Browsing Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Department "Educational Leadership, Policy and Foundations (UMKC)"
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A Heuristic Narrative Inquiry on the Conceptualization and Cultivation of Relational Trust Between Secondary Teachers and Administrators
(2020)The interactions of teachers and administrators may not account for as much time as the interactions between teachers and students, but there is great potential value in examining this relationship and examining its ... -
African American female millennials' sense of self in higher education support roles
(2020)Historical and cultural images may influence younger African American women’s sense of self in higher education (HE) support roles. However, Black women’s spirits of survival and resiliency have passed from generation to ... -
An analysis of factors affecting implementation of literacy curriculum resources in K-2 classrooms in a Midwest suburban school district
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012)This study explored teacher perceptions through a triangulation of data from surveys, interviews, and document analysis to identify how literacy curriculum implementation is affected in Kindergarten through second grade ... -
Breaking the Silence: A Qualitative Critical Autoethnography of a Principal's Lived Experience with Having Courageous Conversations about Race
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)This qualitative critical autoethnography represents a highly personalized account of the intricacies and reflections of a Black female educational leader engaging in courageous conversations about race with a predominately ... -
A Case Study of the Internationalization of a Midwestern University English Composition Course Occurring in a 3-D Virtual Environment
(2014-07-18)Internationalization, a gradual process that includes a number of strategies, has become a growing movement at American universities in an effort to create globally competent graduates who are prepared to be responsible ... -
Data Driven Decision-Making in Midwest Charter Schools: Teachers’ Experiences in the Classroom
(2014)Education has evolved into a system that emphasizes data use. Data are used to discriminate between successful and failing districts, schools, teachers and students. Data are used to gain insights to student demographics. ... -
Desegregation at Kansas City's Central High School: Illuminating the African American student experience through oral history
(2014-07-17)Central High School, the oldest high school in Kansas City, serves as an example of how radically education in Kansas City, Missouri, has changed over the course of the last 150 years. Beginning as part of Kansas City, ... -
Disciplinary Differences Between Faculty in Library Use and Perceptions
(2014-06-19)Current literature provides little in terms of general faculty use or perceptions in relation to the library. In many institutions, liaisons reject the results and recommendations of these studies as not generalizable to ... -
The effect of self-directed learning readiness and online course quality ratings on student satisfaction and academic performance in undergraduate eLearning
(University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2011-12-09)Attrition in online programs has historically been much higher than in traditional face to face programs, creating concern regarding the appropriateness of online learning for all populations. This study aimed to address ... -
An Exploration of Teachers’ Early Childhood Guidance Beliefs and Practice within Early Learning Classrooms
(2015)Child guidance approaches, models, and strategies impact the quality of the classroom environment through teacher-child interactions, positive and negative climates, and the development of self-regulation and autonomy. ... -
Faculty Beliefs in Early Childhood Teacher Preparation
(2015)Teacher preparation programs in the United States face increasing pressure to restore America as the preeminent leader in a knowledge-based global economy by graduating a highly skilled workforce. A growing national focus ... -
Faculty Identity Development Through Story: A Narrative Study in a Higher Education Context
(2023)Many higher education faculty members are not trained to teach during their graduate study; thus, faculty development programs (FDPs) can provide systematic opportunity for teaching training. While FDPs are prevalent in ... -
From the Classroom to the Boardroom: A Phenomenological Study of Seven Superintendents
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)School superintendents encounter a wide variety of unique and diverse challenges as they attempt to lead individuals and organizations toward success. As such, superintendents must be equipped with the skills to ... -
The impact of economic development incentives on public education in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-04-25)Economic development incentives are formally intended for use in attracting new businesses to a community or a particular part of a community. Studies of their effectiveness in achieving this purpose show little direction ... -
Instructional Program Coherence and Literacy Achievement
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)High stakes testing and meaningful accountability measures have caused many suburban school districts to take a closer look at how their students were performing, especially students from traditionally marginalized ... -
Invictus Minds: A Critical Heuristic Case Study of Giftedness in the African-American Male
(2014)The purpose of this critical heuristic case study was to explore the phenomenon of “giftedness” as experienced by African American males in K-12 public schools through the analysis of their schooling experiences. A ... -
Is That Racist? One White Family Interrogating Whiteness and Constructing Antiracist Curriculum
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Despite attempts by white teachers and families to avoid talk about race (Apfelbaum, Paulker, Ambady, Sommers, & Norton, 2008; Bartoli, Michael, Bentley Edwards, Stevenson, Shor, & McClain, 2016; Boutte, López-Robertson, ... -
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 ... -
Maintaining the Segregated City?: Exploring the College Planning Experiences of Kansas City’s Urban Students of Color and the Implications on Their Access to Higher Education
(2014-09-30)This dissertation examined the role of school-based college planning guidance services in the college trajectories of central city students of color. It is projected that by 2018, most jobs will require some postsecondary ... -
Mobility Strategies and Academic Success within Military Families
(2016)The purpose of this narratalogical case study was to investigate the strategies military families utilize to contribute to the academic performance of highly mobile military connected students. The unit of analysis was ...