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Mangeri, Richard – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate principals' perceptions of the impact of the New York State Annual Professional Performance Review on instructional practices. Dr. Philip Hallinger's Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS) was used to examine principal behaviors as they relate to school mission/goals, instruction and…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Practices, Public Schools
Walters, Gwendolyn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The concept of caring has been integral to the practice of nursing and nursing education since the early teachings of Florence Nightingale. Significant changes in both the practice and the need for educating increasing numbers of advanced-degree nurses have resulted in an increase in online doctoral-level nursing programs. This internet-based…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Online Courses, Multivariate Analysis
Bak, Nicole L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Students with emotional behavioral disorders (EBD) are educated in restrictive placements at higher rates than students in other disability categories due to their challenging behavior and inability to function in the general educational environment (Bullock & Gable, 2006). The increasing utilization of alternative programming to educate…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Children, Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances
Lesh, Jennifer J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate secondary school staff's beliefs, practices, and skills concerning Response to Intervention (RtI), now known as multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS). The majority of research in RtI/MTSS has focused on the elementary level; however, little research has addressed its implementation at the secondary…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Urban Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Beliefs
Stewart, Gail A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The current study examines the language attitudes, racial identity and educational experiences of 75 African American university and community college students. This study is motivated by the hypothesis that the power of language attitudes dictates, to a large extent, the language one speaks, which is intimately tied to one's sense of…
Descriptors: Racial Identification, Self Concept, African American Students, Academic Persistence
Maddox, Pamela Rena – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Every educator's quest is to help students learn in the environment that will allow them to obtain and retain the information presented to them. In the new age of technology, more students are able to choose the environment in which they learn. This study is a quantitative comparative study of the academic performance between online and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, High School Students, English Instruction, Language Arts