Teachers of children with disabilities--Attitudes; Mainstreaming in education; Students with disabilities
This dissertation is an examination of general education teacher's attitudes toward the inclusion of students with special needs in their classroom and the variables that influence these attitudes. A theoretical framework for the examination of...
The number of refugees being uprooted from their homes to seek refuge and resettlement in countries like the United States continues to grow, with large numbers being children. While each refugee group has its own set of challenges when adjusting...
Educational leadership; School improvement programs; School management and organization
This study examines how two schools utilized elements of distributed leadership to implement strategies from a reform intervention for whole school and classroom improvement planning from data. The notion of distributed leadership was refined in a...
This dissertation provides an examination of contributing factors to high quality teacher-student relationships during adolescence. High quality teacher-student relationships have been linked to better academic, emotional, and social functioning...
The process of transition from high school to adult life is particularly important for students with mild disabilities because these students show a pattern of overwhelmingly low expectations and progress. Transition services, self-determination,...
Middle school education--Case studies; Academic achievement--Kentucky; Home and school--Kentucky
This dissertation is a case study of 109 students and their parents from a small rural, middle school community in Western Kentucky. It seeks to determine the interrelationships between conservative Protestant Parent Values (Parent Rural Values and...
Student counselors--Kentucky--Attitudes; Student counselors--Training of
This study addressed the administrative task of recruiting school counselors in the largest school district of Kentucky, a state undergoing systemic school reform. The participants (N = 553) were elementary (n = 162), middle (n = 113), and high (n...
Band directors--Attitudes; High school principals--Attitudes; Bands (Music)--Instruction and study
The purpose of this study was to survey secondary school administrator and band director perceptions regarding the implementation of Kentucky's Core Content for Assessment 4.1 (CCA 4.1) in Music in the band programs at their schools. Secondary...
Indians of North America--British Columbia; Literacy--British Columbia--Case studies
This dissertation examines the literacy practices of a group of First Nations women who live in British Columbia and whose jobs entail the production and dissemination of texts which reflect the local, Carrier, culture. In this qualitative study of...
The middle school years are most difficult because students now have to use reading to learn in all content areas. Low-performing students who daily face reading difficulties in school often feel helpless in their desire to become better readers...
School superintendents--United States; School management and organization--United States; School principals--United States; Leadership--United States; Ethics--United States; Teaching
The need for moral leadership in schools compels us to seek new models for school leadership. This self-study captures the actual experience of a beginning principal using a reflective practitioner methodology in an effort to explore the...
Calculators--Study and teaching (Middle school); Functions--Study and teaching (Middle school); Algebra--Graphic methods; Computer-assisted instruction
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of TI-Nspire graphing calculator use on student achievement and on teacher behavior variables of planning, teaching, and assessing. This study investigated the teaching of functions by teachers...
Teacher-student relationships; Interaction analysis in education; Problem youth--Education (Secondary)
The interactions between teachers and students provide a venue for instructional delivery and ultimately student achievement in the school setting. However, not all students experience positive interactions with teachers in the typical classroom...
School employees--discipline; Labor laws and legislation--United States; Privacy, Right of--United States; Labor discipline--United States
The right to discipline a P-12 public school employee for off-duty conduct remains unclear. Historically, society has held teachers up to a higher standard of conduct than persons in most other professions. The researcher traced the...
Teachers of children with disabilities--Attitudes; Teacher-student relationships; Developmentally disabled children--Education; Affective education
The First Step to Success early intervention program (Walker, 1998) is a
secondary prevention intervention that targets primary grade children with moderate or
emerging behavior disorders. While the effectiveness of the First Step to Success...
Experiential learning; College students--Medical care; Interns (Medicine)
This exploratory study was conducted using a descriptive design and examined the use of college health centers for academic internships and clinical rotations. In addition, the study examined the relationship among health center director and school...
Christian leadership--Case studies; Rural churches--Kentucky; Clergy; School improvement programs; Educational leadership
This qualitative study sought to illuminate successful practices of a turnaround leader in a rural church that are applicable cross-contextually, so as to inform the leadership efforts of various organizations seeking to reproduce organizational...
First year teachers--In-service training; Teacher turnover; Teachers--Job satisfaction
Experts attribute the teacher shortage to an increase in population while others
cite the retirement of a critical mass of baby boomers who came into teaching in the mid
to late twentieth century. Other experts argue that the teaching shortage is...
This dissertation is an exploratory study of teacher risk taking. The risk-taking literature in education and other types of organizations is lacking in studies exploring the concept of healthy risk taking and how that risk taking is related to...
College dropouts--Prevention; Social work education--Kentucky--Louisville; Social workers--Training of--Kentucky--Louisville; Academic achievement--Kentucky--Louisville
This study tested a hypothetical model for predicting both graduate GPA and graduation of University of Louisville Kent School of Social Work Master of Science in Social Work (MSSW) students entering the program during the 2001-2005 school years....
