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Improving generalizability coefficient estimate accuracy: A way to incorporate auxiliary information

Jiang, Zhehan; Walker, Kevin W.; Shi, Dexin; Cao, Jian
Human Resource Challenges for Public Libraries: Survey Results

Fischer, Rachel K.
Choice, Cyber Charter Schools, and the Educational Marketplace for Rural School Districts

Mann, Bryan; Kotok, Stephen; Frankenburg, Erica; Fuller, Ed; Schafft, Kai

Pennsylvania is a state with significant proportions of students who attend rural schools, as well as students who attend charter schools. This study examines enrollment patterns of students in brick and mortar and cyber ...
Exploring School Choice and the Consequences for Student Racial Segregation within Pennsylvania’s Charter School Transfers

Frankenburg, Erica; Kotok, Stephen; Schafft, Kai; Mann, Bryan

Using individual-level student data from Pennsylvania, this study explores the extent to which charter school racial composition may be an important factor in students’ self-segregative school choices. Findings indicate ...
Opting Out: Parents Creating Contested Spaces to Challenge Standardized Tests

Mitra, Dana; Mann, Bryan; Hlavacik, Mark
Connecting Learners or Isolating Individuals? The Social Justice Frames in the Cyber Charter Schools in Pennsylvania

Mann, Bryan; Barkauskas, Nik

Cyber charter schools are online schools that deliver educational content to students in Kindergarten through 12th grade. These programs provide the entire schooling experience through remote access to a virtual learning ...
The Growing Impact of New Pell Grant Funding: A Statewide Profile of Iowa's Community Colleges

Hagedorn, Linda Serra; Mensel, R. Frank; Friedel, Janice N.; Lui, Joyce; Smith, Dustin; Tarrant, Melissa; Kilgo, Rhonda; Clark, Chad; Katsinas, Stephen G.
The Economic & Social Impacts of Alabama Public Higher Education

Katsinas, Stephen G.; Koh, Jonathan P.; Murphy, David S.; Lacey, Vincent A.; Fincher, Mark E.; DeMonBrun, R. Matthew; Bray, Nathaniel J.; Breaux, Arleene P.; Malley, Michael S. Jr.; Adair, J. Lucas; Shedd, Louis E.

The Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama has completed an objective analysis to determine whether there is a quantifiable relationship between the funding of Alabama’s universities and the per capita ...
Judging the Need for and Value of DDA in an Academic Research Library Setting

Walker, Kevin W.; Arthur, Michael A.
Factors in the History of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1816-1846

Boucher, Morris Raymond (University of Alabama Libraries, )

The history of Tuscaloosa as a town goes back beyond the history of the state of which it forms a part. From a purely technical standpoint, it became an incorporated town one day earlier than Alabama became a state. ...
Abner McGehee

Williams, Clanton Ware (University of Alabama Libraries, 1928)

It so happens in the course of events that many men live and labor, often unknown and more often unheeded as they toil onward across the stream of life. They die and are soon forgotten. A few days and the ripple they ...
Analysis and appraisal of special legislation in the area of public education in Alabama.

Hubbert, Paul Ray (University of Alabama Libraries, 1964)

Over three centuries ago the citizens of this country expressed a faith in education which abides until this day. The fact that education and this nation's political theory are inextricably woven is so axiomatic that ...
Developing a Collections Marketing Program at The University of Alabama

Arthur, Michael A.
Characterization and comparison of white layer by hard turning versus grinding

Sahani, Jasdeep Singh (University of Alabama Libraries, 2004)

Compared with grinding, hard turning has the potential to make a variety of precision components of superior surface integrity, such as bearings, gears, cams, shafts, tools, dies, etc., while reducing investment, increasing ...
Educator communities of practice on twitter

Coleman, John Mark (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

As Twitter became a popular platform for social networking, educators began to utilize the platform for professional networking. Educators began to utilize the hashtag #edchat to denote their ongoing and growing conversations ...
Chronic illness and sibling relationships in childhood: associations among parentification, differential treatment, and communication

Cox, Amanda (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Using a retrospective survey design, adults who were raised with a chronically ill sibling were asked to report on levels of parentification, differential parenting, and communication/disclosure of the chronic illness ...
Their throats were constricted: nationalism, history, and memorials in Nana Rao Park

Griswold, Sarah (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

In the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Nana Rao Park in Kanpur is a microcosm for the history of India since 1857. The park exists as a space to be used for recreation, but it also houses a group of memorials that ...
Thoughts and threats: understanding the current sea turtle landscape in southern Belize

Delgado, Alysa Marie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Belize has the potential to be a sea turtle refuge because of historical nesting activity and a wealth of critical nesting and foraging habitat. The last known nationwide assessment was completed in 1992 as a part of the ...
Student engagement in online courses: a grounded theory case study

Humber, Jennifer Fields (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Due to the evolution of online learning, enrollments in online course have reached an all-time high. The concept of student engagement, a historically popular term used within higher education, has adopted many definitions ...
An inquiry into cognitive and motivational mechanisms between perceived similarity and information processing

Tortoriello, Gregory Kenneth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Social-cognitive perspectives suggest that ingroup perceived similarity between a message recipient and communicator stimulates systematic (e.g., more effortful) information processing of the message, which is posited to ...

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