Browsing Leadership, Policy, and Organizations Capstone Projects by Title
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-05)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-05)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2020-05)The school principal plays a significant role in a school’s success, and research highlights the importance of principals learning through others (Smylie, Murphy, & Louis, 2020). Unfortunately, principals often work alone. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2021-05)Small, private, liberal arts colleges face challenges in enrolling first-year students due to demographic trends impacting their target populations and unsustainable financial aid allocation strategies. Marietta College, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2019-05)In recent decades, research demonstrating both that teacher quality significantly influences student achievement and that teacher effectiveness varies considerably has stimulated a number of reforms aimed to improve the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-05)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2019-05)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2009-05)In an effort to address issues of teacher quality, the AISD (Austin Independent School District) began implementation of AISD REACH: a Strategic Compensation Initiative in July 2007. The initiative targets three key areas: ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-04)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2019)Since the historic 2001 passage and subsequent implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, NCLB, schools and districts across the nation have been held accountable in one way or another for student achievement. These ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-05)The initiation of the era of educational accountability brought with it an abundance of data on student performance in the form of outcome results from standardized tests. These test scores provide information for the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2022)At the request of Model University administration, a team of Vanderbilt University EdD students in Higher Education Leadership and Policy investigated the impacts of Model’s Residential Community (RC) system on students ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05)On average, more than a quarter of all entering first-time, full-time students do not return to their institution for a second year. One in five fail to persist at all. Yet, “of the 45 percent of students who start college ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2009-04)Independent schools are private schools not dependent upon any outside organization for governance or financing. They are truly independent with regard to operations and finances, and they follow a mission that drives ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2009-05)This exploratory study of Greek life was conducted in response to a request by Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, where administrators are interested in learning more about fraternity and sorority life at the College. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2013-05)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2021-05)This study aims to build a deeper understanding of the extent to which liberal arts experiences lead to the building of liberal arts skills and to determine whether these skills ultimately help students arrive at their ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2020-05)This exploration into the extant literature surrounding Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) was conducted with the underlying goals of discovering the activities, practices, and polices that Lane College ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2019-05)In this study, we utilize a logic model adapted from Tinto’s (1975) Interactionalist Theory and the Theory of Student Departure in Commuter Colleges and Universities by Braxton et al. (2004) to measure determinants of ...