This collection features dissertations from doctoral students at the William & Mary School of Education.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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A State-Level Superintendent Evaluation Policy Analysis, Tracey L. Schneider

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Critical and Creative Thinking in General Education: A Descriptive Case Study, Nicholas Richard Marsella

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Distinguished, Endowed, and Underrepresented: A Phenomenological Exploration of Talent Development among Expert Black Scholars in Education, Keisha Baylor

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Education Reform as Moral Disengagement: the Racist Subtext of the State Takeover of Little Rock School District, Davis Clement

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Exploring Kindergarten Teachers' Self-Perceptions of Writing Instruction: An Appreciative Phenomenological Approach, Elizabeth Auguste

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Factors that Contribute to and Mediate Master’S Level Counseling Students’ Interest in Working with Older Adults, Nathaniel Jacob Wagner

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Factors that Contribute to Motivation and Burnout among Teachers of Students with Emotional Behavioral Disorders, Adam Joseph Brown

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First -Generation Hindu Indian-American Undergraduates’ Grief After Death of Grandparent(S) in India, Ramya Avadhanam

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Knowledge and Experiences with Dropout Prevention Strategies of Virginia Secondary Administrators, School Counselors, and Graduation Coaches, Cathy Bacote

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Knowledge, Perceptions, and Beliefs of Elementary Principals Regarding Whole-Grade Acceleration for Gifted Students, Allison A. Sheppard

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Posttraumatic Growth of Young Adults Who Experienced A Parental Death during Adolescence: An Eriksonian Developmental Perspective, Victor Tuazon

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Principal Support and Academic Optimism in Urban High Schools, Todd Edward Perelli

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Project Based Learning to Promote 21St Century Skills: An Action Research Study, Jason Michael Allison

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Promoting Student Success: A Program Evaluation of A Ninth Grade Transition Program, Micah Lonae Smith

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Rural Students’ Experiences at Selective Four-Year Colleges: Pathways to Persistence and Success, Amy Sikes

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Salud Mental: The Conceptualization and Experiences of Mental Health among Undocumented Mexican Immigrants, Edith Gonzalez

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Teacher Perceptions of the Implementation Processes of the Imagine Learning Program in Title I Elementary Schools, Brigitt Angelica McGuinness

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The Actions Institutional Agents Take to Support First-Generation Latino College Students at A Catholic Hispanic-Serving Institution: An Embedded Case Study, Diana Marie Hernández

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The Duality of Dual Enrollment: How The Relationship between Student Demographics, Academic Metrics, and College Enrollment Adds Up, Tiffany Noel Ferrari

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The Magnificent Seven: a Narrative Analysis of Suppressed Discourses in Psychiatric Diagnoses, Clayton Vance Martin

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The Serving Supervisor: Supervisor Servant Leadership as a Protective Factor for Counseling Residents’ Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress, Colleen Grunhaus

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The Transitional Generation: Faculty Sensemaking of Higher Education Reform in Ecuador, Mary Amanda Johnson

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Addressing Underrepresentation in Gifted Education: A Historical Case Study of Policy and Practice in One School District, Darlene Wiggins Dockery

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A Delphi Study Regarding How, Can, and Should Individual Psychology Demonstrate Efficacy and Effectiveness Given Evidence Based Practice Evaluation Standards, Sterling Price Travis

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A Multiple Case Study of Co-Teachers’ Technology Integration Knowledge: How It Is Held, Built, and Shared, Deborah A. Grosser

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An Embedded Case Study of the Implementation of A School Division’S Benchmark Assessment System, Chelsea Ireland Kulp

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An Evaluation of A Non-Traditional Program for High School Students, Anne H. Neve

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An Evaluation of Southeast School District's Special Education Program's Compliance, Jennifer Anne Tingley

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An Evaluation of the Vccs Developmental Math Redesign from A Faculty Perspective, Michael Frank Adkins

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A Phenomenological Investigation of Selected Teachers’ Informal and Incidental Technology-Related Learning, Diana Lee Theisinger

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Applying The Broaden-and-Build Theory to offender Counseling, Keosha Meka-Beyanka Branch

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A Program Evaluation: Fidelity of Implementation of the Wilson Reading System in A Mid-Atlantic School District, Amy H. Stamm

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Emotional Intelligence, Environment, and Teacher Self-Efficacy: A Look into the Effects of Teacher Emotional Intelligence and Socioeconomic Status of School on Teacher Self-Efficacy in K-12 Public Schools, Augustine Kang

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Evaluating Programming, Performance, and Perspectives in Pursuing Progress for English Language Learners, Patricia Marie Tilghman

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Examining Formal and Enacted Curricula for Culturally Responsive Strategies Regarding the Needs of Black Female Students: A Qualitative Content Analysis, Marquita Sherie Hockaday

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Institutional Analytics: A Response to the Pressures of Academic Capitalism, Molly E. O'Keefe

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Investigating Professional Development Models that Assist Teachers in Developing High Quality Teaching Skills: An Action Research Study, Lindsey Wood Caccavale

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Making Meaning of Motherhood: A Phenomenological Investigation of Mothers Raised By Grandparents, Rebecca L. Sheffield

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Novice Educator Perceptions of the Influences of A New Teacher Mentoring Program in A Hard to Staff School, Jennifer Lee Vaughan

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Opportunities in the Lived Experiences of Successful High-Ability International Doctoral Students at a Selective U.S. Higher Education Institution, Nataliya Dudnytska

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Psychological Capital: An Internal Resource for Counseling Students Coping with Academic and Clinical Stress, Abbas Javaheri

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Relationship between College Student Identity Development and Readiness for Change, Pamela Jo Kayanan

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Standing at The Crossroads: The Intersection of Sexual, Racial/ethnic, and Spiritual/religious Identities in African American Men Who have Sex with Men, Brian Allen Kooyman

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Teacher Perceptions of Teacher Performance Pay and Performance Evaluation in Yunnan Province, China, Yi Hua

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Teacher Perspectives of Whole Brain Teaching in A Suburban Middle School: A Program Evaluation, Wendy VanHosen

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Teacher Self-Efficacy and Implicit Theories of Intelligence: Implications for Novice Teacher Retention, Linda E. Feldstein

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The Impact of Professional Development on Reading Achievement and Teacher Efficacy in Delivering Small Group Reading Instruction, Sarah McGrady Schmidt

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The Implementation of A Principal Mentoring Program and the Corresponding Impact on Leadership Practice, Paula Massey Huffman

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The Influence of a theory based U.S. History curriculum on Student Content Knowledge, Student Historical Interpretation Skills, and Student Self Efficacy for Historical Inquiry, Sherry Joiner Harrell

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Toward Culturally Responsive Online Pedagogy: Practices of Selected Secondary Online Teachers, April Lawrence

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Toward Efficacy: Examining The Reported Impact of Quality Enhancement Plans on Student Learning in Postsecondary Contexts, Madeline Joy Smith

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Understanding the Lived Experiences of Low-Income Pell Grant Undergraduate Students at a Most Competitive College, Michael Harold Postma

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Validation of an Instrument for Assessing Conceptual Change with Respect to The Theory of Evolution By Secondary Biology Students, Kevin David Goff

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Virginia Principals' Knowledge of Classroom Assessment and Support of Assessment for Learning Practices, Rachel Previs Ball

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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A Comparative Case Study of the Role of the School District in Influencing School Improvement: Supporting and Turning Around Low-Performing Schools, Christopher J. Kelly

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An Investigation of School Counselor Understanding and Response to Help Seeking among Second Generation Asian American Students in the Us Public School System, Sharon Chung

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A Phenomenological Investigation of Women's Learning Experiences in Counselor Education, Lindsay Pennell Meyers

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A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of High School Counselors involved in Determining Serious and Foreseeable Harm in Cases of Student Substance Abuse, Kathryn Goss Atanasov

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A Program Evaluation of Teacher Perceptions on the Fidelity of Implementation of Professional Learning Communities., Elondra D. Napper

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A Study of the Degree to Which School Districts in Virginia Include Legal or Illegal Inquiries on Employment Application Forms for Teachers, Rodney Jamel Brown

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Beyond The Campus Tour: College Choice and the Campus Visit, Justine Rebecca Okerson

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Chronic Sorrow in Family Members of Addicts: An Investigation of Partners of Addicts and Divorcees to Explore Chronic Sorrow as a Theoretical Understanding of the Experiences of Family Members of Addicts, Victoria Grace McLaughlin

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College Athletes’ Reflective Judgment: A Moderator between Sport and Sociocultural Pressures, Body Ideal Internalization, and Body Dissatisfaction, Catie A. Greene

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College, Interrupted: A Case Study of the Mental Health Leave Process, Rachel L. McDonald-Schneider

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Community of Practice: Evaluation of A Collaboration Program in An Educational Setting, Denise Citarelli Jones

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Comprehensive Internationalization: Examining The What, Why, and How at Community Colleges, Debra-Ann C. Butler

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Developing Global Competency Skills in Grades 9-12: Implications for School Leadership, Bettina Staudt

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Different Faces in Our Classrooms: Teachers' Cultural Perspectives of Heterogeneous School Environments, Paige Hendricks

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Emerging from Resistance: The Origins of the Virginia Technical College System, Richard Allen Hodges

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Experience, Time, and Opportunity: An Exploratory Case Study Regarding The Artistic Journeys of Middle School Adolescents and their Perceptions of the Influence of Environmental Factors on The Development of their Visual Art Talent in Rural Montana Communities, Gayle B. Roege

Framing The Degree: An Autoethnography of Trauma in the Graduate Student Experience, Kristen Tarantino

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High Achieving English Language Learners: The Schooling Experiences of Former Ell Students Enrolled in Advanced High School Courses, Anthony Vladu

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Inner City African American Female Adolescents:investigating Percpetions of Womanhood and Aggressive Behavior, Deneen Miller

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Making Meaning with Multimedia in Secondary English Language Arts: A Multiple Case Study, Kerrigan Rose Mahoney

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New Teacher Induction: A Program Evaluation, Warren Hunter

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Personality Predictors of Academic Achievement in Gifted Students: Mediation By Socio-Cognitive and Motivational Variables, Sakhavat Mammadov

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Reducing Disproportional Discipline Referrals for African American Male Students at The Elementary Level, Kelly-Robin St. John MacPherson

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School Counselor Involvement in Partnerships with Families of Color: A Social Cognitive Perspective, Pamela Nadine Harris

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Seeing The Paradigm: Education Professionals' Advocacy for The Gifted Student with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Patricia Costis

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Teacher and Principal Perceptions of A New Evaluation Program for Teachers, Ruth Shannon Finnegan

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Teachers' Perceptions of Contextual Influences on Instructional Decision-Making Regarding The Use of Educational Technology in Secondary Social Studies, Adam P. Barger

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The Effectiveness of the Achievable Dream Parent Involvement Program, Lee Vreeland

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The Impact of the Social, Academic, and Moral Development Programs of an Achievable Dream on Students during their College and University Experience, Amy Lawrence Runge

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The Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Dependent Children a policy alignment analysis in three Virginia school divisions., Jill Gaitens

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The Relationship among Teacher Job Satisfaction, Trust in the Principal, and Principal Support, Natalie Elizabeth Lytle

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Urban Teachers' Perceptions of the Implementation of the Virginia Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Teachers, Bernadette Y. Smith

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Voiceless in Medical School: Students with Physical Disabilities, Michael J. Donlan

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Williams Hierarchical Integrated Model Measurement: Assessment Design, Construction, and Initial Validation, Amy Elizabeth Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Academic optimism, organizational citizenship behavior, and principal support: An examination of factors effecting teacher agency in elementary schools., Maria Terese Krug

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A Value-Added Study of Math Teacher Effectiveness: A Comparative Analysis of Principal Evaluations, Self-efficacy Ratings, and Classroom Observations, Shannon Schmidt Butler

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Beating the Odds: Towards Understanding How Principal Leadership Practices in High Schools Support School Completion for African American Males with Learning and Emotional Disabilities, Elaine Butler Gould

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Building a consensus on the professional dispositions of counseling students: A content analysis on counseling student retention policies, Jeffrey Kyle Christensen

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Chancellor's College success coach initiative: A formative program evaluation of the Virginia Community College system's initiative from the success coaches' perspective, Marcia C. Strange

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Culture Clash: A case study of the issues that non-traditional college presidents face in adjusting to academic culture, Sean Michael Heuvel

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Effects of virtual conversations on international, students' intercultural communicative competence, Jingzhu Zhang

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Mission us and historical empathy: A qualitative case study of sixth-grade students' experiences, James Richard Maxlow

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Students' self-determined motivation, emotional intelligence and academic persistence: An examination of second year students at a public and a private historically black university, Evanda Shentelle Watts-Martinez

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The language of leadership a feminist poststructural discourse analysis of inaugural addresses by presidents of high profile research universities, Tehmina Khwaja

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The relationship between student infractions and social emotional competence: A program evaluation of Responsive Classroom(RTM), Bloodine Barthelus

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To experience something greater than myself: An exploratory case study of the impact of a faculty-led short-term study abroad on college student identity, E. Ashleigh Schuller Lee