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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...
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...
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....
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...
Access to high-quality and effective teachers through a para-to-teacher grow your own program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This study investigated how a Grow Your Own (GYO) paraprofessional-to-teacher program increased access to a workforce of teacher educators in the rural areas of southwest Missouri. The teacher shortage has been described as a national crisis (Garcia...
How female principals nurture adult learning opportunities in successful high schools with challenging student demographics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Based on Cueva's (2010) learning strategies, this study investigated adult learning strategies successful high school female principals use to nurture adult learning opportunities at their schools in the state of Missouri. Public high schools were...
Yes she can : examining the educational and career pathways of African American women in senior leadership positions in 4-year public universities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This qualitative study explored how African American women in senior leadership positions in 4-year public universities in the United States speak about the experiences and characteristics that have contributed to their academic achievements, career...
Exploring rural administrator perspectives of the decline in science and math secondary education graduates from a regional public university in a Midwestern state over the last ten years : a case study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
There has been a marked decline in the number of graduates from the secondary education science and math program at a regional public university in a Midwestern state over the last ten years. Using qualitative and quantitative data gathered from...
Constructing children : one educator's dichotomy between ideology and pedagogy regarding children and achievement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Historically speaking, educational discourse and practices tend to objectify children through biological and psychological units of analysis. These socially accepted assumptions have created regimes of truth (Foucault, 1977) that construct children...
Text selection and students' motivation to read
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This study explores the relationship between features of the books students selectfor independent reading and their motivation to read. After spending 15 to 20 minutes reading self-selected texts, participants (n = 340) ...
An evaluation of a precollege program on college success
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a precollege summer program at Missouri University of Science and Technology known as Hit the Ground Running (HGR). It used a convergent mixed-methods research design, combining data from...
Faculty burnout and its relationship to social and institutional support
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The purpose of this sequential explanatory study was to determine if there was a relationship between faculty burnout, social support, institutional support, or salary, as well as establish if any college at a regional public university...
A case study of building leaders' experiences with strengths-based coaching and feedback
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
of teacher development and evaluation? This qualitative case study involved four assistant principals and three head principals who were each in charge of observing and coaching teachers in one mid-sized, rural district in central Missouri. Participants were...
Pigmentation and practice : understanding perceptions of white female teachers within a colorblind racial ideology framework
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Thoreau said, "The question is not what you look at, but what you see." In the world of education, what we don't see--or at least claim not to notice--matters just as much. For non-White children in American schools today, a failure to acknowledge...
Homeless not hopeless: understanding how graduate students who experience homelessness and housing insecurity successfully navigate their education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
as other compounding factors such as food insecurity, for many, this dream may be deferred. According to the National Center for Homeless Education (2017), for the 2016-2017 academic year, more than 30,000 college students reported on their Free Application...
The use of an application screening assessment as a predictor of teaching retention at a midwestern, K-12, public school district
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This quantitative study examined the retention of new hires at a Midwestern, K-12, public school district using the scores of an application screening assessment as a predictor. New teacher hires' overall performance results ...
Teacher collaboration and instructional program coherence across the transition to high school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
with different measures of student achievement. The study took place in the state of Missouri, and 312 principals of high schools with separate feeder middle schools were invited to participate. Electronic and paper surveys as well as public data were collected...