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individual to national consequences. Specifically, they assert that the continuing decline
of non-college attendance will result in a deteriorating American presence in the
international marketplace, decreased economic achievement for non-college participating
individuals, and continued economic and social stratification between races.
The purpose of this project is to use the gap analysis model to assist Glendale
Unified School District to increase their student participation in four-year university
institutions. This project will apply Clark and Estes’ (2002) gap analysis framework to
determine existing performance gaps in knowledge/skills, motivation, and organizational
barriers that prevent the district’s students from participating in four-year universities.
Clark and Estes (2002) assert that gaps in performance will only be closed and goals
achieved when these causes are properly addressed.
The Gap Analysis
The purpose of the gap analysis is to identify whether all employees have
sufficient knowledge, motivation, and organizational support to achieve the desired
organizational goal (Clark and Estes, 2002). Clark and Estes’ gap analysis model have
been applied to a variety of business industries, and offers a framework for school district
leaders to solve their organizational problems and to select the right solutions for closing
performance gaps. The gap analysis model helps organizations clarify goals, identify and
analyze performance gaps in attaining goals, and determine which strategies, products or
services are needed to close gaps between existing performance and desired outcomes.
Object Description
| Title | Improving college participation success in Glendale Unified School District: An application of the gap analysis model |
| Author | Cassady, Dawn Marie |
| Author email | Kedwyn@aol.com; cassady@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-01-22 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-04-29 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Marsh, David D. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Rueda, Robert S. Arias, Robert J. |
| Abstract | From the time of Brown v. Board of Education, the role of education has been on the forefront of our social, political and economic landscape. Legislation such as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and No Child Left Behind as well as publications like A Nation at Risk have all illustrated the lack of access, equity and achievement in American schools for the last fifty years. Currently, the United States has a 69% average high school graduation rate, which varies between subgroups and of those students only 57% continue their education in college.; Glendale Unified School District (GUSD) is a high-performing, large, urban school district that serves an economically and culturally diverse population. This project examined the root causes of the gaps in college going rates for all students as well as those of the underrepresented subgroups by applying the Clark and Estes (2005) gap analysis model. Gaps between goal achievement (college participation) and actual student performance were examined and then research-based solutions for closing the achievement gap and recommendations based on those solutions were recommended to the school district administrative team. |
| Keyword | secondary education; school reform; college access |
| Geographic subject | school districts: Glendale Unified School District |
| Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1954/2010 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3806 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Cassady, Dawn Marie |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Cassady-4360 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume14/etd-Cassady-4360.pdf |
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| Title | Page 156 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 150 individual to national consequences. Specifically, they assert that the continuing decline of non-college attendance will result in a deteriorating American presence in the international marketplace, decreased economic achievement for non-college participating individuals, and continued economic and social stratification between races. The purpose of this project is to use the gap analysis model to assist Glendale Unified School District to increase their student participation in four-year university institutions. This project will apply Clark and Estes’ (2002) gap analysis framework to determine existing performance gaps in knowledge/skills, motivation, and organizational barriers that prevent the district’s students from participating in four-year universities. Clark and Estes (2002) assert that gaps in performance will only be closed and goals achieved when these causes are properly addressed. The Gap Analysis The purpose of the gap analysis is to identify whether all employees have sufficient knowledge, motivation, and organizational support to achieve the desired organizational goal (Clark and Estes, 2002). Clark and Estes’ gap analysis model have been applied to a variety of business industries, and offers a framework for school district leaders to solve their organizational problems and to select the right solutions for closing performance gaps. The gap analysis model helps organizations clarify goals, identify and analyze performance gaps in attaining goals, and determine which strategies, products or services are needed to close gaps between existing performance and desired outcomes. |
