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Factors affecting teacher retention in a local school district.
(2020-04-09)
Teacher turnover is high in many school systems throughout the world. However, school systems in a small number of countries consistently present low annual teacher turnover rates. A growing body of research shows that ...
Principals' perceptions of self-efficacy to administer special education in relation to regional education service center professional learning opportunities.
(2020-03-06)
The purpose of this doctoral study was to investigate Texas principals’ perceptions of self-efficacy to administer special education services. An additional focus was the degree to which principals perceived the professional ...
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 ...
The search for a new order : a historical evaluation of community-based accountability in Texas public education.
(2020-02-20)
The purpose of this study was to advance understanding of the perceptions of educational leaders promoting community-based accountability systems in Texas. Specifically, this study analyzed the educational intents of ...
Race, space, and saving face.
(2020-04-09)
Despite diversity on college campuses increasing nationwide, higher education institutions still struggle to promote diversity and inclusion equally. The current literature shows a need to better understand the relationship ...
The effects of chronic absenteeism in kindergarten on third-grade STAAR scores.
(2020-04-21)
This study was an investigation of whether or not kindergarten attendance was associative with and predictive of student performance on the third-grade state of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness for both mathematics ...
The influence of engineering identity, harmonious passion, and obsessive passion on grit in engineering students.
(2020-04-22)
Research has shown that individuals tend to remain committed to long-term goals when they are passionate about what they are doing and when some part of their self-concept is tied to their goals. This study uses engineering ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...