Browsing Peabody College by Title
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(2022-12)Vanderbilt athletics sponsors 16 highly competitive varsity-level sports teams; that include some of the best collegiate student-athletes in the world. While Vanderbilt athletics provides a quality experience for a diverse ...
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(2022-08)Understanding the motivations of their donors will help nonprofit organizations improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness in fundraising appeals of all types. This quality improvement project sought to understand ...
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(2023-08)The Rural Schools Association (RSA) of New York is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1978 to address the concerns and needs of rural and small school districts of New York State (NYS). Rural communities and ...
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(2023-08)This study assesses the relationship between employee engagement and performance in a university advancement office within a private R1 university in New England. In a mixed methods approach, quantitative data included ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-04-23)Observations of six middle and high school Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools classrooms in the fall of 2007 raised questions about the clarity of the secondary ESL curriculum and about the knowledge that ESL teachers ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2018-05)Under the terms of the NCLB Waiver, each state was required to identify and label the lowest-performing five percent of schools for "priority" status. Districts were offered four models from which they could choose: external ...
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(2022-12)We conducted a phenomenological evaluation of an investment banking firm’s services to consider potential strategies for addressing the cultural aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions (“M&A”) within the pre-transaction phase ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-06-14)SRA's Open Court Reading is a research-based literacy program that has been adopted in schools across the nation. The program exhibits a number of strengths, including effectiveness in raising reading test scores and ...
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(2022-05)This quality improvement project aims to help IowaBIG, a public school project-based-learning program, identify potential ways to improve stakeholder legitimacy. This mixed-methods project found strengths in stakeholder ...
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(2023-12)This capstone project focused on exploring what factors, processes or characteristics may facilitate better implementation of a comprehensive clinical education program for Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing ...
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(2022-08)The partner organization for this Capstone Project was the American Red Cross of Nebraska-Iowa. The Red Cross is the largest supplier of life-saving blood products in the U.S. Douglas County, home to Omaha, is a major ...
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(2022-08)The purpose of this capstone project was to explore possibilities to improve the viability of vocational education and training in the rural communities of Goris and Sisian, Armenia. Goris Partnership and Teaching NGO (P&T) ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2019-04-19)Over the last decade, an increasing number of school districts have focused on school finance reform as a critical component of school improvement initiatives. One approach - known as student-based budgeting, student-based ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-09-15)The evidence supporting the inclusion of children's cultures and backgrounds into the classroom and curriculum is strong, and multicultural children's literature provides the perfect means to achieve this goal. Along with ...
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(2022-08)This project investigates the conflicts that arose when the professional development organization Show Me Literacies Collaborative worked with school districts in and around St. Louis, Missouri. Mixed-methods research using ...
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(2020-12)This capstone project aimed to answer the following problem of practice: How can a nonprofit increase donor retention for long-term LGBTQ nonprofit sustainability? The focal site for this study was One Colorado, the state’s ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-05)
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(2023-05)Kennesaw State University is a large public university located in Kennesaw, Georgia, with approximately 42,000 students enrolled between two campuses. About 25 percent of the KSU undergraduate student population identifies ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)This capstone essay focuses on the role of motivation in the middle grades Language Arts classroom. I frame the essay through an investigation balanced on the importance of intrinsic motivation and its relationship with ...