Browsing Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis electronic theses and dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Donaldson, Joseph Fetzer"
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Assessment for learning : connecting students to their learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)Like other schools with similar populations of poor and minority children throughout the nation, the author's school did not produce satisfactory scores on the state's high-stakes testing scheme. The project used an action ... -
A case study of the retirement portability for Missouri educators identifying and assessing the driving and restraining forces for policy change
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The study was conducted to identify the policy factors that are driving selected public employment retirement systems to increase portability options ... -
Defining professionalism in the health sciences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This qualitative single case study explores how faculty members within a Midwestern four-year university's school of health professions define the ... -
Educational entrepreneurism in higher education: a comparative case study of two academic centers within one land-grant university
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)This research explored the relationship of educational entrepreneurism and organizational culture in the creation and evolution of academic centers within one Midwestern land-grant university facing resource constraints. ... -
An evaluation of the relationship of nursing school administrators' leadership frame orientation to faculty perceptions of job satisfaction and leadership effectiveness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)The purpose of this study was to determine which of Bolman and Deal's (1997, 2003) identified four frames were favored and consistently utilized by nursing school administrators and whether multi-frame usage by administrators ... -
Expanding the description of facilitators of adult learning : workplace facilitator teaching styles, theories of action, and perspectives of teaching
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)This study identified espoused teaching modes and teaching perspectives for a sample of workplace learning facilitators. The difference between facilitator espoused teaching mode and learner perception of facilitator ... -
Exploring the contextual factors related to transfer of learning in a high school implementation of the eMINTS program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)Truly impacting teacher practices is a challenge for educational professional development (PD) providers. Typically, little attention is paid to the factors within the environment to which the educators return and how those ... -
Finding the cost of freedom : academic freedom discourse as it pertains to the part-time instructor in higher education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)Academic freedom has been an important facet of college teaching. However, the meaning of academic freedom is often nebulous and varied for many members of the college faculty. An estimated 48 percent of teaching faculty ... -
How and in what context do osteopathic medical students learn about interprofessional practice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)The purpose of this study was to explore how and in what context osteopathic medical students learn about interprofessional practice. A mixed method design was used to gather data on attitudes of first- and second-year ... -
Leadership support through the transition to to [sic] standards basd grading
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)This case study looks at the very controversial topic of grading. Some teachers feel grading is arbitrary and subjective in the traditional sense of grading and have become interested in the highly supported and researched ... -
Missouri high-growth business owners and/or decision makers participation in continuing business education programs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)The primary purpose of this study was to identify motivational reasons related to participation of Missouri high-growth business owners and/or decision makers in continuing business education programs as measured by the ... -
Missouri higher education reform : moving up on the public policy agenda
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study identifies and examines 14 contributing factors that, taken together, caused reform of public higher education governance to move up on the ... -
Perceived relation of adult community college students between quality of effort and outcome gains : adult students at one community college
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)This study's purpose was to explore the relationship between the perceived quality of student effort and the perceived gains in skills and knowledge of adult undergraduate students. The student population of Metropolitan ... -
Power and negotiation in safety program development in a research university
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The research on power and negotiation in program planning has concentrated on the effects that interests have on planning. With the exception of Umble, ... -
Predicting student performance in sonographic scanning using spatial ability as an ability determinent of skill acquisition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)Spatial ability refers to an individual's capacity to visualize and mentally manipulate three dimensional objects. Since sonographers manually manipulate 2D and 3D sonographic images to generate multi‐viewed, logical, ... -
The relation of instructor emotional intelligence with classroom climate in evening masters' programs for adults
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)With the increase of adult students on college campuses in masters' level programs, instructors and administrators need to respond sensitively to a diverse, blended population of students. The study explored if there was ... -
The role of middle leaders in fostering organizational learning in a state cooperative extension service
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)This qualitative study explored the nature of organizational learning and the role of regional directors (RDs) and program directors (PDs) as mid-level leaders in fostering organizational learning in one cooperative extension ... -
Student lobbyists' behavior and its perceived influence on state-level public higher education legislation : a case study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)As state budgets have tightened and a college education has more frequently come to be viewed as a private good, public higher education has become increasingly politicized, particularly at the state level and over the ... -
A study of policy changes in a small, rural, Missouri high school student handbook with respect to building a culture of high expectations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of the study was to enhance the knowledge base of rural school officials who are leading change by creating policy to raise expectations ... -
Understanding learning activities of caseworkers for the development of their professional competence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)The purpose of this study was to explore the learning activities that contributed to the professional competences of mental health caseworkers. Nowlen's (1988) Update, Competence, and Performance Models of Competence, ...