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The impact of performance funding on retention and graduation metrics at four-year public universities in Missouri between 1993 and 2018
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Performance funding has been a popular form of funding colleges and universities for several decades. Often the purpose is to make universities more efficient (Miao, 2012). Missouri has had two separate models of performance funding in play, a...
An analysis of the MSHSAA competitive balance policy of 2020: has equity been achieved?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
boundary limitations, student recruitment, student body demographics, and tuition assistance are all pieces of the equation. In the State of Missouri, differences in public and private schools' postseason success are apparent in sports and activities...
Career development events as a predictor of fall-to-fall retention of first-year college students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
examined whether participation and performance in agricultural education CDEs in high school can predict retention of first-year, first-time, full-time college students enrolled in agricultural sciences at a regional, Midwest, public university...
Comparisons of Support Among K-12 Music Teachers in Missouri and Kansas
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Qualtrics survey intended for music teachers in the states of Missouri and Kansas, with a special interest in the Kansas City bi-state metropolitan area. Survey items inquire about participants’ demographic information, educational experiences, teaching...
A Cross-Case Study: The Personal and Professional Challenges Experienced by Nurse Educators at Three Midwestern Colleges and Universities During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound effect on the educational system in the United States, especially nursing. Nurse educators are essential to educating the next generation of nurses, but they are in short supply while the need for nurses...
Biology and management of common ragweed
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2022)
"This publication examines the biological characteristics of common ragweed that make it a troublesome weed, and outlines management practices that will help growers better manage the weed and slow the selection of biotypes ...
Over the hill and through the woods: geography, extracurricular participation, and student achievement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
in the state of Missouri. Surveys were sent to rural school superintendents to obtain data not available through state department of education statistics. Fifty-five superintendents completed the survey. Their survey data were paired with state achievement...
MU Large ensemble recital programs, 2021-2022
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 2021)
Collection of programs from ensembles given during the 2021-2022 academic year given by students and faculty of the Department of Music at the University of Missouri--Columbia....
MU Large ensemble recital programs, 2022-2023
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 2022)
Collection of programs from large ensembles given during the 2022-2023 academic year given by students and faculty of the Department of Music at the University of Missouri--Columbia....
Critical information consumption and textbooks used in teacher preparation programs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Critical information literacy (CIL) and critical information consumption (CIC) are essential skills and habits of minds for pre-service teachers to develop as they prepare to educate future generations. The purpose of this critical discourse...
Navigation and social learning among first semester retained university students : exploration of programs and experiences at a comprehensive, public, open-enrollment institution
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Retention is an important measure of success (Tinto, 1999); therefore, student success is an area of interest among professionals in the field of higher education (Hunter, 2006; Rendon, 1995). This qualitative study sought to understand how first...
Missouri foster parents : advocating for the educational needs of children from hard places
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
, with the hope of helping to ensure an educational advocate, foster parent or otherwise, is engaged in advocacy behaviors for every foster child in Missouri....
Learning to Walk the Walk: Narrative Exploration of Diversity Training for Higher Education Teaching
(2020)
Today’s higher education classrooms are made up of an increasingly wide variety of students with varying life and cultural influences, learning styles, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and spiritual beliefs. A large and increasing proportion...
Impact of accession to WTO on Agricultural Sector in Vietnam
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2021)
After much deliberation, Vietnam officially became a member of World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2006. There is substantial empirical evidence on how accession to WTO can lead to economic development, improvement in trade ...
Cognitive tutoring and assessment systems and mathematics achievement: a quantitative study of the Summit Learning Platform
(2021)
The purpose of this study was to determine if the Summit Learning Platform, a type of Intelligent Tutoring System, has a positive association with mathematics achievement of high school students in grades nine through ...
Muse, number 53-54 (2019-2020)
(University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2020)
An analysis of financial aid offers and parent plus loan borrowing from 2015-2019 at Missouri, public four-year universities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
. In this work, I provide a literature review on student loan debt and higher education financing, results from evaluating financial aid offers at Missouri public, four-year higher education institutions between 2015-2019, and present findings from two focus...
An investigation of the administrator's role in the design, support, and evaluation of induction programs in rural, public K-12 schools in Northwest Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
the conceptual underpinnings of novice teacher induction, rural education, and leadership in public K-12 school districts. Fifty-nine school districts in Northwest Missouri served as the participant pool for surveys, interviews, and a document analysis...
The Propel Program: A Exploratory Study of an Inclusive Higher Education Model
(2020)
Higher education opportunities were previously scarce for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs), but are steadily becoming more common. The Propel Program, a two-year certificate program, provides students with IDDs...
A history of 'in loco parentis' in American high education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
administrators was removed and students enrolled in colleges and universities were granted legal adulthood. Through research of primary and secondary sources, this dissertation examines the history of in loco parentis in American higher education. It discusses...