Dissertations from 2010
Educational research in Palestine: Epistemological and cultural challenges---a case study, Ayman A Khalifah
Teacher professional development programs in Palestine: Changes beliefs and practices, Ola M Khalili
Issues of Access in Public and Private Higher Education Institutions in Islamabad Pakistan, Muhammad Majid Khan
Score Reporting in Teacher Certification Testing: A Review, Design, and Interview/Focus Group Study, Heather Susan Klesch
Analysis of school counselors' leadership practices through the lens of distributed leadership, Aysen Kose
Actualizing Social Justice: An Exploratory Case Study of a Public Middle School, Camille Lee
An Assessment of The Nonparametric Approach for Evaluating The Fit of Item Response Models, Tie Liang
Insights into the Complexities of Identity in Persisting Latina College Students, Irene Rodriguez Martin
Performance and potential: How state and district education leaders perceive the current performance and potential role of educational collaboratives in Massachusetts, Anne Stewart McKenzie
Earning and learning: The impact of paid work on first-generation student persistence, Marilyn Micka-Pickunka
An Evaluation of the Process and Outcomes of Teacher Collaboration in Vocabulary Instruction, Joanne Morgan
An evaluation of the process and outcomes of teacher collaboration in vocabulary instruction, Joanne Morgan
Perceptions of principal attributes in the era of accountability, Jahmal I Mosley
Providing Parents with Young Children's Performance Feedback Information: Effects on Vocabulary and Pre-Literacy Development, Amanda Alexandria Nnachetam
Joy and Happiness in Education and Spirituality: Teachings of Imam, Sheikh Iskender Ali Mihr, Ibrahim Taner Okatan
Maintenance of Vertical Scales Under Conditions of Item Parameter Drift and Rasch Model-data Misfit, Timothy Paul O'Neil
A Phenomenological Study of the Experiences of Helping Professionals With Learning Disabilities, Madeline Lorraine Peters
Exploring elementary teachers' implementation of formative assessment practices for reading, Irving Richardson
What is the Cost of an Adequate Vermont High School Education?, Frank D. Rucker
The Voice of Elementary School Principals on School Climate, Suzanne Elayne Scallion
Latinas in the Pipeline to Baccalaureate -Prepared Nursing: Challenges and Supports in Persistence to Degree and Professional Licensure, Cheryl Ann Sheils
The Impact of Disciplinarity on the Organizational Leadership Styles of Academic Deans, Lauren J. Way
International Study Tours and the Development of Sociocultural Consciousness in K-12 Teachers, Raymond Yu-kuang Young
Dissertations from 2009
Reaching the Poorest Through Microfinance: Learning from Saving for Change Program in Mali, Mukul Acharya
The Effects of a School-based Motivational Intervention on Adolescent Substance Abuse, Elizabeth Gates Bradley
Leadership Continuity: Enhancing the Cycle of Leadership in Academic Departments, Nancy Buffone
Implications for literacy learning as urban second grade students engage in digital storytelling, Jane Carey
A Study of Pre-Service Teachers: Is it Really Mathematics Anxiety?, Marsha Marie Guillory Bryant
The phenomenon of underachievement: Listening to the voice of a twice exceptional adolescent, Robin E Hands
High Stakes: A Poly-communal Archaeology of the Pocumtuck Fort, Deerfield, Massachusetts, Siobhan M. Hart
Women in Engineering: Tell Me What You Need to Succeed, Susan Catherine Lyon
The Role of Program Evaluations in Improving and Sustaining State-Supported School Counseling Programs: A Cross Case Analysis of Best Practices, Ian Monteg Martin
Adult Student Persistence in Online Education: Developing a Model to Understand the Factors that Affect Adult Student Persistence in a Course, Raymond Joseph McGivney
Policy Options to Finance Public Higher Education in Afghanistan, Frank McNernery
The role of university Community Service-Learning partnerships in supporting socio-economically marginalized communities: The case of Nuestras Raices, Mary Catherine Mukimba
Teacher Inquiry Group: The Space for (Un)packing Representations of Discourses of Achievement Gap and the Possibility of an Institutional Transforming Practice, Floris Wilma Ortiz-Marrero
The Use of Item Response Theory in Developing a Phonics Diagnostic Inventory, Cynthia A. Pirani-McGurl
A program evaluation of response to intervention implementation in the Clark County School District, Michael J Shaf
Teacher change facilitated by sustained School Situated Professional Development: Exemplar learning of Technology Enhanced Formative Assessment (TEFA), Karen Eleanor St. Cyr
The Influence of Parent and Community Involvement on Local School Councils in Massachusetts, Leslie B. Stein
Cross-Age Peer Tutoring in Dialogic Reading: Effects on the Language Development of Young Children, Itsuko Jamie Udaka
A program evaluation of school-wide positive behavior support in an alternative education setting, Elana Rachel Weinberger
Metacognition: Developing Self-Knowledge Through Guided Reflection, Kathryn Wiezbicki-Stevens
Dissertations from 2008
A critical discourse analysis of classroom literacy practices in fourth grade: The critical moments, Theresa L Abodeeb-Gentile
African migrant students in African and U.S. mathematics classroom, Solomon Abraham
How the emphasis of models, themes, and concepts in professional development changed elementary teachers' mathematics teaching and learning, Janet Ginkus Allen
A procedure for developing a common metric in item response theory when parameter posterior distributions are known, Peter Baldwin
A Bayesian testlet response model with covariates: A simulation study and two applications, Su G Baldwin
Novice teachers experience a mosaic of mentoring as they learn to teach, Beverley J. M Bell
Unbundling convenience in distance education: How do distance education students define convenience?, Debbie L Bellucci
Prestige culture and community-based faculty work, Alan H Bloomgarden
A life history of Dr. Nettie Webb: Possibilities and perspectives from a life committed to education, Paige M Bray
Assessing the effect of a diversity course on college students' readiness for social action engagement, Stephanie L Burrell
Assessment literacy and efficacy: Making valid educational decisions, Mary Lou Chapman
Choices and voices of adult illiterates: Exploring their literacy needs in rural Bangladesh, Sahadat H Chaudhury
A comparative study of educational decentralization in China and Korea, 1985--1995: Motives, actions, and results, Yeon Han Chung
Using action research protocols to structure the development of a complex exhibit at a regional children's museum, John Cipora
Understanding voice in the disciplines: The struggles of Latina non-traditional students and their instructors, Doris M Correa
Rigorously applying the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A community college case study, Katherine P Douglas
Raising legal literacy in public schools, a call for principal leadership: A national study of secondary school principals' knowledge of public school law, Howard Jacob Eberwein
The effects of a math-fact fluency intervention on the complex calculation and application performance of fourth grade students, Kristin E Ezbicki
A mind/body exploration of adolescent girls' strategies & barriers to their success or survival in physical education, Jennifer L Fisette
Decolonizing multicultural teacher education, Kristen B French
Impact of item parameter drift on test equating and proficiency estimates, Kyung Tyek Han
Systemic functional linguistics and the teaching of literature in urban school classrooms, Ruth Harman
Sound education: An ethnographic exploration of power relations in high school classrooms with mainstreamed oral deaf students, Arlene Hijara
Teaching teams and student achievement in Vermont's middle schools, Steven B John
The utility of the Individual Reading Evaluation and Diagnostic (iREAD) Inventory, a specific reading skills assessment, for treatment design and implementation, Andrew J Koerner
College impact on civic attitudes of Asian American and White undergraduate students: A comparative study, Chiaki Kotori
Five case studies investigating children's responses to the application of movement into their classroom curriculum, Penelope J Mahoney
Focusing on strength: Building home-classroom connections with Latino families in urban schools, Nelida Matos
Loose coupling at a large public university and the impact it has on students: A case study of the unintended consequences of policy implementation, Bernette A Melby
The [de] construction of institutional representation of student achievement: An ethnographic case study of an ELL student's academic growth, Pierre W Orelus
Children's perceptions of interethnic/interracial friendships in a multiethnic school context, Cinzia Pica
Nuestras voces, nuestras palabras: (Our voices, our words): A qualitative study of Puerto Rican parental involvement, Brian John Rachmaciej
Co-constructing a nurturing and culturally relevant academic environment for struggling readers: (Dis)locating crisis and risk through strategic alignment, Jaime Andres Ramirez
The use of item response theory in developing the Dynamic Indicators of Vocabulary Skills parallel forms, Jane M Riley
Does Performance Improvement Mapping affect teacher efficacy?, Maureen Ryan
Rethinking women, development and empowerment: Toward transnational feminist literacy practices, Chizu Sato
The impact of middle school students' perceptions of the classroom learning environment on achievement in mathematics, Elizabeth A Schaper
A student perspective on programs serving students with emotional or behavioral disorders, Ronald Stahley
Entrepreneurial decision making in community colleges: The nexus among external market forces, resource dependency and expanding missions, Donna M Wilson
"Rocking the boat": Using critical literacy to challenge heterosexism in a public school, Sara Lewis-Bernstein Young
Approaches for addressing the fit of item response theory models to educational test data, Yue Zhao
Dissertations from 2007
Teacher education in a post-colonial context: A phenomenological study of the experience of Jamaican teachers' college lecturers, Erold K Bailey
Supplemental instruction: Supporting persistence in barrier courses, Susan B Bronstein
Elementary preservice teachers' constructions of themselves as students and as teachers: A collaborative narrative autobiographical approach, Josephine Burnett
Tibetan women and higher educational experience: An exploratory study, Yeshi Chodon
Successful White teachers of Black students: Teaching across racial lines in urban middle school science classrooms, Bobbie Coleman
Perspectives on learning in the Women's Economic and Empowerment Literacy program in Nepal, Lisa A Deyo
Navigating bridges and barriers: A case study of the James Baldwin Scholars Program, Yaniris M Fernandez