Browsing by Subject "education"
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(2013-04-18)Department: HistoryFrom the 1920s to the 1940s, 350 colleges and more than 2,000 public schools throughout the South were using in their courses curricular materials designed to stress African-American achievements and point out the many ...
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(2005-07-26)Department: Teaching and LearningThis study analyzes the development of statistical reasoning during several mathematics classes of an intact fourth-grade classroom. The teacher and her students were members of a multi-year teacher-researcher collaborative ...
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(2022-08)Institutional Review Boards (IRB) have consistently innovated flexible and creative approaches to their work where federal research regulations and published literature are noticeably silent. For example, federal regulations ...
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(2023-08)For our study on belongingness among independent school educators, we partnered with the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) to explore how feelings of belonging influence faculty retention in these schools. ...
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(2021-07-23)Department: SociologyUsing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 – Young Adult Sample (N=464), this study examines the relationship between college attainment and self-esteem among Black adults. Further, I examine whether ...
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(2011-04-18)Department: Latin American StudiesThis thesis evaluates the impact of the Brazilian Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program, Bolsa Família, on educational outcomes with special attention to student performance. In Brazil, CCTs in education first appeared ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-10-12)This paper argues against the sense of inescapable reality engendered by capitalism and discusses how playing out a re-imagined reality at school could defy this world. I utilize the concept of “figured worlds” as a lens ...
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(Wiley, 2021-12-11)We studied if clinicians could gain sufficient working knowledge of a computer-assisted diagnostic decision support system (DDSS) (SimulConsult), to make differential diagnoses (DDx) of genetic disorders. We hypothesized ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2021-04)This paper is a reflection of all my knowledge of the TESOL field gained and distilled from my two-year learning experience at Vanderbilt University. In this paper, my vision of a qualified and excellent EFL teacher is ...
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(2019-07-17)Department: EconomicsImproving population health, educating adolescents, and reducing crime rates are all goals that economists and policy makers share. To practice evidence-based decision making, policy makers must be informed about how ...
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(2024-03-18)Department: EconomicsIn this dissertation I use modern microeconomic methods to examine the impact of K-12 education policy interventions on student outcomes. In the first chapter I explore how increased funding for school policing and sentiment ...
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(2017-04-10)Department: Community Research and ActionAttending and graduating from college has become an essential tool for social mobility over the last several decades. However, despite efforts to expand opportunities to increase college access for all students, there is ...
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(2012-12-12)Department: Community Research and ActionThis work reflects an exploratory ecological study of a charter school (CDS) serving refugee, immigrant, and native-born American students in kindergarten through sixth grade. Bronfrenbrenner's (1977; 1986) ecology of human ...
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(2022-08)The Military Interstate Children’s Compact Commission (MIC3) advocates for military children in academic, social, and emotional transitions. This quality improvement project explored the main contributing factors to ...
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(2019-11-19)Department: Computer ScienceComputer science literacy is becoming increasingly important. As technology integrates with every aspect of our lives, so does our need for understanding it. Cybercrime is rapidly growing and there is a shortage of people ...
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(2019-08-20)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesResearch shows that access to high-quality early childhood education and care can reduce the achievement gap at kindergarten entry. However, the evidence on medium- and long-term outcomes from early childhood interventions ...
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(Journal of Legal Education, 2017)Students who leave their JD program before graduation leave empty handed, without an additional degree or other credential indicating that their law school studies had any professional, educational, or marketable value. ...
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(2023-05)Diversity, equity, and inclusion are often cited as organizational values and/or part of an organization’s mission, especially in the education sector. However, there is limited research on the impact leadership integrity ...
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(2017-08-09)Department: SociologyThis paper considers classroom gender inequity and its causes. It specifically does this by analyzing the authors and protagonists of major literary works read in United States freshmen English classes. This paper finds ...
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(2003-12-01)Department: Education & Human DevelopmentThis study is based on pilot work that suggested that what makes hobbies engaging for adults is the opportunity to create an artifact that can be customized and shared. Further pilot studies showed that these same ...