Theses/Dissertations from 2017
A Program Evaluation: Fidelity of Implementation of the Wilson Reading System in A Mid-Atlantic School District, Amy H. Stamm
Evaluating Programming, Performance, and Perspectives in Pursuing Progress for English Language Learners, Patricia Marie Tilghman
Examining Formal and Enacted Curricula for Culturally Responsive Strategies Regarding the Needs of Black Female Students: A Qualitative Content Analysis, Marquita Sherie Hockaday
Institutional Analytics: A Response to the Pressures of Academic Capitalism, Molly E. O'Keefe
Investigating Professional Development Models that Assist Teachers in Developing High Quality Teaching Skills: An Action Research Study, Lindsey Wood Caccavale
Making Meaning of Motherhood: A Phenomenological Investigation of Mothers Raised By Grandparents, Rebecca L. Sheffield
Novice Educator Perceptions of the Influences of A New Teacher Mentoring Program in A Hard to Staff School, Jennifer Lee Vaughan
Opportunities in the Lived Experiences of Successful High-Ability International Doctoral Students at a Selective U.S. Higher Education Institution, Nataliya Dudnytska
Psychological Capital: An Internal Resource for Counseling Students Coping with Academic and Clinical Stress, Abbas Javaheri
Relationship between College Student Identity Development and Readiness for Change, Pamela Jo Kayanan
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
Teacher Perceptions of Teacher Performance Pay and Performance Evaluation in Yunnan Province, China, Yi Hua
Teacher Perspectives of Whole Brain Teaching in A Suburban Middle School: A Program Evaluation, Wendy VanHosen
Teacher Self-Efficacy and Implicit Theories of Intelligence: Implications for Novice Teacher Retention, Linda E. Feldstein
The Impact of Professional Development on Reading Achievement and Teacher Efficacy in Delivering Small Group Reading Instruction, Sarah McGrady Schmidt
The Implementation of A Principal Mentoring Program and the Corresponding Impact on Leadership Practice, Paula Massey Huffman
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
Toward Culturally Responsive Online Pedagogy: Practices of Selected Secondary Online Teachers, April Lawrence
Toward Efficacy: Examining The Reported Impact of Quality Enhancement Plans on Student Learning in Postsecondary Contexts, Madeline Joy Smith
Understanding the Lived Experiences of Low-Income Pell Grant Undergraduate Students at a Most Competitive College, Michael Harold Postma
Validation of an Instrument for Assessing Conceptual Change with Respect to The Theory of Evolution By Secondary Biology Students, Kevin David Goff
Virginia Principals' Knowledge of Classroom Assessment and Support of Assessment for Learning Practices, Rachel Previs Ball
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
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
A Phenomenological Investigation of Women's Learning Experiences in Counselor Education, Lindsay Pennell Meyers
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
A Program Evaluation of Teacher Perceptions on the Fidelity of Implementation of Professional Learning Communities., Elondra D. Napper
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
Beyond The Campus Tour: College Choice and the Campus Visit, Justine Rebecca Okerson
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
College Athletes’ Reflective Judgment: A Moderator between Sport and Sociocultural Pressures, Body Ideal Internalization, and Body Dissatisfaction, Catie A. Greene
College, Interrupted: A Case Study of the Mental Health Leave Process, Rachel L. McDonald-Schneider
Community of Practice: Evaluation of A Collaboration Program in An Educational Setting, Denise Citarelli Jones
Comprehensive Internationalization: Examining The What, Why, and How at Community Colleges, Debra-Ann C. Butler
Developing Global Competency Skills in Grades 9-12: Implications for School Leadership, Bettina Staudt
Different Faces in Our Classrooms: Teachers' Cultural Perspectives of Heterogeneous School Environments, Paige Hendricks
Emerging from Resistance: The Origins of the Virginia Technical College System, Richard Allen Hodges
Framing The Degree: An Autoethnography of Trauma in the Graduate Student Experience, Kristen Tarantino
High Achieving English Language Learners: The Schooling Experiences of Former Ell Students Enrolled in Advanced High School Courses, Anthony Vladu
Inner City African American Female Adolescents:investigating Percpetions of Womanhood and Aggressive Behavior, Deneen Miller
Making Meaning with Multimedia in Secondary English Language Arts: A Multiple Case Study, Kerrigan Rose Mahoney
New Teacher Induction: A Program Evaluation, Warren Hunter
Personality Predictors of Academic Achievement in Gifted Students: Mediation By Socio-Cognitive and Motivational Variables, Sakhavat Mammadov
Reducing Disproportional Discipline Referrals for African American Male Students at The Elementary Level, Kelly-Robin St. John MacPherson
School Counselor Involvement in Partnerships with Families of Color: A Social Cognitive Perspective, Pamela Nadine Harris
Seeing The Paradigm: Education Professionals' Advocacy for The Gifted Student with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Patricia Costis
Teacher and Principal Perceptions of A New Evaluation Program for Teachers, Ruth Shannon Finnegan
The Effectiveness of the Achievable Dream Parent Involvement Program, Lee Vreeland
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
The Relationship among Teacher Job Satisfaction, Trust in the Principal, and Principal Support, Natalie Elizabeth Lytle
Urban Teachers' Perceptions of the Implementation of the Virginia Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Teachers, Bernadette Y. Smith
Voiceless in Medical School: Students with Physical Disabilities, Michael J. Donlan
Williams Hierarchical Integrated Model Measurement: Assessment Design, Construction, and Initial Validation, Amy Elizabeth Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Academic optimism, organizational citizenship behavior, and principal support: An examination of factors effecting teacher agency in elementary schools., Maria Terese Krug
A Value-Added Study of Math Teacher Effectiveness: A Comparative Analysis of Principal Evaluations, Self-efficacy Ratings, and Classroom Observations, Shannon Schmidt Butler
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
Building a consensus on the professional dispositions of counseling students: A content analysis on counseling student retention policies, Jeffrey Kyle Christensen
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
Culture Clash: A case study of the issues that non-traditional college presidents face in adjusting to academic culture, Sean Michael Heuvel
Effects of virtual conversations on international, students' intercultural communicative competence, Jingzhu Zhang
Mission us and historical empathy: A qualitative case study of sixth-grade students' experiences, James Richard Maxlow
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
The relationship between student infractions and social emotional competence: A program evaluation of Responsive Classroom(RTM), Bloodine Barthelus
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
Understanding the lived experiences of students in a comprehensive four-year undergraduate leadership development program, Jessica Walker Hench
Women in the Trenches: Barriers to Female Staff's Advancement in Higher Education, Carla A. Costello
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
A descriptive case study of appreciative inquiry as an approach to strategic planning for special education in a public school, Paul L. Ruhlman Jr.
An analysis of state and local alignment of teacher evaluation in Maryland, Serene N. Peterson
An evaluation of Project iRead: A program created to improve sight word recognition, Theresa Meade Marshall
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
A program evaluation of a leadership academy for school principals, Kristi E. Wagner
Assessing the Effects of Workplace Aggression and Normative Unethical Behaviors on Counselors' Perceptions of Ethicality using an Integrative Understanding of Morality, Eleni Maria Honderich
Beyond academic preparation: Anticipatory socialization, values, and the experiences of undergraduate male African American engineering students, Jacob David Joseph
Building professionals: The intersection of professional learning communities and trust., Patrick McClintock-Comeaux
Choosing mental health: An investigation of the relationship between college student help seeking and self-authorship, Kendra A. Surmitis
Curricular pathways to Algebra I in eighth grade, Melinda Rose Griffin
Drivin' trucks, huntin' bucks, and reading Aristotle?: The rural student's college choice dilemma, Rachel Mayes Strawn
Evaluating a School-Based Day Treatment Program for Students with Challenging Behaviors, Antoine Lewis Hickman
Examining the development of self-authorship among student veterans, Sharon L. M. Stone
Females and STEM: Determining the K-12 experiences that influenced women to pursue STEM fields, Anne Marie Petersen
Fostering parental engagement in a rural Title I elementary school, Joyce R. McDowell
Investigating the relationships among primary teachers' math profile, math teaching efficacy, and math content pedagogical knowledge, Theresa Marie Roettinger
Korean elementary teachers' perceptions of giftedness and support for talent development, YoungEun Son
Leadership Challenges in Implementing a Balanced Literacy Model in Elementary Schools, Amy C. Colley
Living, learning, and leading from the middle: African American women administrators in student affairs, Melinda R. Jones anderson
Math talent development of elementary school students: The relationship of gender, math motivation, and goal orientation to math achievement, Ann Haimburger Colorado
Measuring fidelity of implementation using the survey of enacted curriculum, Edward Sean McDonough
Principals' perceptions of the effectiveness of a network support structure in a large urban school system, Racquel Jones
Successful pedagogical practices of elementary teachers of homeless students: A case study, Kimberly Owen Pickles
Teacher self-efficacy, content and pedagogical knowledge, and their relationship to student achievement in Algebra I, Antonia M. Fox
Teachers' Perceived Influences on Technology Integration Decisions: A Grounded Theory on Instructional Decisions after Professional Development, Karen Larsen Greenhaus
Teachers' perspectives of effective lesson planning: A comparative analysis, Jessica Miller Wunderle Straessle
The Impact of Leadership Behaviors of Blue Ribbon Catholic School Principals on School Culture, Rosaline Cardarelli
The relationship between teachers' computer self-efficacy and technology integration in a school district's bring your own technology initiative, Ashley F. Ellis
Toward the global public good: Accountability for higher education in the twenty-first century, Angelo J. Letizia
