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Showing 1 to 20 of 313 for “"High Performing"”.
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Examining a Place-Based Curriculum for High-Performing Learners: A Place-Based, Critical, Dialogic Curriculum for High-Performing Rural Writers
… is the influence of a place-based curriculum on high-performing, rural students as writers? This was broken into two sub-questions: (a) What is the effect of treatment condition on students writing ability, writing self-efficacy, and concepts of community and place and (b) In what ways do …
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Faculty Perceptions of a High-poverty, High-Performing School
… case study investigated faculty perceptions of a high-poverty, high-performing school in a Midwestern town in Indiana. The study sought to identify practices and organizational structures that faculty perceives contributed to achieving a pass rate of 85% on the Math and 81% on the English sections …
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Case studies of two high-poverty high-performing schools
… and leadership and the academic achievement of high-poverty and high-performing schools. However, this theoretical construct required further investigation to explore disciplines for creating an optimum learning organization and, in turn, its impact on student achievement. The purpose of this …
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The Impact of Principal's Actions on High Performing Hispanic Schools
… study identifies the actions of principals in high performing Hispanic schools in Texas. Looking through the lens of sociocultural theory, this study operationalizes the four aspects of the Implementing Best Practices dimension of the framework developed by Reyes, Scribner, and Scribner (1999): …
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Designing High Performing Durable Bio-Based Coatings for Packaging Applications
… These natural polymers can form strong, high-performance films but are limited by moisture sensitivity and brittleness. Through chemical modification, compositional design, and controlled processing, this work demonstrates how their barrier and mechanical properties can be tuned to …
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Instructional Strategies for Academic Success in High Poverty, High Performing Schools
… instructional practices that were being used in high and low performing Title I schools and compared the similarities and differences between the practices. Data reported from the study might inform school leaders regarding what instructional practices are effective when working in schools with …
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Managerial self-awareness and its impact on leadership in high-performing managers.
… were run to examine the difference between high performers and average performers. No significant differences were found. Additionally, correlational measures between the five leadership competencies and the managerial self-awareness measure indicated statistically weak relationships.
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Towards high performing hospital enterprise architectures : elevating hospitals to lean enterprise thinking
… units upstream and downstream. Conversely, worse performing configurations demonstrated a limited understanding of their hospital's EA. We conclude that hospital performance can be improved through an enriched understanding of hospital EA. Furthermore, whilst considering all hospitals included in …
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Behavioral Analysis of Directors of High-Performing Versus Low-Performing High School Bands
… performance levels and teacher behaviors. Ten high school band directors were classified into one of two categories, directors of high-performing bands or directors of low-performing bands, based on audio recordings of concert band performances. Directors from the two categories were matched in …
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Communication Strategies of Principals in High-Performing Title I Elementary Schools in Virginia
… strategies of principals at Distinguished and Highly Distinguished Title I elementary schools, qualitative data was derived from interviews, surveys, and combing of publicly available data. Analysis revealed 11 specific communication strategies were practiced by the principals of these eight …
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Using Lesson Study as collaborative professional development for high performing Early Career Teachers
… as collaborative professional development for high performing primary Early Career teachers With the recruitment and retention of teachers in crisis and growing numbers leaving the profession within the first five years, this dissertation looks at ways in which to help early career teachers …
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Collaboration and collegiality amongst educators in high performing schools in the Western Cape
… of collaboration and collegiality amongst 195 high school educators in six high performing schools in the Cape Metropole, Western Cape, Cape Town. A case study approach was used and questionnaires and intervies were used as research instruments. This study found that the schools in this sample …
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Virus-enabled design of high-performing, three-dimensional nanomaterials for electrochemical energy applications
The accelerating pace of anthropogenic climate change has galvanized intensive interest in electrochemical energy storage and conversion. Developing electrode materials for electrochemical devices requires precision and synthetic control over a number of factors, including surface morphology, …
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Navigating Social-emotional Experiences for Readers: Stories of Two High-performing Urban Elementary Teachers
… 2017). Due to accountability pressures and high-stakes testing, low-performing urban schools often take measures such as narrowing the curriculum (Rentner et al., 2006), relying on skills-based instruction (Hollins, 2017; Kohn, 2011), and test-focused instruction (Jennings & Sohn, 2014; …
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Effective Print Media Relations Practices of Georgia's Rural High-Performing Principals: Three Case Studies
… However, prior studies have focused on higher education, funding, and urban areas. Therefore, the purpose of this qualitative study was to determine the perceived best print media relations practices from the viewpoints of identified high-performing principals, print media professionals, …
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Instructional leadership of principals in high performing secondary schools in Cape Town, Western Cape
… of instructional leadership of principals in high performing secondary schools in the metropolitan area of Cape Town, Western Cape. A mixed methods design of quantitative and qualitative research was undertaken. For the quantitative phase, the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale …
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Multiscale modelling of sutures in a high-performing biological protective structure: the turtle shell
Many natural protective structures, such as alligator armour, turtle shells, and the skulls of many animals including humans, contain networks of sutures; those are, soft tissue that bonds adjacent stiff plates typically made of bone. Such protective structures ought to withstand large loads …
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The DNA of a high-performing manufacturing organization : improving operations capability through performance measurement
… the Whitehead Institute, contains the world's highest-throughput genome sequencing center, which contributed approximately one third of the sequence for the Human Genome Project (HGP) completed in 2003. Broad's Genome Sequencing Operations Group has acquired a cost leadership position within …
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Examination of Faculty Expectations of Technical College Administrators as an Important Factor in High Performing Environments
… of technical college administrators in a high performing environment. The result of this study increases the administrators' understanding of expectations associated with their role and facilitates the development of an effective workforce training agenda. Five major themes related to …
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