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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Leadership--Study and teaching"”.
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Diamond to coal: an educational leadership doctoral program's evolution and devolution
Extant research on educational leadership preparation programs (ELPPs) is cross-organizational and quantitative in nature. This descriptive sequential explanatory mixed-method study provides contextual depth by looking at the evolution (and devolution) of an on-campus doctoral-level ELPP model. …
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Movement toward improvement: the process and research that made the game
… developed to teach organizational communication and leadership skills. This thesis will review the research and theory that went into creating the game and the three main stages of its development. It will also describe the first testing period Movement Toward Improvement ©[superscript KAS 2011] …
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Adult student practitioners: a qualitative study on their personal experiences
The purpose of this study is to describe the changes that working practitioners experience while pursuing a doctoral degree. This qualitative study centered on the experiences of ten students who have successfully completed the doctoral program of Rowan University. Data was collected through …
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Business leadership in the classroom
… that assists business educators in promoting leadership within a classroom. It is designed to better prepare students to assume leadership and fill the "leadership gap" in business. Two classes of 2nd-year community college business students participated in running and managing their own …
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A study investigating the feasibility of a co-curricular leadership program at Rowan University
… of implementing a co-curricular student leadership program at Rowan University. The project included both a content analysis of transcripts from focus group sessions held with faculty members, administrators and student leaders, as well as analyses of existing co-curricular student …
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The relationship between administrators' learning patterns and leadership competencies
<p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between selected administrators' learning patterns and attendant leadership competencies. Thirty-nine upper-level administrators at Rowan University completed the Leadership Assessment Instrument and Learning Combination Inventory to …
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Understanding the impact of leadership coursework on students' perceptions of self as leader
<p>This study sought to understand what students learned about themselves as a leader as a result of taking a for-credit leadership seminar. The study used a qualitative case study methodology in order to interpret data collected through participant surveys and interviews. The participants were …
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Comparing outcome measures derived from four research designs incorporating the retrospective pretest.
… internal validity of posttest-only control-group and pretest-posttest only designs. The purpose of this study was to compare outcome measures resulting from four research design implementations incorporating the retrospective pretest: (a) pre-post-then, (b) pre-post/then, (c) post-then, and (d) …
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The Effect of Leadership Training on Manufacturing Productivity of Informal Leaders
The purpose of this study was to determine if leadership training, given to informal leaders, had a positive effect on manufacturing productivity. The leadership attributes of informal leaders were assessed using the Leader Attributes Inventory (LAI). Furthermore, the performance of informal …
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The impact of a junior high school leadership program on the academic success and leadership development of at-risk students.
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the impact of a junior high school leadership program on the academic success and leadership development of its at-risk student participants. A secondary purpose, based on impact, was to evaluate the program as a potential school-based model for …