The purpose of this study was to describe and explain significant mentor/protege
relationships in professional ministry education. Through an exploratory, naturalistic inquiry,
the mentoring phenomenon was studied inductively, culminating in a descriptive theory that
illuminated the variables and their interrelationships on the ministerial campus.
The multiple case study design accommodated...
This thesis asserts that faculty are the critical resource for the integration of distance
education by postsecondary institutions. The major barriers to the participation and
adoption of distance education center around faculty. This manuscript thesis incorporates a
series of articles to develop applied frameworks and strategies that place faculty at...
The major purposes of this study were (1) to construct a reliable and
valid scale for measuring writing self-efficacy levels in adult basic education
students, (2) to further test the scale's validity and reliability by administering
it to a second selected group of adult basic education students, and (3) to...