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

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Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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

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Understanding the lived experiences of students in a comprehensive four-year undergraduate leadership development program, Jessica Walker Hench

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Women in the Trenches: Barriers to Female Staff's Advancement in Higher Education, Carla A. Costello

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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A descriptive case study of appreciative inquiry as an approach to strategic planning for special education in a public school, Paul L. Ruhlman Jr.

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An analysis of state and local alignment of teacher evaluation in Maryland, Serene N. Peterson

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An evaluation of Project iRead: A program created to improve sight word recognition, Theresa Meade Marshall

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An exploration of compliance predictors of the institutional effectiveness requirements of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges' baccalaureate instittutions between 2008 and 2012, Benjamin Ninjo Djeukeng

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A program evaluation of a leadership academy for school principals, Kristi E. Wagner

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Assessing the Effects of Workplace Aggression and Normative Unethical Behaviors on Counselors' Perceptions of Ethicality using an Integrative Understanding of Morality, Eleni Maria Honderich

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Beyond academic preparation: Anticipatory socialization, values, and the experiences of undergraduate male African American engineering students, Jacob David Joseph

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Building professionals: The intersection of professional learning communities and trust., Patrick McClintock-Comeaux

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Choosing mental health: An investigation of the relationship between college student help seeking and self-authorship, Kendra A. Surmitis

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Curricular pathways to Algebra I in eighth grade, Melinda Rose Griffin

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Drivin' trucks, huntin' bucks, and reading Aristotle?: The rural student's college choice dilemma, Rachel Mayes Strawn

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Evaluating a School-Based Day Treatment Program for Students with Challenging Behaviors, Antoine Lewis Hickman

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Examining the development of self-authorship among student veterans, Sharon L. M. Stone

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Females and STEM: Determining the K-12 experiences that influenced women to pursue STEM fields, Anne Marie Petersen

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Fostering parental engagement in a rural Title I elementary school, Joyce R. McDowell

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Investigating the relationships among primary teachers' math profile, math teaching efficacy, and math content pedagogical knowledge, Theresa Marie Roettinger

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Korean elementary teachers' perceptions of giftedness and support for talent development, YoungEun Son

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Leadership Challenges in Implementing a Balanced Literacy Model in Elementary Schools, Amy C. Colley

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Living, learning, and leading from the middle: African American women administrators in student affairs, Melinda R. Jones anderson

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Math talent development of elementary school students: The relationship of gender, math motivation, and goal orientation to math achievement, Ann Haimburger Colorado

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Measuring fidelity of implementation using the survey of enacted curriculum, Edward Sean McDonough

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Principals' perceptions of the effectiveness of a network support structure in a large urban school system, Racquel Jones

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Successful pedagogical practices of elementary teachers of homeless students: A case study, Kimberly Owen Pickles

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Teacher self-efficacy, content and pedagogical knowledge, and their relationship to student achievement in Algebra I, Antonia M. Fox

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Teachers' Perceived Influences on Technology Integration Decisions: A Grounded Theory on Instructional Decisions after Professional Development, Karen Larsen Greenhaus

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Teachers' perspectives of effective lesson planning: A comparative analysis, Jessica Miller Wunderle Straessle

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The Impact of Leadership Behaviors of Blue Ribbon Catholic School Principals on School Culture, Rosaline Cardarelli

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The relationship between teachers' computer self-efficacy and technology integration in a school district's bring your own technology initiative, Ashley F. Ellis

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Toward the global public good: Accountability for higher education in the twenty-first century, Angelo J. Letizia

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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A critical study of Black parents' participation in special education decision-making, Tamara Lynn Freeman-Nichols

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An evaluation of the implementation fidelity and outcomes of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program in three elementary schools in Virginia, Barbara F. Wood

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An investigation of relationships among school counselors' ethical professional identity development, moral reasoning, and attitudes toward confidentiality with minors, Morgan E. Kiper Riechel

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A systematic/structural examination of factors that facilitate and inhibit natural recovery from alcohol abuse in college students, David S. Keel

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A union of church and state: The Freedmen's Bureau and the education of African Americans in Virginia from 1865--1871, Aaron Jason Butler

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Co-teaching: Perceptions of Urban, Secondary Co-Teachers, Michelle Boyd

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Development of the Chae Optimal Supervision Environment Test, Ki Byung Chae

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Dispositions and practices that promote teacher-student relationships with African-American male elementary students, Karyn Mitchell Yeldell

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Executive search firms' consideration of person-organization fit in college and university presidential searches, James Christopher Turpin

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Expectancy-Value Classes as Predictors of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Occupational Choice: Differences Related to Ability, Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status, Lori andersen

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Factors that contribute to the academic success of African American males: Perceptions of African American male high school students, Alexis C. Swanson

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Faculty sense of academic optimism and its relationship to students' achievement in well performing high schools, Michael Tyrone Cromartie

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High stakes testing policy issues in education: An analysis of litigation involving high stakes testing and the denial of diplomas, Lisa M. Winfield

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How direct descendants of a school lockout achieved academic success: Resilience in the educational attainments of Prince Edward County's children, Randolph Williams

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Impact of the Bologna Process and German higher education reforms on professorial work and role definition at the University of Potsdam: A case study, Christen Cullum Hairston

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Infusing the school counseling internship with a global perspective to promote ego development, moral reasoning, and ethnocultural empathy: A deliberate psychological education, Derek Lane Robertson

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Peopling the Cloister: Women's colleges and the worlds we've made of them, Caroline Simmons Leigh Hasenyager

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Quality practices of alternative education learning environments as represented in Virginia's Individual Student Alternative Education Plan (ISAEP) program, Doris R. Feltman

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Realizing federal policy outcomes of the post-9/11 GI Bill: Veterans' and active duty/reservist perceptions, Lydia Leporte

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Social Organization Analysis of the Role of Academic Advising: A Case Study at the University of Liberia, Jobila Y. Williams Sy

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Teacher perspectives of the use of student performance data in teacher evaluations, Paul Thomas Hopkins

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The self on the page: Using student teachers' written stories as a reflective tool during the student teaching internship, Deborah O. Farina

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Women in Engineering: The Impact of the College Internship on Persistence into an Engineering Field, Kimberly M. Brush

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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A Balancing Act: Division III Student-Athletes Time Demands and Life Roles, Daniel R. Hoover Jr.

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An Investigation of Perfectionism and Life Satisfaction with Elementary Gifted Students, Maria A. Bessler

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A recipe for relationships: A qualitative investigation of couples' relational interactions during meal preparations., Katherine Maya Hermann

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Children serve too: An investigation of the impacts of military family life on adult relationships, Karena Heyward

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Continuous Improvement Monitoring: An Analysis of State Special Education Compliance Procedures, Barbara Richmond Blake

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Dealing with Dual Differences: Social Coping Strategies of Gifted and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Adolescents, Virginia Helen Hutcheson

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Dimensions of Principal Support Behaviors and their Relationship to Organizational Citizenship Behaviors and Student Achievement in High Schools, Jennifer A. Tindle

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Emancipated Foster Youth's Transition from Care to Virginia Community Colleges, Shylan E. Scott

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Empathy as a crucial skill for instructional coaches: Can it be taught?, Carol B. Carter

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Esse quam videri, perhaps: State policy and institutional factors impacting low-income student enrollment at North Carolina's public and private four-year institutions, Leslie Neal Holly

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Faculty perceptions of principal support and change orientation in Virginia high schools, Karen E. Cagle

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From the Inside Out: An In-Depth Look into the Lives of Students with Dual Exceptionalities, Monique S. Sims

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How institutional theory informs state education policy regarding exit outcomes for students with disabilities, Michele Myers Hopkins

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Jumping off the couch: Infusing creativity into counselor education, Christopher Lawrence

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Literacy self-efficacy and achievement of secondary students with disabilities, Mary Mau Runnells

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Organizational justice perceptions of Virginia high school teachers: Relationships to organizational citizenship behavior and student achievement, William R. Travis Burns