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Student Leadership, Student Voice, Leadership in K-12, Superintendency, Leadership in Early Childhood, Qualitative Secondary Analysis, Program Design, Implementation and Evaluation, Research Design and Implementation
Koop, V. (2025). External evaluation of CPRF’s Guided Independent Living Assessment (GILA) program: Evaluation Report III. Wichita State University, Wichita, KS.
Sherif, V., Patterson, J., & Redger-Marquardt, C. (2025). The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on First-Generation Undergraduate Students’ Participation in Campus Activities. In J.D. Sallisbury-Glennon, C.-h. Wang, & D.M. Shannon (Eds), Examining the Cognitive and Psychological Effects of COVID-19 from Elementary through Post-Secondary Education. Information Age Publishing.
Koop, V., Crager, W.*, Parker-Givens, W.*, Dixon, V.*, & Putter, R.* (2025). Journey to Graduation: Perspectives and Experiences of Foster Care High School Youth. Commissioned by and prepared for Wichita Public Schools school district, Wichita, KS.
Sherif, V., Coleman-Martins, S.*, Weatherburn, H.*, & Williams, V.* (2024). If the Job ‘Fits’: Examining District-Level Recruitment Strategies in K-12 Public Schools. Commissioned by and prepared for Wichita Public Schools school district, Wichita, KS.
Gupta, S., Sherif, V., & Zhu, X. (2023). Re-examining State Part C early intervention program coordinators’ practices through a positive lens on leadership: A qualitative secondary analysis. The Qualitative Report, 28(2), art. 10. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol28/iss2/10/
Sherif, V., Chapman, K., & Rous, B. (2023). Underpaid But Choosing to Stay: Compensation Inequity in Public Preschool. Journal of Education Human Resources, Special Issue, Pushing the Boundaries of Social Justice: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations of School Finance Equity. https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jehr-2021-0067?journalCode=jehr
Sherif, V., Pitchford, R.*, Wood, K.*, Day, K.*, & Siklar, K.* (2023). Thinking Outside of the Inbox: Effectiveness and Challenges of District Internal Communication. Commissioned by and prepared for Eudora Public Schools school district, Eudora, KS.
Sherif, V. & Rous, B. (2022). Kentucky superintendents and their school boards: Evolving context, expectations and relationships. In Leigh E. Wallace and Meredith Mountford’s Reclaiming Local Control through Superintendents, School Boards, and Community Activism, Research on Superintendency Series, Volume II, Information Age Publishing.
Sherif, V. (2021). Qualitative research data for secondary inquiry. In Emmanuel Manu and Julius Akotia’s Secondary Research Methods in the Built Environment. Routledge, UK.