• Re-examining state part C early intervention program coordinators' practices through a positive lens on leadership: A qualitative secondary analysis 

  Gupta, Sarika S.; Sherif, Victoria; Zhu, Xiaohan (NSUWorks, 2023-02-11)

  Part C early intervention is a program administered under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (2004) that provides services to eligible infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families. Part C coordinators ...

• The American Indian Institute: A case study 

  Felihkatubbe, Jason (Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)

  The overall high school graduation rate for American Indian/Alaska Native students is 74% compared to 89% for White students. On average, less than 1% of postsecondary students identify as Native American. One of the ...

• The influence of maladaptive metacognitions in education: Rethinking proness toward addiction 

  Etsitty, Treva (Wichita State University, 2022-12)

  Metacognition plays a role in motivation, executive function, declarative and procedural knowledge, and has been found to develop as early as three years of age (Marulis & Nelson, 2021). Metacognition is “thinking about ...

• Components of educator motives in relation to teacher turnover rates 

  Foster, Chris (Wichita State University, 2022-12)

  Teacher turnover is not a new phenomenon. The possibility of educators leaving the profession in recent and future months due to a myriad of preexisting issues brought to a head with the global COVID pandemic, however, may ...

• Bullying and social status during school transitions 

  Pellegrini, Anthony D.; Long, Jeffrey D.; Solberg, David; Roseth, Cary; Dupuis, Danielle; Bohn-Gettler, Catherine M.; Hickey, Meghan (Routledge, 2009-11-12)

  The Handbook of Bullying in Schools provides a comprehensive review and analysis of what is known about the worldwide bullying phenomena. It is the first volume to systematically review and integrate what is known about ...

• Protecting the educational rights of students in foster care: Legal considerations for educational professionals 

  Farnsworth, Elyse M.; Cordle, Maddie; Kromminga, Kourtney; Shaver, Elizabeth L.; Szydlo, Tyler; Frederick, Jarron (Elsevier, 2022-10-01)

  According to a 2018 report by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, more than 400,000 students live in foster care. Among other obstacles to success, involvement in the child welfare system is associated ...

• Structure and the classroom after remote/hybrid learning: A case study 

  Felihkatubbe, Jason M. (Wichita State University, 2022-04-29)

  INTRODUCTION: In the fall of 2021 the researcher accepted a one-month assignment as a substitute for a fifth-grade classroom in a Title I school in Kansas while the teacher of record went on a leave of absence. At the ...

• African international graduate students’ experiences and adjustment in US higher education: Through a self-efficacy lens 

  Umeri, Mercy (Wichita State University, 2022-05)

  The purpose of this qualitative research was to investigate African international graduate students’ experiences and adjustment in US higher education through the self-efficacy lens. The study used self-efficacy (Bandura, ...

• Instructional designers as street level bureaucrats in higher education: A qualitative study 

  Akella, Nirupama (Wichita State University, 2022-05)

  Instructional designers in higher education experience on the job conflict due to a misalignment between official university outlined functions and actual daily job functions. They deal with this conflict by possibly acting ...

• Becoming an online learner: Readiness of college students in embracing online learning 

  Lamei, Lena (Wichita State University, 2022-05)

  This research explored and assessed college students’ online learning readiness (OLR). The overall mean scores for all five dimensions of OLR, the highest and lowest level of students’ OLR, academic self-efficacy (ASE), ...

• The influence of social capital and community cultural wealth on college completion: Narratives of first generation adult learners 

  O’Neal, Pamela K. (Wichita State University, 2021-12)

  Adult learners and first generation students are less likely to persist to graduation than their traditional counterparts, however, some do manage to succeed in college and graduate (McCall et al., 2018; Means & Pyne, ...

• Classroom context influence on pre-service teacher pupil control ideology 

  Herron, Jason P.; Hennessey, Maeghan N. (Routledge, 2021-09-24)

  The purpose of this experimental study is to examine the extent to which changes in a classroom scenario influence participant reports of pupil control ideology (PCI). Pre-service teacher participants (n = 83) completed a ...

• Liberation psychology : theory, method, practice, and social justice 

  Comas-Días, Lillian; Torres Rivera, Edil (American Psychological Association, 2020)

  The book discusses liberation psychology, a discipline that encourages empowerment, healing, and transformation. Liberation psychology refers to the use of psychological approaches to understand and address oppression among ...

• The use of ability grouping for reading instruction 

  Winters, Crystal (Wichita State University, 2004-12)

  The purpose of this study was to compare the academic achievement of students who were grouped for reading instruction and those not grouped for reading instruction. Participants were 132 second-grade and 138 fifth-grade ...

• Theoretical approaches and modalities used with children and adolescents 

  Rose Prasath, Priscilla; Gregory, J. Claire; Maghsoudi, Mahsa; Gonzalez, Stacy Speedlin; Morris, Crysta (Springer Publishing, 2021-05)

  Working with children and adolescents, whether in a school or clinical mental health setting, calls for intentional practices. Professional school counselors and clinical mental health counselors work with clients from ...

• Internet addiction and acculturative stress among international college students in the United States 

  Li, Jiaqi; Liu, Xun (University Printing Services, 2021-03-15)

  While Internet use plays an increasingly important role in individuals’ lives, many college students have found themselves totally unconsciously plunged into Internet addiction (IA). Guided by the acculturative stress ...

• Theoretical approaches and modalities used with children and adolescents 

  Prasath, Priscilla R.; Gregory, J. Claire; Maghsoudi, Mahsa; Gonzalez, Stacy S.; Morris, Crystal (Springer Publishing Company, 2021)

  Working with children and adolescents, whether in a school or clinical mental health setting, calls for intentional practices. Professional school counselors and clinical mental health counselors work with clients from ...

• Postsecondary experiences of career academy students: A narrative inquiry of lived experience 

  Rangel, Melinda (Wichita State University, 2021-05)

  Using the framework of Schlossberg’s Theory of Transition, this research is designed to investigate the lived experiences of university students who graduated from a high school career academy model. Junior and senior ...

• A study of novice elementary teachers’ voices on their retention and the role of instructional coaching 

  Montford, John (Wichita State University, 2021-05)

  This qualitative case study explored teacher retention in elementary schools by examining novice teachers’ perceptions about instructional coaching and the influence it may exert on career decisions. The role of the ...

• Academic momentum: Does speed lead to success for first-generation students? 

  Monk-Morgan, V. Kaye (Wichita State University, 2021-05)

  The purpose of this study was to investigate how enrollment in 15 credit hours during the first semester influenced a first-time-in-college (FTIC), first-generation (FG) student’s perceptions of their academic momentum, ...

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