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SCHOOL PROFESSIONALS' PERCEPTIONS OF FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT AS RELATED TO STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
(East Carolina University, 2014)
This study examined potential relationships between North Carolina school professionals' perceptions of formative assessment and district-level EOG, EOC, and AYP proficiencies. There were three primary areas of interest ...
ADVANCING THE SCIENCE OF HIRING TEACHERS : AN ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
(East Carolina University, 2014)
This study examined the effect of teacher characteristics on student achievement as measured by the 2011 North Carolina End-of-Course English I exam. The purpose of this study is to identify teacher characteristics with a ...
THE IMPACT OF TUITION, PELL GRANTS, AND STATE APPROPRIATIONS ON COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENROLLMENT DURING CHALLENGING ECONOMIC TIMES
(East Carolina University, 2014)
This study presents the results of a quantitative analysis of the headcount enrollment of 97 community colleges in North and South Carolina and Virginia during the period fall 2003 through fall 2012, a period that included ...
PRINCIPALS’ PERCEPTIONS ABOUT THE ELEMENTS OF MENTORING SUPPORT THAT MOST IMPACT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW PRINCIPAL’S LEADERSHIP CAPACITY
(East Carolina University, 2016-04-21)
The current study sought to identify and gain a deep understanding of the elements of mentoring support that experienced principals perceive to be most effective in developing beginning principals’ leadership capacity. ...
SECONDARY TO POSTSECONDARY TRANSITION FOR STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DIFFERENCES : STUDENT AND TEACHER PERCEIVED EFFECTIVENESS OF A SERIES OF NON-COGNITIVE TRANSITION CURRICULUM MODULES
(East Carolina University, 2014)
With increasing frequency, students with learning differences are transitioning out of high school ill-prepared for the rigor and freedom of a postsecondary setting. The transition from high school to college is marked ...
COLLABORATION IN THE LOOSELY COUPLED ACADEMY
(East Carolina University, 2016-04-26)
This dissertation examines how loosely coupled university units collaborate in the achievement of institutional wide goals. Today's higher education institutions are being asked to do more with less as resources have ...
From Garbage to Garden: Composting Instructional Concepts to Improve Libguides
(2016-05-07)
LibGuides: we all have them (or something like them). If untended, broken links and out-of-date information can grow like kudzu. Most instructional librarians take a cursory glance over a guide before they teach a class, ...
UNDERSTANDING THE PERCEIVED EFFECT OF A MASTER OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION (MSA) PROGRAM ON INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP
(East Carolina University, 2016-04-25)
The role of leaders in schools has changed over the last thirty years from managers to instructional facilitators (Leithwood & Rhiel, 2003; The Wallace Foundation, 2013). The move away from an industrial assembly line ...
AN EXAMINATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP PRACTICES AND UPWARD MOBILITY WITHIN THE NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM
(East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)
The purpose of this mix-methods study is to examine the association between leadership practices of African American administrators within the North Carolina Community College System and their upward mobility as indicated ...
A PROGRAM EVALUATION OF CLASSWORKS™
(East Carolina University, 2015-11-23)
North Carolina has increased the math course requirements for graduation and the rigor of standards students are expected to master at each grade level. Richmond County School students have consistently lagged behind the ...