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Dissertations from 2024

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Exploring the Learning Experience of Saudi Women Teaching and Learning EFL: Mothering, Hopes, and Desires, Rihab Alsulami

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Snap, Chat, and Write: Black Students’ Perceptions of Literacy and Responses to Critical Consciousness Promotion, Glenda D. Chisholm

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Exploration of Secondary Science Teacher Candidates’ Ideological Shifts in an Initial Teacher Preparation Program, Claudia E. Hagan PhD

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Not Throwing Away My Shot: Civic Education in the 2020 Pandemic, A. Joy Hatcher

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(Be)coming Intercultural through Critical Reflexivity: The Exploration of Three Black ESOL Teachers’ Life Experiences, Gyewon Jang

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Humanizing STEM with Black and Latina Girls Through Care and Community, Laura Pena

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A Walking Meditation with Queer English teachers of color: Diffracting stuckness, empowerment, resistance, and vulnerability in Nepantla, Ethan T. Trinh

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Arts- Integrated Social Studies Lessons: A Self Study, Kathleen Walsh Zackery

Dissertations from 2023

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Teacher and Student Perspectives on Songwriting Pedagogy in Middle School, Luiz Claudio Barcellos

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Exploring the Role of the Mathematics Education University Supervisor, Kristie A. Fountain

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Examining the Effect of a School-based Creativity Program on Divergent Thinking and Academic Achievement in Middle School Students, Lauren E. Garber Rowe

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Examining Active Learning in an Online Synchronous Train-the-Trainer Mathematics Professional Development Initiative, Shannon Hart

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Chairing an Inquiry: An A/R/Tographic Exploration into an Art Teacher’s Experience of Physical and Metaphorical Building, Donna Jones

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High School Students' Reading Experiences with Graphic Novels, Comics, and Manga, Esther Jin Kim

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Traces to Entrenchment: A Mixed Methods Study Examining the Use of Reading and Writing to Facilitate Lexical Sequence Acquisition Among Bilingual Learners and Factors Influencing Their Language Learning, Andrea Lofgren

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Traces to Entrenchment: A Mixed Methods Study Examining the Use of Reading and Writing to Facilitate Lexical Sequence Acquisition Among Bilingual Learners and Factors Influencing Their Language Learning, Andrea J. Lofgren

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Reimagining Science Teacher Recruitment, Preparation, and Retention through Emancipatory Pedagogies and Abolitionist Teaching: A Narrative Inquiry Study, Vanessa Louis

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An Examination of Peer Influences on Identity in the Art Classroom, Nova K. Mead

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Beyond the Screen: An Exploration of Black Girls' Social Media Content as Dialogue, LaTasha T. Mosley

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Unapologetically Present: An Examination of Black Gay Young Men’s Social Discourses as a Demonstration of Agency, Marcus C. North

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Criticality and Collaboration: Developing Critical Literacy Writing Instruction for Secondary Black Students, Brooks Salter

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Mathematical Voices from the South: Books Clubs as a Conduit for Intersectional Inquiry and Praxis within a High School Mathematics Teacher Critical Friends Group, Rachel E. Seasholtz

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School Culture and Mathematics Teachers' Experiences: A Story of Johnson High School, Alexandra Starke

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The Music Teacher Education Triad and the Role of the University Faculty, Michelle Thomas

Dissertations from 2022

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The Experiences of African American Students Engaging in Culturally Relevant Cognitively Demanding Mathematical Tasks, Audrea Bankston

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Knowing that My Voice Belonged There: An Exploratory Case Study on the Lived Experiences of Black Women Composers, Brittney Boykin

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Self-Directed Learning: Historical and Theoretical Arguments for Learner Led Education, Caleb Collier

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Teacher Insights and Facilitation of Equitable Learning Environments for Diverse and English Language Learners in Science Classrooms, Jamie D. Daniels-Favors

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Computational Thinking and Its Mathematics Origins through Purposeful Music Mixing with African American High School Students, Douglas Edwards

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“It Just Helped Me Realize That You Have to Free Yourself”: Latinx Middle Schoolers’ Learning From Chicana Feminism, Nepantlera, and Mindful Breathing Pedagogy, Zurisaray Espinosa

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Why do Adults Sing? The Impact of the High School Experience, Thomas Ryan FitzStephens

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A Qualitative Case Study of the Influence of Action Research on the Teaching Practices of Novice Secondary Mathematics Teachers, Teresa I. Jackson

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Peer Tutoring in a High School Writing Center: A Phenomenological Study, Thomas Jolly

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"Cuz It's in My Blood": Bilingual Latinx Youth, Their Decolonial Visions, and the Coyolxauhqui Imperative for Educators, A. Jyoti Kaneria

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A Case Study Exploring Ethnomathematics' Effects on Students' Cultural and Historical Literacies in a Virtual Classroom, Kimbeni Mansion

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Decolonial Connectivity: A Study Abroad Program in Mexico, Beth Marks

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Getting Carded: A Micro-Foucauldian History of the School Report Card, 1835-1935, Wade Hampton Morris

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Together We Can: A Collaborative Community as a Means to Improve Instructional Practices of Secondary Mathematics Teachers, Jillian Ogundele

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Influences on Academically Successful Black Students' Participation in School Music, Jimmy Owens

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Intergenerational Multilingual Practices of Asian American Immigrants: A Multiple Case Study of Korean American Families, Jee Hye Park

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The Ancestral Legacy and Daughters of Anna Julia Cooper: An Historical Ethnography of Black Women Teachers in the South, Asia Symone Thomas Uzomba

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Secondary Teachers' Perspectives of Mathematical Modeling, Simone S. Wells-heard

Dissertations from 2021

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How Does the Use of a Social Studies Video Game Affect Student Learning?, John S. Crumb II

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Examining the Effect of the Think-Aloud Instructional Strategy on ELL Student Performance in Middle School Mathematics Classrooms, Phani Duggirala

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Stories from the Bridge: Special Education Teachers' Experiences with Inclusion and High-Quality Instruction for Students with Severe Disabilities, Rebecca L. Eswine

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A Mixed-Methods Study Examining Teacher Education Faculty's Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectancy Beliefs, Shaneeka Favors-Welch

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Teacher Mentor and Mentee Stories: Mentorship as Opportunity for Teachers' Professional Capital and Cultural Proficiency Development, Danielle Floody

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Is Race a Criteria?: A Case Study on Algebra I Teachers' Conceptualizations of Equity In Track Recommendations, Pam Liu

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Teaching English as a Foreign Language in China: A Narrative Inquiry of Expatriate Teachers' Experiences, Lisa McLeod-Chambless

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Teachers' Experiences Incorporating English Language Learners Funds of Knowledge Into Scripted Curricula, James Mead

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Sounds of Emergence: The Pedagogy of Language and Literacy Concepts and Strategies in an Early Learning Program, Benjamin Moore

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Language, Culture, And Identity: A Case Study of Korean American Transnational Adolescents, Myoung Eun Pang

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Semiotics and Symbiosis - "Gap-Closing": How Signs, Symbols, and Structure Impact the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics for Middle School African American Students, Elijah Porter II

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The Impact of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy on The Continued Participation of African American Male Chorus Students in a High School Chorus Classroom, Lawrence Robinson

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Navigating Chaos and Taking Risks: An Art Teacher's Experience through A/R/Tography... and A Pandemic, Amy N. Sery

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(Re)claiming and (Re)Framing: Exploring How Black West African Immigrant Girls Depict Their Understandings of Self-Identity and Representations through Multimodal Literacy, Maima Simmons

Dissertations from 2020

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Creating Mathenstein: Exploring the Construction and Development of Mathematical Identity for K-12 Students, Akhenaten Hotep Amun

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Do Students Gain Scientific Inquiry Knowledge and Practices by Participating in a School Garden Inquiry Unit?, Carmen A. Carrion

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Investigating College Algebra Help-Seeking Behaviors of African American Community College Students: A Hierarchical Linear Modeling Approach, Ervin China

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"Kids Can Change the World": An Action Research of Latinx English Language Learners Students' Experiences With Culturally Relevant Morning Meetings, Darline Douangvilay

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Sista-to-Sista: Black Women (Re)Examining Their Experiences as Teachers with Stereotypes and Oppression in Secondary Schools, Adrian Dunmeyer

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A Multimodal Analysis of Teacher-Student Interactions in Reading Recovery Writing Sessions, Cindy Fujimoto and Cindy H. Fujimoto

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All Cultures Matter: Rachel Davis Dubois, The Intercultural Education and Group Conversation Methods, Charles Hight

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"I Can Overcome That": Counterstories of Black Secondary Science Teachers' Positional Identities, Sonia M. Howard

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Science Teachers' Understanding of Formative Assessment and its Practice with Three-dimensional Teaching and Learning, Yotah Koulagna

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Unsolicited Narratives: The Experiences of Afro-Caribbean Women as Mathematics Learners and as Mathematics Educators in U.S. Institutions of Higher Education, Dihema R. Longman and Dihema R. Longman

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Investigating the Use of Social Media in Undergraduate and Graduate University Music Students' Practice Routines, Lindsay Heston McCranie

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School Connectedness and African American Students: An Examination with Implications for Policy and Teacher Education, Adrian Neely and Adrian Neely

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Art Talk/Creative Talk Time (C.T.T): A Framework for Using Student-Teacher Conversation as an Instructional Tool, Erica Pendleton

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Young Black Men And Mathematics: Exploring Changes, Influences, And Perceptions Of Social Justice Pedagogy, Dean W. Potts

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Your Tracks are Showing: Understanding the Experiences of Black Girls in a Middle School with Racialized Tracking, Kamaria Shauri-Webb

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Yes, We Like Math Too! - African American Women Mathematics Educators? Stories of Success, Katrina E. Stanfield

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The Relationship Between the College Board AP Exam Registration Process and African- American Students' Mathematics AP Exam Participation Rates, Corey Williams

Dissertations from 2019

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Critical Conversations: A Social Justice-Driven Professional Learning Community, Felicia Baiden

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Doing Science: Data Enactments in Mathematics Education and Qualitative Research, Susan O. Cannon

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Navigating Mobile Learning: English Learners' Language Learning and Literacy Practices, Aram Cho

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The Intersection of Young Children's Play Activities and Multimodal Practices for Social Purposes, Rebecca Rohloff Clough

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Living Legacies: A Historical Analysis of the Atlanta Nine Who Desegregated Atlanta Public Schools, Tanya Crawford

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A Phenomenological Exploration of the Experiences Gained During Pre-Service Music Teacher Preparation of Black Urban Band Directors, Gregory L. Denson

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Examining the Effect of Group Assignment on Upper Elementary Students' Experiences in a Technology-Mediated Collaborative Compositional Activity, Samuel C. Holmes

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Remixing Pedagogy: How Teachers Experience Remix as a Tool for Teaching English Language Arts, Stephanie J. Loomis and Stephanie J. Loomis

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Becoming Mentors: Mentor Praxis and Self-directed Development, Hafeez Merchant

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A Narrative Inquiry of Black Upper Middle-Class Children's Experiences with School Writing, April L. Poindexter

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Culturally Relevant Science: A Multiple Case-study on the Beliefs, Experiences and Practices of Pre-Service Teachers in Racially and Ethnically Diverse Classrooms, Suzanna Roman

Dissertations from 2018

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A Qualitative Study of Black Doctoral Music Students' and Graduates' Management of Identity Stereotypes, Steven Anderson

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The Effects of Mathematical Modeling Instruction on Precalculus Students' Performance and Attitudes Toward Rational Functions, Solomon A. Betanga

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The Impact of Explicitly Incorporating Culture in an Introductory College Level Spanish Class on Student Intercultural Competency, Ryan Boylan

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The Effect of Using Dragonbox On The Mathematics Teaching Efficacy of Preservice Middle Grade Teacher, Monica Cates

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Understanding African American Teachers' Perceptions of African American Students Who are Homeless, Sharhonda Davies

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The Effects of a Platform Digital Game-Based Learning Environment on Undergraduate Students Achievement and Motivation in a Multivariable Calculus Course, Malcom W. Devoe

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Learning To Love Machiavelli: Best Practices in Teaching Primary Source Documents to Struggling Secondary Readers of World History, Lindsey A. Fisher

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High School Mathematics Teachers' Positioning within the Culture Of Blame: A Case Study, Ashley Marie Garner

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The Role of Dialogic Teaching in Fostering Critical Literacy in an Urban High School English Classroom, Charity Gordon

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Shifting Professional Dialogue: Engaging Algebra 1 Teachers in Research-Based Professional Development, Jennifer Henderson

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Multiple Perspectives in a Virtual Environment: Critically Examining Virtual History Curriculum, Tiffany McBean

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Navigating Reform in Mathematics Teacher Education: Teacher Educators' Responses to edTPA and Professional Organizations' Initiatives, Alesia Mickle Moldavan

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Personalized Texts and Second Language Reading: A Study in Self-Efficacy, Lewis Mullins

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TIMSS 2015: Influences of Student and Classroom Related Background Variables on Eighth-Grade Mathematics Achievement in Asean+3 (APT) Countries, Michael Nguyen-Quan

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Mathematics Self-efficacy in High School Students and the Effects of Interim Goal Setting: How Goals and Efficacy are Linked in the Self-efficacy Goal Spectrum, Hannah H. Oldham

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Experiences of Black Women in College Science Learning Spaces: A Critical Race Theory Perspective, Melissa P. Schoene