The purpose of this study was to identify factors that influence leadership and its distribution in the Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States (ABEGS) Saudi Arabia. The research was undertaken in the ABEGS as a case study and its two initiatives, the Gulf Arab States Educa…
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The purpose of this phenomenological bounded case study was to identify campus principals’ perceptions of how principal mentorship influenced their ability to lead a dual language campus in one Texas school district. The research questions that guided this study examined how the…
The purpose of this study was to examine an overarching question: How do Saudi women working in administrative positions in Saudi Arabian higher-education institutions negotiate their challenges as leaders? Sub-questions were created to address the overarching question: (a) What…
This qualitative single-case study illuminates the experiences impacting the sense of belonging of undergraduate Muslim American students at a historically Christian institution in Southern California. The primary data source relied on the student interviews, and the secondary d…
The purpose of the study was to examine the perspectives of Saudi Arabian principals regarding their instructional leadership behaviors regarding special education programs in their schools. The researcher developed the Instructional Leadership Behaviors in Special Education Pro…
This research study explored and analysed the reasons for school-leader attrition in Saudi Arabia’s schools. The research was conducted using a qualitative, positivist methodology. The purpose of the research was to explore the influences that have contributed to the phenomenon …
This qualitative, descriptive multiple case study examined principal and school counselor descriptions about characteristics that contribute to effective and ineffective professional relationships between school counselors and principals in American, private K-12 schools in Kuwa…
This study is significant to Saudi Arabian educational leaders because the study may help to show the existence of the glass ceiling that women face in Saudi Arabian higher education institutions, as well as to give them ideas on ways to break through the glass ceiling. The purp…
Colleges in Saudi Arabia require students to take content classes in English. As the number of English learners in Riyadh continues to grow, it is important to retain quality English as Second Language (ESL) teachers. The problem investigated in this study was the high attrition…
The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate factors (i.e., age, gender, experience, professional development, and self-efficacy) that affect the use of technology by teachers in their teaching process in classes and how the government of Saudi Arabia can effectivel…
Engaging with feminist and post-colonial theories to examine the ways in which gender identity, gender power, and gender relations are enacted, this dissertation examines a shift that has recently been occurring in the education of rural Hausa girls, whose families are increasin…
This study presents a conceptual and evidentiary study pertaining to the micro and macro level factors influencing the achievement gap among migrant children from a cross-national standpoint. First, this study provides the most systematic investigation of the immigrant education…
The purpose of this exploratory case study was to investigate the factors, obstacles, and enablers contributing to the lack of use of technology in distance education, and to explore the use of virtual technology as a mechanism for more access to higher educational institutions …
The purpose of this qualitative multiple embedded case study was to explore the implementation of the Ministry of Education (MoE) bilingual education program in private schools in the Sultanate of Oman in light of the factors that impact students’ sociocultural, linguistic, acad…
International branch campuses (IBCs) are an increasingly popular form of transnational higher education, but little research has been done on student experiences at these institutions. The survival and sustainability of Western-based campuses in non-Western environments is a cri…
Research suggests that academic advising has great significance for students’ personal, academic, and social lives in the U.S., and advisors impact first-year students’ social integrations and retention. Although the ratio of advisor to student remains low, scholars assert that …
This dissertation maps the landscape of the cross-national educational transfer of American higher education in the Arabian Gulf region, with a case study of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar. It examines how and why Qatar has borrowed, and Georget…
Problem: Universities in the United States face financial constraints, intense competition for students, declining student enrollment, and constant student attrition. However, an increasing number of international students seek higher education abroad, especially in the U.S. Pro…
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore how teachers perceive, make meaning of, and implement the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP). Best practices for effectively implementing the IBDP were also explored. A total of 10 teachers a…