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In the United States, colleges and universities are under pressure from multiple sources to improve course completion and graduation rates and to reduce the cost of obtaining a degree. This qualitative phenomenological case study, underpinned by the social constructivist perspective, explored second-year manufacturing degree students’ perceptions of the impact of their teachers’ servant leadership behaviors on their successful course completions at a Midwest technical college. Servant leadership was the theoretical base for the study, which consisted of Q sorts by, and interviews with, students from two manufacturing degree programs. One program had higher course completion and graduation rates and the other had lower course completion and graduation rates. The responses were coded using data from an extensive literature review and were analyzed for themes according to the perspectives of the participants’ Q sorts and responses to interview questions. While the study did not reveal a simple, straightforward solution to the very complicated student success problem in technical college manufacturing programs, it did identify the elements of an emergent model recommended for manufacturing teachers: servant teaching.
Advisor: | Innes, Donna |
Commitee: | Boers, David, Stucky, Bradd |
School: | Marian University |
Department: | Doctoral Studies |
School Location: | United States -- Wisconsin |
Source: | DAI-A 79/03(E), Dissertation Abstracts International |
Source Type: | DISSERTATION |
Subjects: | Adult education, Higher education, Vocational education |
Keywords: | Case study, College teaching, Phenomenology, Servant leadership, Servant teaching, Student success |
Publication Number: | 10689183 |
ISBN: | 978-0-355-53916-5 |