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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 ... -
A qualitative exploration of STEM career development of high school students in Taiwan
(SAGE Publications, 2019-02-20)Although personal inputs and contextual variables in social cognitive career theory (SCCT) are recognized as key factors that affect career interests and choices, research has given minimal attention to the role of these ... -
Racial and ethnic differences in motivation for educational achievement in the United States
(Elsevier, 1999-12)Data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study (National Educational Longitudinal Study, (1994). NationalEducational Longitudinal Study: second follow-up (Report No.94-374). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of ... -
Relations between the Socioeconomic Status of Secondary Students with Disabilities and non-academic transition behaviors
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-06-24)Many studies suggest students’ socioeconomic status (SES) predicts academic performance as well as employment and further education outcomes for students both with and without disabilities. The extent to which SES affects ... -
The relationship between parenting style and epistemological beliefs
(2006-12)This study explored parenting styles and epistemological beliefs. The purpose was to determine if one’s epistemological beliefs are associated with the parenting style one experiences as a child. Parenting styles were ... -
Relationship between parenting styles and children’s motivational style: the development of learned helplessness
(2007-05)This study examined the phenomenon of learned helplessness, looking at the relationship between children’s motivational style and parenting style. Motivational variables included goal orientation (learning goal or performance ... -
Relationships between instrumental music participation and academic achievement in low SES students
(Wichita State University, 2012-12)The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between student participation in instrumental music class and academic achievement, specifically in low socioeconomic status (SES) students. The hypothesis was that ... -
Response to Tracy's under the "big tent": establishing universal criteria for evaluating qualitative research
(Sage Publ, 2013-11)In this paper, we consider Tracy's proposal for universal criteria to judge the goodness of qualitative studies, and we explore her criteria by applying them to our own work. As a test of Tracy's claim to universality, we ... -
Retention of novice special educators employed by an interlocal
(Wichita State University, 2017-05)Throughout the United States, a framework exists in which special education teachers are employed in a dual organizational structure of special and general education. The composition of this framework is twofold, comprised ... -
The role of mood on inferential processing
(Wichita State University, 2012-05)The way a reader comprehends a text is influenced by a number of factors; and one factor that may play a critical role is the reader’s mood. The extant literature documents that happy and sad moods elicit different processing ...