Dissertations from 2014
The Influence of a K-5 Science Endorsement on the Professional Knowledge Bases of Elementary Teachers, Donna Barrett-williams
Growing Up On Burritos and Black-Eyed Peas: An Autoethnography of Multiracial Identity Development, Marie Bruner
Acknowledging the Elephant in the Room: A Multiple-Case Study Exploring the Experiences of Social Studies Teacher-Coaches, Caroline J. Conner
A Case Study of Student Instructor Connectedness In An Asynchronous Modular Online Environment, Orazio Antonio D'Alba
Teacher Planning Problem Space Of Expert Technology Integrating Teachers, Erin Davis
Critical Success Factors of Technological Innovation and Diffusion in Higher Education, Terry Dennison
Instructional Designers' Perceptions of their Personal Background and Experiences in their Work, Shabana Figueroa
Retention of Accomplished Veteran Social Studies Teachers, Russell Hardin
Students' and Teachers' Perceptions of the Engagement of Creativity in Secondary Choral Ensemble Classes, David W. Langley
Wordsmith: Examining the role hip-hop texts play in viewing the world, Crystal LaVoulle
Process and Product: High School English Learners Redefined, Sarah Mantegna
The Effects Of Using Visual Statistics Software On Undergraduate Students' Achievement In Statistics And The Role Of Cognitive And Non-Cognitive Factors In Their Achievement, Kori Lloyd Hugh Maxwell
How School Library Media Specialists Support Reading and Information Literacy Skills Instruction for English Language Learners, Melinda Morin
Narratives of Caring in the Elementary Art Room, Lauren Christine Phillips
Emergent Bilinguals' Use of Social, Cultural, and Linguistic Resources in a Kindergarten Writing Workshop, Sanjuana C. Rodriguez
The Effectiveness of Emotional Motivational Feedback Messages, Firat Sarsar
Professional Learning Community as an Impetus for my Development into a Teacher Leader: An Autoethnographic Study, Rabia Shahbaz
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Literacy Instruction, and Teacher Decision Making: A Formative Experiment Investigating Shifts in Teachers' Beliefs and Practices, Natasha A. Thornton
Meta-Didactical Slippages: A Qualitative Case Study of Didactical Situations in a Ninth Grade Mathematics Classroom, Nathan J. Wisdom
The Black Middle Class: Negotiating Literacy Identities In Church And School, Kamania Wynter Hoyte
Dissertations from 2013
An Archaeological/Genealogical Historical Analysis of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards Documents, Erika C. Bullock
Unheralded Historian: Mary Sheldon Barnes and Primary Source Material in History Books, James A. Chisholm Jr
Empowering Instructional Practices of Technology Using Teachers of Low-Income African American Students, Crystal Cuby Richardson
Negotiating the Faculty Journey: Technology, Teaching, and Tenure, Joseph Horne
An Examination of Standards-based Practices in College Algebra in the First Two Years of College, Laurn R. Jordan Dr.
Composing a Gamer: A Case Study of One Gamer's Experience of Symbiotic Flow, Heather L. Lynch
The Lived Experiences of Black Women Faculty in the Instructional Technology Professoriate, Valora Richardson
Construction of Professional Identity in Novice Library Media Specialists, Deborah W. Sandford
All the School's a Stage: A Multimodal Interaction Analysis of a School Administrator's Literate Life as Dramaturgical Metaphor, Dru D. Tomlin
A High School Mathematics Teacher Tacking Through The Middle Way: Toward A Critical Postmodern Autoethnography In Mathematics Education, John O. Wamsted
Dissertations from 2012
Culture, Context, Curriculum: An Explosion of the Attitudes of Black Middle School Males Towards Art Education, Rita D. Baker
Home Literacy Practices of Arabic-English Bilingual Families: Case Study of One Libyan American Preschooler and One Syrian American Preschooler, Azusa Callaway
School-Museum Partnerships: Examining an Art Museum's Partnering Relationship with an Urban School District, Kymberly M. Cruz
Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP): A Historical Analysis of Louisiana's High Stakes Testing Policy, Erica L. Decuir
Foreign Language for Content: Aiming to Develop Lifelong Learning Dispositions, Svetoslava Dimova
Standards-Based Instruction: A Case Study of a College Algebra Teacher, Anthonia O. Ekwuocha
The Role of Media Specialists with Respect to Instructional Technology in an Urban School District in Georgia, Warren R. Goetzel
Beyond Bells and Whistles: Content Area Teachers' Understanding of and Engagement with Literacy, Mary H. Huysman Ph.D.
College Faculty Experiences with Technological Innovation: An Exploratory Case Study, Peggy A. Lumpkin
"Music is Waiting For You:" The Lived Experience of Children's Musical Identity, Michelle Mercier De Shon
"If I Am Losing Them, I'm Going to Change. So That's What We Did!" Third Grade Teachers Contemplate the Literacy Needs of Diverse Students Within A Teacher Study Group, Megan A. Nason Mrs.
Guided Wanderings: An A/r/tographic Inquiry into Postmodern Picturebooks, Bourdieusian Theory, and Writing, Adrianne Nicole M. Pourchier
Organizational change factors for increasing online learning within a southeastern state university system, David E. Stone
Exploring Novice Teachers' Cognitive Processes Using Digital Video Technology: A Qualitative Case Study, Yuelu Sun-Ongerth
What Informs Practice and What is Valued in Corporate Instructional Design? A Mixed Methods Study, Ingrid N. Thompson-Sellers
Artistic Frames: An Arts-Based Study of Teachers? Experiences with Arts-Integrated English Language Arts for Students with Dis/abilities, Alisha M. White
Dissertations from 2011
Understanding how ESOL Pre-Services Teachers' Prior Experiences and Background Shape their Processes of becoming L2 (Reading) Teachers, Eudes H. Aoulou
How Do Scientists Cross Cultural Borders between Religion and Science: A Case Study, Chester A. Barner III
Effective Technology Strategies Teachers Use in the Urban Middle Grades Mathematics Classroom, Tammie R. Cravens
Assessing the Impact of Computer Programming in Understanding Limits and Derivatives in a Secondary Mathematics Classroom, Christopher H. de Castro
Vocal Improvisation and the Development of Musical Self-efficacy in Adolescent Choral Musicians, David Neal Hirschorn
Perceptions of a HIV Testing Message Targeted for At-Risk Adults with Low Functional Health Literacy, Susan L. Hunter
An Investigation of the Influence of Instructional Coaching on Retention of Mathematics Teachers, Dorothy Lewis-Grace
Becoming the Generalized Other: An Analysis of the Narratives of Teach for America Teacher-Bloggers, Neil J. Rigole
Teachers and English Language Learners Experiencing the Secondary Mainstream Classroom: A Case Study, Amanda M. Ruiz
Identifying Complex Cultural Interactions in the Instructional Design Process: A Case Study of a Cross-Border, Cross-Sector Training for Innovation Program, Lillian R. Russell Ph.D.
An Examination of Cognitive Presence and Learning Outcome in an Asynchronous Discussion Forum, Tan M. Tran
Simulation Video Games as Learning Tools: An Examination of Instructor Guided Reflection on Cognitive Outcomes, Kevin R. Wood
Professional Development, Writer's Workshop and Identity: A Case Study of Women Elementary School Teachers Using Writing as Resistance, Karla J. Zisook
Dissertations from 2010
Successful White Mathematics Teachers of African American Students, Carla R. Bidwell
Technology Resolved: An Ethnographic Approach to Instructional Design within Urban Middle School Debate, Dana Bryant
Semiosis of Self: Meaning Making in a High School Spanish for Native Speakers Class, Tammy G. Frederick
Life Portraits: A Comparative Case Study of Four Veteran Spanish Teachers, Myrnelle L. Gregory-Bryan
Passing as Literate: Gender, Dyslexia, and the Shaping of Identities, Ellen Burns Hurst
"...And, If You Have a Class Like That, I'd Like To Sign Up!": Beginning Teachers Navigating the Constraints of Teaching Literacy in a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse, Professional Development School, Katharine S. Kurumada
Preservice Teachers' Use of Lesson Study in Teaching Nature of Science, Amy McDowell
The Relationship between Nature of Science Understandings and Science Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Sixth Grade Students, Elisabeth A. Parker
Toward an Integrated Theory of Musical Worth and Pedagogical Value: An Analysis of Commissioned Choral Works and Personal Perspectives of Emma Lou Diemer and Alice Parker, Elise Eskew Sparks
Beginning Teachers' Perceptions of Preparedness: A Teacher Education Program's Transferability and Impact on The Secondary English/Language Arts Classroom, Mary C. Thompson
University Staff Perspectives on Change Management Strategies in Student Information System Adoption, Winnie W. Tsang-Kosma
Investigation of Alignment between Goals of Schooling Relevant to Georgia and the Georgia Performance Standards, Anissa Lokey Vega
Faculty Perceptions about Virtual World Technology: Affordances and Barriers to Adoption, Linda W. Wood
Dissertations from 2009
Making Meaning, Out of Meaning Making, Alda Marcia Blakeney
An Exploratory Study of Mathematics Engagement of Secondary Students, Tracy Thomas Brown
The Writing Experiences of Urban Adolescents: A Multicase Study, Rebecca Covington Calder
Asian English Language Learners' Identity Construction in an After School Read, Talk, & Wiki Club, Jayoung Choi
To Stay and To Change: Beginning Social Justice Educators Creating Collaborative Third Space(s), Teresa Renae Fisher
To Iron or to do Science: A Storied Life of a Latina from Scientist to Science Teacher, Sarida Peguero Hoy
African American Men and College Mathematics: Gaining Access and Attaining Success, Christopher Charlie Jett
Orchestrating Student Discourse Opportunities and Listening for Conceptual Understandings in High School Science Classrooms, Melissa Grass Kinard
A Case Study of Secondary Teachers Facilitating a Historical Problem-Based Learning Instructional Unit, John L. Pecore
Considering Hans-Georg Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics as a Referent for Student Understanding of Nature-of-Science Concepts, Jared Michael Rashford
Female Students and Achievement in Secondary School Mathematics, Barry P. Shildneck
Dichotomous Musical Worlds: Interactions between the Musical Lives of Adolescents and School Music-Learning Culture, Todd Edwin Snead
An Autoethnography:A Mathematics Teacher's Journey of Identity Construction and Change, Anthony B. Stinson
Factors Affecting Construction of Science Discourse in the Context of an Extracurricular Science and Technology Project, Horace P. Webb
What is Mathematics? An Exploration of Teachers' Philosophies of Mathematics during a Time of Curriculum Reform, Kimberly White-Fredette
On the Border of a New Culture: Spanish-Speaking Middle School Newcomers' Perceptions, Expectations and Attitudes, Margo H. Williams
Dissertations from 2008
No Writer Left Behind: Examining the Reading-Writing Connection in the Reading First Classroom through a Teacher Study Group, Kim Street Coady