Dissertations of graduates of the Doctor of Education - Educational Leadership approved in the 2020-2021 academic years. NOTE: To see all the content in this collection, click on the search icon without search terms.
Understanding the impact of school leadership on student achievement is important in meeting the ever-rising demands on public education. School leaders are expected to enact change and drive schools to success. Developing the...
Fach:
Leadership, Student Achievement und Professional Development
Schöpfer:
Thurman, Anna M.
Mitwirkender:
Hedgpeth, Pamela (Committee Chair), Fong, Benny (Committee Member) und Sappington, Kent (Committee Member)
In 1975, Congress passed the original Education for All Handicapped Children Act. It was renewed in 1990, 1997, and 2004. During the first revision, the name was changed to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of...
Fach:
Disabilities, Student Success und Special Education
Education preparation programs have studied the impact of authentic experience using student teaching and even a year-long internship model. Unfortunately, teachers are still leaving the profession within the first five years...
Fach:
Student Teaching, Classroom Management und Teacher Retention
The dual purpose of this qualitative narrative-phenomenological study was, first, to understand the lived experiences of school leader's decision-making during the spring 2020, COVID-19 school shut down and how the experience...
This study assesses the relationship between job satisfaction and attrition of special education teachers. The study uses The Job Satisfaction Survey by Spector (1985) to determine the level of satisfaction of special education...
Fach:
Teacher Attrition, Job Satisfaction und Special Education Teachers
Schöpfer:
Rinne, Jarad
Mitwirkender:
Arnold, Michael (Committee Chair), Hedgpeth, Pam (Committee Chair) und Perry, Robert (Committee Chair)
This study was based on the idea that a collaborative, interactive system of evaluation would provide an opportunity for growth in the craft of teaching, resulting in a more effective teacher, which in turn might result in an...
The purpose of this basic narrative qualitative study was to explore the experiences of first- and second-year teachers and mentors regarding professional learning and new teacher mentoring programs from three highly effective...
Fach:
Teacher Mentoriing und Professional Development
Schöpfer:
Mitchell, Traci D.
Mitwirkender:
Hedgpeth, Pamela (Committee Chair), Fong, Benny (Committee Member) und Asbill, Richard (Committee Member)
According to the UNESCO (2017) definition, open educational resources (OER) are “teaching, learning, or research materials that are in the public domain or released with intellectual property licenses that facilitate the free...
Fach:
Open Educational Resources (OER), Adoption Rate und Diffusion of Innovation
Increasing rates of out-of-school suspensions and mental health reports across the nation paint a picture of increasing instability and inequity among our nation’s youth (Shapiro, 2018; DeJulius & McLean, 2019). Choices...
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the phenomenon incurred when a school district in southwest Missouri offered ninth grade Algebra 1 course content using two different instructional approaches – a...
