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Dissertations from 2024
Impact of Reasonable Accommodations on Disabled Student–Veteran Higher Educational Achievement, Michael A. Buoniconti, Education
IMPLICATIONS AND IMPACTS OF MATHEMATICAL SELF-EFFICACY IN A LARGE CALCULUS CLASS: SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR GENDER, RACE, AND MAJOR, Adena Calden, Education
Negotiating Identities and Ideologies: A Longitudinal Look at Multilingual Learners’ Educational Investments in the Context of School Reform, Erin E. Goldstein, Education
INTERRELATIONSHIP AMONG STUDENTS’ ICT USAGE, ATTITUDE, AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN NORDIC COUNTRIES: MULTILEVEL STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING ON PISA 2018 AND TIMSS 2019, Dukjae Lee, Education
Identifying Rapid-Guessing Behaviors: Comparison of Response Time Threshold, Item Response Theory, and Machine Learning Methods, Minhyeong Lee, Education
Examining Social Capital and its Role in Special Education Leadership, April K. Rist, Education
TIBETAN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AND RETURNEES: EXPERIENCES, IDENTITIES, AND TRANSNATIONALISM, Shamo Thar, Education
Exploring the Teaching and Learning Experiences of Faculty at A Small Comprehensive College as They Transitioned to the Remote Environment: A Phenomenological Study of Shifting Mindsets and Locations During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Michele L. Vanasse, Education
The Impact of Computational Thinking Infused Professional Development and Participation in Community of Practice on Elementary Teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Computational Thinking, Ozkan Yildiz, Education
Dissertations from 2023
Validating Middle School Principals' Opinions about the Impact of Investments, David Adler, Education
THE KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES TOWARD STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITY OF FACULTY MEMBERS IN A SAUDI UNIVERSITY, Muqrin Almutairi, Education
AN EXPERIENTIAL APPROACH TO TEST DESIGN AND VALIDATION, Sergio Andres Araneda Galarce, Education
The puzzle of debutant INGO participation in Guatemala’s National Reading Program Leamos Juntos: A comparative and multi-sited case study, Jacob A. Carter, Education
Youth Producing Voice: A Video-cued Ethnography of a Media Education Classroom, Isabel C. Castellanos, Education
The Im/possibilities of (Un)making In-school Pregnancy and Student Motherhood [as Praxis]: Schooling Post-Pregnancy Amidst Health and Social Crises in Malawi, Pempho Chinkondenji, Education
I’ve (Urn)ed This: An Application and Criterion-based Evaluation of the Urnings Algorithm, Ted Daisher, Education
Heritage Language Learning in College: (Performing)(Becoming)(Belonging) Through Assemblages, Margaret A. Felis, Education
‘You Crazy’: Examination of Black Transnational Collegians’ Mental Health at` Historically White Institutions, Patricia Feraud-King, Education
FOR THE LOVE OF TEACHING: PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ EXPERIENCE OF MORAL EDUCATION, Anne Marie Foley Ruiz, Education
Black Male Trauma, Gerald D. Fonville, Education
Maintaining the Same Test Administration Time Across Translated Forms – Fairness and Validity Considerations, Alejandra Amador Garcia, Education
Conceptualizing Social Mathematical Empowerment: What is the Curricular Connection?, Alicia C. Gonzales, Education
Stakeholder Perspectives of School Discipline: A Social Ecological Exploration, Megan D. Grant, Education
Ensuring Culturally Inclusive Online Learning for International Students: A Delphi Study to Identify Requisite Instructor Competencies, Kristen Lina Heaster-Ekholm, Education
Leveraging Community Cultural Wealth Through Counterspaces and Counterstories: A Black Administrator’s Autoethnography, Renee G. Heywood, Education
The Professionalization of Collegiate Recreation and the Educational Pathways of its Practitioners: An Exploratory Study, Jason R. Incorvati, Education
SCAFFOLDING NARRATIVE WRITING IN A FOURTH-GRADE CLASSROOM THROUGH ACCELA’S EXPANDED TEACHING AND LEARNING CYCLE: A CASE STUDY, Juan P. Jimenez, Education
Accreditation of Teaching and Research Universities in Afghanistan: A Policy Implementation Analysis, Sayed Javid Mussawy, Education
The Impact of Special Education Status and Text-to-Speech on Test-Taker Engagement, Maura O'Riordan, Education
Unsettling Resettlement: African Refugees in the US and the Paradoxes of Economic Self-Sufficiency, Mariam Rashid, Education
EMBODIED EXAMINATIONS OF WHITENESS:CRITICAL WHITENESS AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING PEDAGOGIES AS FOUNDATIONAL TO ANTIRACIST TEACHING, Carie A. Ruggiano, Education
AN ANALYSIS OF PUERTO RICAN TESTIMONIOS OF OPPRESSION AND RESISTANCE IN POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, Juan M. Ruiz-Hau, Education
LIVING WITH WETLANDS, DEFYING DEMARCATIONS: TOWARDS ANTI-COLONIAL RELATIONS AND FLOODWATER PEDAGOGIES IN CLIMATE CHANGE EDUCATION, Benjamin D. Scherrer, Education
CONNECTING AND DEVELOPING THROUGH FACEBOOK: AN EXPLORATION OF IMPACT ON COLLEGE WOMEN, Christine R. Sharry, Education
Understanding Faculty Use of Learning Management Systems in U.S. Higher Education, Minghui Tai, Education
THE EVALUATION OF "THE WRONG ANSWER PROJECT" AS VALIDITY EVIDENCE FOR THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF TESTING, Darius D. Taylor, Education
Harnessing Untapped Potential: A Theory for Engaging Recent Graduates in Alumni Advocacy to Support Institutional Advancement Goals, Erin M. Valencik, Education
Aberrant Response Detection: Incorporating Cumulative Sum Control Chart and Change-Point Analysis, Siyu Wan, Education
Dissertations from 2022
Conceptualization and Operationalization of College Readiness for Students with Learning Disabilities: A Grounded Theory Study with Transition Stakeholders, Jordan A. Abbott, Education
THE ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN GRADUATE EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES: A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIA’S SKILL ACQUISITION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT (SAED) PROGRAM, Yetunde O. Ajao, Education
“We’re Not Born to be Quiet. Things Make You That Way”: Student Voices and Perspectives on Developing a Culturally Sustaining Trauma Informed School, Lisa C. Amato, Education
A Comparison Of Guided Reading And Systematic Phonics Approaches To Supplementary Reading Instruction, Madeline R. Berkowitz, Education
Building Together: Problem Solving for Sustainability Consciousness, Paul M. Bocko, Education
AN ENDARKENED AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO PEER CO-CURRICULAR DIALOGUE FACILITATION TRAINING, Amari L. Boyd, Education
Education Assemblage: Tracing and Undermining Raciality in the Era of Standardization and Accountability, Chalais Carter, Education
How Well Does the New York State Higher Education Opportunity Program Work for Black Men? A Mixed Methods Study, MICHAEL A. DEJESUS III, Education
Examining Small-group Discourse Through the Lens of Students’ Beliefs about Mathematics and The Instructional Triangle, Jennifer Ericson, Education
DEVELOPING NEW TEACHERS' PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT AND RELATIONSHIP KNOWLEDGE (PCRK) DURING A ONE-YEAR URBAN RESIDENCY TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAM, Daryl Essensa, Education
New Ways of Being and Knowing: Women Ph.D. Students Exploring Embodiment through Feminist Phenomenological Photovoice, Anna Fox Reilly, Education
Examining Parents Who Are English Language Learners with Reading Difficulties: Their Experiences of Their Diverse Children's Literacy Learning, Ellen Ho, Education
Quality of Life for Women with Chronic Lyme Disease: A Socioeconomic Investigation, Dale M. Jones, Education
UTILIZATION AND EFFECT OF MULTIPLE CONTENT MODALITIES IN ONLINE HIGHER EDUCATION: SHIFTING TRAJECTORIES TOWARD SUCCESS THROUGH UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING, Catherine A. Manly, Education
World-Class Universities and the Imitation Game: The Reality of the Global South, Koboul E. Mansour, Education
DESIGN ARTIFACTS AS EXTERNALIZED MENTAL MODELS OF CHILDREN’S SCIENCE CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT, Christine McGrail, Education
“SUSTAINING PEACE FROM CAMPUS TO COMMUNITY”, THE ROLE OF STUDENTS TO PROMOTE CAMPUS-LEVEL RECONCILIATION: A CASE STUDY OF MALUKU, INDONESIA, Julia Novrita, Education
Who Benefits from Deferred Entry to College?: Exploring the Relationships between College Deferment, Postsecondary Academic Success, and Institutional Selectivity, Gabriel Reif, Education
Active Choice or Default Decision? When Families Who Reside in a Competitive School Choice Environment Enroll Children in Their District Schools, Julie Spencer-Robinson, Education
The Gendered, Racialized, & Dis/Abled Experiences of Neurodivergent Black Women Graduate Students Across Higher Education, Kat Stephens, Education
Avatars & Choice: Fostering Student Agency, Engagement, and Equity in Assessment, Sandra M. Sweeney, Education
Alt-Education: Gender, language, and education across the right, Catherine Tebaldi, Education
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING CULTURES AT WORK: HOW PRINCIPALS SERVE AS CATALYSTS FOR LEARNING, Christopher J. Tranberg, Education
Learning by Doing: Preparing Student Activists for Democratic Engagement, Marjorie G. Valdivia, Education
Dissertations from 2021
AGENTIAL SCHOOLING: POSTHUMANISM, YPAR, AND SPOOKY ENTANGLEMENTS, Thomas Albright, Education
FINANCING PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFGHANISTAN: ALTERNATIVE SOURCES AND OPTIONS, Hassan Aslami, Education
Using Generalizability and Rasch Measurement Theory to Ensure Rigorous Measurement in an International Development Education Evaluation, Louise Bahry, Education
Defining Inclusion: Surveying Educator Perceptions and Practices in Chile, Christina A. Bosch, Education
Critical Language Awareness in the Multilingual Writing Classroom: A Self-Study of Teacher Feedback Practices, Emma R. Britton, Education
MINDFULNESS EDUCATION AS A TRANSFORMATIVE PRACTICE: TOWARD AN EMBODIED LIBERATORY PEDAGOGY, Jennifer Cannon, Education
Measurement Invariance Across Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Populations on PISA Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Scales, Maritza Casas, Education
Administrators of General and Special Education Perceptions of Leadership Practices for Supporting Inclusive Learning Environments for Students with Disabilities, Kimberly B. Cass, Education
THE SCHOOL AND MY HEALTH: (RE)CENTERING YOUNG WOMEN’S VOICES IN PEER-LED SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (SRH) EDUCATION IN MACHAKOS, KENYA, Nyaradzai Changamire, Education
PREFIGURATIVE POLITICS AND REVOLUTIONARY PRACTICES WITHIN INTERNATIONAL SERVICE-LEARNING: A CASE STUDY OF THE CIEE THAILAND PROGRAM ON DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION, Koni Denham, Education
"Take it with You": Humanizing and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies as Racial Literacy in Undergraduate Education, Robert Jamaal Downey, Education
Evaluating Approaches for Dealing with Omitted Items in Large-Scale Assessments, Seong Eun Hong, Education
EDUCATORS PERCEPTIONS OF EBD, INCLUSION, AND EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES, Andrea Larmon, Education
TEACHER COLLABORATIVE ACTION-TAKING AND INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES SUPPORTIVE OF SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING: A CORRELATIONAL STUDY, Ann M. Leonard, Education
Exploring the Role of Community Cultural Wealth in College Access and Transition: A Narrative Inquiry of Students from Refugee Backgrounds, Diep H. Luu, Education
Making Meaning of Equity in a Computer Science for All Research Practitioner Partnership, Itza D. Martínez, Education
Shifting to critical empathy: Exploring the ideological becoming of secondary teachers during critical, dialogic professional development, Maria McSorley, Education
Massachusetts Teachers of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students: A Mixed Methods Workforce Study, Kym Meyer, Education
The Voices and Lived Academic Experiences of International Doctoral Student Mothers, Mishka Murad, Education
EXPLORING LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND IDENTITY: PERSPECTIVES FROM NON-NATIVE ARABIC UNIVERSITY TEACHERS IN THE US, Brahim Oulbeid, Education
LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES AND BILINGUAL EDUCATION POLICIES IN A DUAL LANGUAGE CLASSROOM, Eirini Pitidou, Education
DALIT ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES: STIGMA, SOCIAL REPRODUCTION AND SYSTEMIC EXCLUSION IN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION, Bharat Rathod, Education
Critical Multicultural Engagement with Children's Texts: Perspectives, Power, and Positioning, Jasmine A. Robinson, Education
Collaboration, Collective Agency, and Solidarity Through Participatory Action Research in Puerto Rico, Aurora Santiago Ortiz, Education
Rupture and Resistance in Third Space: Examining Black Girls’ Schooling Experiences at a Private Elite School, Alisha L. Smith Jean-Denis, Education
Caught between Spaces: Korean Adult EFL/ESL Female Speakers’ Negotiating Social Identities in Online English Study Groups, Rayoung Song, Education
“LET ME TALK MY SHIT”: EXPLORING RACIOCULTURAL TRAUMA THROUGH EMBODIED ARTS, Andrew Brian Torres, Education
The power of perception: social cohesion, child protection and access to education in conflict-affected communities in South Sudan, Wendy L. Wheaton, Education
Dissertations from 2020
Experiences of Uzbek Immigrant Parents with Public Schools in New York City: Parental Engagement, Mekhribon Abdullaeva, Education
Building Capacity for Academically Productive Talk: The Development of Teacher Leaders in Science Professional Development, Renee Affolter, Education
INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS, PEDAGOGICAL AGENT DESIGN, AND HISPANIC ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS, Danielle Allessio, Education
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS IN SAUDI ARABIA, Raja Almutairi, Education
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF POINT-OF-VIEW-VIDEO MODELING ON IMPROVING SOCIAL AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS, Beyza Alpaydin, Education
“In Our Very Flesh, (R)evolution”: An Exploration of Secondary Education Teachers, Otherness, and Embodiment, Ryan Ambuter, Education
TRADITIONAL VALUES AND LOCAL COMMUNITY IN THE FORMAL EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN SENEGAL: A YEAR AS A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER IN THIES, Maguette Diame, Education
Teacher Interactions, Teacher Bias and Child Behavioral Health, Ellen E. Edge, Education
Locating Safe Spaces for Food Insecure Female Community College Students, Michelle Errington Nicholson, Education
Mobilities Through and Against Governance: Narratives from Lesvos, Greece and the Humanitarian Borderscapes of the EU, Jennifer Flemming, Education