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Dissertations from 2017

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The Influence of Traditional vs. Balanced School Calendars on Middle School Mathematics Achievement, Doug Callahan

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An Exploration of One School Leader's Experience of Creating a School Culture that Fosters Inclusion for Students in Special Education, Stephanie L. Chattman

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Residual Normality Assumption and the Estimation of Multiple Membership Random Effects Models, Jieru Chen

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1:1 Computing Initiatives: How They Can Be Sustained, Bobby Virgil Cole Jr.

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Online Learning in a Rural School Setting, Peter Coombe

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Lost Ground: Neoliberalism, Charter Schools, and the End of Desegregation in St. Louis, Missouri, Nicholas J. Eastman

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(Bad) Girls: Black Girls' and School Administrators' Perceptions of Re-Entry after Exclusionary Discipline through a Womanist Approach to Narrative Inquiry, Erica B. Edwards

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Central Office Leadership: An Exploration of Principal Supervisor Professional Development, Michelle C. Farmer

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Leadership Characteristics, School Climate, and Employee Engagement in High Performing, High-Needs Schools, Erin A. Hahn

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A Nodal Ethnography of a (Be)coming Tattooed Body, Krista Hilton

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Towards Racial Reconciliation: An Oral History Inquiry Examining Race And Reconciliation In The Context Of Mercer University's Beloved Community, Joy R. Kenyon

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The Variation of a Teacher's Classroom Observation Ratings across Multiple Classrooms, Xiaoxuan Lei

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They, Too, Sing America: A Critical Analysis of USG Policy 4.1.6 and Its Perceived Impacts on DACA Students in the State of Georgia, Ryan Z. Maltese

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Pedagogical Dialogue: A Study of Pedagogical Dialogue in a Multicultural Education Theory Course., Jeffrey Morrison

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How Principals Manage Time, Mindsets, and Communities to Benefit Children of Poverty, Tameka L. Osabutey-Aguedje

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Twitter and School Leaders: Examining Practices in a Twitter Chat, Lesley Y. Pendleton

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Leadership Practices that Support Parental Involvement in One High Needs Elementary School, Brett C. Savage

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Comparison of IRTPRO 3 and Mplus 7 for multidimensional item response item parameter and examinee ability estimation, Tianna Sims

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The Common Core to Common Folks: An Exploration of the Perceptions of High School Mathematics Teachers of the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, Alfred J. Taylor

Dissertations from 2016

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Rhetorically Constructing Immigrants in French and U.S. History Textbooks: A Burkean Analysis, David Alexander

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Describing Healthcare Service Delivery in a Ryan White Funded HIV Clinic: A Bayesian Mixed Method Case Study, Stephanie Beane

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The Influence of Leadership Practices on Parental Involvement within Schools with English Language Learners, Tamara J. Candis

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The First Year Experience on an Urban Campus: A Case Study Exploring the Impact of First Year Programs on Student Perceptions of Belonging, Adjustment, Success, and Support, Zduy Chu

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Men of Color Evading the School to Prison Pipeline: A Phenomenological Study Championing Justice, Dionne Cowan

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How School-Delivered, Non-Instructional Services Become Formalized:One School System's History, Mary Elizabeth A. Davis

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An Empowering YPAR Project: Black Girls' Examination Of The Educational Pathway To STEM Fields And School-Based Issues, Shadonna Davis

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The Impact of Math Innovations in Elementary Mathematics Classrooms in Georgia Vision Project Districts, Karen Dozier

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Bayesian Networks with Expert Elicitation as Applicable to Student Retention in Institutional Research, Jessamine Corey Dunn

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Teacher Reflective Practice As A Response To Technical Rationalism, Xylecia Fynn-Aikins

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A Road Less Traveled: Learning With And From Contemporary Black Secondary School Leaders, Demetricia L. Hodges

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Enhancing Workforce Development in Rural Communities: The Georgia Mountains Manufacturing Initiative, Jason Kaup

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One Hundred and Sixteenth: One Family's Education, Kelly Limes Taylor Henderson

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Characteristics of Exemplary Teachers as Part of Georgia's Vision for Public Education, Kimberly A. McDermon

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Unsilenced: Black Girls' Stories, LaToya Owens

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Addressing Bullying: A Case Study Investigating School Personnel's Perceptions of Policeis and Practices at Three Private Christian Middle Schools, Jennifer L. Pinkett Smith

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Leadership in High Poverty, High English Language Learner Schools, As Part of Georgia's Vision for Public Education, Kelly Scarborough

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An Examination of Student Achievement Differences Between Charter System Schools and Start-Up Charter Schools, Namik Sercan

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Teacher Retention: Behaviors of Principals Influencing Teachers in Schools as part of Georgia?s Vision for Public Education, Sharissa Y. Seymour

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School Culture, School Climate, and the Role of the Principal, Felecia V. Spicer

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Spiritual Blues: A Blues Methodological Investigation of a Black Community's Culturally Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Citizenship Praxis, Melissa Vaughn

Dissertations from 2015

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Addressing Gifted Identification Equity through Alternatives: Assessing Creativity using an Authentic Performance Task, Charles Alvarez

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Navigating And Negotiating Identity In The Black Gay Mecca: Educational And Institutional Influences That Positively Impact The Life Histories Of Black Gay Male Youth In Atlanta, Michael Bartone

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Modeling Public Satisfaction with School Quality: A Test of the American Customer Satisfaction Index Model, Anita Berryman

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Arts and Academics: How teachers perceive school climate relating to subject area (homerooom or special area) in an elementary school., Tracie Welborn Brack Ed.D.

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The Power and Peril of Global Professionalization: The Global Knowledge Economy, The World Bank, and Higher Education, Jeremy Cole

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The Self-Reported Impact of Instructional Coaching on Middle School Teachers' Practices in an Urban Georgia School District, Jeffrey D. Dillard

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School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports: A Case Study Measuring Implementation Fidelity and Implementation Impact, Dustin Dykes

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The Effects Of Unexcused Absences And Excused Absences On Mathematics And Reading Performance Of Eighth Grade Students, RaNae L. Fendley

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Addressing Bullying in Schools: The Perceptions, Thoughts and Beliefs of Middle-School Principals, Quentin Fretwell

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The Underrepresentation of Black Students in Advanced Placement Courses: Student Perceptions of Peers, Teachers and School, Camille Havis

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A Comprehensive Examination of the Arrowsmith Program At One Private School in Atlanta, Rhonda Hawkins

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How Do Teachers Utilize iPads to Enhance the Quantity and Quality of Inquiry-Based Pedagogy within STEM Classrooms?, Aleigha Houston Henderson-Rosser

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Band on the Brain: Instrumental Music and Student Achievement, Edward Lindekugel

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The Rural School Project of the Rosenwald Fund, 1934-1946, Rebecca Ryckeley

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The Impact of Teacher Perceptions and Practices on the Quality of Transitional Experiences for African-American Males Entering High School, Dan Sims

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A Multilevel Analysis of Institutional Factors Affecting Student Success at Community Colleges, Aaron Thomason

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Exploring Gifted Pedagogy: Evaluating Teacher Knowledge and Implementation of Common Core Professional Learning, Gyimah I. Whitaker

Student Affairs Educators' Efforts to Teach Undergraduates to Be Engaged Civically: Conceptualization, Practices, and Influences at Six Independent Colleges, Laura Whitaker-Lea

Dissertations from 2014

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Deciphering Franklin D. Roosevelt's Educational Policies During the Great Depression (1933-1940), Permeil Dass

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Navigating Discrimination: A Historical Examination of Womens? Experiences of Discrimination and Triumph within the United States Military and Higher Educational Institutions, Dackri Davis

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Push Back on Push Out: Parent Organizing for School Discipline Reform, Adrienne C. Goss

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Examination of Parameter Estimation Using Recursive Bayesian Analysis in Simulated Item Response Theory Applications, Robert Hendrick

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Finding Ourselves Abroad: How African American Women Successfully Navigate The Study Abroad Process, Sonya S. Henry

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Using a Computer-adaptive Test Simulation to Investigate Test Coordinators' Perceptions of a High-stakes Computer-based Testing Program, Tiffany Hogan

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A Simulation Study Comparing Two Methods Of Evaluating Differential Test Functioning (DTF): DFIT and the Mantel-Haenszel/Liu-Agresti Variance, Charles Hunter

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Building Community in Schools: Narratives of Possibilities and Limitations in Critical Friends Groups, Shannon Kersey

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The Teacher Cadet Program: Qualitative Insights in Sequence and Scope, Patsy Lewis

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Beyond Your Perception: An Exploratory Study of Black Parent-Daughter Relationships and Hip Hop Influences on Adolescent Girls, Sherell A. McArthur

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Requisite Parental Involvement: Perceived Impact Upon Student Achievement and School Climate in a Magnet MiddleSchool, Elizabeth Rosner

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A meta-analysis of Type I error rates for detecting differential item functioning with logistic regression and Mantel-Haenszel in Monte Carlo studies, Eva Van De Water

Dissertations from 2013

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Examining the Relationship Between Participation in Cross Career Learning Communities and Teacher Retention, Comfort Y. Afolabi

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The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme and its Effect on Students in Poverty, Margaret J. Kobylinski-Fehrman

Dissertations from 2012

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Working Beyond 9 to 5: The Impact of a University-wide Alternative Work Arrangements Policy on Student Affairs Employees, Pamela D. Anthony

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What is the Lived Experience of Laywomen Who Serve as Catholic Elementary School Principals in their Roles as Faith Leaders?, Jamie Faser Arthur

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Investigating novice White Teachers in African American Classrooms: A Phenomenological Investigation of Cultural Responsiveness, Debra J. Barrineau

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Gentrification and school choice: Where goes the neighborhood?, Amy Childers Roberts

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Women's Experiences of the Tenure Process: A Case Study at a Small Public Southeastern University, Debra J. Cody

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Student Access to Higher Education: A Historical Analysis of Landmark Supreme Court Cases Missouri ex. rel. Gaines v. Canada, Registrar of the University of Missouri, 1938, and Grutter v. Bollinger, 2003, Ansley K. Daniel

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Practicing Gender: A Feminist Ethnography of an All Girls' After-School Club, Alison A. Happel

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Value, Networks, Desegregation, and Displacement at One of Georgia's Black High Schools, Athens High and Industrial School/Burney-Harris High School, 1913-1970, Tene A. Harris

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A Foucauldian Analysis of NCLB: Student Data as Panoptic Surveillance, Chris King

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Gender and Leadership: Female ROTC Cadets' Perceptions of Gender and Military Leadership, Darbra J. Mahoney

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Effectiveness of a Computer-Based Program for Improving the Reading Performance of Deaf Students, Kenneth L. Moore

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Analysis of Background Check Policy in Higher Education, Gregory T. Owen

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Exploring College Readiness: Self-Perceptions of Early College Students, Kim Renee Ramsey-White

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Through the Eyes of Gay and Male Bisexual College Students: A Critical Visual Qualitative Study of their Experiences, Matthew K. Robison

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Academic Culture, Business Culture, and Measuring Achievement Differences: Internal Auditing Views, Benjamin S. Roth

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Decision Making in Intercollegiate Athletics: One Institution's Journey to Maintain Title IX Compliance, John W. Rowland

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Students' Perception of Engagement in a Third-Grade Writing Classroom, James D. Spinks Jr.

Dissertations from 2011

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Response-to-Intervention: Understanding General Education Teacher Knowledge and Implementation, Elissa M. Benjamin

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Life After Disability Diagnosis: The Impact of Special Education Labeling in Higher Education, Nathan Joshua Camara

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The Persistence of Policy: A Tropological Analysis of Contemporary Education Policy Discourse in the United States, Frank A. Carusi Jr.

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A Study of the Learning-Focused School Improvement Model and its Effects on Third Grade Reading Scores in a Suburban, Metropolitan School System, Douglas A. Daugherty

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Tipping Point: The Diversity Threshold for White Student (Dis) Engagement in Traditional Student Organizations, Dhanfu E. Elston

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Title I Elementary School Principals' Perspectives on Teacher Preparedness: University-Based Alternative Teacher Preparation for Urban Schools, Pamela L. Gayles

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The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence, Transformational Leadership, and Effectiveness in School Principals, Elizabeth B. Hebert

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Teacher's and Teacher Leaders' Perceptions of the Formal Role of Teacher Leadership, Jerry D. Kelley

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Soundings: Musical Aesthetics in Music Education Discourse from 1907 to 1958, Jeremy M. Kopkas

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Re-imagining Arts-centered Inquiry as Pragmatic Instrumentalism, Leann F. Logsdon

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A Phenomenological Case Study of a Principal Leadership: The Influence of Mr. Clark's Leadership on Students, Teachers and Administrators at Eastside High School, Olandha Pinky Miller