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Kindred, Donna Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The 21st-century job description for school principals requires greater areas of leadership and accountability utilizing student data to improve instruction as mandated by state legislative reforms. The Principal's accountability is measured using the principal evaluation system. The general problem is that many principal evaluation systems are…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Effectiveness, Educational Change
Dylan Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Scholars have argued that athletics are utilized by universities to advertise their school to all individuals (Collins, 2012; Dwyer, Eddy, Havard, & Braa, 2010; Toma & Cross, 1998; Washington & Ventresca, 2004; Weaver, 2010). Expectedly, university officials are willing to contribute resources in order to develop an effective athletics…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Program Effectiveness, Classification, Organizations (Groups)
Sautner, Kerry – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study explored the narrative of new Philadelphia Police recruits' experiences within a training program that used storytelling techniques to positively influence their knowledge and assumptions about social justice and fairness. Prior research has suggested that storytelling can be an effective way to engage learners in understanding…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Police Education, Training, Teaching Methods
McCarthy, Yvonne Green – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative, practitioner research study, conducted by a school leader-as-researcher, was designed to gain insight into instructional leadership and teacher learning through the perceptions of high school teachers participating in a voluntary, school-based, self-organized, self-directed, cross-curricular teacher learning group within a…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Qualitative Research, Volunteers, Teacher Leadership
Davies, Todd Matthew – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation investigates the prevailing No Child Left Behind (NCLB) mandate as an effective platform to improve schools. The data compiled for use in this study represented 426 high schools in Pennsylvania and were retrieved from publicly accessible, state-sponsored sources. The statistical methodologies from the Pennsylvania Value-Added…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Accountability, Program Effectiveness, Federal Programs
LeTourneau, John – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The public higher education economic and competitive environments make it crucial that organizations react to the circumstances and make better use of available resources (Duderstadt, 2000; Floyd, 2008; Shulman, 2007; State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO), 2009). Viewing higher education through the perspective of new institutionalism…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Higher Education, Best Practices, Program Administration
Chiang, Yi-Ching – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Corporal punishment was long used in Taiwanese schools as an informal disciplinary tool for improving students' academic performance as well as for disciplinary violations. Based on thirty-five interviews and three school activity observations across a nationwide sample of junior high teachers and schools, this study examines the impact of…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Discipline, Academic Achievement, Motivation