The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the transition and adaptation of full-time, baccalaureate, degree-seeking female military students at colleges and universities in North Carolina that offer the Yellow Ribbon...
Keyword:
adaptation, education, higher, transition, veterans, and women
Subject:
Women veterans -- Education (Higher) -- North Carolina -- Case studies and Women college students -- North Carolina -- Attitudes -- Case studies
High school dropouts continue to be a documented problem in the United States and more specifically in North Carolina. Nationally, there were over 2.5 million dropouts reported for the 2012 school year. In North Carolina,...
Keyword:
belonging, dropouts, graduation, high school, mentor, and school connectedness
Subject:
High school dropouts -- North Carolina, Motivation in education -- North Carolina, Achievement motivation -- North Carolina, Mentoring in education -- North Carolina, and Dropouts -- North Carolina -- Prevention
It is well documented that the pressures of accountability and standardization have impacted public school teachers and their teaching practices (Imig & Imig, 2006; McCloskey and McMunn, 2000; Sacks, 1999). The pressure to...
Keyword:
Accountability, Case Study, Experiential Education, Inquiry-Based Teaching, Progressive Education, and Teacher Evaluation
Subject:
High school teachers, High school teaching -- Methodology, Experiential learning, Education, Secondary, and Educational accountability
A first-year experience is a collaborative effort of many initiatives, with varying names that have the greatest impact on student success during the first year of college. A first-year experience course, a feature of the...
Keyword:
Academic Performance, College Freshmen, First-Year Experience, First-Year Seminar, Graduation, and Student Retention
Subject:
Community college student development programs -- North Carolina -- Evaluation, Community college students -- North Carolina -- Evaluation, and Community college dropouts -- North Carolina -- Prevention
The purpose of this study was to investigate the self-perceptions of North Carolina principals regarding their preparedness to lead the implementation of the Common Core Standards in their schools. Specifically, this study was...
Keyword:
Common Core Standards, District Support for Principals, Efficacy, and Principal Preparedness
Subject:
School principals -- North Carolina -- Attitudes, Curriculum change -- North Carolina -- Evaluation, and Education -- Curricula -- North Carolina
The first five years of teaching are important because 30% of all beginning teachers leave the profession during that time (Darling-Hammond, 2001). The purpose of this study was to examine professional development for beginning...
Keyword:
alternative certification, career and technical education, professional development, teacher, traditional certification, and vocational
Subject:
Technical education teachers -- Training of -- North Carolina, Vocational teachers -- Training of -- North Carolina, and Teacher turnover -- North Carolina -- Prevention
Once a community college graduate completes an associate’s degree, the institution is committing to the public that the graduate possesses a prescriptive set of knowledge, skills, and abilities either gained through, or...
Keyword:
Certification, Competency-Validated Education, Continuing Education, Intra-institutional Articulation, and Workforce Development
Subject:
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, Nash Community College, Community colleges -- North Carolina, Continuing education, and Competency-based education
Creator:
Vester, Jonathan Steven and White, Shelley Yarbrough
The purpose of this study was to examine induction programs in North Carolina during the 2010-2011 school year to determine beginning teachers received the support as recommended by State Board of Education policy. Participants...
Keyword:
Beginning Teachers, Engagement, Induction, Mentoring, and Student Achievement
Subject:
Teacher orientation -- North Carolina, First year teachers -- In-service training -- North Carolina, and High school teachers -- In-service training -- North Carolina
Articulation agreements were created to make transferring from a state-supported community college to a state-supported university a smoother process while reducing the higher education costs for the state. This ex-post facto...
Keyword:
Articulation agreement, Baccalaureate persistance, College Transfer, Credit completion, Degree major, and Tansfer student
Subject:
Transfer students, Articulation (Education), Community college students, Students, Transfer of, and State universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Entrance requirements
The purpose of this study was to identify instructor behaviors that lead to positive student outcomes in online courses. The study investigated the relationship between 12 predictive variables and three measures of student...
Keyword:
community college and distance learning
Subject:
Distance education -- North Carolina -- Haywood County, Community college teaching -- North Carolina -- Haywood County, and Haywood Community College
