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Examining the Lived Experiences of Native American Counselors Working on the Reservation: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
The success of mental health counseling partially depends on the professionals who are providing these services, also on the quality of services they provide. To maximize their efficacy, counselors must achieve and maintain ...
Factors Influencing Program Impact Evaluation in Cooperative Extension
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Impact evaluation (IE) has become a major focus of Extension program evaluation during the past three decades, yet Extension professionals continue to struggle to produce well-documented evidence of program impacts (Lamm, ...
Consequential Validity and Social Studies Education: An Examination of Standards, Assessment Policies, and Teacher Preparation
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Educational quality is a way to influence the future of the American economy (Hanushek, 1986). Large-scale assessments are designed to determine quality in education by measuring student achievement. A connection exists ...
Awareness for Teacher Well-Being: Exploring Key Factors of Teacher Experience, Mindfulness, and Self-Efficacy
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Self-reported job satisfaction in K-12 teachers has decreased and it at its lowest in over twenty years. This study explored mindfulness levels—acute attentiveness and awareness of self-judgment and judgment on others—and ...
Intellectual and Experiential Knowing: An Exploratory Factor Analysis to Uncover the Underlying Structure of Knowing
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Knowledge and the acquisition thereof have long been debated throughout human history. Several authors have suggested that knowing and knowledge differ among people. However, there is consistency among these studies that ...