Browsing Department of Educational Leadership by Title
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An examination of leadership development strategies of fast-growth public-school districts in Texas.
(2020-02-05)The Lamar Consolidated Independent School District (LCISD) hires over a dozen campus administrators annually. This has created a repetitive struggle to find internal candidates who are effectively prepared to fill these ... -
Causes and differences in retention of white, African American, and Hispanic students who progressed toward graduation after first year in college.
(2010-10-08)African American and Hispanic students' retention rates in college have revealed that minority students are much more likely than white students to drop out of college. Additionally, minority students' graduation rates ... -
College student identity formation and negotiation in the context of study abroad.
(2017-03-31)The distinct structure and environment of institutions of higher learning directly influence and validate the identities, roles, and statuses of students. Study abroad programs represent one such sub-environment of colleges ... -
Community college success coaching : a phenomenological exploration.
(2019-07-12)The purpose of this study was to develop an in-depth understanding of the essence of the emerging success coach profession and to understand how these community college student affairs staff members articulate and analyze ... -
Conceptualizing the undocumented college student's legal status.
(, 2014-06-11)Undocumented students in pursuit of a college education face a unique intersection of conflicting identities: one that potentially gives them a higher societal status by joining the social category of “college student,” ... -
Demographic characteristics and workload perceptions of higher education faculty in Texas who prepare K-12 principals.
(2010-06-23)Research shows that the role of the K–12 principal is a significant factor in school improvement. Principal preparation programs have been criticized for inadequately preparing their graduates for the challenges they must ... -
Department chairs' perceptions of music transfer student success.
(2007-02-14)The purpose of this study was to describe and understand the perceptions department chairs had of various attributes that contributed to two-year music transfer student success, in upper-level instruction at a four-year ... -
Derailed : an interpretivist study of how senior-level higher education administrators experience and navigate job loss.
(2020-11-05)This qualitative study used a multi-frame interpretivist approach to explore academic leaders’ involuntary or unwanted job departures—derailment. Informed by interviews with executive-level college and university administrators ... -
Development of a scale to measure Academic Capital in high-risk college students.
(, 2013-09-16)The purpose of this study was to create a psychometric instrument that quantitatively measures academic capital in college students. St. John, Hu, and Fisher (2011) define academic capital as a set of social processes that ... -
The development of an instrument to determine the relevance and validity of the Educational Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC) Standards for Advanced Programs in Educational Leadership.
(2008-10-15)The Educational Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC), in 2002, created Standards for Advanced Preparation Programs in Educational Leadership. The purposes of this study, using Texas superintendents, were to: (1) design ... -
Differences in parental involvement typologies among Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y parents : a study of select bay area region of Houston elementary schools.
(2011-01-05)The purpose of this study was to determine whether differences existed among generations (Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y) regarding the levels of parental involvement within each of these generations. Also ... -
Differences in self-efficacy and global-mindedness between short-term and semester-long study abroad participants of selected Christian universities.
(2006-05-28)It has been suggested that the human experience is an increasingly globalized one in which people have multiple cross-cultural exchanges or interactions. Given the growing the global interdependence and awareness of common ... -
Diversity in students’ personal networks : an egocentric network analysis of diversity’s role in student thriving.
(2019-04-23)Racial and ethnic diversity has previously been linked with a multitude of positive benefits in business, K-12 education, higher education, and in communities. Additionally, The Thriving Quotient is a mechanism for better ... -
Do gender and expertise matter? An exploration of athletic product endorsement in China.
(2020-07-15)This study examined the effect of an athlete endorser’s gender-sport fit and expertise in the decision-making process of athlete endorsed product impressions in a Chinese sports market. The result of this study showed that ... -
Does gender matter? Transfer students' perceptions of their transition experiences.
(, 2014-06-11)This study focuses on the role of gender in the meaning-making processes of transfer students and their selection and use of institutional and non-institutional resources during their transitions to a new university. ... -
Effective middle school practices to reduce the frequency with which students share sexually explicit content.
(2020-01-16)The Central Independent School District (CISD) has experienced an uptick in student sexting incidents at the middle school level. It is the opinion of Central ISD and the researcher that additional efforts are required ... -
Elementary principals' attitudes towards the inclusion of students with disabilities in the general education setting.
(2006-12-11)Since the beginning of special education, educators have explored the topic of how best to serve students with disabilities. Only recently have schools begun to integrate students with disabilities in mainstream classrooms. ... -
Evaluating the effects of counseling services on student retention.
(2011-05-12)Although some research exists regarding the connection between counseling and retention, few studies have been conducted in the past decade that examine the current student population. This study is an effort to bridge a ... -
Examining junior high principals’ perceptions of a delayed school start time.
(2020-04-03)The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine the perceptions of junior high school principals as they relate to a change in school start time policy in a large suburban school district. Throughout the last two ... -
Examining the effect of Enneagram competence on empathy in college students.
(2018-04-19)The Enneagram is a personality system that describes nine personality types with distinct underlying motivations that drive behavior. The Enneagram exists to help people understand themselves and others, so the purpose ...