership
Mirny, A.; Wiske, M. S.; Joo, J.; Cunningham, G.; Daniels, D.; Farid, A. B.; Gordon, F.; Madani, R.; Nissen, S. C. – Online Submission, 2010
A year-long collaborative action research project used networked technologies to connect researchers at a university-based online professional development program and a group of practitioner researchers based in a range of schools and educational agencies in several countries. They studied the process and effects of online professional development…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Professional Development
Brown, David W., Ed.; Witte, Deborah, Ed. – Kettering Foundation, 2008
"Higher Education Exchange" publishes case studies, analyses, news, and ideas about efforts within higher education to develop more democratic societies. Contributors to this issue of the "Higher Education Exchange" examine whether institutions of higher learning are doing anything to increase the capacity of citizens to shape…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Democracy, Public Health, Partnerships in Education