Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Leadership and Policy Studies"
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(2009-10-15)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe objective of this dissertation is to understand the circumstances under which non-experimental methods yield unbiased estimates of the effect of magnet school attendance on student achievement. This dissertation has ...
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(2019-06-19)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis mixed-methods dissertation uses benchmark data to explore how schools in a large urban district responded to shifting accountability policy incentives as the state changed from No Child Left Behind (NCLB) to a waiver ...
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(2006-10-26)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesDespite speculation that the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001’s (NCLB) finely tuned attention to improving academic opportunities for traditionally low-performing students and student subgroups compromises educational ...
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(2011-04-13)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis study provides information about the socialization experiences of African American college students within historically Black and predominantly White institutional contexts. Drawing on Weidman’s (1989) conceptual ...
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(2012-08-10)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesEnglish language learners are one of the most rapidly growing demographic groups of students in the United States. A key goal for this group of students is to transition out of English language learner status by demonstrating ...
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(2018-06-07)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe prevailing public discourse surrounding the effects of teacher tenure in public education is starkly divided. In recent years, a number of states have enacted tenure reforms, thereby potentially transforming the landscape ...
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(2016-07-19)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesHigh payments and default on undergraduate debt have consequences. These high payments and defaults are national concerns if aversion to those consequences deters students from making optimal postbaccalaureate decisions ...
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(2005-11-02)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis dissertation reports results of five studies designed to assess the validity of the VaNTH Observation System (VOS), which was developed to assess the implementation of “How People Learn” (HPL) (Bransford, Brown, & ...
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(2018-04-12)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe recent adoption of career and college ready standards also coincides with the adoption of new statewide accountability assessments aligned to these standards. While the development of assessments aligned to these ...
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(2013-12-19)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis paper is to identify the relationship between parental socioeconomic status, social capital within the family, social capital within a school, technological capital and students' scores for college entrance in South ...
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(2019-06-17)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis dissertation is comprised of three studies that examine the likelihood of exiting the college-going pipeline, test the framing of a text messaging intervention, and explore the transition and enrollment experience for ...
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(2018-06-27)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe factors that enter into the decision to enroll in tertiary education, as well as their outcomes, are well documented. For instance, student preferences in enrollment decisions, the salience of financial aid in the ...
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(2015-07-06)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesIn this dissertation, I examine the variation in 1992-1993 four-year college graduates’ ten year post-graduation earnings as a function of their parents’ socioeconomic status and college’s rank. I also compare variation ...
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(2017-08-09)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesAmerican children of lower-income, Black, or Hispanic parents are more likely to suffer from poorer health, poorer academic performance, and ultimately poorer earnings, higher imprisonment, and earlier deaths than children ...
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(2013-04-01)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis dissertation project is concerned with corruption in higher education as a newly emerging topic in the field of education research. In this study, I defined corruption in higher education and developed a conceptual ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesAs states continue to implement merit-based financial aid programs, despite the well reported social ills of such programs, the research literature is surprisingly void of any systematic consideration of how states determine ...
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(2007-04-05)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis ethnographic study begins by outlining two competing conceptions of democracy, the participatory and representative views. These conceptions frame an analysis of the practices for socialization for democratic citizenship ...
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(2008-03-31)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis study uses event history analysis to examine the origins of collaborative efforts between K-12 and higher education systems through the formation of statewide P-16 councils. The development of these joint organizational ...
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(2014-03-29)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe purpose of this dissertation is to examine the shifting trends in the provision and funding of non-government schools in developing countries over the past 20 years, with an emphasis on the rise of low-cost private ...
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(2019-05-31)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesEducation scholars have long recognized the importance of high-quality leadership for the success of schools. However, our understanding of the labor market for principals remains quite shallow. In particular, there is a ...