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Adolescent artistic caricatures and the sharing of art 

Henley, John (2016-05-05)
The assumptions and stereotypes that form the basis of adolescent social groups include caricatures of artists and artistic peers. This exploratory qualitative study is a bricolage in educational psychology with elements ...

Black Teachers in Urban Schools: Why do they Stay? 

Wright, Debra (2020-05-18)
Academic achievement for students, specifically students of color, is negatively affected when teacher turnover in urban schools continue to rise (Ng & Peter, 2010; Ronfeldt, Lowb, & Wyckoff, 2013). Therefore, the goal of ...

Boundary Spanners and Community-University Engagement Networks: A Mixed Methods Ethnographic Study 

Duffy, Ashlee (2022-12-07)
Modern conceptions of land grant institutions have shifted focus from community outreach to community engagement, with focus on more egalitarian partnerships that place community members in active response to university ...

Brick by Brick: A Narrative Account of Black Undergraduate Men Thriving at Historically White Institutions 

Kirk, Jeremy (2023-08-07)
Black labor at historically white institutions is commonplace without reward. The overwhelming majority of this labor is coming from Black male students who are associated into spaces where they must act on behalf of a ...

A Case Study Analysis of Rural Middle School Science Teachers: The Perception of Culture to Inform Pedagogical Practices in the Classroom 

Askia, Rashida (2019-12-09)
Since the early 1980’s, a push for equitable learning practices has resulted in the creation of culturally centered pedagogy to counter educational disparities targeting marginalized populations across disciplines—particularly ...

Data Driven Decision Making for School Improvement Planning: Toward a Model and Process for Distributive Leadership and Shared Decision Making 

Parham, Alfred (2015-05-08)
Many school leaders may not have adequate decision-making tools or skills to respond to the reporting requirements of accountability mandates such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race To the Top (RTTT) (Flowers & ...

Discovering Stereotype Limbo: Exploring the Relationship between Stereotype Threat and the Professional Experiences & Identities of Male K12 Teachers 

Towns-Newby, Leonard (2015-12-10)
The number of men teaching in K12 settings is of significant concern. It is even more critical now because the number of men in the field has decreased to a record low of twenty-four percent. It is predicted that the ...

Examining Alabama Teacher of the Year Nominee Applications: Toward a Prototype of Expert Teaching 

Bradford, Quebe (2015-04-30)
Because of the complex nature of teaching (Gün, 2014), studying teacher expertise is no easy task. Many researchers have contributed to our understanding of teacher expertise by comparing expert teachers to non-experts ...

An Exploration of Comprehension Instruction in Content-Area Elementary Classes 

King, Lashae (2015-07-30)
Scores on national and international tests for students in the United States indicated that students are not performing proficiently in reading. Furthermore, students are not able to comprehend complex reading tasks, which ...

An Exploration of Social Learning Behaviors Concerning University Faculty Members’ Use of Learning Management Systems 

Wyckoff, Christopher (2016-11-02)
Formal training for faculty members who use Learning Management Systems (LMSs) plays an integral part in helping faculty members learn to use the LMS and its features, but unstructured interactions between faculty members ...

An Exploratory Study of the Impact of a Manipulatives-Intensive Fractions Unit during a Middle Grades Methods Course on Prospective Teachers’ Relational Understanding of Fractions 

Peppers, Denise (2016-12-10)
“A critical pillar of a strong PreK–12 education is a well-qualified teacher in every classroom” (Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences, 2012, p. 1). In order for teachers to help students build procedural fluency from ...

Exploring Student Resistance to Topics of Diversity, Social Justice, and Privilege: A Critical Content Analysis of Student Evaluations of Diversity Instructors 

Lazenby, Dionne (2020-07-08)
While research has shown the importance of diversity and social justice education (Bowman, 2010; Cabrera, 2014; Kumar, 2018; Valentíin, 2006), instructors of these courses often encounter barriers to effective instruction ...

Higher Education as a Gendered Organization: An Institutional Ethnography 

Laminack Cash, Wendy (2023-10-16)  ETD File Embargoed
Within higher education, women are employed more often within the ranks of staff or faculty rather than leadership positions, particularly senior leadership positions such as president, provost, or vice president. Only 22% ...

The Impact of edTPA on Physical Education Teacher Education Programs, University Faculty, and Cooperating Teachers 

Grimes, Jessica (2020-07-15)
Empirical research on consequential edTPA implementation with university programs, teacher candidates, and cooperating teachers is plentiful in general education literature. However, to date no empirical literature exists ...

In Her Own Voice: A Narrative Study of the Persistence Strategies of Eight African American Women Vice Presidents for Student Affairs at Predominately White Institutions 

Hylton, Dahlia (2012-05-04)
This narrative study explored the personal and professional experiences of eight African American women vice presidents for student affairs (VPSA) employed at predominately White institutions (PWIs) and the persistence ...

A Narrative Inquiry Based on Teacher Experience with The Learning Through Storytelling Curriculum 

Yeilding, Gail Harper (2024-04-11)
What can curriculum do? When faced with a global pandemic, lockdowns, and virtual learning in the fall of 2020, I began working with Roger Thurow and a hunger group at my university to create an English language arts ...

Pink Lemonade: An Autoethnographic Fantasia 

Arnberg, Benjamin (2020-04-29)  ETD File Embargoed
Pink Lemonade provides a campus climate study of queer experience on a rural, Southern campus in the United States. The researcher employs autoethnographic methods under a post- qualitative paradigm to explore the lives ...

Prosody: A Taught Means to an End or an End Result? 

Veal, Margo (2011-09-30)
This study investigates the effectiveness of teaching prosody in a readers’ theatre format. Prosody is traditionally defined as an end result that fluent readers inadvertently possess. In that case, struggling readers ...

Reading Their Stories: Exploring the Nature, Institution, Discourse, and Affinity Identities of Developmental College Readers through a Narrative Lens 

Jones, Kimberly Fountain (2017-07-18)
Higher education is facing a challenge with as many as 60% of entering students at community colleges testing into one or more developmental level classes each year (Bailey & Cho, 2010, p. 46). This is a crisis that impacts ...

A Scientific and Metaphoric Examination of the Creative Self: A Self Study of Creativity, the Creative Process, and Aesthetic Awareness 

Hequembourg, Laticia (2015-07-28)
The following self-study examines the role of creativity, the creative process, and aesthetic awareness among the life of an artist. The study further examines the relationship between creativity generation and drawing. ...