Student Dissertations
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2009
Mario Aguilar - The Rituals of Kindness: The Influence of the Danza Azteca Tradition of Central Mexico on Chicano-Mexcoehuani Identity and Sacred Space (04/09)
Francesca Armendaris - Writing Anxiety Among English as a Second Language Students Enrolled in Academic English Writing Classes (04/09)
Frank Dickerson - Writing the Voice of Philanthropy: How to Raise Money with Words (04/09)
Negin Ghaffari - Beyond 9/11: American Muslin Youth Transcending Pedagogies of Stigma to Resilience (04/09)
Sean Joyce - A Comparison of Leadership Attributes Between Public and Charter School Principals and their Student Achievement (04/09)
Anthony Martinez - Identifying Variables of Successful English Learners for Entrance to California's Four-Year Colleges and Universities (04/09)
Cynthia Olivo - Social Capital and Latino Achievement (04/09)
Pat Pawlak - Common Characteristics and Classroom Practices of Effective Teachers of High-Poverty and Diverse Students (04/09)
Michelle Warn - Socio-Cultural Elements that Influence Education Leadership Practices in the Republic of Palau (04/09)
Emily Wolk - Mobility of Intermediate School Students in an Urban School District (04/09)
Andrea Yoder-Clark - Power and Service-Learning: Implications in Service-Learning for Social Justice (04/09)
2008
Susan Kawell - Successful Teachers: What it takes to Raise Academic Achievement of Urban Minority Students (12/08)
Roberto LaCarra - So Very Hard to Go: An Action Research Project on Cultural Affirmation (12/08)
Joseph Mahabir - An Examination of Referral and Eventual Placement of Students in Special Education Settings in a Mid-Sized Urban School District in Southern California (12/08)
Enrique Medina Jr - Effective High School Reform: Meeting the Academic Needs of Urban High School Students (12/08)
Catherine Shuster - Re-Examining Exit Exams: New Evidence from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (12/08)
Nicole Block - A Study of a Response to Intervention Model for Urban Sixth-Grade: Analyzing Reading, Language, and Learning Differences in Tier 1 and Tier 2 (12/08)
Joanne Martin - How School Practices to Promote Parental Involvement Influence Student Success (12/08)
Eduardo Ochoa - Empowerment Through Education, Experiences, and Organized Action: The Social Justice Course at Lincoln High School (12/08)
Candace Vickers - Social Networks After the Onset of Aphasia: The Impact of Communication Recovery Groups (07/08)
Martha Barcenas-Mooradian - Working with Immigrant Laborers: A Case Study of the Utilization of Indigenous Literatures in Educational Practice (07/08)
Jennifer Ostergren - Working Alliance, Supervisory Styles/Role and Satisfaction with Supervision of Speech-Language Pathologists During Their First Year of Professional Service (07/08)
Charlotte Meneses - Re-Entry Baby Boomer Students in Higher Education: A Descriptive Study 05/02/08
Belinda Vea The College Experiences of Filipina/o Americans and Other AAPI Subgroups: Deseggregating the Data (05/08)
Amy Bazuin-Yoder - Women's Psycho-Social Well-Being Through Ego Synthesis: Integrating Constructs of Intra-Psychic and Extra-Psychic Continuity in a "Good Life Story" (04/08)
Richard Kaplan - Ancient Buddhist, Vedic and Multiple Intelligences Pedagogies: A Paradigm for the Development of Home Schooling and Distance Learning Environments (04/08)
Jing Babb - Multicultural Identity Formation Through the Eyes of First Generation Taiwanese - American Immigrants: An Exploratory Study (04/08)
Daniel Walden - The Relationship Between Decision-Making and Research in Community and Junior Colleges (04/08)
Jennifer Maan - Peeling Away the Layers of Intolerance, One Cooking Class at a Time: Using World Cuisines to Teach Tolerance (04/08)
Mara Simmons - Comparative Organization and Structure of Charter and Traditional High Schools (04/08)
Deborah Taylor - Factors That Motivate Faculty in Christian Postsecondary Institutions to Adapt Their Behavior and Pedogogy to Become More Culturally Competent (04/08)
Ngoc-Dung Firpo - The Experience of Graduates From Early College Entrance Programs (04/08)
Akiko Otsu - International Students' Satisfaction on Campus (04/08)
Richard Cortés - "Cursed and Blessed": Examining the Socioemotional and Academic Experiences of Undocumented Latina/o Community College Students (04/08)
Dennis Eastman - Investigating Moral and Performance Character Utilizing a Student and Parent Self-Reported Survey Measure (04/08)
Jefferey Lagozzino - The Prevalence of Test Anxiety in Grades 3-6 (04/08)
Sarah Maheronnaghsh - The Struggle for Teacher Voice Under No Child Left Behind (04/08)
Michael Corke - The Role of Diversity in Peer Mentoring Dyads: A Mixed Methods Approach (04/08)
Kelley Pryor - Mathematical Influences on Career Choice: Why Do Students Choose To Teach Elementary School? (04/08)
Anne Hauscarriague - Teaching Mathematics Through Stories in High School and Community College (04/08)
Susan Newcomb - Persistence in Suburbia: A Study of Low-Performing Students Inside a High-Performing High School (04/08)
Rachel Surls - Land-Grant Universities and The County-Extension Relationship: Challenges, Successes and Emerging Trends (04/08)
Angela Lin - Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment: How Age, Gender, Ethnicity, Mentor Subject Matter Compatibility and Geographic Proximity Affect New Teacher Feelings of Support, Professional Reflection, and Retention (04/08)
Shana Koh - Leadership and Management Skills in Elementary and Secondary Preservice Teachers (04/08)
Cloetta Veney - The Multicultural Practices of Highly Effective Teachers of African-American and Latino Students in Urban Schools (04/08)
Jeffrey Strauss - Preservice Teachers: Future First Responders in the Evolution versus Intelligent Design Battle (04/08)
Said El Kacimi - Identity and Societal Integration: Exploratory Study of Muslim Immigrants in the United States (04/08)
Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos - Beyond Equality, Equity and Adequacy: Intra-District Resource Allocation Impact on School Achievement (04/08)
2007
Julia Corliss - A Journey Through the Reading Lives of Eleven Elementary Teachers: A Phenomenological Study of Elementary Teachers as Readers (12/07)
Jack Weimer - Designing and Building Things: A Synthesis of the Classical Liberal Arts and Design Studies under the Concept of the Ancient Architect Vitruvius with Applications to the Modern College General Education Program (12/07)
Matthew Fraijo - Demographic Trends, Student Achievement, and Educator Expectations: A Profile of Academic Attainment in the San Gabriel Valley (12/07)
Julianne Hoefer - Coherence in the Public School Principalship: A Case Study on the Extent to Which Elementary School Principals' Goals, Values, Vision, Self-efficacy, and Standardized Test Scores are Linked to Their Daily Behaviors (12/07)
Maureen Lorimer - Interdisciplinary Arts Education in Middle Level Schools (12/07)
Gary Gramenz - For the Joy Set before Them: Compassion, Altruism, and Satisfaction in L'Arche Community Homes (12/07)
Long Chen - The Presence and Usage of Computer Technology and the Internet in the Classroom: An Examination of Secondary School Students' and Teachers' Attitudes (12/07)
Marjorie Jones - The Impact of Leaders' Values and Organizational Culture on Hospitality Program Effectiveness (07/07)
Leeshawn Cradoc Moore - The Career Choices of Underrepresented Doctoral Recipients (04/07)
Erin Andrade-Lopez - Attending a California Continuation High School: A Second Chance for Student Success (04/07)
Cynthia López Elwell - "There Are No More Words Nowadays": How Caring and Community in One School Setting Became Casualties of Standardization and Statistical Accountability (04/07)
Brenda Simmons - Managing Enrollment: A Qualitative Study of the Effectiveness of Enrollment Management Planning at California Community Colleges (04/07)
Janet Arbesman - "I Know It in My Heart": Exploring 3- and 4-Year-Olds' Ideas of God in the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and Godly Play Programs, and Other Mainline Church Schools (04/07)
Omar Cook - African-American Males' Reflections on Their Preparation and Access to Post-Secondary Opportunities: The Impact of Counselors' Activities, Interactions, and Roles in Urban Schools (04/07)
Dexter Viray - A Comparative Study on the Effects of Competition on Leadership in Secondary School Settings in the United Kingdom and the United States (04/07)
Nicholas Block - Dual Immersion Programs in Predominantly Latino Schools (04/07)
Judy Devens-Seligman - Mathematical Problem Solving: Its Effect on Achievement and Attitudes of Elementary School Students (04/07)
Teri Hollingsworth - Four Years into No Child Left Behind: A Profile of California Tenth Grade Students' Well-Being and Mixed Methods Analysis of Its Associations with Academic Success (04/07)
Thomas Deegan - Leadership Instruction in California Public and Private High Schools: Preparing Students for Leadership Responsibilities (04/07)
Robin LaBarbera - Differences in Self-Efficacy, Goal Orientation, and Attributional Style in Two Groups of Adults with Learning Disabilities (04/07)
Adonay Montes - Possible Selves: The Role of Peers and their Influence in Shaping Latino Adolescent Schooling and Future Academic Outcomes (04/07)
Daniel Barth - Teaching Science Through Literature (04/07)
Paul Flores - "It Opened My Eyes": How Service-Learning Impacts Preservice Teachers' Beliefs and Attitudes About Culturally Diverse Students (04/07)
Jose Rodriguez - Interscholastic Participation and Academic Resiliency among Former Latino Immigrant Student Athletes (04/07)
Amber Wang - Contexts of Creative Thinking: Teaching, Learning, and Creativity in Taiwan and the United States (04/07)
Marilyn Thomsen - The Education of War: How Covering War Impacts Journalists' Understanding of Their Mission (03/07)
Fernando Rodriguez-Valls - The Barriohood Where Vernacular Voices Engaged in Conversations About Transculturation: A Critical Ethnography of Inner-city Schooling in Los Angeles (03/07)
Ming Zhou - Translatability and Untranslatability of a Cultural Artifact (02/07)
2006
Deborah Mercier - The Effects of "A Focused Approach to Frontloading English Language Instruction" on the Writing Skills of Fourth Grade English Language Learners (12/06)
Ticey Hosley - Access and Equality: An Examination of Selected African-American Student Perceptions of their K-12 Education (12/06)
Mary Gallagher - Improving Institutional Effectiveness: The Relationship between Assessing Student Learning Outcomes & Strategic Planning in California Community Colleges (12/06)
Beth Higbee - Effective Use of External Agents to Foster Meaningful Use of Data by School Districts (04/06)
Narcisa Skeete - The Importance of Teacher Ethnicity in Perceptions of Best Teachers by Students of Color (04/06)
Paula Meyer - Indigenous Language Loss and Revitalization in Tecate, Baja California (04/06)
Jerry Harrel-Smith - An Exploration of Intergenerational Connections (04/06)
LaMesha Carter - Utilization Practices of High School Students in an Enrichment Program (04/06)
Sandra Mayo - The Alpha Boys' School and Home: A Retrospective Study of its Role in Jamaican Society (04/06)
Lisa Marin-Burkhart - Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking: Developing Thinking Skills Among High School Students (04/06)
Kimra Musser - The Changing Face of the Kindergarten Culture: An Analysis of Past and Present Programs in Kindergarten (04/06)
Suzanne Larsen - Reading Assessment and Intervention Programs: A Longitudinal Study of California English Language Learners in First, Third, and Sixth Grades (04/06)
Laura Cowen - Feeding Practices in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: The Transition to Full Oral Feeding (04/06)
Marga Madhuri - An Examination of First Grade Reading Instruction in Scripted and Nonscripted First Grade Classrooms (04/06)
Judy Chiasson - Lifting the Veil of Heterosexism: Effecting Attitudinal Change Towards Sexual Minorities (04/06)
Jeanmarie Boone - Why Some English Learners Don't Finish High School (04/06)
Robert Humphreys - The Impact of Institutional Characteristics on Charter School Achievement: The Case of California (04/06)
Kimberly Hartnett-Edwards - The Social Psychology and Physiology of Reading/Language Arts Achievement (04/06)
Alane Daugherty - Physiological, Cognitive and Psycho-Social Effects of Emotional Refocusing: A Summative and Formative Anlaysis (04/06)
2005
Douglas Robinson - Reframing Higher Education within the California State University: The Faculty's Readiness to Embrace Change (12/05)
Anthony Ortiz - Teachers' Understanding, Perceptions, and Experiences with an Overlooked School Population: Children of Incarcerated Parents (12/05)
Tamara Collins-Parks - Stone's Information Strategies as Micropolitics: A Socio-Ecology of Stakeholder Political Agency in the Implementation of Post-Proposition 227 Language Policies (12/05)
Mir Hekmatullah Sadat - The Afghan Experience: An Exploratory Study of Societal Realities Through the Lenses of Afghan Diasporic Literary Works (12/05)
Laurel Schroeder - What High-Stakes Testing Means for the Emotional Well-Being of Students and Teachers (12/05)
Lois Fryer - Silenced Voices: A Narrative Study of Women's Experiences of Prison Life: Implications for Pedagogy and Quality of Life Experience (07/05)
Linda Lockey-Carlson - Social Capital for Working Class Latino Adolescents: Social and Informational Network Development in a Pre-College Program (07/05)
Wayne Snyder - Is There a Correlation Between Students' Perceptions of their Middle School Science Classroom Learning Environment and their Classroom Grades? (07/05)
Janis Balda - Feathers Falling on the Mind: Spirit Led Leaders and Organizational Decision-Making, A Phenomenological Study (07/05)
Kelly Smith - Examining Teachers' Pedagogical Decision Making Through Collaborative Metacognition (07/05)
Jennifer Cichocki - American Higher Education Overseas: Three Case Studies of Cross-National Relationships in the Arabian Gulf (07/05)
Ann Hagmaier - "Portraits of Love and Loss" A Narrative Study of Care-Givers for Individuals with Alzheimer's-Type Dementia (07/05)
Marco Villegas - Principals of Title 1 Achieving Schools and California Distinguished Schools: A Study of Roles and Behaviors (06/05)
Tryphenia Peele-Eady - God Don't Like Ugly: The Socialization of African American Children in Sunday School at a Missionary Baptist Church (04/05)
Priscilla Harris Watkins - Mentoring in the Scientific Disciplines: Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics Engineering Mentoring (04/05)
Nazanin Zargarpour - A Collective Inquiry Response to High-Stakes Accountability (04/05)
Carol Klein - The Relationship Between Virtual Charter Schools and Home Schooling (04/05)
Virginia Bergquist - Beyond Good Intentions: Ten White Female Teachers in Multicultural Classrooms (04/05)
Marie Sandy - Hermeneutic Passages in Academia and Community (04/05)
Michelle Tellez - Globalizing Resistance: Maclovio Rojas, A Mexican Community 'en lucha' (04/05)
Lynne Goldfarb - Transforming a Community College Class into a Democratic Experience: A Case Study Reuniting Education and Democracy (04/05)
Ivannia Hinman - Toward a Balanced Reading Approach: Effective Reading Pedagogy for Struggling English Learners (04/05)
Carmen Quintana - Social Justice Through the Arts: Remembering the Spirit of the Warrior (04/05)
Elizabeth Seward Unity Through Diversity: The Educational Model of the Seven Liberal Arts in the Twelfth Century (04/05)
Susan Gray - Good to Great: A Qualitative Study of School Principals Who Made the Leap (04/05)
Darla Calvet - From Road Scholars to Road Warriors: A Study of Leadership Profiles of Part-Time Faculty Union Activists (04/05)
Julie Vitale - Lesbians Share Stories of Their High School Experiences: Learning in the Shadows (04/05)
Susan McDougal - Instructional Practices That Make a Difference: How Effective Teachers Lead African American and Latino Students to Success (04/05)
2004
Jennifer Rachford - Mission-in-Action: Strategies and Resources for Enacting Good Work in Undergraduate Education (11/04)
Mari Luna De La Rosa - Making a Difference: Diverse College Faculty and Factors Influencing Student Engagement (11/04)
Mark Maine - Small High Schools: Transaction Cost Economics: The Economizing School Governance Model (11/04)
Robert Holcomb - Competing Paradigms: Exploring the traditional or progressive educational preferences of California community college students and instructors (11/04)
Bonita Jaros - Sounds of Survival and Regeneration: A Microstoria of the Holocaust, 1940-1945 (11/04)
Margaret Dodds-Schumacher - Crafting an Indentity: Narrative Study of Grassroots Helpers in an Age of Uncertainty (08/04)
Mathew Barnett - The Effects of Social Capital on the Academic Performance and Social Behavior of Students from Parochial and Public School Backgrounds (08/04)
Evangelina Brignoni - Authors in a Latino Family: Communication, Transformation and the Exception to the Rule (08/04)
Carol Bliss - The Capacity of Folk Song to Reveal Complexities in Mosuo Culture (08/04)
Virginia Burley - The Emergence of the Academic Department at the University of California: A Historical Study (04/04)
Claire Ellis - A Study of Emotional Intelligence Indicators in Continuation and Comprehensive High School Students (04/04)
Amy Shreves - The Writing Environments of Fourth Grade Classrooms Deemed Effective (04/04)
Robin Parry - Aging Well in an Educational Environment: The Role of Required Education for Residents in a College-Imbedded Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) (04/04)
Frederick Lanuza - Racial Isolation, Educational Equity, and the Right to Equal Access: The Carlin Case and School Integration (04/04)
David Bea - Modernizing Higher Education Administration: How Market and Economic Factors are Changing Small College and University Business Operations (04/04)
Valencia Jackson - Politics in Black and Brown: The Challenges of Coalition Building Between Blacks and Latinos in Los Angeles (04/04)
Mark Figueroa - Doctoral Student Socialization and Faculty Career Choice (04/04)
Heather Landis - The Educational Experiences of Emotionally Disturbed Children in Nonpublic Schools (04/04)
Crystal Green - Self-Assessment: An Empowerment Model for Refugee Health Programs (04/04)
Richard Pumerantz - Alumni-In-Training: Institutional Factors Associated with Greater Alumni Giving at Public Comprehensive Colleges and Universities (04/04)
Sara Exposito - Immigrant Dreams: A Study of Mexican Mothers and Language Choice (04/04)
Loretta Adrian - Asian American Leaders in Higher Education: An Exploration of a Dynamic Constructivist Approach to Leadership (04/04)
Weijiang Zhang - Institutional Development and Legacy: An Early Model of Effective Cross-Cultural Postsecondary Education --- A Case Study of the College of Chinese Studies in Beijing and The California College in China Foundation in California (04/04)
Kelly Moore - Diagnosing Students' Reading Strengths and Needs and Planning Their Subsequent Differentiated Instruction: A Comparative Investigation of Teachers' Performance (04/04)
Harry Obiako - The Relationship Between Special Education and Delinquency Among Minority Youth (04/16/04)
William Kratt - Diversity in Evangelical Christian Higher Education (04/16/04)
Susan Larsen - Social Blindness: An Autoethnographic Study of the Interplay of Language, Cognition, and Genetics in a Family with an Autistic Child (04/16/04)
Lisa Scott - The Sound of My Footsteps: Narratives of 30 Jamaican Immigrants in New York State and Nottingham, England (04/16/04)
Joseph Ybarra - Factors that Serve to Predict Hispanic Males Gaining Attendance to Colleges and Universities as Well as Receiving a Degree (04/16/04)
Alejandra Favela - Educational Border Crossers: Valuing Immigrant Students and Teaching with Ideological Clarity (04/16/04)
Pete Loza - The History, Theory, and Economics of Chicanos: A Phenomenological Study of Participants in Segregated Mexican Schools (04/16/04)
Diane Barrett - Pre-College Level Mathematics Courses in Higher Education: Predicting Student Placement (04/16/04)
Torria Bond - African American High School Students' Academic Success: Factors Influencing Their Performance (04/16/04)
Lynne Kennedy - Selection Criteria and Student Access to Algebra I (04/16/04)
Evette Hornsby-Minor - If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again: An Intergenerational Narrative Ethnography and Performance Ethnograpy of African American Motherhood (04/16/04)
Nola Butler-Byrd - Cultivating Hearts that Yearn for Transformative Social Justice: The Impact of Experiential Multicultural Education on Graduate-Level Counseling Students (04/16/04)
Soraya Nauroz - Working with the Heart: A Case Study of Caregivers of Individuals with Autism (04/16/04)
Reynaldo Monzon - Integration and Persistence of Filipino American College Students: The Mediating Effects of Family Obligation and Reputation (11/21/03)
Kennon Mitchell - Standing in the Gap: A Critical Case Study of the MAAT Academy (11/21/03)
Laura Padilla - Faculty Academic Socialization. Strengthening the Academic Profession in Mexico (11/21/03)
June Hilton - The Effects of Technology on Student Science Achievement (11/21/03)
Edward Bush - Dying on the Vine: A Look at African American Student Achievement in California Community Colleges (11/21/03)
