The purpose of this project was to improve ways the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction can develop and implement a process for improving rater agreement performance on Standards 1 through 5 of the North Carolina...
Palabra clave:
calibration, evaluation, NCEES, OCT, principal y teacher evaluation
Tema:
Educational evaluation -- North Carolina, Teachers -- Rating of -- North Carolina, Teacher effectiveness -- North Carolina, Effective teaching -- North Carolina y Academic achievement -- North Carolina -- Evaluation
Forsyth Technical Community College (FTCC) face a shortage of funding to meet the demands of students, faculty, staff and businesses. Through this practitioner research, the utilization of the college’s current customer...
Palabra clave:
Client, Customer Relationship Management, Development, Education, Partnership y Strategic
Tema:
Community colleges -- Customer services -- North Carolina -- Management, Community and college -- North Carolina, Strategic planning -- North Carolina, Business and education -- North Carolina y Forsyth Technical Community College
This improvement project was developed to address the discrepancy between how principals rate and evaluate teachers and the value-added measures teachers receive based on student growth data from standardized tests....
Palabra clave:
evaluation, observation, principal, rating y value-added
Tema:
School principals -- Training of -- North Carolina -- Cabarrus County, Teachers -- Rating of -- North Carolina -- Cabarrus County, School personnel management -- North Carolina -- Cabarrus County, School improvement programs -- North Carolina -- Cabarrus County, Educational leadership -- North Carolina -- Cabarrus County y School districts -- North Carolina -- Cabarrus County
My thesis study investigates exclusive spaces for raku in contemporary life and time. Myexhibition focuses a modern tearoom that has modified its traditional Japanese source. Thesealterations are based on my discoveries of how...
Palabra clave:
ceramics, femininity, Japanese art, minimalism, Raku y Tea ceremony
Tema:
Installations (Art), Raku pottery y Japanese tea ceremony in art
After the end of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, two parties in England, the Whigs and the Tories, engaged in a rhetorical debate over the dominant interpretation of the English Constitution. The Tories defended...
Palabra clave:
English Constitution, Greek Revolution, Legitimacy, Philhellenism, Tories y Whigs
Tema:
Constitutional history -- Great Britain -- 19th century, Philhellenism -- Great Britain, Greece -- History -- War of Independence, 1821-1829 -- Influence, Whig Party (Great Britain) y Tory Party (Great Britain)
The Pigeon River, North Carolina has a long history of habitat degradation due to water diversion and high levels of toxic effluents from a paper mill. Over the last 20 years the paper mill has modernized its processes and...
Palabra clave:
conservation, mussels y re-introduction
Tema:
Freshwater mussels -- Ecology -- Pigeon River (N.C. and Tenn.), Lampsilis -- Ecology -- Pigeon River (N.C. and Tenn.), Freshwater mussels -- Reintroduction -- Pigeon River (N.C. and Tenn.) y Lampsilis -- Reintroduction -- Pigeon River (N.C. and Tenn.)
North American freshwater mussels are an imperiled group of organisms, with 29 of the 102 species in the Tennessee River basin listed as federally endangered or threatened, and another 11 believed to be extinct (Fraley 2002)....
Palabra clave:
Alasmidonta viridis, Freshwater Mussels, Oconaluftee River y Reintroduction
Tema:
Alasmidonta -- North Carolina -- Oconaluftee River, Freshwater mussels -- North Carolina -- Oconaluftee River y Freshwater mussels -- Reintroduction -- North Carolina -- Oconaluftee River
Food webs in Southern Appalachian forest soils are complex. Because of climate uncertainty, it is imperative that we gain a baseline understanding of the nutrient fluxes associated with each trophic level of the forest...
Palabra clave:
Aphaenogaster, Fungi y Mutualisms
Tema:
Soil microbial ecology -- Appalachian Region, Southern, Soil microbial ecology -- North Carolina, Western, Ants -- Ecology -- Appalachian Region, Southern, Ants -- Ecology -- North Carolina, Western, Fungal communities -- Appalachian Region, Southern, Fungal communities -- North Carolina, Western, Mutualism (Biology) -- Appalachian Region, Southern y Mutualism (Biology) -- North Carolina, Western
Through this improvement initiative, we sought to investigate whether the positive impact of exposure to the college environment can extend to those previously enrolled in a Career and Educational Program (CEP), which is...
Tema:
Postsecondary education, Education, Higher, School enrollment y Universities and colleges -- Orientation
The lack of first-generation student (FGS) involvement in high-impact practices (HIPs) is critical in addressing college students' social mobility and economic equity in the 21st century. Participation in HIPs can lead to...
Palabra clave:
barriers, first-generation, high-impact practice, higher education y marketing
Tema:
Western Carolina University, First-generation college students, Education, Higher, Faculty advisors, Intervention (Administrative procedure) y Marketing
