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Gauging Factors Associated with School Reform Task Completion: An Application of Text Analysis Methods in Policy Implementation
Prior research has suggested the importance of policy implementation, and various studies have researched how policies are put into effect (Durlak & DuPre, 2008; Schofield, 2001). However, there is limited quantitative ... -
Gender differences in long-term postschool outcomes for youth with mild mental retardation, learning disabilities and no disabilities: myth or reality?
(1993)In the past decade major efforts have been undertaken to examine the postschool life of youth who were served in special education. The follow-up study has been the primary method used by investigators seeking answers to ... -
Gender is a Difference that Makes a Difference: Examining Teaching Practice Using Jane Roland Martin's Theory of Education
Evidence of gender roles and dichotomies can be observed in a variety of ways in the elementary school classroom. Often, these roles and dichotomies are reflective of the values that society holds. To further explore gender ... -
General Education Development (GED) Recipients’ Life Course Experiences: Humanizing the Findings
This study examines a range of GED recipients’ life course contexts and experiences and their relationship with long-term outcomes. Using descriptive comparisons, bivariate tests, and propensity-score matched regression ... -
Getting out of trouble: understanding developmental pathways from early adolescence to adulthood
(2003)This comparative case study describes the development, from childhood to early adulthood, of eight people who were failing in school and involved in criminal activity during early adolescence. At age twenty-five: three ... -
The Gift of Giftedness? A Closer Look at How Labeling Influences Social and Academic Self-Concept in Highly Capable Learners
(2013-07-25)This literature review examines the research related to the influence of the gifted label on the lives of highly capable learners. Using labeling theory, stereotype threat, and identity development as a theoretical framework ... -
Girls’ Vocational Education at Chemawa Indian School 1900-1930s: A Story of Acculturation and Self-Advocacy
This dissertation focuses on female student experiences at Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon between 1900 and the 1930s. It examines the broader meaning and significance of the federally-funded boarding school education ... -
Global Citizenship Development in College: International Service-Learning Students’ Meaning-Making after Returning Home
Several scholars argue that higher education should play a central role in facilitating the development of interculturally competent, global citizens who participate actively and constructively in our interconnected world ... -
Good Ideas and Engagement Aren't Enough: School District Central Offices and the Micro-Politics of Implementing Comprehensive Human Resource Reform
(2013-11-14)This dissertation is about how organizational politics - or what some scholars call micro-politics - shapes the implementation of comprehensive human resource (HR) reform in school district central offices. Over the last ... -
Graduate Student Motherhood: How Female Ph.D. Students Resist and Perform Idealized Norms of Work and Mothering
(2013-07-25)The current lack of women in tenured academic positions has been recently attributed to issues of gender discrimination, maternal discrimination, and work-family conflict for women. Survey research shows that women who ... -
Graduation Equity for Undergraduate Black Men: A Multilevel Analysis of Four-Year Institutional Outcomes
This study examined the organizational and state factors related to graduation equity for undergraduate Black men at 1,242 public and not-for-profit four-year institutions across the United States in 2020. Using data from ... -
“Great Social and Economic Questions Await her Interference”: Women Educators’ Contribution to and Use of Economic Thought, 1890–1930
Over the past hundred years neoclassical economics has maintained its position as the predominant school of thought in economics departments and business schools, perpetuating the idea that economics is a science that ... -
Growing From Surviving to Thriving: Negotiating Queer Sexual and Domestic Violence Survival and (Re)Empowerment Through Transformative Emergent Process in Community Gardening and Mutual Aid
Queer survivors of sexual and domestic violence struggle to find safe spaces for (re)empowerment in community with others. Through the codesign and implementation of regular meetings, six white, adult queer survivors ... -
A guided exploration model of problem-solving discovery learning
(1998)This dissertation concerns development of a model to represent problem-solving discovery learning. The model shows the steps learners must take when content is presented in a form that requires that they discover solutions ... -
Handling Item Clustering using 2PL IRT Modeling in an SEM Framework : A Demonstration with PISA 2012 Computerized Math Problems
This paper extends earlier work by Costa et al. (2021) on a method for incorporating item-varying response times into binary latent trait modeling using U.S. item-level data from the Programme for International Student ... -
Handling Missing data in Eponential Random Graph Models: A Comparison of Approaches
This dissertation represents a series of studies focused on comparing imputation approaches for single-mode networks, also known as graphs, that are missing tie information due to a variety of potential causes unrelated ... -
"Hanging On With Both Hands": Teacher Leaders and Small School Reform
(2010)Because many schools that are naturally small have experienced successful student outcomes, there has been a recent trend of converting large, comprehensive schools into smaller units, with the idea of replicating these ... -
Helping Double Rainbows Shine: How Formal and Informal School Structures Support Gender Diverse Youth on the Autism Spectrum
Ten adolescents (14 through 19 years old) diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who identify as transgender/gender diverse were interviewed to better understand their perceptions and interpretations of school ... -
High School English Language Learner (ELL) Teachers: Departments, Roles, and Agency
The work of English language learner (ELL) teachers is a central component of the education ELL students receive. Because of systemic barriers to equitable education, ELL students at the high school level have not historically ...