as traditional age and residential. Less support was found for the revised theory among non-traditional age commuters in the study who experienced less opportunity for social integration. Results of this study are valuable to higher education practitioners...

Gathering information about how secondary English Language Arts (ELA) teachers use pedagogical content knowledge gained from professional development (PD) to change their classroom practices in one Midwest Missouri school district has the potential...

situations. The IBI problem solving approach requires students locate and evaluate all sources of information and then produce and present their solution to others. Eleven teachers from a small, rural Missouri school received extensive professional...

in Undergraduate Education (Chickering & Gamson, 1987) can be applied to a wide variety of academic disciplines thus allowing the principles to be easily transferred to the traditional classroom setting. Additionally, the approach used in CLC professional...

This study started over the concern that many schools in Missouri were receiving penalties from the state through the No Child Left Behind law. The law required adequate yearly progress on achieving proficiency for all students. If the school...

This study examined the attitudes and perceptions of members of the Missouri Legislature through 94th and 95th Missouri General Assemblies. All members of the 94th and 95th General Assemblies were surveyed with 107 usable surveys being returned...

The purpose of this research study was to examine Missouri middle school principals' perceptions of the adolescent literacy crisis and to ascertain how middle level principals are addressing adolescent literacy needs in their schools...

in Missouri's high schools. Comparisons were made regarding various leaders' willingness to change or not change their school's scheduling system to initiate change. Additionally, informative results were found regarding the rationale or reasons given...

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 for student teaching...

The aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq left little doubt that many military and civilian leaders downplayed or entirely missed the possibility of an Iraqi insurgency. Volumes have been or will be written about the major ...

This quantitative study sought to investigate the differences in the electoral outcomes of school bond elections in Missouri from 2009-2016 based on election timing. The researcher utilized election timing theory as a framework for the study. Data...

continue to multiply. Because this subset of faculty teach a significant portion of the non-traditional student population, their story needed to be told. The qualitative research technique of a multiple location case study was used for this research...

President Obama’s Race to the Top initiative encourages college and career readiness among high school students. Career and Technical Education (CTE) is an integral part of many students’ success, specifically if they want ...

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 (the nontraditional...

The purpose of this case study was to explore the relationship between professional academic advisors and undergraduate college students at a distance where face-to-face meetings did not occur. This case also utilized ...

inquiry was to articulate the lived experiences of high-achieving elementary students in suburban schools in southwest Missouri. How would high-achieving elementary students, their parents, and their classroom teachers describe the academic experiences...

The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the duties commonly delegated to high school assistant principals which are perceived by building level principals to be the most important and least important ...

Despite the overabundance of data collected and analyzed about tuition as a primary cost of public higher education, little to no attention has been paid to fees as a portion of that cost. Most of the existing research ...

as well. The University of Central Missouri, a mid-sized school in Western Missouri has produced 400 alumni with master's degrees in industrial hygiene. The program is accredited by ABET. To assess what alumni of the program think of their preparation...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] While several studies demonstrate the effectiveness of the eMINTS instructional methodology on student success, no research exists to determine veteran eMINTs teachers...