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Dissertations from 2010
Joy and Happiness in Education and Spirituality: Teachings of Imam, Sheikh Iskender Ali Mihr, Ibrahim Taner Okatan, Education (also CAGS)
Maintenance of Vertical Scales Under Conditions of Item Parameter Drift and Rasch Model-data Misfit, Timothy Paul O'Neil, Education (also CAGS)
A Phenomenological Study of the Experiences of Helping Professionals With Learning Disabilities, Madeline Lorraine Peters, Education (also CAGS)
What is the Cost of an Adequate Vermont High School Education?, Frank D. Rucker, Education (also CAGS)
The Voice of Elementary School Principals on School Climate, Suzanne Elayne Scallion, Education (also CAGS)
Latinas in the Pipeline to Baccalaureate -Prepared Nursing: Challenges and Supports in Persistence to Degree and Professional Licensure, Cheryl Ann Sheils, Education (also CAGS)
Item Parameter Drift as an Indication of Differential Opportunity to Learn: An Exploration of item Flagging Methods & Accurate Classification of Examinees, Tia M. Sukin, Education (also CAGS)
The Impact of Disciplinarity on the Organizational Leadership Styles of Academic Deans, Lauren J. Way, Education (also CAGS)
International Study Tours and the Development of Sociocultural Consciousness in K-12 Teachers, Raymond Yu-kuang Young, Education (also CAGS)
Dissertations from 2009
Reaching the Poorest Through Microfinance: Learning from Saving for Change Program in Mali, Mukul Acharya, Education (also CAGS)
Leadership Continuity: Enhancing the Cycle of Leadership in Academic Departments, Nancy Buffone, Education (also CAGS)
Implications for literacy learning as urban second grade students engage in digital storytelling., Jane Carey, Education
A Study of Pre-Service Teachers: Is it Really Mathematics Anxiety?, Marsha Marie Guillory Bryant, Education (also CAGS)
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)
Women in Engineering: Tell Me What You Need to Succeed, Susan Catherine Lyon, Education (also CAGS)
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)
Policy Options to Finance Public Higher Education in Afghanistan, Frank McNernery, Education (also CAGS)
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)
The Use of Item Response Theory in Developing a Phonics Diagnostic Inventory, Cynthia A. Pirani-McGurl, Education (also CAGS)
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)
Teacher Change Facilitated By Sustained School Situated Professional Development: Exemplar Learning Of Technology Enhanced Formative Assessment (TEFA), Karen St. Cyr, Education
The Influence Of Parent And Community Involvement On Local School Councils In Massachusetts, Leslie B Stein, Education
A program evaluation of school-wide positive behavior support in an alternative education setting, Elana Rachel Weinberger, Education (also CAGS)
Metacognition: Developing Self-Knowledge Through Guided Reflection, Kathryn Wiezbicki-Stevens, Education (also CAGS)
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
A critical discourse analysis of classroom literacy practices in fourth grade : the critical moments., Theresa L. Abodeeb-Gentile, Education
African migrant students in African and U.S. mathematics classroom., Solomon Abraham, Education
How the emphasis of models, themes, and concepts in professional development changed elementary teachers' mathematics teaching and learning., Janet Ginkus Allen, Education
A procedure for developing a common metric in item response theory when parameter posterior distributions are known., Peter Baldwin, Education
A Bayesian testlet response model with covariates : a simulation study and two applications., Su G. Baldwin, Education
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
Novice teachers experience a mosaic of mentoring as they learn to teach., Beverley J. M. Bell, Education
Unbundling convenience in distance education : how do distance education students define convenience?, Debbie L. Bellucci, Education
Prestige culture and community-based faculty work., Alan H. Bloomgarden, Education
A life history of Dr. Nettie Webb : possibilities and perspectives from a life committed to education., Paige M. Bray, Education
Assessing the effect of a diversity course on college students' readiness for social action engagement., Stephanie L. Burrell, Education
Assessment literacy and efficacy : making valid educational decisions., Mary Lou Chapman, Education
Choices and voices of adult illiterates : exploring their literacy needs in rural Bangladesh., Sahadat H. Chaudhury, Education
A comparative study of educational decentralization in China and Korea, 1985-1995 : motives, actions, and results., Yeon Han Chung, Education
Using action research protocols to structure the development of a complex exhibit at a regional children's museum., John Cipora, Education
The generalizability of systematic direct observations across items : exploring the psychometric properties of behavioral observation., Tara M. Clark, Education
Understanding voice in the disciplines : the struggles of Latina non-traditional students and their instructors., Doris M. Correa, Education
Rigorously applying the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning : a community college case study., Katherine P. Douglas, Education
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
The effects of a math-fact fluency intervention on the complex calculation and application performance of fourth grade students., Kristin E. Ezbicki, Education
A mind/body exploration of adolescent girls' strategies & barriers to their success or survival in physical education., Jennifer L. Fisette, Education
Decolonizing multicultural teacher education., Kristen B. French, Education
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
Impact of item parameter drift on test equating and proficiency estimates., Kyung Tyek Han, Education
Systemic functional linguistics and the teaching of literature in urban school classrooms., Ruth Harman, Education
The effects of parents' absence on the lives of the left-behind children in middle and northern rural China., Yiming He, Education
Sound education : an ethnographic exploration of power relations in high school classrooms with mainstreamed oral deaf students., Arlene Hijara, Education
Teaching teams and student achievement in Vermont's middle schools., Steven B. John, Education
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
College impact on civic attitudes of Asian American and White undergraduate students : a comparative study., Chiaki Kotori, Education
Five case studies investigating children's responses to the application of movement into their classroom curriculum., Penelope J. Mahoney, Education
Focusing on strength : building home-classroom connections with Latino families in urban schools., Nelida Matos, Education
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
The [de] construction of institutional representation of student achievement : an ethnographic case study of an ELL student's academic growth., Pierre W. Orelus, Education
Children's perceptions of interethnic/interracial friendships in a multiethnic school context., Cinzia Pica, Education
Nuestras voces, nuestras palabras (Our voices, our words) : a qualitative study of Puerto Rican parental involvement., Brian John Rachmaciej, Education
Co-constructing a nurturing and culturally relevant academic environment for struggling readers : (dis)locating crisis and risk through strategic alignment., Jaime Andres Ramirez, Education
The use of item response theory in developing the Dynamic Indicators of Vocabulary Skills parallel forms., Jane M. Riley, Education
Does Performance Improvement Mapping affect teacher efficacy?, Maureen Ryan, Education
Rethinking women, development and empowerment : toward transnational feminist literacy practices., Chizu, Sato, Education
The impact of middle school students' perceptions of the classroom learning environment on achievement in mathematics, Elizabeth A Schaper
The impact of middle school students' perceptions of the classroom learning environment on achievement in mathematics., Elizabeth A. Schaper, Education
A student perspective on programs serving students with emotional or behavioral disorders., Ronald Stahley, Education
Entrepreneurial decision making in community colleges : the nexus among external market forces, resource dependency and expanding missions., Donna M. Wilson, Education
"Rocking the boat" : using critical literacy to challenge heterosexism in a public school., Sara Lewis-Bernstein Young, Education
Explaining variations in the local implementation of a national policy : inclusive education in four Beijing schools., Kai Yu, Education
Approaches for addressing the fit of item response theory models to educational test data., Yue Zhao, Education
Dissertations from 2007
Teacher education in post-colonial context : a phenomenological study of the experience of Jamaican teachers' college lecturers., Erold K. Bailey, Education
Supplemental instruction : supporting persistence in barrier courses., Susan B. Bronstein, Education
Elementary preservice teachers' constructions of themselves as students and as teachers : a collaborative narrative autobiographical approach., Josephine Burnett, Education
Tibetan women and higher educational experience : an exploratory study., Yeshi Chodon, Education
Successful white teachers of black students : teaching across racial lines in urban middle school science classrooms., Bobbie Coleman, Education
Perspectives on learning in the Women's Economic and Empowerment Literacy Program in Nepal., Lisa A. Deyo, Education
"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
Navigating bridges and barriers : a case study of the James Baldwin scholars program., Yaniris M. Fernandez, Education
Beyond survival : a study of factors influencing psychological resilience among Cambodian child survivors., Urakorn Khajornwit Fuderich, Education
Pathways to success in science : a phenomenological study, examining the life experiences of African-American women in higher education., Claudette Leanora Giscombe, Education
Accelerated learning as an alternative approach to education : possibilities and challenges faced by CHOLEN, an NGO program in Bangladesh., Mary Monica Gomes, Education
Act like a teacher : teaching as a performing art., Rod Hart, Education
An empirical comparison of the Bookmark and modified Angoff standard setting methods and the impact on student classification, Jeffrey B Hauger
An empirical comparison of the Bookmark and modified Angoff standard setting methods and the impact on student classification., Jeffrey B. Hauger, Education
Factors that influence the publishing productivity of faculty in physical therapist education programs., Regina R. Kaufman, Education
Just point, click, and teach, right? : influences on faculty and administrator discourse and behavior about online programs., Claudine Keenan, Education
A comparison of item response theory true score equating and item response theory-based local equating., Robert R. Keller, Education
Placing academic activism : constraints and possibilities of faculty work., Aaron M. Kuntz, Education
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
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
Child rearing goals and parent-child interaction in immigrant Chinese families., Fang Liu, Education
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
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
Exploring the impact of teachers' participation in an assessment-standards alignment study., Andrea Martone, Education
Unexpected transitions : moving beyond cultural barriers : successful strategies of female technology education teachers., Raymond R. McCarthy, Education
A validity study of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) national model readiness self-assessment instrument., Wendy McGannon, Education
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
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