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Dissertations from 2009

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Reaching the Poorest Through Microfinance: Learning from Saving for Change Program in Mali, Mukul Acharya, Education (also CAGS)

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Leadership Continuity: Enhancing the Cycle of Leadership in Academic Departments, Nancy Buffone, Education (also CAGS)

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Implications for literacy learning as urban second grade students engage in digital storytelling., Jane Carey, Education

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A Study of Pre-Service Teachers: Is it Really Mathematics Anxiety?, Marsha Marie Guillory Bryant, Education (also CAGS)

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Implementing Change in Instructional Delivery of Classroom Curriculum: A Phenomenological Case Study of Classroom Teachers Implementing A Problem-based Learning Approach in the Classroom, Maura Anne Hart, Education (also CAGS)

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Women in Engineering: Tell Me What You Need to Succeed, Susan Catherine Lyon, Education (also CAGS)

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The Role of Program Evaluations in Improving and Sustaining State-Supported School Counseling Programs: A Cross Case Analysis of Best Practices, Ian Monteg Martin, Education (also CAGS)

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Policy Options to Finance Public Higher Education in Afghanistan, Frank McNernery, Education (also CAGS)

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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, Education (also CAGS)

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The Use of Item Response Theory in Developing a Phonics Diagnostic Inventory, Cynthia A. Pirani-McGurl, Education (also CAGS)

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A Blog-Mediated Curriculum for Teaching Academic Genres in an Urban Classroom: Second Grade ELL Students’ Emergent Pathways to Literacy Development, Dong-shin Shin, Education (also CAGS)

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Teacher Change Facilitated By Sustained School Situated Professional Development: Exemplar Learning Of Technology Enhanced Formative Assessment (TEFA), Karen St. Cyr, Education

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The Influence Of Parent And Community Involvement On Local School Councils In Massachusetts, Leslie B Stein, Education

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A program evaluation of school-wide positive behavior support in an alternative education setting, Elana Rachel Weinberger, Education (also CAGS)

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Metacognition: Developing Self-Knowledge Through Guided Reflection, Kathryn Wiezbicki-Stevens, Education (also CAGS)

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Women’s Contribution To Gross National Happiness: A Critical Analysis Of The Role Of Nuns And Nunneries In Education And Sustainable Development In Bhutan, Tashi Zangmo, Education

Dissertations from 2008

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A critical discourse analysis of classroom literacy practices in fourth grade : the critical moments., Theresa L. Abodeeb-Gentile, Education

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African migrant students in African and U.S. mathematics classroom., Solomon Abraham, Education

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How the emphasis of models, themes, and concepts in professional development changed elementary teachers' mathematics teaching and learning., Janet Ginkus Allen, Education

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A procedure for developing a common metric in item response theory when parameter posterior distributions are known., Peter Baldwin, Education

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A Bayesian testlet response model with covariates : a simulation study and two applications., Su G. Baldwin, Education

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Springfield, the armory and the Civil War : using local history resources to develop best practice field trips for middle school social studies students., Ann Barone, Education

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Novice teachers experience a mosaic of mentoring as they learn to teach., Beverley J. M. Bell, Education

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Unbundling convenience in distance education : how do distance education students define convenience?, Debbie L. Bellucci, Education

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Prestige culture and community-based faculty work., Alan H. Bloomgarden, Education

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A life history of Dr. Nettie Webb : possibilities and perspectives from a life committed to education., Paige M. Bray, Education

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Assessing the effect of a diversity course on college students' readiness for social action engagement., Stephanie L. Burrell, Education

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Assessment literacy and efficacy : making valid educational decisions., Mary Lou Chapman, Education

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Choices and voices of adult illiterates : exploring their literacy needs in rural Bangladesh., Sahadat H. Chaudhury, Education

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A comparative study of educational decentralization in China and Korea, 1985-1995 : motives, actions, and results., Yeon Han Chung, Education

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Using action research protocols to structure the development of a complex exhibit at a regional children's museum., John Cipora, Education

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The generalizability of systematic direct observations across items : exploring the psychometric properties of behavioral observation., Tara M. Clark, Education

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Understanding voice in the disciplines : the struggles of Latina non-traditional students and their instructors., Doris M. Correa, Education

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Rigorously applying the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning : a community college case study., Katherine P. Douglas, Education

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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, Education

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The effects of a math-fact fluency intervention on the complex calculation and application performance of fourth grade students., Kristin E. Ezbicki, Education

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A mind/body exploration of adolescent girls' strategies & barriers to their success or survival in physical education., Jennifer L. Fisette, Education

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Decolonizing multicultural teacher education., Kristen B. French, Education

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Investigating a parent implemented early literacy intervention : effects of dialogic reading using alphabet books on the alphabet skills, phonological awareness, and oral language of preschool children., Heather Noël Halsey, Education

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Impact of item parameter drift on test equating and proficiency estimates., Kyung Tyek Han, Education

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Systemic functional linguistics and the teaching of literature in urban school classrooms., Ruth Harman, Education

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The effects of parents' absence on the lives of the left-behind children in middle and northern rural China., Yiming He, Education

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Sound education : an ethnographic exploration of power relations in high school classrooms with mainstreamed oral deaf students., Arlene Hijara, Education

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Teaching teams and student achievement in Vermont's middle schools., Steven B. John, Education

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The utility of the Individual Reading Evaluation and Diagnostic (iREAD) Inventory, a specific reading skills assessment, for treatment design and implementation., Andrew J. Koerner, Education

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College impact on civic attitudes of Asian American and White undergraduate students : a comparative study., Chiaki Kotori, Education

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Five case studies investigating children's responses to the application of movement into their classroom curriculum., Penelope J. Mahoney, Education

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Focusing on strength : building home-classroom connections with Latino families in urban schools., Nelida Matos, Education

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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, Education

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The [de] construction of institutional representation of student achievement : an ethnographic case study of an ELL student's academic growth., Pierre W. Orelus, Education

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Children's perceptions of interethnic/interracial friendships in a multiethnic school context., Cinzia Pica, Education

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Nuestras voces, nuestras palabras (Our voices, our words) : a qualitative study of Puerto Rican parental involvement., Brian John Rachmaciej, Education

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Co-constructing a nurturing and culturally relevant academic environment for struggling readers : (dis)locating crisis and risk through strategic alignment., Jaime Andres Ramirez, Education

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The use of item response theory in developing the Dynamic Indicators of Vocabulary Skills parallel forms., Jane M. Riley, Education

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Does Performance Improvement Mapping affect teacher efficacy?, Maureen Ryan, Education

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Rethinking women, development and empowerment : toward transnational feminist literacy practices., Chizu, Sato, Education

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The impact of middle school students' perceptions of the classroom learning environment on achievement in mathematics, Elizabeth A Schaper

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The impact of middle school students' perceptions of the classroom learning environment on achievement in mathematics., Elizabeth A. Schaper, Education

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A student perspective on programs serving students with emotional or behavioral disorders., Ronald Stahley, Education

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Entrepreneurial decision making in community colleges : the nexus among external market forces, resource dependency and expanding missions., Donna M. Wilson, Education

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"Rocking the boat" : using critical literacy to challenge heterosexism in a public school., Sara Lewis-Bernstein Young, Education

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Explaining variations in the local implementation of a national policy : inclusive education in four Beijing schools., Kai Yu, Education

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Approaches for addressing the fit of item response theory models to educational test data., Yue Zhao, Education

Dissertations from 2007

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Teacher education in post-colonial context : a phenomenological study of the experience of Jamaican teachers' college lecturers., Erold K. Bailey, Education

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Supplemental instruction : supporting persistence in barrier courses., Susan B. Bronstein, Education

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Elementary preservice teachers' constructions of themselves as students and as teachers : a collaborative narrative autobiographical approach., Josephine Burnett, Education

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Tibetan women and higher educational experience : an exploratory study., Yeshi Chodon, Education

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Successful white teachers of black students : teaching across racial lines in urban middle school science classrooms., Bobbie Coleman, Education

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Perspectives on learning in the Women's Economic and Empowerment Literacy Program in Nepal., Lisa A. Deyo, Education

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"Ms. Cowhey, I have a text to world connection!", Gabriella, first grade : critical intertextuality in a multicultural first grade classroom., Jehann H. El-Bisi, Education

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Navigating bridges and barriers : a case study of the James Baldwin scholars program., Yaniris M. Fernandez, Education

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Beyond survival : a study of factors influencing psychological resilience among Cambodian child survivors., Urakorn Khajornwit Fuderich, Education

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Pathways to success in science : a phenomenological study, examining the life experiences of African-American women in higher education., Claudette Leanora Giscombe, Education

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Accelerated learning as an alternative approach to education : possibilities and challenges faced by CHOLEN, an NGO program in Bangladesh., Mary Monica Gomes, Education

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Act like a teacher : teaching as a performing art., Rod Hart, Education

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An empirical comparison of the Bookmark and modified Angoff standard setting methods and the impact on student classification, Jeffrey B Hauger

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An empirical comparison of the Bookmark and modified Angoff standard setting methods and the impact on student classification., Jeffrey B. Hauger, Education

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Factors that influence the publishing productivity of faculty in physical therapist education programs., Regina R. Kaufman, Education

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Just point, click, and teach, right? : influences on faculty and administrator discourse and behavior about online programs., Claudine Keenan, Education

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A comparison of item response theory true score equating and item response theory-based local equating., Robert R. Keller, Education

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Placing academic activism : constraints and possibilities of faculty work., Aaron M. Kuntz, Education

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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, Education

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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, Education

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Child rearing goals and parent-child interaction in immigrant Chinese families., Fang Liu, Education

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Mentor teachers, program supervisors, and peer coaching in the student teaching experience : a phenomenological study of the experiences of mentor teachers, program supervisors, and interns., Hsiu-Lien Lu, Education

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College presidents and administrative team members : an investigation of a team leadership approach to financial decision-making in liberal arts colleges., Kathleen J. Mangano, Education

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Exploring the impact of teachers' participation in an assessment-standards alignment study., Andrea Martone, Education

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Unexpected transitions : moving beyond cultural barriers : successful strategies of female technology education teachers., Raymond R. McCarthy, Education

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A validity study of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) national model readiness self-assessment instrument., Wendy McGannon, Education

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Searching for identity : an exploration of narrative, behavior, material culture, and curriculum as representations of identity in one Armenian day school in the United States., Yeprem Mehranian, Education

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Sisters in the struggle : individual and institutional factors affecting the persistence of black, female, doctoral students at U.S. predominantly white institutions., Mounira Morris, Education