Steady school leadership can support student achievement and equity-related outcomes, but the principalship is becoming more stressful with increasing demands, duties, and expectations. Burnout is one of several factors that contribute to principal turnover which often destabilizes a school community. Individual and organizational factors…

Feedback is powerful but variable. This study investigates which forms of feedback are more predictive of improvement to students' essays, using "Turnitin Feedback Studio"--a computer augmented system to capture teacher and computer-generated feedback comments. The study used a sample of 3,204 high school and university students who…

This mixed-methods study examined if coaching leadership behaviors created a culture of positive academic performance. The researchers examined coaching leadership behaviors perceived by student-athletes of their coaches and the coaches' self-perceptions. Chelladurai and Saleh's (1980) multidimensional model of leadership and Astin's (1991)…

Educational assessment is an ever-present component of any formal learning environment that has critical consequences for students. Despite this relevance, there is a gap in knowledge regarding one of its foundations--namely, assessment "fairness." In particular, social class-based fairness of classroom assessment practices has been…

"Measure, Use, Improve! Data Use in Out-of-School Time" shares the experience and wisdom from a broad cross-section of out-of-school time professionals, ranging from internal evaluators, to funders, to researchers, to policy advocates. Key themes of the volume include building support for learning and evaluation within out-of-school time…

The research team utilized a non-experimental, mixed-methods approach to investigate the post-crisis impact on university students and faculty, due to the sudden shift to remote learning in the middle of an academic year. The research team used descriptive, survey, and correlational research to understand the relationship between students'…

The research team utilized a non-experimental, mixed-methods approach to investigate the post- crisis impact on university students and faculty, due to the sudden shift to remote learning in the middle of an academic year. The research team used descriptive, survey, and correlational research to understand the relationship between students'…

Given the global pandemic, educators at all levels have had to transition their teaching practices to remote environments. Teacher education faculty have had to consider not only how to shift their own teaching, but also how to prepare teacher candidates for their future teaching roles which may include instruction in a range of modalities…

We introduce an approach for making a quantitative comparison of the item response curves (IRCs) of any two populations on a multiple-choice test instrument. In this study, we employ simulated and actual data. We apply our approach to a dataset of 12,187 participants on the 25-item Science Literacy Concept Inventory (SLCI), which includes ample…

The right of parents of students with disabilities to dispute decisions or actions by the school district is one of the tenets of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Of the three formal dispute resolution mechanisms under the IDEA, written state complaints (WSC) are the most commonly completed, from start to finish, yet the…

Disproportionate discipline, the overrepresentation of predominately Black and Latinx students in school disciplinary actions, has led to students from these groups being suspended more frequently and for longer durations than their White peers. This trend is found most often in subjective discipline incidents (SDIs) where authority figures must…

Researchers in the field of online learning have raised concerns over its lack of focus on the affective/emotional aspect of the online learning experience, despite a strong research base indicating the important role that emotions play in successful and effective learning (Ch'ng, 2019). Utilizing a phenomenological methodological approach, the…

Adoption has been an important way to create families over the years. While there has been a shift in recent years to encourage open adoptions, where the biological and adoptive families stay in contact after the adoption, many adoptees are coming from closed adoptions, where there is no contact or information shared about the biological family…

There has been an increasing expectation that the provision of health services should be based on evidence because evidence-based practice is an important tool for promoting quality care and improving patient outcomes. As undergraduate health science students transition from the classroom to the workplace they are expected to transfer elements of…

This dissertation aims to investigate the effect size measures of differential item functioning (DIF) detection in the context of cognitive diagnostic models (CDMs). A variety of DIF detection techniques have been developed in the context of CDMs. However, most of the DIF detection procedures focus on the null hypothesis significance test. Few…