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Zhi Li – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation advances research on evaluation (RoE) through a trio of studies focusing on the role of context and the innovative use of Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software in formative evaluation in a qualitative research project. The first article extends Coryn et al. (2017) and elucidates how various contextual…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Computer Software, Inquiry, Computational Linguistics
Peer, Andrea Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Organizations interested in increasing their user experience (UX) capacity lack the tools they need to know how to do so. This dissertation addresses this challenge via three major research efforts: 1) the creation of User Data Spectrum theory and a User Data Spectrum survey for helping organizations better invest resources to grow their UX…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Theories, Use Studies
Chung, Dahee – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The healthcare environment is becoming increasingly dependent on health information technology, with providers, patients, payers, and other players producing and sharing information to improve healthcare delivery. This, in turn, has brought the issue of Health Information Infrastructure (HII) to the forefront of policy, design, and law. While…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Information Dissemination, Information Technology, Health Services
Cavanna, Jillian M. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The idea of data use as an educational reform strategy has gained significant traction in recent years, but there is limited research that illuminates what actually happens when teachers use data in practice. This study investigates the ways a group of middle school mathematics teachers used data in their classrooms and as part of an action…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Action Research
Akmon, Dharma R. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation examines the role of conceptions of data's value in data practices. Based on a study of three small teams of scientists carrying out ecological research at a biological station, my study addresses the following main question: How do scientists conceive of the value of their data, and how do scientists enact conceptions of value…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Scientists, Interviews, Meta Analysis
Bailey, Ann Elise – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research explored the knowledge, skills, and strategies early childhood teachers possess related to implementing curriculum and authentic assessment. Research suggests that early educators rate their knowledge of curriculum and authentic assessment and their implementation of both as excellent. Despite these self-reported, high levels of…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Educational Assessment, Curriculum Evaluation
Lageson, Tina Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative case study explored the perceptions and practices of three teachers who teach social justice concepts in kindergarten and 2nd grade classrooms in an urban school district in the Northwest region of the United States. The research sought to answer the following central questions: (a) What do teachers perceive about how instruction…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Practices
Heinisch, Benjamin P. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This qualitative case study explored how undergraduate students from rural areas experience higher education environments and develop a sense of belonging at a large Midwestern public university. This study defined rural considering students' hometown population size and density as well as each individual participant's constructed reality of a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Rural Population, Sense of Community, Student Attitudes
Brown, Desline A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The perspectives of special education teachers on the strategies used to teach mathematics to special education students were examined in this dissertation. Three central research questions that guided the study are: (a) What were New York special education teachers' opinions about the methods they use to teach mathematics to special education…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Special Education, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education
Coburn, Karen L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of the study was to determine whether the advent of healthcare information technology was a viable career pathway for the people of northeastern Kentucky. The qualitative study used the Delphi Method to conduct and examine interviews with nine experts in Kentucky's workforce development, economic development, education, and healthcare…
Descriptors: Health Services, Information Technology, Labor Force Development, Qualitative Research
Smith, Benjamin M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This phenomenological study was designed to investigate the coping strategies of teachers with dyslexia. Six middle and high school teachers from three different states in the US Midwest and South were interviewed. Interview data were analyzed for consistent themes and emergent details. Findings indicated that teachers with dyslexia employ a…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Secondary School Teachers, Dyslexia, Coping
Poindexter, Beryle Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative case study is an exploratory study to examine what contributes to the failure of the persistence of non-residential single-parents pursuing a college degree. The participants of this study included ten non-residential single-parent students between the ages of 21 and 50. The site of the interviews was in the…
Descriptors: One Parent Family, College Students, Academic Persistence, Case Studies
Singletary, Tod J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The United States Military has become increasingly dependent upon technology to meet its mission objectives with a consequence being greater dependence on civilian defense contractors to provide specialized services in support of high-tech mission requirements. Modern military defense contractors have also become dependent upon reliable and secure…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Information Security, Risk, Outsourcing
Ramdeen, Sarah – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Information seeking is "a conscious effort to acquire information in response to a need or gap" in your knowledge (Case, 2007, p. 5). In the geosciences, physical samples such as cores, cuttings, fossils, and rocks are primary sources of information; they represent "the foundation of basic and applied geoscience research and…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Geology, Scientists, Questionnaires
Mathena, Ann Ashley – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this transcendental, phenomenological study was to understand the impact of online grading and standards-based report cards on elementary teacher instruction at a suburban school system. This research study examined teacher instruction and assessment, sharing obstacles, and resources necessary for the effective use of…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Report Cards, Elementary School Teachers, Grading
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