| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| The Freshman Academy Impact: A Comparison of Ninth Grade Structures Through Analyses of Student Perceptions and Performance Data |
2012 |
10446 |
A student’s transition from middle school to high school can prove to be a difficult time, often leading to an academic decline, an increase in the number of accumulated discipline referrals, and an increase in absences. In order to help students mak... |
| The Opportunity Gap: Rural Gifted Students Left Behind |
2020 |
1706 |
This study looks at the opportunity gap in identification, opportunities, financial resources, and learning outcomes due to the contexts of urban versus rural districts. Results revealed significant differences in the percent of students identified, ... |
| The Fabric Of Success: A Narrative Inquiry Into Issues Of Gender Equity For American And South African Women Educational Leaders |
2022 |
335 |
My research compared the paths of women educational leaders in the Southern United States and South Africa. This study, which utilized narrative inquiry framed by a quilting metaphor, took swatches of the stories of women educators to create one quil... |
| Hallmarks of Successful Emerging Leader Programs: An Exploration of Effective First-Year, Non-Positional, Co-Curricular Emerging Leader Programs at Colleges and Universities. |
2015 |
1731 |
Throughout the United States, colleges and universities invest heavily in first year programming. Many of these institutions provide leadership development programs for students. The programs at the intersection at these two efforts are often called... |
| Stories Of Contradiction In Policy And Practice: Challenging The Unspoken Realities Of Accountability Policies In Public Education |
2018 |
803 |
The purpose of this study is to understand the subjective reality of a teacher working in a low-performing school and how this reality influences their self-efficacy and autonomy in the classroom. The effectiveness of using designations and performan... |
| The Impact of Student Mobility, Gender, and Title I Status on Measures of School Accountability |
2011 |
2930 |
The purpose of this study was to explore how student mobility affects school achievement in math and reading using archived testing data provided by Catawba County Schools, North Carolina. This study also explored relationships between student mobili... |
| Professional Learning Communities and Teacher Efficacy: A Correlational Study |
2011 |
32964 |
This research investigated the correlational relationship between professional learning communities (PLCs) as a structure for job-embedded professional development and participating teachers’ self-efficacy. The specific research questions for this s... |
| The Perceived Impacts Of School Choice On North Carolina Public School Districts |
2023 |
265 |
The purpose of this study is to determine the perceived impacts of school choice on North Carolina public school districts through the lens of public school Superintendents. One such perceived impact that arises from school choice is that of declinin... |
| The Effect Of Decolonization Of The North Carolina American History I Curriculum From The Indigenous Perspective |
2021 |
601 |
This dissertation set out to determine the impact of infusing Cherokee history, cultural topics and themes within the North Carolina American History I curriculum in an effort to investigate the decolonization of the teaching of American history to E... |