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The Principal's Role in Managing Special Education: Leadership, Inclusion, and Social Justice Issues
(2011)
Principals are recognized as a key component to the successful implementation of inclusion of students with special needs in schools. Research exploring the factors for success and barriers was completed over a 10-month ...
TRUST: TEACHERS' SELF-REPORTED PERCEPTIONS IN WASHINGTON STATE
(2011)
Trust and trusting relationships appear to be critical resources for schools helping their students to overcome the disadvantages of poverty and language barriers. This study examined and analyzed secondary data of the ...
OCCUPANT TRAINING IN HIGH PERFORMANCE BUILDINGS: AN ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SATISFACTION, LEARNING, AND BEHAVIORS IN BUILDINGS
(2014)
In the past twenty years, more stringent energy codes and environmental standards have led to higher performance building designs that use less energy. Oftentimes, high performance buildings that incorporate passive building ...
Using the Expanded Keyword Method to Help K-12 Students Develop Vocabulary Knowledge
(2015)
This exploratory case study aimed to examine students' ability to implement the Expanded Keyword Method (EKWM) to help them learn vocabulary. EKWM works in two steps: 1) finding a rhyming word with the word to be learned; ...
Experiences of Registered Nurses Who Voluntarily Withdraw From Their BSN Program
(2015)
The need for a more highly educated nurse workforce has never been more evident as researchers are beginning to examine the effect of higher levels of nursing education and skill mix on nurse-specific indicators of patient ...
The Hybrid Course Designer's Experience Using the ABCDE Instructional Design Model
(2015)
This research investigated a new instructional design model intended to provide higher education faculty with guidance that will contribute to their successful design of a hybrid course. The goal of this research was to ...
SCHOOL PRINCIPALS' REASSIGNMENT UNDER RACE TO THE TOP LEGISLATION: WASHINGTON STATE PRINCIPALS' SENSE MAKING AND AFFECTIVE EXPERIENCES
(2015)
The purpose of this qualitative interview study was to explore how K-12 public school principals in Washington State "made sense" of the experience of being reassigned under the provisions of Washington State's version of ...
Living two Lives: The Ability of Low Income African American Females in their Quest to Break the Glass Ceiling in Education Through The Ellison Model (TEM) Mentoring Approach
(2013)
It is often that during their academic pursuits, to become successful, low-income African-American women must learn to navigate an upstream current through higher education, where the established order in the academy is ...
FEMALE GENERAL EDUCATION TEACHERS' KNOWLEDGE OF AND PERCEIVED SKILLS RELATED TO LEARNING DISABILITIES IN THE QASSIM REGION, KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA
(2014)
Students with learning disabilities are now taught in inclusive classrooms in Saudi Arabia. There is a lack of research on female general education teachers' knowledge of and skills related to the inclusion of students ...
Tensions Within Teaching: An Autoethnography Of An American Teacher
(2012)
TENSIONS WITHIN TEACHING: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHY OF AN AMERICAN TEACHERAbstractby Brianne Marie Tuura, Ed.D.Washington State UniversityDecember 2012Chair: Michele Acker-HocevarThis dissertation examines the personal transformation ...