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Job satisfaction and career persistence of beginning teachers
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2008)Purpose-The purpose of this research is to examine career persistence and job satisfaction of beginning teachers. Design/methodology/approach - Four hundred and fifty-one tenth grade students from a nationally representative ... -
Job satisfaction of school psychologists in Kansas
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Job search methods, job search outcomes, and job satisfaction of college graduates: A comparison of race and sex
(Wiley Blackwell, 2001)A nationally representative sample of college graduates (N=11,152) were surveyed regarding their job-seeking behaviors and outcomes. Race and sex differences among the job search strategies used, number of job interviews, ... -
Journey to Solla Sollew: Teacher candidates, resiliency, and children's literature
(Association of Teacher Educators – Kansas, 2013)Today's elementary student must learn coping strategies in order to deal with life's challenges-social, emotional, and academic-in his or her changing world. To foster the development of such learning, teacher preparation ... -
Leadership in full-service community schools: a driving force for change
(Wichita State University, 2019-05)Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) are designed to increase access to holistic support services for historically underserved children and families. To do so, FSCS have developed local, community partnerships with health ... -
Learning disabilities and learned helplessness: a heuristic approach
(Informa Healthcare, 1996-02)This study investigated whether students with learning disabilities exhibited learned helpless behavior at a greater rate than their normal achieving peers when confronted with reading failure. Forty-five third grade ... -
Liberation psychology : theory, method, practice, and social justice
(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 ... -
Linking epistemological beliefs to cognitive development and academic performance
(2005-12)The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to determine if there is a relationship between middle school students’ epistemological beliefs and Piagetian stages of cognitive development and (b) if there is a relationship ... -
A longitudinal study of preschool children's (Homo sapiens) sex segregation
(American Psychological Association, 2010-05)In this 2-year longitudinal study, we hypothesized that sex of the human child (Homo sapiens), differences in physical activity, and time of the year would interact to influence preschool children's sex segregation. We ... -
Making the right connections: Differential effects of reading intervention for subgroups of comprehenders
(Elsevier, 2012-02)The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of different types of questioning interventions on students' reading comprehension. Fourth-grade students (n = 246) were identified as struggling, average, or good readers ... -
Navigating the education bureaucracy: How principals make sense of distributed leadership in practice
(Wichita State University, 2019-12)Distributed leadership has been accepted as the term used to describe various forms of shared or collaborative leadership practices in schools (Harris, 2013; Leithwood & Mascall, 2008). Principals are charged with enacting ... -
Necessary "others" in American public schools: Stories of students with juvenile records
(Wichita State University, 2018-05)For decades federal and state agencies have reformed criminal and juvenile justice laws to reduce recidivism rates in the United States. Based on successes adult populations have experienced exiting the system using a ... -
Parental influences on the high school students' academic achievement: A comparison of Asian immigrants, Asian Americans, and White Americans
(Wiley Blackwell, 1997-07)This study investigates the differences in parental influence on academic achievement of Asian immigrants, Asian Americans, and White Americans. The sample consisted of a nationally representative sample of 10th grade ... -
Perceptions and interactions of American university students with Arab international students
(Wichita State University, 2017-05)The purpose of this study was to understand how American students perceived and interacted with Arabs at a Midwestern university. Social capital theory was the theoretical framework used to understand the nature of ... -
Perceptions of teens choosing a virtual high school as a social/emotional safe haven
(Wichita State University, 2020-05)Suicide is a national crisis in the United States that claims more teenagers than cancer, heart disease, AIDs, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease combined (Flatt, 2019). Many individual ... -
A phonologically based analysis of misspellings by third graders with disordered-phonology histories
(American Speech - Language - Hearing Association, 1995-08)Misspellings evidenced in written responses of third graders during administration of a battery containing 25 true words and 20 nonsense syllable items were analyzed phonologically. Children with histories of disordered ... -
Post-secondary education and the choice to attend a proprietary school
(Wichita State University, 2016-08)Proprietary schools have been entering the educational market at a rapid pace. These proprietary institutions have been student focused and student centered, enrolling an alarming rate of students. Non-traditional students ... -
Postsecondary experiences of career academy students: A narrative inquiry of lived experience
(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 ... -
Protecting the educational rights of students in foster care: Legal considerations for educational professionals
(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 ... -
Psychosocial differences between left-handed and right-handed children
(2006-12)Historically left-handed people have had to cope with disparaging nicknames, sayings and misunderstanding about being left-handed. The age of hand dominance has been debated for decades with the consensus maintaining ...