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Brandy S. Bowman; Robert C. Rodier – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The research addresses how post-secondary education can enhance Black student participation in STEM fields, which historically lag behind their White counterparts. Through improvement science, the researchers test the effectiveness of providing scaffolded learning and awareness modules for faculty and staff to enhance curricular design efforts and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Program Design, Postsecondary Education, STEM Education
Robert C. Rodier; Brandy S. Bowman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The researchers believe that post-secondary education can provide a greater number of Black students with degrees in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). Using improvement science, this research aims to test whether providing scaffolded learning and awareness modules around success in STEM programs for faculty and staff…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Program Design, Postsecondary Education, STEM Education
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Gonzales, Miguel M.; Bickmore, Dana L.; Roberts, Maria B. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2022
This study examines what aspiring principal candidates in one university-based preparation program learned as a result of developing and implementing a school improvement plan. A case study approach was used to examine 53 aspiring principals' reports of what they learned from implementing school improvement plans. Findings revealed three…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Principals, Student Attitudes, Instructional Leadership
Enrique Ruacho – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study explored the implementation of data driven decision making (DDDM) among superintendents to improve low-performing schools in the Western United States. Specifically, this study utilized the Clark and Estes (2008) Gap Analytic Conceptual Framework to understand superintendents' knowledge, motivation, and organizational influences related…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Low Achievement, Institutional Characteristics
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Marsh, Julie A.; Kennedy, Kate – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: Researchers have amassed considerable evidence on the use of student performance data (e.g., benchmark and standardized state tests) to inform educational improvement, but few have examined the use of nonacademic indicators (e.g., indicators of social and emotional well-being) available to educators, and whether the factors…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Educational Practices, Educational Improvement, Well Being