Dissertations from 2007
Beyond survival: A study of factors influencing psychological resilience among Cambodian child survivors, Urakorn Khajornwit Fuderich
Pathways to success in science: A phenomenological study, examining the life experiences of African-American women in higher education, Claudette Leanora Giscombe
Accelerated learning as an alternative approach to education: Possibilities and challenges faced by CHOLEN, an NGO program in Bangladesh, Mary Monica Gomes
Act like a teacher: Teaching as a Performing Art, Rod Hart
An empirical comparison of the Bookmark and modified Angoff standard setting methods and the impact on student classification, Jeffrey B Hauger
Factors that influence the publishing productivity of faculty in physical therapist education programs, Regina R Kaufman
Just point, click, and teach, right? Influences on faculty and administrator discourse and behavior about online programs, Claudine Keenan
A comparison of item response theory true score equating and item response theory-based local equating, Robert R. Keller
Placing academic activism: Constraints and possibilties of faculty work, Aaron M Kuntz
Taking the pulse of a sick doctor: A case study of HIV/AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes, and practices of education personnel in Malawi, Africa, Dwaine Erik Lee
Perceptions of teacher empowerment in a Turning Points school: A case study of teachers in a middle school in New England, Molly Mei-Ling Lim
Child rearing goals and parent-child interaction in immigrant Chinese families, Fang Liu
College presidents and administrative team members: An investigation of a team leadership approach to financial decision-making in liberal arts colleges, Kathleen J Mangano
Exploring the impact of teachers' participation in an assessment-standards alignment study, Andrea Martone
Unexpected transitions; moving beyond cultural barriers: Successful strategies of female technology education teachers, Raymond R McCarthy
A validity study of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model Readiness Self-Assessment Instrument, Wendy McGannon
Principal leadership behaviors in Massachusetts in the era of education reform, John A Provost
Recruiting teachers of color: College-age Latino/a students share their voices and recommendations for educator preparation programs, Raymond M Sharick
Women's ways of drinking: College women, high-risk alcohol use, and related consequences, Margaret Ann Smith
Dissertations from 2006
Participatory video projects in multicultural learning environments, Gregory D. S Bascomb
School board use of student achievement data in policy development and decision making, Cecelia O Buckley
The construction of whiteness by white anti-racism educators, Michael J Burchell
Competition among high school principals of charter schools, public schools, and voucher-receiving private schools in the District of Columbia, Bonnie Jean Cain
Equating high-stakes educational measurements: A study of design and consequences, Bob Wajizigha Chulu
Examining the efficacy of two computerized reading programs for kindergarten students at-risk for reading and behavior problems, Julie Clarfield
Chief academic officers in New England community colleges: Leadership and regional collaboration, Pamela R Edington
A case study of adventure education: An ecological analysis, Thaddeus J. France
The benefits of being a Senior Peer Counselor, Marsha Bari Goldman
Carpets, beards, and baseball signs: An intertextual and interdiscursive look at meanings constructed in a cross-cultural setting for language learning, William E. Grohe
Sustainable community development in Nepal, voices from the bottom-up, Totraman Gurung
Detecting exposed items in computer-based testing, Ning Han
Development and evaluation of the Student-Counselor Social Capital Instrument, James Harrity
Evaluating the consistency and accuracy of proficiency classifications using item response theory, Shuhong Li
Assessing fit of item response theory models, Ying Lu
Incremental and predictive utility of formative assessment methods of reading comprehension, Amanda M Marcotte
Systemic educational reform in Massachusetts: Teacher perspectives on standards, assessment and school-based decision making in underperforming schools, Caryn M McCrohon
Conceptions of art: A case study of elementary teachers, a principal, and an art teacher, Kathy A Miraglia
Reinventing indigenous knowledge: A crucial factor for an IPM-based sustainable agricultural development, Elias T Moning
Inclusive pedagogy for diverse learners: Science instruction, disability, and the community college, Mary A Moriarty
Child abuse in contemporary children's literature: A critical multicultural analysis, Albertina Navarro Rios
The convergence of the global and the local: What teachers bring to their classrooms after a Fulbright experience in Kenya and Tanzania, Kelly Bryn O'Brien
The complex interplay between school and home discourses and identities in a first-grade structured English immersion classroom, Bernadette J Rodriguez
Factors involved in high school completion and non-completion of Native Americans, Lorrie Starr
A reflexive postdevelopment critique of development knowledge: Exploring bases for alliance with development professionals, Peter A Tamas
Voices of rural women in Nepal: Impact of literacy on the lives of women, Keshab Deep Thapaliya
Strangers in good company? The accuracy of students' perceptions of peer attitudes toward gays, lesbians, and bisexuals, Lauri Kay Turkovsky
Impacts of technology coaching on teacher practices, Ruth-Ellen Verock-O'Loughlin
Telling images: An ethnography of young children's creation of narratives in response to works of art, Faith T Wint
Becoming an elementary mathematics teacher leader: Collaborative teacher growth and change, Amy S Wolpin
Dissertations from 2005
Teacher research as a response to: "Miss, do we really have to pass this class?" Examining discourses in the middle school students' foreign language classroom, Adina C Alexandru
Bringing reading strategies home from a family literacy workshop: Two case studies of parents and their children reading together, Marilyn L Antonucci
Clinical instructional strategies in athletic training education, Mary G Barnum
The psychodynamics of white racism: An historical exploration of white racial pathology as elicited by prizefighters Jack Johnson and Muhammad Ali, Michal Louise Beale
Multicultural art education: Voices of art teachers and students in the postmodern era, Patricia Bode
First-generation college students: Family influence and the road to college, Maria Vita Calkins
Literacy and numeracy practices of market women of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, Joan B Cohen-Mitchell
Math stories: Troublesum relationships. A study of the importance of relationships on women's achievement in math at a rural community college, Christine DeGregorio
Beyond the accountability-improvement debate: A case study analysis of institutional response to assessment, Kathryn P Doherty
Identity and discoursal elements: Three case studies of first-year writing students, Pamela Weisenberg Hollander
Developing siblings and peer tutors to assist Native Taiwanese children in learning habits of mind for math success, Hsing-Wen Hu
Representin' for Latino students: Culturally responsive pedagogies, teacher identities, and the preparation of teachers for urban schools, Jason G Irizarry
How prior life experiences influence teaching: Multiple case studies of mature-age elementary student teachers, S. Kay Klausewitz
Competing narratives: The interplay between racial and ethno-religious identity among Ashkenazi Jewish undergraduate anti-racist peer educators, Christopher MacDonald-Dennis
A comparison of boys and girls diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder in a public school counseling program, Sara R Marsh
Meiji maiden: Umeko Tsuda and the founding of higher education for women in Japan, Theresa G McCue
Academic capitalism and doctoral student socialization: A case study, Maria del Pilar Mendoza
Validation and diagnostic accuracy of early numeracy skill indicators, Scott A Methe
Teachers who are mothers: Perceptions of concurrent career and parenthood roles, Melva J Michaelian
Service-learning and social justice: Making connections, making commitments, Tania D Mitchell
Educational technology: Learning in a computer-mediated environment, Karin Moyano Camihort
Decentralization by an efficient information system: Enabling efficient decisions for basic education in Malawi, Maxwell Suluma Nkhokwe
Writing and transformation in college composition, Michelle Lynne Paranto
Sharing the spotlight: The non-adopted siblings of transracial adoptees, John W Raible
"You don't have to have college knowledge to know it all": Meaning-making in a participatory adult education project, Sherry L Russell
Juggling the contradictions: An exploration of White college students' understanding of meritocracy and racial inequality, Sheri Lyn Schmidt
Here I am now! Community service-learning with immigrant and refugee undergraduate students and youth: The use of critical pedagogy, situated-learning and funds of knowledge, Janna Shadduck-Hernandez
Prepared for complexity: Multicultural women teaching English as a second language, Lise M Sparrow
The beginning of intervention: A study of the working relationship between the state department of education and underperforming schools during the implementation of new school accountability policy, Susan Bowles Therriault
Education in post-apartheid South Africa: Towards liberation or equity?, Tsoaledi Daniel Thobejane
The development of teaching philosophies in the absence of formal pre-service teacher education, B. Curtis Turner
Breaking the silence: Cambodian students speak out about school, success, and shifting identities, Roberta Wallitt
Effects of Picture Rehearsal on the behavior of public school children with autism spectrum disorders, Lisa J Wholey
Dissertations from 2004
The role of education and support in the vocational development and recovery of young adults with psychiatric disabilities, Kimberly S Bisset
Reading class: Disrupting power in children's literature, Maria Jose Botelho
Perceptions of new public school leaders: Their evolution to the superintendency, Joseph E. Buckley
Computer science undergraduates' perceptions of e-mail peer mentoring, Suzanne M Castriotta
Content validity of independently constructed curriculum-based examinations, Elias Watson Jani Chakwera
The effects of topic familiarity and language difficulty on situation-model construction by readers of Chinese as a foreign language, Cecilia Chang-Chow
Culture and healthcare toward Vietnamese adults and elderly of greater Springfield, Massachusetts, Duong Van Chu