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Community engagement : spanning boundaries between university and community
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Higher education serves public needs and influences society through teaching, research, and service, and an increasingly important component in fulfilling this mission has been community engagement. The boundary spanning ...
An examination of the preparedness of principals through the portal of the high school assistant principalship
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Weller and Weller (2002) stated that the assistant principalship is the gateway to school administration. The position of the assistant principal looks very different pending the setting and leadership of the principal ...
A case study of the analysis of factors that occur with reading proficiency in one rural district in southeast Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
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 ...
Relationship between family, school, peer, and student characteristics and student scientific literacy in Azerbaijan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study examined the effects of school, family, peer and student individual characteristics on scientific literacy scores. The study analyzed data ...
The Millennials : assessing the next generation of academic librarians
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
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 ...
A case study of the essential supports which make up the framework of a turnaround school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
States have been given flexibility under No Child Left Behind to create need-driven comprehensive school improvement plans with an approved accountability system, however those unable to show increased student learning ...
Analyzing the correlation between data usage and student performance on the Missouri Assessment Program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
School districts are charged with the task of improving standardized test scores and closing the gaps between specific groups of students. Numerous programs, school improvement strategies, changes in instruction and ...