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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Embedded single case study."”.
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Embracing all God’s children : an embedded single case study of a K–12 Southern classical Christian school’s racial diversity.
… theory (McMillan & Chavis, 1986), I conducted an embedded, single case study to describe the racial diversity at HCA. I collected qualitative data from six participants, four parents of students of color and two alumni of color. I implemented an initial questionnaire, a semi-structured interview, …
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A qualitative embedded single-case study exploring how adjunct faculty create a community of inquiry experience in online graduate programs.
… 2018; Mueller et al., 2013). The purpose of this embedded single-case study was to explore and describe how online adjunct faculty create a community of inquiry. Limited research has focused on online adjunct faculty and their ability to develop a community of inquiry with their adult students. …
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Strong voices : a qualitative embedded single case study in Wisconsin examining the influence of youth participatory action research on students’ developmental assets.
… et al., 2024). Wisconsin, the location of this study, exemplifies these disparities, reporting the largest graduation rate gap between Black and White students in the nation in 2022 (NCES, 2024a) as well as significant disparities in standardized test scores between students of color and White …
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Factors that affect the management capacity, leadership and employee performance in the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), Afghanistan: an embedded single-case study.
… the MoPH, Afghanistan. Methods: A mixed-methods case-study was carried out in 30 directorates of the MoPH, Afghanistan to explore capacity. Qualitative data were analysed thematically using NVivo, while quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics. Both followed by the analytic …
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Exploring lean-trained employee perceptions of organizational change amid an aging crisis at a non-urban regional healthcare provider : an embedded single-case study.
… needs of aging populations. This qualitative embedded single-case study explored how lean-trained employees perceive organizational change at a non-urban regional healthcare provider facing demographic pressures. I used criterion‑based and purposive sampling to select nine participants across …
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The new Illinois school recognition process: Its implications for the ISBE for responding to the technical assistance needs of local school districts: An embedded single case study of the pilot process
The mandate for school improvement has found its way into state educational policy as evidenced by the unanimous enactment of House Bill 885 (PA 87-559 P1, 1991) in Illinois in the 1991 legislative session. This bill provided the framework for dramatically changing the 50-year-old process presently …
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Faith capital: a persistence study of two student learning communities at a northeastern community college
<p>The purpose of this embedded single-case study is to explore and better understand what social and institutional factors account for the success or lack of success in developing, delivering, and sustaining learning communities in support of at-risk, underprepared students enrolled at the …
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Fibromyalgia Self-Care Management: Use of Essential Oils
… in a sense of control and pain relief. This embedded, single case study explored 'how' and 'why' an informant with fibromyalgia chose to initiate and continue self-care management using essential oils over several years to treat symptoms within context reality. Orem's Self-Care Deficit Model …
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Integrated Thematic Instruction : a Descriptive Case Study of Students' Attitudes Toward School and Learning
<p>The purpose of the study was to describe the operational form of the innovation— Integrated Thematic Instruction within the context of its implementation. An embedded single case study design was used to carry out this gualitative study, with Integrated Thematic Instruction (ITI) as the unit of …
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Integrated Thematic Instruction : A Descriptive Case Study of its Adaptation and Implementation
<p>The purpose of the study was to describe the operational form of the innovation--Integrated Thematic Instruction within the context of its implementation.</p> <p>An embedded single case study design was used to carry out this qualitative study, with Integrated Thematic Instruction (ITI) as the …
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A needle in a haystack : a single case study on how school administrators attract, select, and retain highly qualified teachers in rural private schools.
… attrition (ASA) theory, I designed this embedded single case study to explore how rural private school administrators describe the strategies they use to attract, select, and retain highly qualified teachers. In this study, I chose to focus on retention rather than attrition, identifying …
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The last bell : an embedded case study exploring teacher attrition and mobility in rural Oklahoma.
… less research exists for rural Oklahoma. This study explored the environmental, behavioral, and personal factors influencing the career decisions of classroom teachers within one rural Oklahoma school district. More pointedly, the study explored the experiences of six elementary and secondary …
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Intergenerational transmission of domestic violence in refugee families in Durban, South Africa
… increase their vulnerability. This qualitative embedded single case study adopted an integrated conceptual framework that includes concepts from Heise's ecological framework, social learning theory, and attachment theory to explain the theory of intergenerational transmission. The study aimed to …
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An investigation into the effect of COVID-19 on the spatial dimension of a South African university town: the case of Westdene
… provide answers to the theoretical concepts, an embedded single-case study approach, employing a multi-method qualitative research approach, was adopted for the empirical exploration. This research design enabled the investigation of real-world contextual conditions within Westdene, using …
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A general educator's instructional adaptation for students with mathematics disability in standards-based mathematics instruction
… mathematics education. Thus, the purpose of this case study was to examine (a) a fourth-grade teacher's instructional adaptations for 3 students with MD in a standards-based mathematics, general education classroom and (b) the mathematics learning of 6 fourth-grade students with differing levels …
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Exploration of preregistration Radiography education and training models in sub-Saharan Africa: An explanatory sequential mixed-methods study
… Zambian radiography education landscape using an embedded single-case study design. Interviews and focus groups were used to explore stakeholder perspectives and contextualise earlier regional quantitative findings. Results In the quantitative phase, 258 responses were analysed from the 23 SSA …