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Increasing Transitions to College for Returning Adults with Low Academic Skills
(2012-09-13)
University of Washington Abstract Increasing Transitions to College for Returning Adults with Low Academic Skills Teresa J. Cox Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Emeritus Dr. Steven G. Olswang Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, College of Education Recent studies have shown that students who are former ...
Determining and Testing an Alternative Model for the Evaluation of Responses to a Standardized Test of Mathematics
(2012-09-13)
State standardized tests of mathematics are generally organized around a set of learning objectives set forth by the state or some other body. Items are sampled from these learning objectives and student reports are often partially based on the number of items within each objective(s) answered correctly. This paper sets forth ...
The Relationship between Household/Parental Structure and Student Performance on Standardized Tests
(2013-02-25)
The purpose of this study is to analyze the reliability of household structure as a means of predicting student performance on standardized tests. How well a student performs on standardized tests is a key component of federal assessments and is ultimately used to determine the quality and success of schools. Raising these ...
Parent Satisfaction Survey of the Infant-Toddler Program at the Experimental Education Unit
(2012-09-13)
In this study, parent satisfaction with their child's birth to three program was evaluated. Responses among different family groups were then compared. A parent satisfaction and family needs survey was given to all seventy families in the Infant and Toddler Program at the Experimental Education Unit in Seattle, Washington. ...
Moving Away from Sometimes, Some of Us, Somewhere: A Sociocultural Approach to Creativity
(2012-09-13)
Creativity has long been misunderstood as the result of individual difference - associated with genius, the arts and personality traits. Scientific inquiry, in fields such as expertise-based research, cognitive research, evolutionary research and psychometric research, has disproven some of these long held "everyday understandings" ...
Necessary But Not Sufficient: Funding Equity Measures and Adequacy Across and Within Districts in Washington State
(2012-09-13)
This thesis examines school funding equity measures currently used to assess inter-district equity and explores options for assessing intra-district equity. This type of analysis may prove to be very useful for school district administrators and Washington State policymakers as new legislation is implemented to address the ...
Early Learning with Digital Media: A Naturalistic, Ethnographic Investigation of Children's Engagement with and Learning from Television and Digital Technology in Early Childhood
(2012-08-10)
Digital media is a broad concept that includes everything from movies to video games to websites. These media are cultural norms for young people, becoming part of their identity as they use and create content. In this dissertation I discuss the observed diversity of interactions that children from infancy through kindergarten ...
An Empirical Study of the Conceptualization of Overall Organizational Justice and Its Relationship with Psychological Empowerment, Organizational Commitment and Turnover Intention in Higher Education
(2012-09-13)
Traditionally, organizational justice has been conceptualized by differentiating the construct into distributive, procedural and interactional justice. In recent years, some researchers have suggested that treating organizational justice as one concept may be a better approach, since the distributive, procedural and interactional ...
What's so special about intercollegiate special admits? Implications for Academic Support Programming
(2012-09-13)
The purpose of this case study is to gain insight into the academic, athletic and social experiences of specially admitted student-athletes in order to better understand what contributes to their lower academic performance in high school but also to further understand what obstacles they experience during their college academic ...
Native American Educational Leadership in the Pacific Northwest
(2012-09-13)
University of Washington Abstract Native Educational Leadership in the Pacific Northwest Denise M. Bill Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Dr. Kathy Kimball College of Education The increase in reservation based schools and community colleges bear witness to the value of Indigenous knowledge. Continuing in the footsteps of ...