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Teaching and Leadership - Dissertations

2024 2024

INVESTIGATING UNDERGRADUATES’ LEARNING OF READING STRATEGIES TO COMPREHEND MATHEMATICAL PROOFS, Hillary Bermudez

“But is it Worth the Maintenance?”: Exploring the Ways Adolescent Preservice Teachers Develop Teaching Identities and Implement Pedagogical Practices, Tiffany Hamm

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PROCESSES OF TEACHERS' DECISIONS TO CHOOSE AND SEQUENCE EXAMPLES IN THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF MATHEMATICS, Emmanuel Nsadha

A Critical Narrative Analysis of Kosovar Teachers’ Understanding of Literacy Education, Anemonë Zeneli

2023 2023

Leading for Equity: Understanding the influences, realities, resistance, and beliefs around tracking and acceleration in suburban school districts, Joseph Michael DeBarbieri

Leadership Actions for Equitable Arts Education, Sarah Gentile

Shifting Identities: An Examination of Teacher Professional Identity Development on an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Team, Christine Morgan

High Stakes Assessment and Testing Disconnect: Examining Student Performance on Grades 3—6 Common Core ELA and Math Assessments and Performance on English and Algebra Regents Exams in High School, Katherine V. Reichel

2022 2022

How Do the Functions That School Business Officials Perform Affect Teaching and Learning, and Do School Business Officials Take These Effects Into Account in Performing Their Work, Oliver Blaise

Pockets of Promise: A Phenomenological Study of Experienced Special Education Teachers Working With Students With Emotional Disturbance in an Alternative Program, Jennifer L. Dibello

Civic Education and Citizenship Education: A Qualitative Study of Secondary Social Studies Teachers' Understandings of the Concepts and Practices of Citizenship Education for Immigrant Students, Diana Fidaoui

Decision-Making for Teacher Professional Development: An Analysis of Contributing Factors, Jennifer Heckathorn

Unpacking the Implementation of Restorative Practices: A Case Study of Race, Equity, and Change, Theresa Helyn Holtsbery

Educational Leadership in Middle Schools: Informal Teacher Leaders, Mary Ann Luciano

Teacher candidate and standardized student interactions following verbal threats of harm: Navigation of authority, displays of care, and solutions, Eryka Dever Murphey

Unveiling the Unmarked Implications for Culturally Responsive Educational Leadership, Laura A. Rouse

White Out: An Analysis of Presentations of Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Inclusive Education Textbooks, Phillandra Samantha Smith

Critical Aspirations: Disability, Education, and Community Cultural Wealth in a Sanctuary City, Chelsea Stinson

2021 2021

Exploring the Nature of the Co-emergence of Students' Representational Fluency and Functional Thinking, Nigar Altindis

Exploring The Nature Of The Co-emergence Of Students’ Representational Fluency And Functional Thinking, Nigar Altindis

Examining Adolescence Science and Mathematics Teachers' Views of the Characteristics of Effective Professional Development: A Q-methodological Study, Dominick Fantacone

Examining Adolescence Science And Mathematics Teachers’ Views Of The Characteristics Of Effective Professional Development: A Q-methodological Study, Dominick Fantacone

Peachtown 2019: Practice And Pedagogy In A Progressive Learning Setting, Dean Kloss

Peachtown 2019: Practice and Pedagogy in a Progressive Learning Setting, Dean Kloss

Prospective Teacher Educators' Knowledge Development Through the Creation of Multimedia Case Studies of Practice, Crispin Ojwang

"You Always Have That One:" a Critical Analysis of the Conceptualizations of Educators Around Classroom Community and Challenging Behavior, Sara Scribner

"you Always Have That One:" A Critical Analysis Of The Conceptualizations Of Educators Around Classroom Community And Challenging Behavior, Sara Scribner

2020 2020

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEXT: INVESTIGATING IN-SERVICE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR SYRIAN TEACHERS OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE DURING TIMES OF MILITARY CONFLICT, Fadi Al-Issa

Teachers’ Perceptions of Evaluation Feedback Conferences: A Mixed Methods Study, Danielle R. Brain

“Because I did what she told me to do.” Understanding the Identity Work of Elementary Students of Color in the Science Classroom and how a Teacher’s Positionality Impacts Student Learning, Terrance Burgess

How the classroom schools: A focused ethnography exploring the built classroom environment and its inhabitants in one kindergarten, Meredith Devennie

Investigating Middle School Students’ Mathematical Reasoning in a Connected In-school and Out-of-School Context, Joash M. Geteregechi

Challenging Our Sense of Ourselves: Teacher Leaders' Transformative Learning Experiences, Karen Marie Humphrey

Multimodality in the Art & Media Arts Classroom: A Qualitative Study of Multimodal Literacies as They Appear in Art & Media Educator Classroom Curriculum and Practice, Kathleen M. Maniaci

Exploring undergraduate students’ topic interest, topic knowledge, and attitudes regarding harmful algal blooms, Alia N. Thompson

An Investigation of Sixth-grade Students' Conceptualization of Angle and Angle Measure: A Retrospective Analysis of Design Research Study of a Real-world Context, Grace Njeri Visher

2019 2019

Early-year undergraduate research experiences: How students are mentored, how valuable they find this experience, and what kinds of costs they associate with it, Gaye D. Ceyhan

Transforming Understandings About Who Can Teach: The Experiences and Approaches of Teachers with Disabilities, Michelle L. Damiani

A Quantitative Analysis of the Effect of Integrated Co-Teaching on the Growth of English Language Arts and Mathematics Achievement in Elementary School Students Using Student Growth Percentiles, Amy Sue DiVita

HOW HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHERS MAKE SENSE OF AND INSTRUCT WITH NARRATIVE FILM IN THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM, Joseph Goldberg

How Do Teachers Experience Lesson Study?, Francis Kevin Moquin

Mentor Teaching in Four Communities of Catholic Sisters in the Mid-Twentieth Century (1940-1965), Melanie Nappa-Carroll

Pathways to School Success: An Examination of Perspectives of African American and Latino/a Low-income Students, Uzoamaka Chinyelu Unobagha

2018 2018

STRUGGLES OF KOREAN AMERICANS LABELED WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES TO CLAIM ADULT STATUS, Eun Young Jung

Opening the Doors: A Collaborative and Digital Exploration of Inclusive Secondary Classrooms, Kate MacLeod

SCHOOLING AT THE INTERSECTION OF REFUGEE IDENTITY AND (DIS)ABILITY: IMPLICATIONS FROM NORTH KOREAN STUDENTS WITH REFUGEE BACKGROUNDS, Yosung Song

Inclusive Education in Practice: District-Level Special Education Administrators' Leadership, Chelsea P. Tracy-Bronson

2017 2017

Understanding integrated STEM science instruction through the experiences of teachers and students, Margery Gardner

TEACHING IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT: THE LEGITIMATE KNOWLEDGES OF BLACK WOMEN TEACHERS ENACTING ACTIVIST LITERACIES, Reba Y. Hodge

Examining Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching: An Exploratory Study of Prospective Teachers’ Transition of Knowledge to Practice in Clinical Simulations, John Mungai Njoroge

Examining the Dispositions of Music Educators: A Perceptual Psychology Theory, Kathleen JoAnn Popow

AN EXPLORATION of the FIRST YEAR of NURSING PRACTICE: CONTINUED FORMATION as REGISTERED NURSES in the 21st CENTURY, Carol A. Sheldon

THE ROLE OF RESIDENTIAL COMMUNIIES FOR THE ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL SUCCESS OF UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN IN STEM MAJORS: THE CASE OF A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN ETHIOPIA, Frehiwot Wuhib Wuhib

2016 2016

The Big Picture School Model: Understanding the Student Experience, Amanda Leigh Alger

Developing Mathematical-Task Knowledge through Lesson Study, Krystal Barber

THE TENSIONS OF NORTHERN IMPORTS: DISABILITY AND INCLUSION IN KENYAN PRIMARY EDUCATION, Brent Carson Elder

PRE-SERVICE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS LEARNING TO FACILITATE STUDENTS’ ENGAGEMENT OF THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS’ MATHEMATICAL PRACTICES: BALANCING ATTENTION TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS, TO ALL LEARNERS, AND TO ONE’S OWN MATHEMATICAL LEARNING, James Stephen Ewing

Business Calculus Students’ Reasoning about Optimization Problems: A Study of Quantitative Reasoning in an Economic Context, Thembinkosi Mkhatshwa

SELF-INITIATED CREATIVITY IN THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM, David Rufo

Blazing trails, being us: A narrative inquiry with five high school students with autism who type to communicate, Casey Lee Woodfield

AN INVESTIGATION OF US AND CHINESE PROSPECTIVE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS’ PROBLEM POSING WHEN INTERACTING WITH PROBLEM-SOLVING ACTIVITIES, Jinxia Xie

2015 2015

Implementation of School-wide Positive Behavior Supports in the Neoliberal Context in an Urban Elementary School, Deanna Adams

Trying Times: Disability, Activism, and Education in Samoa, 1970-1980, Juliann Anesi

High-stakes Accountability and Inclusion: The Impact of Policy Sense-making and Identity Construction on Co-teaching, Deborah Lynne Capri

Concerns of Elementary School Leaders and Teachers When Implementing a Common Core Aligned Mathematics Program, Leela J. George

The Decision to Pursue the Principalship: Perspectives of Certified Administrators in Upstate Central New York, Frederick Paul Kirsch

Eliciting Bootstrapping: The Development of Introductory Statistics Students’ Informal Inferential Reasoning via Resampling, Jeffrey Allen McLean

Teaching Artistry as a Critical Community of Practice: An arts-based ethnography, Laura K. Reeder

Negotiating DSE Teaching Identity in Today’s Public Schools: Complexity, Camaraderie, & Subversion, Carrie Eileen Rood

What is the Relationship Between the Degree Middle Schools Implement the Essential Elements, Student Achievement and the Programs and Practices Applied in Each School, Ravo Root III

How "global" are global history teachers? Secondary social studies teachers' understandings of global awareness and global education, Ardyth L. Watson

Coteaching in Secondary Schools, Carol A. Willard

2014 2014

Making Sense of Autism: Parents' Experiences in the People's Republic of China, Zhaoyang Chi

TEACHER IDENTITIES AS DECISION-MAKERS AND FACILITATORS: AN INVESTIGATION OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHER PERFORMANCES AND REFLECTIONS WITHIN A CLINICAL SIMULATION, Osman Cil

Implementation of The Essential Elements of Standards-Focused Middle-Level Schools and Programs and Their Relationship to Student Achievement, Jeffrey Craig

THE CHINESE NEW MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM REFORM AT TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: TWO CASES COMPARED, Wei Gao

"You Missed the Exam!" A Discourse with College Students with Learning Disabilities on their Experiences with Self-Determination, Self-Advocacy, and Stigma in Secondary and Postsecondary Education, Karen Diane Grella

Technology Adoption in Secondary Mathematics Teaching in Kenya: An Explanatory Mixed Methods Study, Leonard Mwathi Kamau

TOWARD A CO-VIVIAL COMMUNITY: HOPES FOUND IN THE FRIENDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY LABELS, Maho Suzuki

HOME-VISITATION AND PARENT EDUCATION: THE IMPACT ON HOME-BASED SHARED READING DURING KINDERGARTEN, Tonia Thompson-Grubham

Twenty-first Century Exclusion, Valarie Ann Torrence

A Repeated, Cross-sectional Analysis of Principals' Professional Development and Instructional Leadership Behaviors in the First Decade of the Educational Accountability Era, Douglas Manning Wieczorek

2013 2013

"Being Grown": How Adolescent Girls with Disabilities Narrate Self-Determination and Transitions, Danielle Cowley

Applying Curricular Filters: A Qualitative Study of High School Visual Art Teacher Perspectives and Practice of Visual Culture Art Education in the Art Classroom, Kristin A. Goble

The Development of Introductory Statistics Students' Informal Inferential Reasoning and Its Relationship to Formal Inferential Reasoning, Bridgette Lynn Jacob

A Blueprint for Kindergarteners' Educational Trajectories: The Power of Discursive Practices in Constructing Students' Stories Based on Behaviors, Fernanda Tebexreni Orsati

The Relationship Among Self-reported Visual Complaints, Performance On Visual And Phonological Measures, And Reading Fluency In College Adults With And Without Learning Disabilities, Mindy Schreiner Scirri

2012 2012

The Impact of Standards-Based Reform on Special Education: An Exploration of Westvale Elementary School, Jessica Kim Bacon

An Investigation of Racial and/or Ethnic Minority Teacher Candidates' Strengths Awareness and Utilization, Hui Chen

Unlocking Students' Perspectives of Leadership, Jonathan Damiani

Whole-School Inclusive Reform: "It's What's Best for Kids”, Nicole M. DeClouette

"Roadblocks, Stop Signs": Health Literacy, Education and Communication at a Free Medical Clinic, Sally Jane Huntington

Investigating Elementary Principals' Science Beliefs and Knowledge and its Relationship to Students' Science Outcomes, Uzma Zafar Khan

High School Teachers' Use of Graphing Calculators When Teaching Linear and Quadratic Functions: Professed Beliefs and Observed Practice, Levi Molenje

Engineering A Place for Women: A Study of How Departmental Climate Influences the Career Satisfaction of Female Mechanical Engineering Faculty Members, Monica J. Young

2011 2011

Old Broken Crayons: Adolescent Artists with Autism in Art Education, Corrie Burdick

Lesson Study: Developing a Knowledge Base for Elementary Writing Instruction, Vicki McQuitty

The Implementation of Life Space Crisis Intervention as a School-Wide Strategy for Reducing Violence and Supporting Students' Continuation in Public Schools, John E. Ramin

2010 2010

Left behind: The effects of NCLB on urban educators of students with disabilities, Diana D. Abbott

Exploring the relationship between inclusive education and achievement: New perspectives, Meghan Cosier