Dissertations / Theses: 'Continuing Education Research'

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Barnes, Johanna S. "Teachers' continuation of action research elements after conducting studies during a Master's program." Thesis, University of South Dakota, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3589862.

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Teachers are critical to student learning in the classroom, and just like students, teachers perform better when they are able to make choices based on what is relevant to them. Action research is a way for teachers to systematically inquire and reflect to make necessary improvements in practice for student learning. This study involved teachers who had conducted action research as a component of their Master's in Curriculum and Instruction program at one Midwest college. It examined teachers' perceived lasting benefits of conducting action research, the elements they continue to implement, and the supports of and limitations to continuation of the practice. As part of a mixed-method study, a researcher-developed survey was first used. Seventy-seven teachers provided responses to the online survey. Fifteen survey participants volunteered to offer narrative elaboration of their responses in a follow-up telephone interview. The compiled data included totals and percentages from the survey and themes and quotations from the teachers' narrative responses. Together, the findings revealed that 98% of the teachers felt they benefited from conducting action research. They perceived the greatest professional benefits of conducting action research to be thinking more reflectively, positively impacting student learning, and inquiring more about their practice. Teachers were continuing to conduct action research based on the impact they perceived the practice had on their students' success in the classroom. The elements they continued most often were identifying a focus, collecting and analyzing data, and reflecting on the process. This practice allowed them to learn from evaluating the effectiveness of their implementations and realize there was rigor and relevance to what they were doing. With 92% of participants desiring to continue action research, two major factors were given as greatest support for continuation. Teachers desired a combination of collaboration with peers on issues that mattered to them and time in the school day to collaborate and conduct action research.

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Crawford, Karin. "Continuing professional development in higher education : voices from below." Thesis, University of Lincoln, 2009. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/2146/.

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The purpose of this research is to further understanding of faculty-based academics’ views on what influences their understandings, behaviours and attitudes towards their continuing professional development. Informed by critical realist ontology, it is argued that it is necessary to explore academics’ understandings and accounts of professional development in their practice context in order to gain a better understanding of the complexity and differential practices that underlie professional development in academia. In doing so, the research addresses the current under-representation in the literature of the voices of faculty academics about what influences their approaches to professional development. The data collection was carried out during the academic year 2007-8, using a qualitative multi-case study approach. Methods included semi-structured, narrative interviews with academics, more structured interviews with ‘key informants’ and examination of relevant institutional documents. Findings from this research have enabled new themes and areas for reflection to emerge about the constraints and enablements academics perceive in respect of their professional development. In particular, themes such as issues of interpretation and meaning; concepts of professional status and academic values; misaligned initiatives and priorities; the influence of supportive networks; and emergent personal, individual concerns have surfaced. The conclusion is drawn that the significance of agency raises the importance of opening the debate and responding to the ‘voices from below’.

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Di, Toro Barbara S. "NON-CREDIT COMMUNITY ARTS PROGRAMS: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF THREE PROGRAMS WITHIN RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/69356.

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Educational Administration Ed.D. The purpose of Non-credit community arts programs: A comparative case study of three programs within research universities is to examine the perceptions of the various stakeholders of non-credit community arts programs to determine the perceived benefits received by all stakeholders from the non-credit program, the university, and its surrounding community, the variables of a successful program, and the sustainability of these programs within their parent institution. The research methods used included a preliminary 41-question survey distributed to 76 non-credit community arts programs embedded within colleges or universities to determine the specific programs within research universities. These 76 collegiate divisional community schools of the arts belong to the 400 members of community arts schools in the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts. The results of the survey were used to determine the three non-credit community arts programs that were selected for the case study. The case study of each of the three non-credit community arts programs was used to learn the perceptions of the various stakeholders of each of the programs and their respective parent institution. The stakeholders included research university administrators, the non-credit program's executive administrators, the program's faculty, staff, students, and parents of students that participate in the non-credit community arts programs. Site visits, interviews, either in person or via phone conversation, and review of printed materials were employed to obtain from the various stakeholders the perceived benefits of these non-credit community arts programs, the variables that contribute to a successful program and their sustainability within the research university. The diversity of the stakeholders interviewed provided a thorough observation of these programs from varying perspectives to discover their impact on the individual students as well as the university, its internal community and the community-at-large. Temple University--Theses

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Silver-Pacuilla, Heidi Vanessa. "Speaking up and speaking out: Engaging women literacy learners with disabilities in participatory action research." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280449.

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Adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) is a unique social and educational site, a borderland where marginalized youth and adults can be found. This project sought the voices and stories of women literacy learners with disabilities. The project had a dual purpose of creating practical products and conducting research. The project sought to create knowledge for program improvement and produce two products, a list of recommendations to the field and a brochure of advice to new women literacy learners (both included). The research explored the social categories of gender, literacy, and disability to contextualize existing theories with the lived experiences of low-income women with disabilities. The project was grounded in critical and feminist standpoint epistemologies that were actualized through a dialogic, participatory action research design. The data collection and management technique of the Unfolding Matrix (Padilla, 1993) was adapted to an Unfolding Venn diagram with three interlocking circles labeled Women, Literacy, and Disability. Fifteen women participated in the year-long series of monthly focus dialogues. The participants ranged in age from 20 to over 60 years old, represented a range of disability and impairment experiences, various lengths of involvement in the adult education program, and a range of ethnicities and geographic areas of childhood. The structure of the dissertation follows the design of dialogic research conducted with the technique of the adapted Unfolding Matrix. Three levels of data were analyzed: contributions to the diagram, four key discussions, and focus dialogue transcripts. Specific findings are presented as chapters in Part II: Finding Ourselves in Contradictions, Part III: Hinged Themes and Dreams, and Part IV: The Way Forward. Findings indicate the critical need for adult education and literacy programs to recognize women's unique learning needs and to engage women in dialogue so that those needs can be discovered and articulated. Access to literacy and the power of literacy includes instruction and support sensitive to individual needs. Disability issues need to be openly addressed with an attitude of critique and advocacy that can empower learners and the field to move forward on eligibility and service structures.

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Petrovick, Marian Brow. "Team research on intrinsic motivation in student populations: A continuing project." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1667.

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Rahman, Alphonsa A. "Development of a Nursing Informatics Competency Assessment Tool (NICAT)." ScholarWorks, 2015. http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1715.

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Nursing workforce competency in informatics is crucial to providing safe patient care, improving quality, and reducing healthcare costs. Assurance of informatics competency in a workforce with increasingly diverse educational preparations, demographics, and informatics skills poses significant challenges. The question addressed was the lack of nursing informatics competency assessment tool relevant to bedside nursing. The purpose of this project was to develop and review a new nursing informatics competency assessment tool designed to address the individual educational needs of newly hired nurses. The tool was designed to measure nurses' competency in computer literacy, informatics literacy, and informatics management skills recommended in the American Nurses Association's Standards and Scope of Practice and Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform. This tool supports practices at the bedside by providing individualized education according to the results of a self-assessment. The project was guided by the Benner's model and the Rosswurm and Larrabee framework. Content validity was established by item analysis, relevancy scale, and validation by the identified experts from the organization's Nursing Informatics Department (n = 4); the Department of Education, Practice, and Research (n =8); the Clinical Outcomes Department (n = 1); and bedside nurses (n = 14). The administration recommended this tool be incorporated into its strategic plan. This project promoted positive social change by developing a tool to assess informatics competencies in newly hired nurses and guide educators in developing future educational strategies. These efforts will assist in creating a workforce that is prepared to deliver healthcare safely, efficiently, and cost-effectively in the increasingly technology-savvy environment of U.S. healthcare in the 21st century.

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Dyke, Martin. "Reflective learning and reflexive modernity as theory practice and research in post-compulsory education." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2001. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2732/.

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To what extent does reflective learning in education meet the needs of learners in a reflexive modern society? The thesis constructs a late-modern case for reflective learning in post-compulsory education. It is argued that reflective learning connects with a key concept in contemporary social theory - that of reflexivity. The arguments are developed through the following key questions. • To what extent does reflective learning in post compulsory education correspond with the needs of learners in late-modernity? • What are the key characteristics of late-modernity? • Can the application of reflective learning by practitioners improve student learning in post-compulsory education? • What are the conclusions for teaching and learning in post-compulsory education that flow from this analysis of social theory and educational practice? Enlightenment and contemporary modernity is explored through a review of literature on social theory and philosophy. The second part of the thesis is concerned with praxis the testing of theory in action. Case studies in action research are used to examine how teachers seek to promote reflective learning in their practice. This exploration of theory and practice is then used to present the overall conclusions and make recommendations for future action. In many ways this thesis revisits the territory and thinking of John Dewey, It seeks to connect educational praxis to the wider social context, but from a late-modern perspective.

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Moquin, Heather. "Breathing out 'the songs that want to be sung' : a dialogue on research, colonization and pedagogy focused on the Canadian Arctic." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2146/.

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This thesis considers questioning of rigid conceptions of identity with regards the parallel and integrated contexts of the Canadian Arctic and academia. The text has been written as a conversation between texts written by Inuit (the source literature) and non-Inuit. I have searched and analyzed these sources on the broad themes of research, colonization and pedagogy. The theme of research is a guide for the first section of this thesis where I locate the research by detailing my rationales and methodologies. My objective to conduct this research ethically, responsible to writings by Inuit and others represented within this thesis, led me to use a literary approach considered by some as non-standard within the social sciences. Drawing only on secondary texts for this research, reading and writing are my methodologies and I utilize intertextuality as a theoretical and methodological guide. The theme of colonization in the Canadian Arctic provides a main focus for the second and third sections of the thesis. I review perspectives both on colonization in the Canadian Arctic, and contemporary social health challenges, and consider these in relation to the educational sphere most specifically. Colonization is discussed as something that has incurred trauma for Inuit, and as something that Inuit seek to be resilient to, but I emphasize a need to recognize diversities within the colonization and contemporary experiences of Inuit. I discuss that narratives can be misleading and potentially harmful, particularly when there is an overreliance on rigid externally-defined narratives which conflict with internal conceptions of identity. And I discuss how narratives can also be affirming, particularly when an individual has agency over the construction and the sharing processes. I consider the writings within the source literature as enactments of resilience through inherent questioning of hegemonic ‘truths’. Pedagogy is a thematic guide for the fourth section of the thesis. I suggest that under the intangible terminologies of ‘overcoming trauma’ or ‘resilience over colonization’ sit pedagogies that Inuit discuss whereby such ideals may be pursued. Learning theorists focussed more broadly promote critiques of mainstream pedagogies and ideal pedagogies similar to those discussed by Inuit. Considering these connections leads to an articulation of five characteristics of ideal pedagogies for coming to new understandings on difference: 1) a need to revalue diversities and ‘soft’ skills such as imagination; 2) a tolerance of an individual’s need for freedom to define one’s own identity; 3) a conceptualization of pedagogy as a contextualized way of living rather than a decontextualized activity; 4) the importance of a dialogic pedagogy and humility of both teacher/learner; and 5) the promotion of a cognizance, through pedagogy, that essentialisms are necessary but also potentially misleading and damaging. Such an articulation of ideal pedagogies has also guided my own learning within this research.

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Smith, Annetta. "An action research inquiry exploring the transfer of pain knowledge from a continuing education course into practice." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/474.

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Acute and chronic pain conditions have a significant impact on the individual who is experiencing pain and resolution of pain continues to present a challenge to nurses and other health care professionals. It is widely accepted that pain education for nurses is necessary if nurses are to deliver effective, evidenced based pain care. Although it has been shown that participation in pain education improves nurses’ pain knowledge, very little is known about the way in which nurses use their improved pain knowledge in their practice or about the conditions that promote application of that pain knowledge. The aims of this study are (a) to explore the transfer of pain knowledge from a continuing education nursing course into practice, and (b) to investigate the impact that the nurses’ participation in action research has on their ability to improve aspects of their pain practice. Participants are 14 registered nurses who successfully completed two accredited pain course units as part of their BSc / BN degree in Nursing. The nurses formed two groups of inquiry, who used both their participation in the pain course and in action research to investigate and change aspects of pain assessment and management practices within their clinical areas. The inquiry groups were located in two different Health Board locations in Scotland. Following involvement in a pain course, the strategies used by the participating nurses to enhance their pain assessment and management practices are examined. Qualitative data was obtained through individual and group interviews, and analysis of significant incidents. An action research approach contributes to an understanding of conditions that promote application of pain knowledge into practice following participation in the course, and focuses on the possibilities for action and improvement of pain care. The findings from this study demonstrate how nurses develop a more patient-centred approach to pain care and become more accountable for their pain practice. The research also identifies a range of strategies used by nurses to improve collaborative working practices with their colleagues that help to reduce some of the obstacles to delivery of effective pain care. From the outcomes of the inquiry, it is evident that these nurses’ participation in action research has increased the possibilities of their involvement in pain practice interventions. Conditions are created through pain course participation and involvement in action research, which supports nurses’ transfer of pain knowledge into practice Additionally, findings demonstrate the potential action research has for identifying problems with pain care and its potential for helping to develop relevant and workable solutions for improving aspects of care. The findings from this study are significant because they inform teaching and learning approaches which can be used with pain education that helps to prepare nurses to deliver more effective pain care within their health care settings.

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Handon, Erica Ann. "An Examination of the Differential Impact of University/College Research Emphasis on Levels of Counselors' Resilience." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1698.

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Counselor resilience is the ability to transform adversity into growth opportunities that become part of the professional's identity and the core values of a counselor. However, researchers have yet to identify why some counselors exhibit higher levels of resilience while others exhibit less. Counselor resilience can be learned and nurtured at any point of an individual's development. The purpose of this study was to examine how differences within the foundational edification of a research-embedded curriculum impact a counselor's level of resilience. Participants included practicing counselors who received their counseling degrees from a 2014 U.S News and World Report (USNWR) Nationally Ranked Best University\Colleges. Using a quantitative, comparative design, 123 counselors were surveyed using a demographic questionnaire and the modified CD-RISC (CD-RISC-27). An analysis of variance was used to examine the impact of differences among counseling professionals' levels of therapeutic resilience based on the ranking of the institutional and research emphasis within their respective counseling programs. The results from this study indicated that research-embedded curriculum had no significant difference in a counselor's level of resilience (p >.05). Outcomes for this study provide statistical evidence that curricular differences and university ranking do not explain the variance in counselors' demonstrated resilience. These findings validate the academic and clinical application of non-research based training programs and non-traditional learning environments.

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Louka, Marie Ruth 1965. "Operational research into the applicability of communication network analysis as a method of evaluating the multiplier effect and information decay of participant training programs." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278474.

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Sustainable international development efforts often rely on the ability of trained individuals to transfer their new knowledge to colleagues. Most USAID-funded participant training programs train for a multiplier effect. This study hypothesized that communication network analysis is an appropriate method to measure the multiplier effect and the degree of information decay of participant training. Returned Honduran participants (first generation learners) of teacher training were questioned on the nature of the relationship between them and the receiver (second generation) of the innovation information. Relationship tie strength was determined by combining measures of multiplexity, homogeneity and other indices as set forth by Granovetter (1973). Information decay was measured by questioning what was learned and taught by each generation. The study found weak ties were approached more often than intermediate or strong ties. Remarks about what was learned and what had been taught became more specific, as information flowed through generations. Communication network analysis is a promising evaluation method regardless of the training topic.

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Fean, Paul. "Coming to know about teaching, its development and researcher practice through collaborative action research with adult education teachers in Sudan." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39414/.

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This study re-presents an open-ended process of coming to know through designing, conducting and analysing an action research project with youth and adult education teachers in Khartoum, Sudan. The inquiry responds to the overarching question: What knowledge can I generate about teaching, its development and my researcher practice through collaborative action research with teachers in Sudanese youth and adult education schools? This multifaceted focus encompasses reconnaissance into teaching practices and adult education, the processes of action research and teacher development and reflexive analysis of epistemological positioning and knowledge construction through our collaborative investigation. The action research forms the substantive basis of this thesis, constituting diverse processes of coming to know by the participating teachers and myself. Our interactions as practitioners and researchers interrogated the teachers' contextualised, practical knowledge through academic mechanisms of data collection and analysis. The teachers reflected upon their taken-for-granted understandings of education, their school contexts and their practice, and re-cast them as more complex. Participation in the study resulted in the teachers becoming ‘learners-focused' by developing greater focus on their practice, by being mufetih (observant and analytical), by being close to learners and by increased experimentalism. These dispositions were combined with a shift in the teachers' epistemological positions towards ‘authoritative uncertainty', in which partial, contextualised and contingent knowledge was recognised as legitimate, facilitating re-construction of their knowledge to develop their practice. In this narrative account, the field research is framed by my evolving theoretical understandings which informed the design, analysis and re-presentation of the study. An autobiographical introduction to my experience in Sudan outlines my nascent professional stance towards education development. I then explore my increasingly critical understanding of research on teachers and pedagogy in Africa and discourse on education quality in low-income countries. I discuss the formation of my specific researcher identity through postcolonial theorisation of my ethical stance towards making a difference in the field of practice, namely Sudanese schools. In this thesis, layered re-viewing, which derives from an epistemological stance of the partiality and contingency of knowledge, facilitates re-presentation of moments in which understanding is challenged and re-formed by theorisation and experience. Re-viewing literature and theoretical analyses brings new epistemological, ontological and ethical understandings, as my focus on ‘the practical' in field research has been supplemented in the post-fieldwork period by ‘the practical' in the academy, a contested domain of knowledge production. To conclude this thesis, the position of ‘authoritative uncertainty' is applied in the reflexive deconstruction of the study, as the action research process and outcomes are re-viewed through postcolonial and feminist theories to unpick the situated complexities of cross-cultural practitioner research and its representation. While coming to know is a continuous process, its representation in this thesis reaches an arbitrary conclusion by proposing how coming to know teaching practices, action research processes and reflexive researcher analysis might bring new perspectives to academic and policy initiatives for teacher development.

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Obaki, Samuel Okwako. "A study to identify the factors that inhibit high school principals and teachers from pursuing bachelor's and master's degrees in Busia District in Kenya." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2003. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-1107103-121831/unrestricted/ObakiS121503f.pdf.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--East Tennessee State University, 2003. Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-1107103-121831. Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.

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Knutson, Nichole Marie. "APPLYING THE RASCH MODEL TO MEASURE AND COMPARE FIRST- GENERATION AND CONTINUING-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC SELF-EFFICACY." UKnowledge, 2011. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/epe_etds/1.

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Students who are the first in their families to attend college are less likely to earn a college degree as compared to their continuing-generation peers. In efforts to increase college graduation rates for first-generation college students, support programs designed to assist first-generation college students are increasing in numbers. These first- generation programs are relying on existing research to build effective curriculums. Even though an extensive body of literature exists in the fields of self-efficacy and first- generation college students, research investigating the self-efficacy of first-generation college students are extremely limited. The research is further limited when examining academic self-efficacy and generational status. The purpose of this study is to investigate if parental levels of education affect college students’ self-reported levels of academic self-efficacy. The following research questions guided this study: 1) Do survey response hierarchies differ between first-generation college students and their continuing- generation counterparts on a scale that measures academic self-efficacy?, 2) Do levels of item endorsability vary based upon parental levels of education? and 3) Do the results produced from the college student survey support the existing literature on first- generation college students and academic-self-efficacy? Quality control indicators were utilized to assess the soundness of the instrument and to ensure that the rating scale functioned appropriately. Variable maps were used to compare and contrast student responses and item hierarchies. Pairwise differential item functioning (DIF) was used to examine item endorsability based upon levels of parental education. Results encourage practitioners to be mindful of the importance of data-informed decision making.

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Glynne, Michele Theresa. "Exploring the Efficacy of School-based Professional Development." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1620.

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No method exists for evaluating the effectiveness of professional development (PD) for teachers in Boston Public Schools. Often PD does not contribute to teacher quality, which can hinder student outcomes. The purpose of this study was to explore teachers' perceptions of the effectiveness of PD among K-8 teachers and to examine the alignment of PD in the schools with the 4 prerequisites of professional learning outlined by Learning Forward. These 4 prerequisites served as the conceptual framework. Of the research questions, 4 reflected the topics of the 4 prerequisites: commitment to students, readiness to learn, collaboration, and learning styles. The fifth research question was based on PD in general. In this case study, data from interviews from nine teachers were analyzed typologically. Key teacher perceptions included a commitment to students, overall lack of relevance and usefulness of PD and therefore lack of readiness to learn, failed efforts to promote collaboration, and lack of attention to teachers' learning styles. Strained partnerships with colleagues and lack of time hampered the effectiveness of the PD. Based on these outcomes, a professional learning opportunity for administrators was created to teach them how to develop effective professional learning for teachers based on the 4 prerequisites. This professional learning opportunity can be implemented at the local level to promote the design of more effective professional learning in Boston Public Schools. By improving the effectiveness of professional learning and subsequently teacher quality, social change in the form of improved student outcomes can be initiated.

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Watson, Wendy Elizabeth. "Relationship Between Student Characteristics and Attrition Among Associate Degree Nursing Students." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3847.

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High nursing student attrition has been a pervasive problem in the nursing program at the research site of this study. The purpose of this project study was to investigate the relationship between attrition and nursing student characteristics, including age, gender, ethnicity, English as Second Language (ESL) background, licensed practical nurse (LPN) licensure, grade point average (GPA), the number of preadmission college credits, and the Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS) scores. This correlational study of archival data was guided by Jeffreys's nursing undergraduate retention and success model and included a convenience sample of 240 students admitted to the program between the Spring 2011 and Fall 2013 semesters. Point biserial and phi coefficient statistical analyses indicated that significant relationships existed between attrition and ethnicity, GPA, TEAS scores, college credits, and LPN status. There were no significant relationships between attrition and age, gender, and ESL background. Student characteristics correlated with higher attrition included ethnic minority background, more college credits, lower TEAS composite and math scores, lower GPA scores, and not having LPN licensure. These research results were the basis for policy recommendations for changes to the admission process within the nursing program and for early identification of students at risk for attrition, with the goal of providing early supportive measures. The overall goal of the policy recommendations was to decrease attrition at the local research site, which may help foster positive social change by promoting the educational and professional progress of nursing students. Nursing student attrition can negatively affect a nursing program's finances and reputation. For students, attrition represents lost time, lost finances, and a limited possibility for achieving socioeconomic progress.

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Simmons, Joanne Stephanie. "The Development and Validation of a Novice Nurse Decision-Making Skills Education Curriculum." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3512.

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Novice nurses (NNs) are entering critical care environments with limited knowledge, skills, and decision-making expertise. They are expected to care for complex patients in a dynamic healthcare setting. The research question for this project examined whether NNs improve their knowledge and skills by participating in a nursing decision-making skills curriculum. The purpose of the project was to develop and validate a nursing decision-making skills education curriculum working in an intermediate critical care unit. Taba's instructional theoretical model was used to guide the new curriculum development along with current evidence based practice found in the current literature. Scaffolding approach theory encouraged the use of more knowledgeable peers or educators to assist NN with skill acquisition. Project participants consisted of 5 local learning specialists in critical-care nursing with a minimum of a bachelor's of science degree in nursing as well as national certifications. Upon curriculum review completion, each of the 5 specialists were asked to complete a 5-point Likert scale survey to evaluate the content of the newly developed curriculum. Descriptive analysis was completed on the survey data. Three of the 5 learning specialists agreed and 2 strongly agreed that the program met its stated objectives. Three of the learning specialists strongly agreed and 2 agreed that the course content was relevant to NNs' day-to-day roles and that the material and resources facilitated the development of decision-making skills. Adjunct NN education may promote positive social change by providing an effective strategy for improving decision-making skills among NNs, potentially leading to improved patient outcomes in a healthier community with a skilled healthcare workforce.

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Chun, Holly CP. "Mobile Collaborative Learning for Female Baby Boomer Students in Canadian Higher Education." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4611.

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Female baby boomer students (born 1946-1964) need to augment their skills in mobile collaborative learning because current knowledge of technologies is essential for making informed decisions. The purpose of this study was to determine the need to promote technologies based on the experiences of female baby boomer students. Andragogy and constructivism provided the conceptual framework for this research. The research questions were devised to investigate female boomer students' collaborative experiences using smart devices and barriers to their adoption of technology. This phenomenological study included 8 participants from a Canadian university recruited through purposeful sampling. Per the Modified Stevick-Colaizzi-Keen method, data were simultaneously collected via interviews, analyzed by coding, and organized into themes until saturation. Age was the main deterrent for technology adoption, and obstacles included embracing a new process, feeling that information was secure, and resolving technical difficulties. Results indicated that female baby boomer students were not ready to lead in the use of mobile collaborative learning and could not maintain rapid technological changes. Mature students may need training in cloud computing; a 1-semester blended course was proposed to enable these students to learn mobile technologies and collaborative skills. This study identifies the technology learning needs of baby boomer students, which will help those looking for ways to teach students in this age range. When leaders in their field of study know how to use current technologies, they will be more productive in their communities.

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Policaro, Railene Menezes Naranjo. "Projeto colaborativo de avaliação do desempenho escolar: contribuições para a formação de professores da educação básica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-27102015-095118/.

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A literatura na área de formação de professores tem salientado a importância da participação de professores em atividades colaborativas de pesquisa. Neste trabalho focalizamos um projeto desenvolvido no âmbito do programa Observatório da Educação (OBEDUC / CAPES), no qual participaram professores da rede pública da Educação Básica do Estado de Sergipe com a finalidade principal de desenvolver instrumentos para avaliação de alunos do ensino fundamental. Buscamos com o presente estudo compreender se o fato de professores continuarem seus estudos por meio da participação em pesquisas financiadas pelo OBEDUC contribui para o seu processo de formação para a docência, bem como para pesquisa. Utilizamos referenciais teóricos relativos à Formação de Professores quanto aos modelos formativos e ao campo de investigação sobre saberes docentes. Mais especificamente, buscamos respostas para a questão: Quais as contribuições que a participação no Projeto sobre avaliação/OBEDUC traz para o desenvolvimento de Conhecimentos, Habilidades e Atitudes dos professores? Desenvolvemos o trabalho segundo os parâmetros de metodologia qualitativa de pesquisa. Realizamos: estudo documental, observação participante das reuniões de desenvolvimento do projeto, e entrevistas semiestruturadas para delinear os perfis dos sujeitos, proceder ao levantamento de episódios, e definir categorias de análise. Com base nos resultados, evidenciamos que os professores explicitam indícios de um conjunto importante de contribuições, vindas de sua participação no projeto, quanto a saberes relativos à sua formação docente e a sua formação em pesquisa. Particularmente, identificamos menções sobre: Conhecer os conteúdos das ciências de referência e o processo de produção dos mesmos; conhecer teorias sobre ensino, aprendizagem e avaliação; saber preparar, aplicar e analisar atividades de ensino e de avaliação; saber pesquisar; e atitudes de criticidade, curiosidade, e interesse; e autonomia docente. Diante desses resultados, consideramos que a participação em programas dessa natureza traz um importante potencial na Formação Docente que expressará de diferentes formas as experiências vivenciadas no projeto. The literature on teacher training area has highlighted the importance of involving teachers in collaborative research activities. In this research we focus on a project developed under the \"Observatório da Educação\" program (OBEDUC / CAPES), with the participation of public school teachers of Basic Education of the State of Sergipe with the primary purpose of developing tools for evaluating elementary students. This study sought to understand whether the fact that teachers continue their education through participation in funded research OBEDUC contributes to their formation process for teaching and for research. We use theoretical frameworks relating to Teacher Training as the training models and the field of research in teaching knowledge. More specifically, we seek answers to the question: What are the contributions that participation in the Project Review / OBEDUC brings to the development of knowledge, skills and attitudes of teachers? We develop work within the parameters of qualitative research methodology. We perform: desk study, participant observation of project development meetings, and semistructured interviews to outline the profiles of the subjects, to survey the episodes, and set categorization analysis. Based on the results, we noted that teachers explain an important set of contributions from their participation in the project as the knowledge related to their teacher training and their training in research. In particular, we identify mentions about: Know the contents of the reference science and the production process thereof; know the theories about teaching, learning and assessment; know how to prepare, apply and analyze teaching and evaluation activities; know how to research; and attitudes of criticism, curiosity, and interest; and teaching autonomy. Given these results, we believe that participation in such programs provides an important potential in teacher training that will express in different ways the experiences in the project.

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Lowe, Barbara J. "An Examination of the Perceptions of Traditional and Nontraditional Student Engagement at Northeast State Community College." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2596.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between student engagement and overall satisfaction of traditional and nontraditional students at the community college level at Northeast State Community College. Three professors, 2 staff, 2 administrators, 5 traditional students, and 5 nontraditional students from Northeast State Community College comprised the sample for the study. A descriptive case study was the qualitative approach used. Data were collected in individual in-depth interviews with participants. The findings of this study could provide community college administrators, staff and faculty with an understanding of traditional and nontraditional students’ engagement and satisfaction and experiences on campus. This information can assist administrators, staff and faculty in identifying needs and priorities on campus along with developing learning environments that are effective for traditional and nontraditional students. Recommendations for future research are presented. Results of the research revealed positive overall perceptions of engagement and satisfaction from students, faculty and administrators. A theme that emerged was the strong focus on student centered, student focused, educational practices at Northeast State Community College. Additionally, it was evident that the community college continuously strives to improve their student support services as well as the academic learning environment to increase student engagement and satisfaction. Further, the findings revealed a need for more advising on the importance of utilizing student email and additional modes of communication from student support services to students and from faculty to students.

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Newton, Claudia K. "Rising Valor: A Research Study of Chinese Women Working in Factories, Educating Themselves and Redefining Women's Empowerment." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1500488130949202.

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Ferguson, Kaethe Post. "Impact of Technology on Rural Appalachian Health Care Providers: Assessment of Technological Infrastructure, Behaviors, and Attitudes." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1071.

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The Internet offers potential for reducing professional isolation of Appalachian health care providers by enhancing access to medical information and facilitating contact with colleagues. However, there is a gap in the knowledge of current computer and Internet access in Appalachia, and in the technology-related behaviors and attitudes of health care professionals there. This study examined Internet-related access and behaviors of Appalachian family physicians and advanced practice nurses. A survey was mailed to 429 graduates of East Tennessee State University's family medicine residency and advanced practice nursing programs currently in practice in southern and central Appalachia. Demographic information was collected from ETSU graduate records. The Dillman survey method included a pre-notice letter, two survey mailings, and post card and telephone follow-ups. Two hundred sixty-four providers (61.5%) returned surveys. Data were analyzed using SPSS. Respondents were similar to the total population in gender, provider discipline, age, and percentage in rural practice. Workplace computer access was common; 59.6% had sole access and 40.2% shared access. Internet access was: 82.7% broadband, 13.5% dial-up, and 2.4% no access. Although rural providers were more likely than urban to have slower dial-up access, they regularly used the Internet. Over 75% of providers accessed the Internet at home for work; 34% reported dial-up and 66% broadband home connection. Although 50% used the Internet for continuing education in 2004, most preferred in-person workshops or print-based modes of continuing education; 58.9% e-mailed daily and 80% accessed medical information via the Internet regularly. Other Internet uses included accessing online journals and patient information, receiving professional association updates, filing insurance, and writing prescriptions. The Internet is ubiquitous in Appalachia; health care providers access it for a variety of professional activities daily. Telemedicine was not a popular technological innovation. Of those 20.8% reporting telemedicine availability in the practice, few used it. When presented with a list of possible benefits of telemedicine, 41.1% selected "none of the above". Although many technological innovations are used regularly by Appalachian health care providers, barriers to the use of new technologies lie more in attitudes than in technology access.

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Nave, Patience. "English as a Second Language: Evaluation of a Language Program Designed for & Implemented in the Colombian Oil Company's Research Institute." TopSCHOLAR®, 1989. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2692.

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An incredible proliferation of knowledge has generated a critical need for professionals in all fields to have access to current information and research results. Costs for study and research are extremely high, particularly in science fields, and most professionals seek to minimize loss in time and funds by avoiding duplication of efforts. Language is often a handicap, preventing the voluntary sharing of valuable information between individuals and countries, and many recognize the establishment of a universal language as a means of eliminating this unnecessary barrier. English is rapidly becoming accepted as a universal means of communication, but those who seek the skill often cannot afford the time to commit themselves to years of study to acquire it. To meet the needs of such a group of scientists in Bucaramanga Colombia, a program for study in English communicative competence was designed, implemented and evaluated in 1988, through the cooperative efforts of Western Kentucky University and Instituto Colombiano del Petroleo.

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Horton, Amy B. Mrs. "A Phenomenological Study on the Motivating Factors Influencing Participation in Tennessee’s Governor’s Academy for School Leadership." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3276.

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Educational administration is such a demanding field, so it is important to understand why an aspiring principal would self-select to commit to an optional yearlong, intensive professional development activity with very little compensation and no promotion. Motivation may prove to be a key component of the recruitment and sustainability of professional development activities. By discovering the factors affecting both personal and professional motivation of beginning administrators to participate in a professional development led by the collaboration among the Tennessee Department of Education, Vanderbilt University, and Governor Bill Haslam, the researcher hopes to gain an understanding that may apply to future professional development activities in educational leadership. This qualitative study was based on the phenomenological inquiry research design. The study was open to all recent members of the Governor’s Academy for School Leadership (GASL) program. Eleven of the members chose to participate in the study. Participants completed an online, open-ended questionnaire followed by an in-depth one-on-one interview using Google Hangouts. Participants were asked to share both personal and professional factors related to their motivation to participate in the GASL program. Through analysis of the data, the researcher identified five factors that influenced personal motivations. These included a desire for self-improvement, self-motivation, the novelty of the experience, competitive nature of the program, and the honor to be considered. The researcher identified three factors that influenced professional motivations including advancement of license, networking opportunities, and marketability. When comparing responses based on gender, females noted the novelty of the experience while males noted the exclusivity of the program as motivational factors. Females in this study tended to relate networking as personal connectedness while males related it to professional connectedness. The intensive year long program and affiliation with Vanderbilt University were also found to positively impact the motivation of individuals to participate in the program. Two main themes emerged from the study: relatedness and competence. Both of these related directly back and support findings of Deci and Ryan’s Self Determination Theory.

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Copeland, Trinaa L. "African American Christian Senior Pastor's Beliefs About Mental Health Treatment." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6191.

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In the African American community, the Black Church and its clergy have served as gatekeepers to formal mental health treatment. Little is known about the beliefs of African American Christian senior pastors about mental health treatment and their personal views influencing their counsel to congregants seeking support through the church. This transcendental phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of African American Christian senior pastors in relation to how they understand mental health treatment and provide it to their congregants. The research questions explored three areas: (a) the senior pastors' experiences in rendering mental health treatment, (b) the senior pastors' personal experiences with mental health treatment, and (c) the senior pastors' views on their effectiveness in rendering mental health treatment to congregants. An emergent hand coding analysis of participant narratives collected from 6 participant semi-structured interviews generated 3 main themes and 14 sub-themes related to participant experiences. The results showed the senior pastors not wanting to do harm when congregants sought mental health support through the church; hence, the pastors referred congregants to formal treatment when issues were beyond their scope. Also most of the senior pastors felt comfortable participating in formal mental treatment as needed because it was beneficial for addressing personal and professional challenges. This study can assist the mental health community in making positive social change via the development of relationships and/or partnerships with African American Christian senior pastors looking to refer congregants to formal mental health treatment.

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Frodsham, Robin Tim. "Improving Math Performance in Adult Female Community College Students: An Evaluation of Project Independence." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1889.

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Project Independence (PI) is a community college immersion program dedicated to assisting women returning to college. The focus of this study and associated summative evaluation was to understand how the PI program addresses anxiety and other learning deficiencies associated with math. Knowle's andragogical models portray adults as motivated and self-directed, and the American college campus fosters a culture of independence. This culture is foreign to many minority, first-generation, and working class adults who learn through interdependence. This qualitative instrumental case study and evaluation is the first to examine the efficacy of PI. The guiding questions of this study concern early math learning experiences, PI interventions on study, coping and math-learning skills, and how participants utilize these skills in subsequent math classes. Three faculty members and 8 graduates of the program who had completed at least 2 math classes participated in individual interviews. Inductive analysis of these interviews showed the cohort and long term counseling as pivotal to developing a sense of belonging, self-esteem, and an attitude of self-worth. With cohort support, students learn to find campus resources, explore career options, and overcome personal obstacles to their education. Improved math learning for adult minority and first generation students has diverse implications for social change. Math education is requisite for many technical degrees and certificates. Enabling math learning expands options that transcend gender, cultural, and socioeconomic barriers. The cohort experience and culture of interdependence should be expanded to college preparation programs for men, as well as mainstream community college math preparation interventions.

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Ratliff, William. "The Effects of General Equivalency Diploma (GED) Acquisition on Parole Success in Kentucky." TopSCHOLAR®, 1986. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2751.

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Post release follow-up was conducted on a total of 95 Kentucky Correctional Facilities inmates, who had acquired a General Equivalency Certificate in the years 1981-1983. The rate of Recidivism of this group was compared to that of all parolees released during that period. It was found that the parolees in general who were released during that time period returned to the institution at a rate of 36.7 percent, The parolees who had completed the GED Program in the institution prior to release returned at a rate of 35.78 percent. The average length of time spent in society by those who were returned was 14.7 months with the shortest length of time being 5 months and the longest 41 months. The age of the study participants ranged from 20 years to 37 years with the average age being 24.75 years. While the number paroled to urban and rural areas was approximately the same (36 urban, 41 rural), the urban returnees showed a rate of 33.3%; those from rural areas returned at a rate of 29.2% to institutions.

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Latimer, Janet Humphreys. "Basic Academic Skills and Post-Secondary Technical Education." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3499.

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The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if there is a significant difference in WorkKeys score, skills score, theory score, and job placement rates as compared by credential and program of study at a technical college in Tennessee. The study used data retrieved from a WorkKeys database and SIMS (Student Information Management System) at a technical college. The population consisted of 445 students in seven programs from 2010-2016 who had participated in the WorkKeys online academic training modules. The dependent variables for the study were WorkKeys score, skill score, and theory score. The independent variables were job placement status (related, non-related, not placed), program of study (Collision Repair/Motorcycle Repair, Computer Information, Welding/Machine Tool and Industrial Maintenance/Residential Maintenance), and graduation credential (diploma, certificate, none). Based on the data collected, it was found that there was a significant difference in the WorkKeys score by credential, skill score by credential, theory score by credential, WorkKeys score by job placement status, skill score by job placement status and theory score by job placement status. The job placement status was significantly affected by the program of study. Finally, the WorkKeys score was not affected by the program of study. Additionally, the not placed status for the Computer Information program was higher than the other two categories (related and non-related) whereas the related status was the highest for the other three programs of study (WEL/MT, CRT/MOT, and IM/RBM).

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Donald, Ellen Kroog. "Examinees' Perceptions of the Physical Aspects of the Testing Environment During the National Physical Therapy Examination." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6226.

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Despite the increasing number of individuals taking computer-based tests, little is known about how examinees perceive computer-based testing environments and the extent to which these testing environments are perceived to affect test performance. The purpose of the present study was to assess the testing environment as perceived by individuals taking the National Physical Therapy Examination (NPTE), a high-stakes licensure examination. Perceptions of the testing environments were assessed using an examinee self-report questionnaire. The questionnaire included items that measured individuals’ preference and perception of specific characteristics of the environment, along with demographic information and one open-ended item. Questionnaires were distributed by email to the 210 accredited physical therapy programs at the time, encouraging programs to forward the instrument by email to the most recent class of physical therapy graduates. Two hundred and sixteen respondents completed the study, representing 101 testing centers in 31 states. Data from these 216 examinees were used to answer four research questions. The first research question focused on the examinees’ environmental preferences for the NPTE testing environment and the relation between these preferences and examinees’ background characteristics (e.g., sex, program GPA, age, online experience, online testing experience, comfort level with online testing, and preferred testing time). A clear preference toward one end of the scale was observed for preferring a quiet room and a desktop area that had a great deal of adjustability. Examinees’ preferences and their demographic characteristics were not strongly related with the seven demographic variables accounting for < 7% of the variability in examinees’ environmental preferences. The second research question used the data from multiple examinees nested within the same testing center to examine the within- and between-center variability in examinees’ perceptions of the testing environment and their satisfaction with the environment. Results indicated that the majority of the variance in these variables was within testing centers with average between-center variability equal to .032 for the perception ratings and .078 for the satisfaction ratings. Research questions (RQ) three and four explored whether examinees’ background characteristics (RQ 3) and center characteristics (RQ 4) were significantly related to the 12 environmental perception ratings, 12 satisfaction ratings, and two items representing examinees’ perceptions of the effect of the testing environment on their performance and the likelihood they would choose the same center again. In terms of examinee characteristics, age, online testing experience, and comfort with online testing were the most consistent predictors of the various examinee ratings. The most consistent predictors for the satisfaction ratings were examinees’ online test comfort, online test experience, and age. For center characteristics, the newness of the center and the room density of the center were the most consistent predictors of examinee ratings. For satisfaction ratings, the most consistent predictor was the newness of the center. Center newness was significantly related to the outcome variables related to the size, lighting and sound of the center which may reflect changes in building standards and materials. The results of the study suggest the need for further exploration of the environmental and human factors that may impact individuals taking high stakes examinations in testing centers. Although there may not be an effect on all examinees, there may be subsets of individuals who are more sensitive to the effects of the testing environment on performance. Further exploration of the uniformity of testing environments is also needed to minimize error and maximize potential threats to test security.

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Alexander, Paige Adell. "Factors influencing the compensat[i]on levels of land grant university extension educators." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/527.

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Almeida, Arielle Lopes de [UNESP]. "A gestão do conhecimento como ferramenta aplicada à indissociabilidade do ensino, pesquisa e extensão universitária." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/154277.

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Para mais informações entrar em contato com a Seção Técnica de Pós-Graduação ou no e-mail diplomas.marilia@unesp.br on 2018-06-18T14:49:56Z (GMT) Submitted by ARIELLE LOPES DE ALMEIDA (arielle@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2018-06-18T14:59:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO A GESTÃO DO CONHECIMENTO COMO FERRAMENTA APLICADA À INDISSOCIABILIDADE DO ENSINO, PESQUISA E EXTENSÃO UNIVERSITÁRIA.pdf: 3368212 bytes, checksum: e1c4397298254fb84ca2be3564be94c2 (MD5) Approved for entry into archive by Satie Tagara (satie@marilia.unesp.br) on 2018-06-18T15:12:25Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 almeida_al_me_mar.pdf: 3368212 bytes, checksum: e1c4397298254fb84ca2be3564be94c2 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-18T15:12:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 almeida_al_me_mar.pdf: 3368212 bytes, checksum: e1c4397298254fb84ca2be3564be94c2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-05-16 Não recebi financiamento Visando ampliar a indissociabilidade do ensino, da pesquisa e da extensão nas universidades suscitou uma reflexão crítica sobre a Ciência da Informação inter-relacionada com a formação e ação docente, para o fortalecimento deste tripé. A gestão do conhecimento, no âmbito da Ciência da Informação, é constituída por um conjunto de estratégias que proporcionam ao docente criar, adquirir, compartilhar e utilizar ativos de conhecimento, auxiliando-o nos processos decisórios em sua atuação profissional. A partir do aporte interdisciplinar da Educação, cujas ações voltadas ao ensinar e ao aprender propiciam um processo de conscientização e emancipação ao indivíduo como construtor de conhecimento, é possível refletir sobre o papel da gestão do conhecimento em contexto universitário. No entanto, ao refletir sobre a educação no contexto atual, observa-se que o ensino, composto pela intenção de ensinar e pelo resultado de aprender, muitas vezes se reduz a intenção de ensinar. A pesquisa, desenvolvedora da autonomia do discente por meio de postura investigativa, não é uma prática abrangente na graduação. A extensão, socializadora do conhecimento, é comumente esquecida ou transformada em ato de ‘filantropia’. Nessa perspectiva, justifica-se esta pesquisa pela necessidade de identificar e caracterizar práticas de gestão do conhecimento em contextos universitários, de maneira a torná-las ferramentas que, aplicadas à indissociabilidade do ensino, da pesquisa e da extensão, contribua para a ação docente e, consequentemente, para a formação discente que, por sua vez, contribuirá com a sociedade. O objetivo desta pesquisa centrada na análise de modelos e práticas de gestão do conhecimento aplicados à construção e compartilhamento de conhecimento, visa a efetivação da indissociabilidade do tripé ensino-pesquisa-extensão. O referencial teórico apresenta a criticidade como relevante critério de verdade do conhecimento construído na relação sujeito/objeto. Compreendendo as atividades individuais e coletivas para a criação e o compartilhamento de conhecimento, por meio da gestão do conhecimento, identifica-se o potencial de interferência nessas atividades e a complexidade da apropriação e construção de conhecimento. Neste contexto, identificou-se a luta das universidades, ao enfrentar as ameaças capitalistas, para sobrepor a reprodução no que tange a construção de conhecimento. A formação e profissionalização continuada do docente universitário se apresentam frágil, mas fundamental para este embate. No que diz respeito aos procedimentos metodológicos, foi utilizado a Análise de Conteúdo, mais especificamente a técnica Análise Categorial, proposta por Bardin (2004), no seguintes domínios comunicação dual (entrevistas com docentes). O universo da pesquisa foi constituído pela Universidade Federal de Goiás, por ser um importante centro de educação superior para a Região Centro-Oeste do Brasil. A partir da análise dos dados, foi possível concluir que a maioria dos docentes da universidade pesquisada, apesar de terem uma formação mais direcionada para a pesquisa e não para a docência universitária, estavam conscientes de suas funções na formação do discente e buscavam melhorias para esta. Porém, encontravam barreiras, principalmente, devido a cultura organizacional não estar pautada no compartilhamento de conhecimento de forma institucionalizada. In order to extend the indivisible nature of teaching, research and extension in the universities, has aroused in a critical reflection on Information Science woven into formation and teaching activity, and serves to stimulate and strengthen this triad of actions. Knowledge management, within the scope of Information Science, is a set of strategies to provide the teacher to create, used to acquire, share and use knowledge assets in order to assist in decision making in his professional performance. Education, which facilitates an interdisciplinary contribution, provides actions which are aimed at teaching and learning and lends itself to a process of awareness and emancipation for the individual knowledge builder, thereby allowing us to reflect on the role of knowledge management in a university context. However, when reflecting on education in the current context, it is observed that the process of teaching, as composed of the intention to teach and the learning results stemming from it, often in fact reduces the aspect of intention to teach. Research, which ensures the development of student autonomy through its investigative posture, is not a comprehensive practice at undergraduate level. Courses of extension and the socializing of knowledge, are frequently forgotten in this process, or transformed into an act of 'philanthropy'. From this perspective, this research is justified through the need to identify and characterize knowledge management practices in university contexts, so that they can become a tool applied to the indivisible character of teaching, research and extension as a triad, thereby contributing to the activity of teaching and, consequently, for the training of students, who in turn contribute to society. The objective of this research is to analyze the models and practices of knowledge management as applied to the construction and sharing of knowledge, serving to ensure that the indivisibility of the teaching-research-extension triad is brought about. The theoretical framework presents “criticism” as a relevant truth criterion for the construction of knowledge within the subject / object relationship. Understanding individual and collective activities for the creation of knowledge and sharing them through knowledge management, identifies the potential for interference and the complexity of knowledge appropriation and construction as part of these activities. In this context, the struggle within universities, when facing capitalist threats, was identified in so far as it referred to of the construction of knowledge. The training and continued professionalism of the university professor is fragile, but is of fundamental importance for this process. As regards methodological procedures, the 'Content Analysis' method, more specifically the 'Categorical Analysis' technique, proposed by Bardin (2004), will be used in the two-way communication (with teachers). The research was carried out at the Federal University of Goiás, as it is an important center for third-level education within the Brazilian Center-West Region. The analysis and concluding considerations will be presented in the final dissertation. From the analysis of the data, it was possible to conclude that most of the university teachers we studied, despite a more research-oriented training and not for university teaching, are aware of their function in the formation of the student and seek improvements. However, in reality they encounter barriers, mainly because the organizational culture is not based on the sharing of knowledge in an institutionalized way.

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Schneider, William Ray. "The Relationship Between Statistics Self-Efficacy, Statistics Anxiety, and Performance in an Introductory Graduate Statistics Course." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3335.

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The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between statistics self-efficacy, statistics anxiety, and performance in introductory graduate statistics courses. The study design compared two statistics self-efficacy measures developed by Finney and Schraw (2003), a statistics anxiety measure developed by Cruise and Wilkins (1980), and a course performance measure. To view self-efficacy from two perspectives, the Current Statistics Self-Efficacy (CSSE) assessed student confidence in their ability to complete specific statistics tasks in the present, whereas Self-Efficacy to Learn Statistics (SELS) assessed student confidence in their ability to learn statistics in the future. The performance measure was the combined average of the midterm and final exam scores only, excluding grades from other course activities. The instruments were distributed to four sections of an introductory graduate statistics course (N=88) in a College of Education at a large metropolitan university during the first week of the semester during Fall 2009 and Spring 2010. Both of the statistics self-efficacy measures revealed a low to moderate inverse relationship with statistics anxiety and a low to moderate direct relationship with each other. In this study there was no correlation between statistics anxiety (CSCS), statistics self-efficacy (CSSE and SELS), and course performance. There was high internal reliability for each instrument's items making the instruments suitable for use with graduate students. However, none of the instruments' results were significant in relation to course performance with graduate students in this sample. Unlike prior research involving undergraduate-level statistic students that has reported a relationship between the CSSE and SELS, the present study, involving graduate students, did not find any significant correlation with performance. Additional research is suggested to investigate the reasons for the differences between the studies.

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Cruz, Rúbia Cristina 1968. "A gestora escolar : entre a prática e a gramática." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/250907.

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Orientador: Corinta Maria Grisolia Geraldi Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T03:07:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cruz_RubiaCristina_D.pdf: 1718495 bytes, checksum: 898b24a30163bdba9964a768f2fabdec (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 Resumo: Esta pesquisa toma como objeto de estudos a gestão escolar na complexidade de seu cotidiano, com o objetivo de contribuir para a reflexão sobre a formação do gestor em seu próprio ambiente de trabalho. A compreensão dos processos que constituem o trabalho de gestão sustenta-se num conjunto de narrativas, selecionadas dentre os acontecimentos cotidianos na escola, com base nos conceitos benjaminiano e larrosiano de experiência. A metodologia utilizada foi a da investigação narrativa. Na reconstituição narrativa dos acontecimentos, além da memória da própria investigadora-narradora e gestora, foram utilizados distintos materiais: anotações da gestora, de outras colegas de gestão, documentos da escola, documentos legais, atas de reuniões, e também entrevistas com os sujeitos envolvidos em cada um dos acontecimentos, incluindo não só professores mas também outros trabalhadores da escola e membros da comunidade. O entrecruzamento das informações e dados destes diferentes materiais empíricos permitiu uma aproximação maior dos fatos tomados aqui como ponto de partida da reflexão. A organização dos acontecimentos narrados, depois de uma primeira análise, obedeceu a critérios temáticos: a gestão dos espaços e tempos da escola; as relações mais amplas com a comunidade do bairro da escola na constituição do Conselho Escolar e a implicação das decisões jurídicas sobre aplicabilidade da legislação independentemente das condições concretas da escola para atendê-las. De cada história e seu tema foi extraída uma lição para o exercício da gestão. E cada lição foi estudada com base na bibliografia pertinente ao tema e à gestão escolar. As três principais lições podem ser consubstanciadas nos seguintes enunciados: (a) ainda que procedente de uma visão tradicional de gestão, na escola é de responsabilidade administrativa gerir os conflitos relativos aos espaços e tempos; (b) a uma gestão democrática é imprescindível o contato constante com a comunidade do entorno, tanto para compreender a história do lugar e da própria escola, quanto para gerir o presente de modo a respeitar o passado para construir em conjunto um futuro; (c) as políticas públicas que chegam a expressar-se na forma de leis, independentemente das condições concretas da escola para executá-las, abrem espaços para a judicialização da oferta de educação impondo soluções "ad hoc" para casos específicos com perda da finalidade maior da própria política pública que deu origem à legislação. Esta pesquisa beneficiou-se das experiências de trabalho com o cotidiano da escola e com a metodologia da investigação narrativa das produções do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Educação Continuada - GEPEC - da Unicamp, a que a presente investigação está filiada. Abstract: This research has as study objects the school management in its daily complexity, with the objective to contrubute to the thinking about the formation of the manager on its own work place. The understanding of the process that constitute the work of management is sustained in a group of narratives, selected among the daily school events, with basis on benjaminianism and larrosianism concepts of experience. The methodology was the narrative investigation. In the events narrative reconstitution, besides the memories of the investigator-narrator and manager herself, distinct material were used: manager's annotations, and other colleagues of management, school documents, legal documents, meeting reports, and also interviews with involved persons in each of the events, including not only teachers but also other workers of school and members of the community. The crossroads of the information and data of there different empircal materials allowed a bigger approximation from the facts here taken as the beginning of the thinking. The organization of the facts narrated here, after a first analysis, obbey to thematical criteria: the management of the times and spaces of the school; the bigger relations of the school neighborhood community in the constitution of the School's Council and the implication of legal decisions about the application of the legislation independently of the concrete conditions of the school to attend them. A lesson was extracted of every story and theme for the managing execution. And every lesson was studied based on a bibliography pertinent to the theme and the education management. The three main lessons can be substantiated in the following titles: (a) even being derivated from a traditional management, it's the administrative responsiblity to manage the conflicts related to times and spaces; (b) for a democratic management the constant contact to the community around is very necessary, thus for the comprehesion of the region and the school itself, as to manage the present respecting the past to everybody construct a future; (c) the public policies that sometimes express themselves in the form of laws, independently of the concrete conditions of the school to execute them, open spaces for the judicialization of the offering of education imposing "ad hoc" solutions for specific cases with the loss of the bigger goal from the public policy that originated the legislation. This research was benefited by the experiences of daily school work and with the methodology of the narrative investigation of the "Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Educação Continuada" - GEPEC UNICAMP - studies, wich this investigation is affiliated. Doutorado Ensino, Avaliação e Formação de Professores Doutor em Educação

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Fowler, John P. "Report of an educational psychology internship at Cabot College of Applied Arts, Technology and Continuing Education : including a research report on the effectiveness of the Canadian Adult Achievement Test in predicting college grade point average for mature students /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23135.pdf.

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Van, Winkle Kristina A. "Educating for Global Competence: Co-Constructing Outcomes in the Field: An Action Research Project." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1626442252415126.

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HALL, BETTIE C. "Investigating the Relationships Among Computer Self-Efficacy, Professional Development, Teaching Experience, and Technology Integration of Teachers." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1211466285.

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O'Dell, Jade J. "Developmental Education Repeaters: Stories About Repetition." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1470.

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Developmental education students make up almost half of the community college population in the United States (Bettinger & Long, 2005). Approximately 42% of first-time freshmen at community colleges must enroll in at least one developmental education course in English, reading and/or math (NCES, 2010). Many developmental education students are unsuccessful in passing a developmental education course in their first and second attempts and retake the course sometimes five times before passing. There is substantial research on persistence among college students, but the research fails to link persistence to developmental education repeaters. My study sought to explore community college developmental education repeaters’ experiences with and stories about repetition in a reading course. My study was framed around developmental education and its students, course repeaters, and persistence. I used qualitative research methods with a narrative research design. Two methods of data collection included multiple one-on-one interviews and document collection. Four participants were selected from one community college in the New Orleans area, two who repeated and completed developmental reading upon their third attempt and two who were in the process of completing developmental reading a third time. Data analysis revealed six themes. The information gleaned from the inquiry may inform community college faculty practice with regard to not only reducing and preventing course repetition but also increasing persistence and retention of developmental education students.

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Hardy, Annabelle. "Capability Approach and Teacher Quality: An Analysis of Female Teacher Experience in a Rural, Malawian Community." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3527.

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This study used the capability approach as a lens to understand teacher quality from both the perspective of educational leaders and practicing teachers in a rural community in central Malawi. The overarching question of this research study was “How can the capability approach inform our understanding of teacher quality from both the perspective of educational leaders and practicing teachers?” The focus questions to guide this research were: What do national educational leaders value in a quality teacher? What do rural, Malawian, female teachers value in teaching? How do these teachers pursue and achieve what they value in teaching? This study included qualitative data collection and analysis of two specific contexts: the official context of educational leadership and educational policy in Malawi and the teacher context of daily life working in a rural school in Malawi. The official context was concerned with the larger field of educational policy that impacts education in rural Malawian communities. These data were collected through document review and semi-structured interviews with educational leaders at primary schools, secondary schools, school zone leaders, and teacher training college staff. Additional data about the official context were collected via review of documents regarding the official definition of quality teaching. The research site for investigating the teacher context was a rural community in the central region of Malawi. Data were collected through interviews and observation of female, primary school teachers from four school sites within a single school zone. The discussion and analysis of the data collected in both research contexts include the values of teacher participants, the ability of the teachers to achieve their valued functionings, common constraints experienced by teachers, as well as comparison of the valued functions of teachers to the valued teacher functions defined by official documents and educational leaders. The discussion and conclusions from this research include policy recommendations regarding teacher quality and thoughts on the further application of the capability approach to understanding teacher quality.

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Mercer, Lisa Marie. "Program Evaluation: A Federal Agency's Air Traffic Control Train-the-Trainer Program." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1855.

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In 2014, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) highlighted to the U.S. Senate the need to focus on air traffic control (ATC) training to meet job qualification and attrition rates within the career field. One U.S. Department of Defense military service assists the FAA in providing worldwide ATC services. This service is referred to as the agency throughout this paper to ensure confidentiality. The agency's ATC career field manager echoed the FAA's call for action in his 2014 Strategic/Action Plan. In August 2013, the agency's ATC trainer program was published. As of December 2015, the program had not been evaluated. The purpose of this study was to ascertain if the program facilitated the learning of critical ATC on-the-job training skills. An ad hoc expertise-oriented evaluation was conducted using the lenses of andragogy, experiential learning, and instructional system design (ISD). Purposeful sampling procedures were used to select 20 participants across the subgroups of supervisors, trainers, managers, and training developers from 7 focus sites. The semi-structured interviews queried 4 topical areas derived from Kirkpatrick's 4 levels of evaluation model. Data collected via documents and interviews were analyzed using descriptive, emotion, eclectic, and pattern coding. Key findings indicated that the program was not developed compliant with ISD principles and did not promote adult learning as endorsed by andragogy and experiential learning theory. The implications for positive social change include providing stakeholders with data needed to make evidence-based decisions regarding the current and future state of the program. The evaluation report project can be shared with the FAA, an agency partner, and has the potential to create a platform for improved training practices focusing on optimum and successful adult learning transactions.

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Franken, Oliver B. T. "Untersuchungsdesign zur Entwicklung eines sächsischen Weiterbildungsberichts." Master's thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-164653.

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Der Autor entwickelt, aus Sicht der Erwachsenenbildungswissenschaft, anknüpfend an den bisherigen Diskussionsprozess in Sachsen zur Einführung eines sächsischen (Weiter-)Bildungsberichts, anhand theoretischer Vorannahmen zur Steuerung im Weiterbildungsbereich sowie zur Weiterbildungsberichterstattung und anhand empirisch eruierter Empfehlungen einen Gestaltungsvorschlag für ein wissenschaftlich fundiertes Untersuchungsdesign zur Entwicklung eines sächsischen Weiterbildungsberichts. In der zugrunde liegenden empirischen Studie werden vorhandene (Weiter-)Bildungsberichte und durchgeführte Experteninterviews dahingehend analysiert, inwieweit sie Anregungen für einen indikatorenbasierten sächsischen Weiterbildungsbericht geben können. Hierfür werden mittels qualitativer Inhaltsanalysen deduktiv und induktiv gebildete Kategoriensysteme erarbeitet. Es wird deutlich, welche Themen ein sächsischer Weiterbildungsbericht in Bezug auf landesspezifische Erkenntnisinteressen, seine nationale Anschlussfähigkeit sowie in Bezug auf die vorhandene sachsenspezifische Datenbasis, abdecken könnte. Dabei werden Lücken in der Datenbasis aufgezeigt und Entwürfe für Datenerhebungsinstrumente vorgestellt, um die aktuell vorhandene Datenbasis schrittweise zu erweitern, zu vertiefen und aktuell zu halten. Die Arbeit endet mit Vorschlägen für weitere Projekt- und Forschungstätigkeiten.

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Ludwig, Paul D. Mr. "Defining Higher Education Writing Centers from the Perspectives of Writing Center Directors." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3855.

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The purpose of this study was to discover what defines a writing center by interviewing directors of writing centers in the Southern Appalachian area. This qualitative study was based on a single round of recorded telephone interviews with 13 writing center directors who meet the criteria for inclusion in the study. Many researchers have written about writing centers, their efficacy, and what defines them; yet, no clear consensus exists. Without a clear definition there is no means of determining the efficacy of writing centers. As a result of the interviews with the writing center directors three critical components of writing centers emerged. They were tutors, space, and leadership; these are the three major elements that define and shape a writing center. A writing center must have well-trained and knowledgeable tutors; a space, either physical, virtual or both, as a base of operation; and a director that provides leadership.

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Hardy, Nicolle Chantelle. "Perceptual Learning Style Modalities: Comparing Latino, Black, and Caucasian Adults." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6854.

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Abstract The purpose of this study was to compare the individual learning modalities of Latino, Black, and Caucasian males and females with at least some college education utilizing the Multi-modal Paired Associates Learning Test IV (MMPALT IV). Using the MMPALT IV, 20 participants from each of the three race/ethnicities above the age of 40 were measured in each of the seven perceptual modalities: Visual, Print, Aural, Interactive, Haptic, Kinesthetic, and Olfactory. The MMPALT IV is a performance-based test, which measures a person’s capacity to acquire information through each of the seven learning channels. ANOVA tests (2 x 3) with a follow-up Tukey test were used with race/ethnicity and gender identified as independent variables. The dependent variable was the individual perceptual modality sub-test scores. This study presented four research questions that addressed the following: the strongest modality profile for the participants, identifiable patterns of perceptual modalities within and between the groups, gender differences between learning styles, and consistencies for race/ethnicity with respect to gender. Statistically significant differences were found only in the Kinesthetic sub-test involving Latino participants, where they scored higher than both Black and Caucasians. The three highest scoring modalities for the Latino participants were Visual, Print, and Haptic; whereas the Black participants were Visual, Interactive, and Print. Caucasian participants scored highest on Visual, Print, and Interactive. Males and females responded similarly. All race/ethnicities responded similarly to previous MMPALT research with the exception of Kinesthetic where Latino’s performed better then Caucasians and Blacks. Implications for practice would include the incorporation of more interactive activities in a learning environment. Based on the results of this research, instructors may benefit from paying closer attention to kinesthetic activities for Latino students in a learning environment and not over relying on just traditional methods of teaching. This study was exploratory and was necessary to validate the current revisions to the MMAPLT IV. Future research could include modifying some of the subtests for more variation between test items, including more warm-up exercises to reduce any possible disorientation, adding other languages other than English, and testing other race/ethnicities.

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Huffaker, Stacey A. "Successes and Challenges of Family and Consumer Science Extension Agents in the Implementation of Couple and Relationship Education." DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/855.

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Although healthy relationship initiatives are becoming more common, relatively little is known about the processes and outcomes of these initiatives. This study uses a phenomenological qualitative approach to examine the experiences of Family and Consumer Science (FCS) extension agents in the implementation of couple and relationship education in the Utah Healthy Relationship Initiative. Data were collected through quarterly report forms submitted by extension agents describing successes and barriers to their work. Successes in the project related to collaborative partnerships, attendance/participation, and positive outcomes for participants. Collaborative partnerships were instrumental in reaching more participants and finding cultural resources. The challenges that agents reported included constraints for participants and agents' difficulties with resources. The findings underscore the benefits of creating flexible, low-intensity, and low-cost activities that attract participants and reduce some of the barriers to participation, as well as teaming up with community organizations to implement couple and relationship education programs.

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Mayes, Jennifer. "UDL and Motivation: Student Perceptions of the Impact of Universal Design for Learning on Motivation of First-Year Community College Students in Rural East Tennessee." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3691.

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The purpose of this quantitative study was to identify the perceptions of how Universal Design for Learning (UDL) impacts motivation in first-year community college students in rural East Tennessee. This study investigated the effects of UDL on motivation of first-year community college students in East Tennessee. This involved multiple sections of courses participating in a UDL pilot training program with the college’s Instructional Design department. Two of the courses were part of the UDL pilot, and two of the courses were teaching the Standard approved Master Curriculum. The study had a total of 109 participants, and 9 research questions were analyzed at the .05 significance level. Interactivity was significantly higher in the English UDL courses than the Education UDL courses. Rural students and nontraditional students were significantly more motivated in the UDL courses. There was no difference in predicted grades between the UDL and non-UDL courses. While results of this study did not align with other studies being published regarding the success of UDL programs, it provides good groundwork for more in depth studies. It also supports the idea that courses should implement UDL from beginning to end rather than just isolating one module for a UDL design.

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Stout, Benjamin C. "Do Booster Emails Improve Learning Transfer Among Parenting Professionals?" DigitalCommons@USU, 2019. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7414.

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Parenting professionals play a key role in helping parents have a positive influence on their children, which is why it is important to ensure that professionals have and use research-based information and materials. Using data from 96 parenting professionals from Utah and Missouri, who completed a 4-hour Strong Parents, Stable Children training, we examined the effects (at 2-months post training) of reflective reminder emails on parenting professionals’ utilization and learning transfer of training materials. Results from independent samples t tests show that participants who received “booster” emails at 1-week and 1-month post training shared some information and some materials with parents more frequently, and spent more time reviewing training materials and making further notes than did a control group. Implications for improving training implementation for parenting professionals are discussed.

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Armstrong, Marilyn Christine. "Perceptions on Collaborative Learning: A Case Study of Female Community College Instructors." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2990.

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Abstract In the 1980s, academic assessments called for "the ability of individuals and groups to talk, listen judge, and act on issues of common interest" (Morse, 1989, p. 30). More recently, corporate research findings, Are They Ready to Work? Employers' Perspectives on the Basic Knowledge and Applied Skills of New Entrants to the 21st Century U.S. Workforce (The Conference Board, Inc., Partnership for 21st Century Skills, The Corporate Voices for Working Families, & Society for Human Resource Management, 2006), report the workplace is seeking college graduates with skill in collaboration (e.g. build diverse relationships, negotiate, manage conflict). While the interest in collaborative learning has expanded in higher education and business, "sparse application" is reported in the college classroom. In academia, collaborative learning has been dependent on cooperative learning research focused on quantitative student achievement outcomes while faculty perceptions of a nonfoundational social constructivist view of collaborative learning is reported as "hardly begun." Along with an increased ambiguity in the terms collaborative and cooperative learning, a comprehensive understanding of collaborative learning and its potential uniqueness, if any, has been skewed. The purpose of this study was to describe and explain collaborative learning from the perspective of selected classroom practitioners representing multiple academic disciplines at a learning-centered institution. The exploratory questions guiding this qualitative case study were: (a) what elements constituted community college collaborative learning practitioners classroom experience and (b) what variables influenced the elements. The theoretical framework undergirding this dissertation is social constructivism nested in constructivism. A purposeful sampling of four instructional criteria indicative of a nonfoundational socio-constructivist concept of collaborative learning guided the participant selection process. The limited candidate list consisted of 31 faculty (20 females, 11 males) at the field site, a learning-centered community college with an FTE near 30,000 for the 2009 - 2010 school year. From 22 initial responses, seven faculty participants (6 female, 1 male) were selected and participated in two semi-structured in-depth interviews. The data collection included interviews, institutional and practitioner documents, the researcher's reflective journal, and field notes. The male participant was removed from the study because he did not submit all requested documents. Therefore, though unintended, six case studies of female instructors were analyzed over an eight month period and reduced to four when saturation was reached, no new information was elicited. All four participants fulfilled all four specified instructional criteria. The central finding able to help the college classroom is the strong identified practice of the defined collaborative learning concept with the articulated understanding limited and term interchange and confusion profound. Thus, the value of this study is the lack of definitional clarity in the terms collaborative and cooperative learning within academia which may offer one possible explanation for the reported sparse application in the college classroom. Supporting this major finding the single most defining attribute of this sophisticated or challenging concept of collaborative learning is the instructional criteria of distributed authority. Manifesting itself in students teaching students the faculty participants high level of consistent classroom application in concert with intellectual negotiation, consensus building, and student ownership of learning constitutes the collaborative learning skills sought by the work force. This study contributed to all three research attributes reported as minimal in the literature, qualitative research from a faculty perspective on the specified concept of collaborative learning. A comprehensive participant selection process was not conducted. In view of the central finding and the existing gaps in the literature, a priority recommendation for future research would be a more intentional expansion of candidate recruitment to potentially increase identification of classroom instructors practicing the particularized concept of collaborative learning. Other research recommendations would include a more focused study of the defined concept of collaborative learning in relationship to: (a) the learning-centered institution, (b) disciplines with a high density of foundational knowledge, (c) student and faculty resistance, (d) lines of authority, and (e) personality, gender, teaching styles, and learning styles.

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Arnemann, Cristiane Trivisiol. "Educação permanente em saúde no contexto da residência multiprofissional : estudo apreciativo crítico." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/171034.

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Esta tese se ocupa da educação dos profissionais de saúde a qual vem sendo (re)discutida, amplamente no mundo. De acordo com a Organização Mundial da Saúde, a educação dos profissionais de saúde ainda é considerada fragmentada, descontextualizada e produtora de um currículo estático ao avaliar a dinâmica de mudanças que ocorre nessa área. No Brasil, destaco o movimento da Educação Permanente em Saúde (EPS) que propõe uma mudança na formação a fim de orientar os profissionais de saúde para o trabalho no Sistema Único de Saúde. O conceito de Educação Permanente é uma proposta educativa destinada a intervir e provocar reflexões sobre o processo de trabalho direcionado a melhorar a qualidade do serviço e das condições laborais: educação no trabalho, pelo trabalho e para o trabalho. Assim, essa tese objetivou: compreender como práticas pedagógicas de EPS são utilizadas na formação de profissionais em saúde em uma Residência Multiprofissional em Saúde e analisar como o processo reflexivo-dialógico desenvolvido em uma Residência Multiprofissional em Saúde com seus preceptores gera mudanças ao longo das fases de uma Pesquisa Apreciativa.Este estudo é caracterizado como um Estudo Apreciativo Crítico porque articula a metodologia Pesquisa Apreciativa com a Teoria Crítica Social. Utilizo como orientação teórica a EPS e seus conceitos atrelados ao teórico social crítico Paulo Freire. Este estudo foi implementado no Programa de Residência Integrada Multiprofissional do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. Os participantes essa pesquisa foram sete preceptores da referida Residência. Como estratégia para produção dos dados, foram realizados grupos de discussões com os preceptores. A metodologia foi organizada em quatro estágios que constituem um ciclo 4D: Discovery, Dream, Design e Destiny. Cada fase foi desenvolvida em um objetivo específico. A análise de dados foi realizada de acordo com Green et al (2007), Silverman (2000) e Denzin e Lincoln (2000). Como principais resultados estão a identificação das melhores práticas desenvolvidas pelos preceptores, como a consulta multiprofissional, o acolhimento dos residentes e as ações integradas entre as diferentes ênfases da Residência. Em relação aos sonhos dos preceptores, destacamos os estágios vivências, a integração da residência médica com a residência multiprofissional e a valorização financeira dos preceptores. Além disso, saliento a construção da proposta de formação pedagógica para a Residência que foi a criação de um Núcleo pedagógico de Educação Permanente em Saúde. Este estudo convidou os participantes a refletirem criticamente sobre suas práticas em seu espaço de trabalho em um processo dialógico, reflexivo e participativo, pois oportunizou que os preceptores tenham a possibilidade de tornarem-se agentes de mudança, logo, sujeitos de um processo construído coletivamente. Com este estudo, esperamos que os preceptores possam atuar de modo participativo na pesquisa, se sintam coautores e valorizados, além de ampliar o diálogo em torno da problemática da EPS contextualizando-a no espaço da residência multiprofissional. The education of health professionals during their career is being extensively re-discussed in the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) the education of health profes-sionals still considered fragmented, out of the context and it is the producer of a static curricu-lum when assessing the dynamicity of changes which occurs in this area. The concept of Con-tinuing Education in Health is an educational proposal to intervene and provoke reflections on the work process aimed at improving service quality and labor conditions: education in work, education through work and for the work. This thesis aimed: understand how pedagogical prac-tices of Continuing Education in Health is used on multiprofessional residences in health and analyze how the reflexive-dialogic process generates changes throughout the phases of appre-ciative inquiry. This study is characterized as a Critical Appreciative Study because it applies the methodology of appreciative inquiry articulated in the Social Critical Theory. I appliyed the theoretical guidance the Continuing Education in Health and its concepts linked to the critical social theorist Paulo Freire. This research was conducted at Multiprofessional Residence Pro-gram, which is developed in the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil. The participants were seven Residency preceptors. As a data collection strategy groups of discussions through meetings with these preceptors were conducted. The methodology was organized into four stages which constitute a 4D cycle: Discovery, Dream, Design e Destiny. Each stage was de-veloped in a specific objective. The data analysis was conducted according to Green et al (2007), Silverman (2000) and Denzin e Lincoln (2000). The main results are the identification of the best practices developed by the teachers, the multiprofessional consultation, the reception of the residents and the actions integrated between the different emphases of the Residence. As dreams of preceptors, they highlight the steps, the integration between the Medical Residence and the Multiprofessional Residence and also a better wage for preceptors. In addition, I High-lighted the construction of the pedagogical training proposal for the Residence: a creation of a Pedagogical Nucleus of Permanent Education in Health. During the study, the participants were invited to reflect critically on their practices in the work space in a dialogical process, Reflective and participatory process that gave the possibility of becoming agents of change, subjects of a collectively constructed process. The study points to the possibility that preceptors feel them-selves to be co-authors and valued, in addition to broadening the dialogue around the problem of Continuing Education in Health contextualizing it in the space of the multiprofessional res-idence.

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Headd, Andrew C. "The Effect of Parental Support and Selected Variables on the Effectiveness of a Credit Recovery Program as It Relates to Successful Completion of Graduation Credits." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2017. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/85.

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The recent interest in graduation rates (a phrase sometimes used interchangeably and incorrectly with attainment rates and completion rates) began with the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, also known as the Spellings Commissions, which called for “dramatic” changes in higher education to address the “persistent gap between the college attendance and graduation rates of low-income Americans and their more affluent peers” (Cook & Hartle, 2011, p. 1). As educators, we should strive to make sure that the students we serve receive a quality education, one that will prepare them to be college or career ready. In recent years, the national graduation rate does not ensure that educators are preparing their students for life after high school. This study analyzed the findings from a specific credit recovery and how, when implemented with a strong parental involvement, a credit recovery can have a positive impact on the graduation rate. From the administering of a student survey and parent interview/questionnaire, it was determined that parental involvement and student motivation have the greatest impact on student achievement for students who participate in credit recovery. When students have consistent access to Georgia Virtual School, then their motivation is the strongest. The findings in this study imply that parental support impacts the academic success of students. If parents said they were informed about the credit recovery procedures, this implies that there is a high level of communication between the school and home. Educational leaders should focus on areas or predictors within the family, society, or individual circumstances of the child, as well as in the academic surroundings and materials in order to meet the diverse needs of the students.

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Key, Lynne A. "Perceptions of Workplace Mentoring Behaviors for Lifelong Career Development." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4706.

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This study's purpose was to investigate the importance of mentoring functions and behaviors for lifelong career development as perceived by protégés. The population included individuals in middle to late adulthood (age 40 years and older) who reported they had been a protégé in at least one mentoring association perceived as beneficial to their lifelong career development; and were either employed or had been employed as a middle manager, senior manager, C-level executive, business owner, or member of a profession. The sample was obtained using a chain-sample method; 67 Ambassadors completed an online survey and each invited 10 contacts to complete the survey. The final number of respondents was 503; of these, 456 reported being a protégé. Data were collected using the Perceptions of Workplace Mentoring Behaviors (PWMB) scale, a modification of Noe's (1988) Mentoring Functions Scale. The online survey included the PWMB scale items plus questions designed to engage the respondent's autobiographical memory and questions regarding respondent and mentoring association characteristics. The PWMB scale included seven new items, posited by the expert panel, enhancing the teaching aspect of mentoring. Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted comparing four tenable models for the PWMB scale. The 8-factor model, which was essentially the protégé's view of Kram's (1985) mentoring functions model and included the seven newly developed items, exhibited the best fit of the four possible models. Results indicated that protégés perceived three factors from the Psychosocial category (Role Model, Acceptance-and-Confirmation, and Relationship Fundamentals) as most important to their lifelong career development. Effective Development Opportunities was perceived as the most important factor from the Career category. Professional Issue Counseling from the Psychosocial category was perceived as the least important factor. Significant differences were found for five of six independent variables (protégé gender, mentor gender, dyad, protégé's mentor group, and birth decade) at the item level and for four of six independent variables (protégé gender, dyad, protégé's mentor group, and decade of birth) at the factor level. Implications included designing mentoring programs that provide opportunities for mentors and protégés to develop relationships rather than directly assigning protégés to mentors.

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Nogueira, Alyne Leite Gomes. "Planejamento de sucessão: uma ferramenta para potencializar a liderança em enfermagem." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2018. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/8405.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Doutorado - Alyne Leite Gomes Nogueira - 2018.pdf: 4302155 bytes, checksum: bec73c8fe7392df8a1cc7462a5720f1b (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-26 Succession planning (SP) for nursing leadership allows leaders to prepare new professionals to carry on or improve care quality in institutions. It is an innovative tool in the management of people. The objective of this study was to create a succession planning model for nursing leaderships at a hospital institution, based on an appreciative reflection of nurses. A descriptive exploratory study, using a qualitative approach and grounded on appreciative inquiry (AI), was developed at a public federal hospital in the Center-West region of Brazil. The study took place in two stages. In the first stage, the participants were 36 nurses with different hierarchical positions, from managers to care staff. The authors investigated the experience of the participants on leadership and their perspectives as regards leadership succession in nursing by means of individual interviews with application of the snowball technique. The second stage consisted of a group intervention with 22 nurses who participated in the first stage, using the AI methodology. The collected data were submitted to thematic content analysis and organized using the WebQDA 2016 software. Two categories emerged from the first stage: Current leadership: foundation for a succession planning; and Succession planning: a necessary tool for leadership in the institution. The second category included the creation of the Leadership Succession Planning, according to the 4D cycle methodological structure, which comprises four phases (Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny). At Discovery, positive points of the institution regarding leadership succession were presented and, at the Dream phase, nine desirable dreams for an ideal future in terms of leadership succession, the institution’s internal policy, and shared management and leadership development. At the Design phase, five goals were defined, along with their respective deadlines, whereas at the Destiny, there was the creation of one or more plans for each of the goals, including what had to be done in order to achieve them, with the definition of actions and those responsible for carrying them out. At the end of the 4D cycle, the group developed the Succession Planning for Nursing Leadership for the institution, which contributed to organize and strengthen this process. The use of the AI was a powerful tool in the development of collective work with the group of nurses and an important ally in the generation of changes. Considering that the subject of nursing leadership is not addressed systematically in Brazilian healthcare institutions, this study proposes a new way of thinking over the subject in the different institutional settings and, therefore, presents an innovative character for the field of management in health and nursing. Hence, this study can inspire nurses and researchers who are committed to offering quality care to their patients. O Planejamento de Sucessão (PS) de liderança em enfermagem favorece que líderes preparem novos profissionais para dar continuidade ou melhorar a qualidade da assistência nas instituições. Trata-se de uma ferramenta inovadora na gestão de pessoas. O objetivo deste estudo foi elaborar um modelo de planejamento de sucessão de lideranças em enfermagem para uma instituição hospitalar, com base em uma reflexão apreciativa de enfermeiros. Estudo descritivo exploratório, de abordagem qualitativa, fundamentado na Investigação Apreciativa (AI), desenvolvido em hospital público federal da Região Centro-Oeste brasileira. O estudo ocorreu em duas etapas e, da primeira, participaram 36 enfermeiros que ocupavam diferentes posições hierárquicas no hospital, desde gestores a assistenciais. Investigou-se a experiência dos participantes sobre a liderança e suas perspectivas no que se refere à sucessão de lideranças em enfermagem por meio de entrevista individual com aplicação da técnica de snow-ball. A segunda etapa constou de uma intervenção grupal com 22 enfermeiros que participaram da primeira fase, utilizando a metodologia da IA. Os dados coletados foram submetidos à técnica de análise de conteúdo e organizados com auxílio do software WebQDA 2016. Da primeira etapa, emergiram duas categorias: A liderança atual: alicerce para um planejamento de sucessão; e Planejamento de sucessão: uma ferramenta necessária para a liderança na instituição. A segunda incluiu a elaboração do Planejamento de Sucessão de Liderança, conforme a estrutura metodológica do Ciclo 4D, que compreende quatro momentos (Descoberta, Sonhos, Planejamento e Destino). Na fase da Descoberta, foram apresentados pontos positivos da instituição relacionados à sucessão de liderança e, na dos Sonhos, nove sonhos desejáveis a um futuro ideal em termos de sucessão de lideranças, política interna da instituição e gestão compartilhada e desenvolvimento de liderança. Na fase do Planejamento, cinco metas foram traçadas com seus respectivos aprazamentos. Já na fase do Destino, para cada uma das metas, houve a elaboração de um ou mais planos contendo o que precisa ser feito para alcançá-las, com as respectivas ações e definição dos responsáveis por executá-los. Ao final do ciclo 4D, o grupo desenvolveu o Planejamento de Sucessão de Liderança em Enfermagem da instituição, o que contribuiu para organizar e fortalecer este processo. A utilização da IA mostrou-se uma potente ferramenta para o desenvolvimento do trabalho coletivo com o grupo de enfermeiros e uma importante aliada na geração de mudanças. Considerando que o tema da sucessão de liderança em enfermagem não é abordado sistematicamente em instituições de saúde brasileiras, este estudo propõe uma nova forma de refletir sobre o assunto nos distintos contextos institucionais e, portanto, apresenta um caráter inovador para o campo da gestão em saúde e enfermagem. Dessa forma, pode inspirar enfermeiros e pesquisadores comprometidos em oferecer uma assistência de qualidade aos usuários.

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