Although there is some research on mid-level managers in student affairs, there is little information on their personal experiences of supervision. The primary purpose of this qualitative research study is to understand ...

Higher achievement scores, skill building, and closing the achievement gap are all anticipated results when providing academic interventions to students. When using Response to Intervention (RtI), a three tiered model where ...

This mixed methods study was designed to evaluate the traditional and clinical pathways to teacher education at one university setting according to efficacy, confidence, dispositional assessments, and qualitative focus ...

College of Education faculty members at the University of Central Missouri found that public school teachers and administrators from surrounding schools were reluctant to hand over classrooms of students to novice teachers ...

This study investigated the effectiveness of the Co-Teaching Model of instruction as implemented by the University of Central Missouri (UCM) teacher education program in relation to teacher readiness, retention, satisfaction, ...

Institutions of higher learning have focused recruiting, retention, and persistence efforts on the "traditional" student. In doing so, the retention and persistence rates of the highest growing population in higher education ...

This case study examines the importance of program alignment with a university's mission and pedagogical commitment to students and articulates the unique ways in which competitive academic teams advance the mission and ...

The study of superintendent-school board relationships is a worthwhile endeavor from a practitioner's point of view and is important for the success of a school district. The conceptual framework consisted of features and ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Program assessment allows administrators to facilitate strategic changes that integrate external opportunities and internal capabilities for long-term ...

This mixed methods research examined the influence of PowerPoint presentation as a means of delivering content in higher education courses and the influence of this instructional mode on assigned student reading completion. ...

The purpose of this study was to determine what, if any, associations exist between at-risk students' academic indicators and participation (or nonparticipation) in a school sanctioned extracurricular activity. The subjects ...

The evolution of student accountability has led some researchers to suggest the increase of teacher attrition is tied to the increase of accountability. Although some may suggest the teacher attrition rate is tied to ...

The purpose of this study was to determine if noncognitive variables, alone or in combination with standardized test score (ACT or SAT) and/or high school grade point average, can predict student success (first-semester ...

Recognizing that reading is a gateway skill for further learning many districts are seeking programs that address early reading intervention and remediation of reading. Reading instruction must address student literacy in ...

Academic librarianship is a career punctuated in recent years by the growth of new technologies used in creating, organizing, and retrieving information. Many academic librarians are struggling to keep up to date with these ...

This qualitative case study was designed to investigate graduate assistantships at the University of Central Missouri (UCM). Specifically, the researcher sought to understand how assistantships prepare graduate students ...

This mixed methods research utilized Action Based Learning Theory on a population of undergraduate college-aged students to determine if movement breaks in a predominately lecture-style college class affected a student's ...

Program assessment has historically and continues to be a critical element for academic programs to ensure continuous quality improvement of their programs. In the recent years, occupational safety, health and environmental ...

The purpose of this study was to compare horizontal equity measures in Missouri school funding through the fifth year of implementation of the Senate Bill 287 (SB 287) funding formula with the final year of the previous ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this study was to examine which job-related activities are most or least stressful. The perceptions are those of current public school ...