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

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Theses/Dissertations from 1994

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Staff development practices used in Virginia's public schools: A comparative analysis of personnel perceptions from rural and other districts, Herbert Oliver Cox

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The effectiveness of an intervention program to improve performance of low-achieving students on the Literacy Passport Test, Harriet Elizabeth Bauer

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The effects of psychodrama treatment on levels of assertiveness and locus-of-control in women who have experienced battering, Jeanne Ball Burger

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The impact of principal instructional leadership on student achievement in small high schools in Virginia, Joseph Roy Geiger II

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The relationships between cognitive appraisal, coping and physical functioning in a work hardening population, Linda Susan Townsend

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Wishlist or reality? The Committee on the Future of the Virginia Community College System and its report, "Toward the Year 2000", Elizabeth Hinton Crowther

Theses/Dissertations from 1993

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A comparison of aggression, locus-of-control, and androgyny at admission and at discharge in psychiatric hospitalized males., Richard D. Huey

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A different drum: The forgotten tradition of the military academy in American education, Kurt Allen Sanftleben

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A Journey from West Africa to Slavery: African-American Life During the Eighteenth-Century., Teresa Ann Broyles

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An analysis of early marital adjustment: The role of narcissism, cognitive, and family systems variables, Larry Stephen Armstrong

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An analysis of the role of principals supervising programs for students with disabilities in effective schools as defined by Virginia's Outcome Accountability Project, Helen Clayton Williams

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A study of subjective symptoms associated with seizure disorders in adolescents, Elaine Fletcher-Janzen

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A study of the relationship between scheduling practices and selected Outcome Accountability Project indicators in Virginia high schools, Jonathan Leopold Lewis

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A "wealth of hallowed memories": The development of mission, saga, and distinctiveness at the Virginia Military Institute, David Roger Loope

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Behavioral differences in depressed and conduct-disordered youth, Kathryn Haynes Rhody

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Burden in spousal caregivers: A correlational study of the effect and interaction of stressors, vulnerability, psychological resources and social supports on the development of burden in spousal caregivers of the chronically ill, Sheila Marie Crossen-Powell

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Campus and consortium in an era of large-scale research: An historical study of the Virginia Associated Research Center, 1962-1967, Elizabeth Buchanan Ward

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Comprehension of Miranda rights by 14-18 year old African-American and Caucasian males with and without learning disabilities, Barbara Anne Zaremba

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Constantly vulnerable yet persistently strong: A study of the financial condition of the liberal arts college, Robert Joseph Bouressa

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Continuing nursing education: An analysis of the relationship between benefits, participation and socialization of registered nurses in southeastern Virginia, Barbara Simpkins Harrison

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Divorce adjustment: Anxiety, self-esteem, and locus-of-control, Grace John Hadeed

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Making access meaningful: Effects of an early contact program on community college student success, Judy Bierlein McMillan

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Perceptions of senior re-entry registered nurse students in baccalaureate nursing programs, Yvonne Nazareth Stringfield

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Relationships among therapists' family background, personality traits, and therapeutic approach, Jeffrey Neil Van Pelt

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Responsibility as a factor in adjustment for siblings of children with retardation, Victoria Boccelli Damiani

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Selected family therapy outcomes with Bowen, Haley, and Satir, Joan Elizabeth Winter

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The college investment decision for nontraditional students: Factors affecting the choice of postsecondary enrollment and quality, Shahram Amiri

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The commuters' alma mater: Profiles of college student experiences at a commuter institution, Tisa Ann Mason

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The effects of social skills training on the prevention of perceived stress, depression, and social anxiety of Taiwanese graduate students in the United States, Li-An Kuo

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The impact of a cognitive strategy on students' composing skills, Macon Jasper Moye

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The relationship between a locality's fiscal capacity and its per-pupil expenditure in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a result of the 1988 funding formula change, Mary Messer Mehaffey

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The relationship between selected personality factors and the resolution of certain Eriksonian stages in a group of female elders, Katherine Beale Coates

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The relationships between retrospective perceptions of an alcoholic home environment with levels of differentiation of self and trait anxiety in adult children of alcoholics, Barbara Lynn Rojas-Hughes

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Training peer paraprofessionals in career services: An analysis of current practices, Melissa Jayne Whitt

Theses/Dissertations from 1992

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A content analysis of the attention to microcultural factors in selected multicultural education college textbooks used in the United States, Sandra Farmer Baugh

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Adequate and appropriate intelligence testing of moderately mentally retarded children, Nancy Lynn Robertson Orrison

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AIDS and the academic community: A study in university governance, Ann Dinius

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Alumni as givers: An analysis of donor-nondonor behavior at a Comprehensive I institution, Linda Faye Burgess-Getts

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An analysis of the National War College, Thom H. Terwilliger

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An analysis of Virginia school psychologists' decisions relative to assessment profiles and recommended handicapping condition, Brian Alan Keith

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An evaluation of personality-environmental factors related to job satisfaction of secondary school natural science teachers, George Newton DeShazo

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Anger and type-related coping resources in the experience of adult survivors of incest, Kathleen M. Giles

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A study of battered women utilizing the California Psychological Inventory-Revised, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Constructive Thinking Inventory and the demographic variable of "times previously separated", Martha Miller Grenier

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A study of core special education competencies needed for public school building administrators, JoAnne Yarbrough Carver

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A study of programs designed to stimulate students' independent reading, Elizabeth K. Welsh

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A study of student attrition at a small, rural community college: A test of the Bean and Metzner Model, Alan Michael Harris

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A study of teachers' instructional planning as revealed by an analysis of objectives, strategies and indicators of student achievement, Barbara Sewell Davis

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A study of the relationship of territoriality and teacher sense of efficacy to job satisfaction of elementary school teachers, Barbara Elizabeth Smith

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A validity study of the control/nurture dimensions of the Sale-Hendren Model of Structural Family Therapy, Robert George Mahan

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Creating a tradition: Early campus planning at Hampton Institute, 1868-1893, Susan Hicks Jones

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Helping first-year college students climb the academic ladder: Report of a national survey of freshman seminar programming in American higher education, Betsy Overman Barefoot

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Leadership development in higher education for public health, Grace Peak Erickson

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Metaphors we make schools by: The debate on schools of choice, Stephanie Marie McConachie

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Peer influence within the student residential environment: The effectiveness of educational crime prevention programming, Stephen Damian Bisese

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Racial issues in White dyads: An investigation of Helms's interaction model, Nancy G. Ochs

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Reducing teachers' levels of stress: A comparison of two counseling treatment models, andrew Charles Elgort

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School system merger: A study of power and redistribution of resources, Rebecca Clark White Adams

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Selected personality characteristics as correlates of effective school principals, Elizabeth Jean Shahmouradian

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Special education complaint management: A national profile, Elizabeth C. Yaryan

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The efficacy of special education services for students with learning disabilities: A longitudinal study, Madeline N. Sobczak

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The organizational culture of the academic department: A case study of a Department of Biological Sciences, Martha Anne Smith

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The relationship among professional recommendations, certification standards and preservice program requirements in early childhood special education, Lisa Gaye Fore

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The relationship between teacher verbal feedback, aptitude, and academic intrinsic motivation, Ann Jenkins Wickwire

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The relationship between the content and quality of ex-spousal interactions and the adjustment of stepchildren: An exploratory study, Bradley Lawrence Elison

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The use of humor to relieve stress in psychiatric nurses, Joanne Kwandt

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White students' racial attitudes and racial identity development in a liberal arts environment, Mary Hornback Glisan

Theses/Dissertations from 1991

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A case study of the predictive ability of placement tests for principles of accounting, Sonja Ann Sanders Villaire

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A comparative study of students served in a transitional first-grade with students retained in grade and regularly promoted students, Philip Iovino

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A comparison of the performance of students prepared for study at Old Dominion University through a developmental program with those accepted directly from secondary schools, Nathaniel Elias Villaire

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An analysis of characteristics associated with corporate colleges, Jean Simpson Rose

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An exception to the rule: Bank Street College of Education as an independent professional school (1916-1990), Jane M. Bailey

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An exploration of patterns of influence shaping rural gifted students. (Volumes I and II), Donna Pugh Owen

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An historical policy analysis of educational articulation: A case study of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1966--1990, Maxine Branch Singleton

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An investigation and analysis of educator perceptions of mainstreaming mildly handicapped students in grades 5-9 in randomly selected urban and rural school divisions in Virginia public schools, Pamela Buckner Riedel

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An investigation of eligibility decision congruence among school administrators, psychologists, and social workers for Virginia's developmentally delayed population, John William Faircloth

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An investigation of the effects of breach of confidentiality of adolescents' level of trust, Carolyn Bosta Warrick

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An investigation of the effects of Personal Mastery Counseling on goal attainment, self-concept, locus-of-control, and behavior ratings of junior high school students, Lawrence Edward Sutton

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Antecedents of maternal-infant attachment: A longitudinal study, Jacqueline Jeanne White

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A study of the effectiveness of public college and university support service programs for students with disabilities in the Commonwealth of Virginia: Do they offer what they purport to offer?, Betty Jo Buck

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Effects of a cognitive-behavioral program designed to increase the reading comprehension skills of learning-disabled students, Jane Pindar Reilly

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Efficacy of self-instructional training in the management of test anxiety: A primary prevention model, Rita Schreyer Wagner

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Higher education's hidden craftsmen: A re-examination of the roles of support services middle management, Robert Kimball Seal

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Keeping the house in order: Government regulations and campus compliance. A case study of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and compliance by the College of William and Mary, Robbie Lee Cordle

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Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI): A validity study, Anne Witt Perkins

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Reactions to spousal death resulting from cancer: A descriptive study of anticipatory grief and the cognitive appraisal of the loss of a spouse, Jennifer Claire Kinyon Elison

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Siblings of elementary gifted students: The sibling relationship, self-concept and classroom behavior, Karen Elizabeth Poe West

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The call of the wild: Investigating the relationship between adventure education, character development, and the college curriculum, Barbara Ann Klingman

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The current attitudes of principals and teachers regarding mainstreaming in Virginia middle-level schools, Janice Landmesser Farley

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The effect of computer-assisted instruction in improving mathematics performance of low-achieving ninth-grade students, Thomas Everett Bailey

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The personal motivation system of Hispanic female students as measured by the Picture Identification Test, Martha Lazcano Muguira

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The politics of choice: An analysis of the presidential search and selection process, Michael Thomas Kelly

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The public service aspect of William and Mary's mission: 1906-1972, Kathryn Jean S. Patterson

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The relationship between cooperating teachers' feedback styles and the intrinsic motivation of student teachers, Richard Newton Weber

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The relationship of codependence to career choice, Karen Hinderliter Barnett

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The transformation of Madison College into James Madison University: A case study, Emily Gillespie Robertson

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The utility of a computerized assessment battery to evaluate cognitive functioning and attention, Carl Richard Ellis

Theses/Dissertations from 1990

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A comparative study of student achievement, program delivery, and teacher training in a gifted program, Mary Frances Briley

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Adolescent identity formation: Inpatient influence on self-concept, David John Mueller

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A model to predict institutionalization of school-business partnerships, Ronald M. Flowe

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An analysis of Virginia public school principals' perceptions of their roles, Howard Thomas Gillette III