Incidences of academic dishonesty among college students have been on the increase in recent decades. This study addressed means of identifying and deterring academic misconduct among Preparatory Year Program students at a university in Saudi Arabia. Students, faculty, and the w…
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The Mru, Tripura, and Bawm tribes in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh have low educational attainment. The purpose of this exploratory, phenomenological case study was to explore the Chittagong Hill Tracts cultural values regarding education, as perceived by members of t…
This qualitative study investigated the racialized experiences of AfroLatinx collegians at a diverse public university. Sixteen (16) self-identified AfroLatinx students participated in semi-structured interviews and a focus group to share their stories in negotiating their ethno…
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore how Saudi teachers perceived the neoliberal changes seeping into Saudi educational policy in three stages since 2000. It explores how their professional and moral dimensions of their teaching were impacted, and how the reform discou…
Grounding aid planning in empirical evidence on ‘what works’ has gained currency in the field of education and conflict. However, mainstream debates on the evidence base rarely investigate the politicisation of data, even though it may be more at play than in non-conflict settin…
The policy studies on basic education in Africa generally and Nigeria in particular focus on issues such as: reasons for state provision of basic education, problems of public provision of basic education, and the roles of non-state providers of basic education among others. Thi…
This dissertation research interprets the result of a qualitative, single case study of youth participation and leadership of disadvantaged youth leaders inside Wahana Visi Forum Anak da’Bajay (Wahana Visi’s da’Bajay Children Forum), a youth organization with children’s rights o…
This research examines how air pollution and climate change influence human capital accumulation in a developing-country context and also studies the effects of policies targeted to keep children in school in face of whatever factors deter them from developing their human capita…
Federal aid programs and their effect on student persistence, stopout, and completion have long been studied, but current literature does not fully capture the temporal nature of these programs due to insufficient methods, imprecise data, or both. Using event history methodologi…
This study examines the performance of decentralized health and education service delivery in Indonesia. Results show that education outcomes improved with decentralization, and that local governments are responding to local needs for education services. Decentralization also br…
Global austerity and prolonged recession have made social disadvantage prominent in young people’s lives, thus the call for the prevention and tackling of the phenomenon appears urgent (Dagkas, 2018). In particular, evidence suggests that Physical Education (PE) as well as Sport…
Education decentralization facilitates the participation of parents, local communities, and private partners in school management and finance, forming a system of multiple-stakeholder school governance. While their participation is expected to hold a school accountable for educa…
After the initiation of negotiations between the EU and Turkey on the conditions of temporary protection provision to Syrians arriving in Turkey in massive numbers, the policy of the EU-Turkey Joint Action Plan emerged. The study focuses on the analysis of policy implementation,…
General education teachers play an integral part in the successful implementation of inclusion. This study analyzed the attitudes of general education teachers in private schools in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Understanding the attitudes of general education teachers is important as they ar…
The landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas decision abolished racial segregation in American schools. However, today’s schools have fallen short of the promise of providing all students a quality education free of discrimination. One area in which racial disparity…
This dissertation describes a collaborative action research project undertaken with Grades 1 and 2 children and parents from two Adivasi communities in a multiple-language classroom in a remote area of Odisha, India. The children came from Santali, Ho, and Odia home language bac…
This dissertation contains three essays in applied microeconomics. The first chapter evaluates the welfare costs induced by limiting the number of choices in deferred acceptance mechanisms. I show that when the number of choices is capped, some students have to be strategic and …
This study investigates how superintendents consider and/or prioritize stakeholders in their decision-making process. The review of the literature included common decision-making theories, Responsible Leadership Theory and Trust as they apply to the decision-making process for s…
El objetivo de esta investigación es adaptar un instrumento con el cual se mida la transparencia corporativa en las Universidades Privadas del Perú. Se realizó una revisión de la literatura acerca de transparencia y se obtuvo que algunos organismos tienen la preocupación o inici…