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Missouri Student Success Network & Missouri Alternative Education Network
(University of Missouri Extension, 2010)
This OSEDA presentation discusses the social and economic context of alternative education networks in Missouri, and looks at the Spring MSSN Survey overall and specifically for regional discussion....
Social and Economic Trends in Missouri
(University of Missouri Extension, 2010)
This OSEDA presentation discusses social and economic trends in the United States and Missouri particularly with an emphasis on economics, population demographics, and education....
Social and Economic Trends in Missouri
(University of Missouri Extension, 2009)
This OSEDA presentation discusses social and economic trends in the United States and Missouri particularly with an emphasis on labor statistics, unemployment rates, renewable energy and green economy, cheetah firms, and general population...
New and Powerful Ways to Measure Learning
(University of Missouri Extension, 2010)
This OSEDA presentation addresses the power of data to inform instructionally relevant decisions and explores different ways of looking at student performance to view progress over time at the district, school, class and individual student levels...
A longitudinal analysis of political issue ownership trends and shifts from 1970 to 2004 [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2005)
The construction of neoliberalism and its effect on Mexican water policy [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2008)
of ecological data, policy implementation chronologies, Mexican newspaper reports, and social research on actors provided a multi-disciplinary approach to analyze governance. The research indicates that the construction of power and discourses of neoliberalism...
Leadership Speaker Series: Be Inspired
(University of Missouri Extension, 2010)
This OSEDA presentation discusses leadership, educational models and performance, and national and state statistics and demographics with an emphasis on employment, education, and student growth models....
Utilizing social stories to reduce problem behavior and increase pro-social behavior in young children with autism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
-month period was demonstrated for all of the participants. The present research adds to the current small though growing literature base in support of the use of Social Stories. Due to the call for scientifically based research in the classrooms...
Missouri High School Dropout Trends: The Rates and the Demographic Context
(University of Missouri Extension, 2010)
This OSEDA presentation addresses Missouri high school graduation rate, educational attainment, high school dropout rate, and the social and demographic factors related to dropout rates....
Forgotten: Support for minority students on the MU campus [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
and their sense of institutional support both academically and socially. Data were gathered through a process of three focus groups held in the fall semester of 2006. The fifteen participants discussed issues of academic and social support found on campus. Each...
Social skill in the workplace : what is social skill and how does it matter?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
social behavior used to achieve social goals. Further, I proposed an integrated social skill framework that theorized social skill as a higher-order construct with three sub-factors: social presentation, social scanning, and social flexibility. I...
Metro and nonmetro youth: Evaluating differential pathways to delinquency
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2005)
that metro and nonmetro youth experience significant differences in risk factors, behaviors, and experiences leading to delinquency. The findings are the result of a multi method approach incorporating both quantitative and qualitative analysis. An assessment...
Policing Troost: a replication and expansion of Herbert's territoriality and normative orders thesis
(University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2011-12-27)
Police officers in the United States constantly fluctuate in their roles between being
formal agents of state control and simple public servants. This dynamic societal role allows
significant fluidity in officer behavior, ...
Latino newcomers in Missouri: Cultural adaptation and ethnic identity [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2008)
that facilitated or impeded their economic integration. The interviews were transcribed to English and coded using Atlas.ti software. Analysis of the data identified the following themes: language, life in community, social life (networking in community), thoughts...
The black inside the blue : black law enforcement officers' perceptions of racial profiling in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
disproportionate number of traffic stops of Black motorists for the last 11 years. A review of the literature revealed that police officers have an identity formed through practices of the organization. This notion was further explained by examining social...
Cyberinfrastructure : revolutionary connections, global implications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, Cyberinfrastructure Council, 2017)
Innovation in summer sessions : a qualitative, multi-case study of public universities summer session programs through the use of academic entrepreneurship
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
influences and interprets university entrepreneurial activity. Through data analysis, the researcher sought to understand how university summer session administrators as institutional entrepreneurs foster innovation and entrepreneurship within a university...
Digital baggage: the digital identity of entry-level student affairs professionals
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This case study examined the personal and professional social media use of entry-level student affairs professionals at the four campuses in the University of Missouri System: the University of Missouri, University of Missouri -- St. Louis...
Generating social capital in first-generation students through a first-year seminar at a midwest university
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
. There were significant increases in total social capital for FGS-none and continuing-generation students but not FGS-some. Factor analysis revealed five dimensions of social capital in the survey instrument: advisor, faculty, institutional, family, and peer...
An online disconnect : a case study of the effect of social media on a metropolitan newsroom's organizational culture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
of organizational culture to understand how social media is used in story generation, source development, and promotion of news stories. The researcher used a case study consisting of nearly four weeks of newsroom observations, nineteen interviews, and the analysis...