Dissertations and Theses from 2014
Dissertation: Open Access: A Tale of Two Schools: The Spiritual Development of Leaders in Protestant Seminaries, Patricia A. Rhodes PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Authenticity: Theoretical Considerations, Instrument Development, and Implications for Leaders, Lyn Taylor Peyton Roberts PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Comparative Study of Select Autism Advocacy and Research Organizations: Their Mission, Purpose and Focus Related to the Efficacy of Service(s) Provided to Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Peter Joseph Sciabarra PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Central and Secondary Struggles in Social Interventions: The Impact of Group Relations Learning on Real Life Practices, Ole-Kristian Setnes PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Educating the Whole Child: Evidence of Health and Wellness Instruction in the Schools Serving Low-Income Students, Andria M. Shook PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Do New Buildings, Equipment, and Technology Improve Student Outcomes? A Look at One Community College's Experience, Danene Twyman-Brown PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: "Parent trigger" Legislation in the United States: A Key to Parent Empowerment in the Local Context, Julie A. Zoellin Cramer PhD
Dissertations and Theses from 2013
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring the Impact on Students of Western Universities on Foreign Soil: A Case Study of Qatar, Richard Bakken PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Virtual Teamwork in a Business School Master's Program: Do Team Charters have an Impact?, Samuel Kyungjin Chung PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Coaching Teachers on Instruction: Developing Instructional Leadership Capacity within a Principal Preparation Program, John J. Franey PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Performance Assessment for Quality Teaching: Three Critical Variables for Measuring and Improving Teaching and Learning, Kathleen L. Gallagher PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Gambling in San Diego County: A Case Study, Michael Kelley PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Accounting for the Attrition of African American Males in an Academic Support Setting, Ronald R. Lancia PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Cultivating Compassion in Undergraduate College Students: Rhetoric or Reality?, Michael Lovette-Colyer PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Work/Life Boundary Management in an Integrative Environment: A Study of Residence Life Professionals Who Live at their Place of Work, Pressley Robinson Rankin IV PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Leadership for Innovation in the Memories Business: A Mixed Methods Study of a Hospitality and Tourism Marketplace, Lori J. Sipe PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring the Paradoxical Role and Experience of Fallback in Developmental Theory, Valerie Townsend Livesay PhD
Thesis: Belonging, Believing, Being: A Journey Toward Social Justice, Stacey Lynn Williams
Dissertation: Open Access: A Comparison of Predictors of Student Grades in Online and Face-to-Face Community College Courses, Pamela Kay Wright EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Data-Driven Decision Making: Teachers' Use of Data in the Classroom, Tammy Wu Moriarty PhD
Dissertations and Theses from 2012
Dissertation: Open Access: An Empirical look at Recipient Benefits Associated with a University-Issued Student Leadership Award, Robyn L. Adams PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Motivation Beliefs Inventory: Measuring Motivation Beliefs Using Four Motivation Theories, David C. Facer Jr. PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Investigating the Impact of a Mentor Text Inquiry Approach to Narrative Writing Instruction on Attitude, Self-Efficacy, and Writing Processes of Fourth Grade Students in an Urban Elementary School, Christine Marie Kealoha Kane EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Graduate Student Experiences: The Impact of a Mixed-Cohort Format, Kacy Kilner Hayes PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Value-Added Study of a Federal Grant Program in Mathematics for Military Dependent Students, Jay C. Marquand PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Preparing Global Leaders: A Theoretical Model for Understanding the Development of Intercultural Competency, Cynthia Ann Martinez PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Advising to Promote Self-Authorship: Exploring Advising Strategies and Advisor Characteristics among New Student Affairs Professionals, Emily Marx PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Undergraduate Classroom as a Community of Inquiry, Cara Taylor Miller PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: An Investigation of the Effects of Writing Instruction in an Ungraded Informal Learning Environment, Samuel Patterson EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: What We Can Learn from the Lived Experience of Asperger's Syndrome, Craig Allen Talbot EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Toward an Integrated Self: Making Meaning of the Multiple Identities of Gay Men in College, Daniel Weston Tillapaugh PhD
Dissertations and Theses from 2011
Dissertation: Open Access: What Do They Say? Students from a Private, Faith-Based, Four-Year University Share their Perspectives on College as a Mentoring Environment, Jeffrey Andrew Bolster EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: An Investigation of How Elementary School Teachers Make Data-Driven Instructional Decisions in Literacy, Cheryl Carangian Pham EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Experiential Education Approaches in Nonprofit Management and Leadership Education: An Examination of Master's Degree Programs Associated with the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council, Heather L. Carpenter PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Comparative Content Analysis of Five Spelling Programs in the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Grade, Katherine N. Davis EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Lived Experiences of 3rd Generation and Beyond U.S.-Born Mexican Heritage College Students: A Qualitative Study, Richard Galvan EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Perceptions of Leadership: An Analysis of College Students' Understandings of the Concept of Leadership, Paige Haber PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Tapping the Hidden Job Market through Informational Interviews: A Qualitative Examination of Students' and Professionals' Perspectives, Kimberly S. Hogelucht PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: How Working Mothers Negotiate Work-Family Conflict: An Exploration of Work Satisfaction, Home Life Satisfaction, and Partner Supportiveness, Karen Kramer Horning PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Study of the Impact of the Workplace Learning Function on Organizational Excellence by Examining the Workplace Learning Practices of Six Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Recipients, Cynthia J. Lewis EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: “Voluntary Sector-Rich” and “Voluntary Sector-Poor”: What Difference Does the Distinction Really Make?, Lindsey M. McDougle PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Parental Support of Latinos in Higher Education, Maria Lorena Meza PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploration of the Impostor Phenomenon in Law School Students, Owen Glenn Smith PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring the Growth of Text-Reading Fluency in Upper-Elementary English Language Learners during Instruction based on Repeated Reading, Katharine Staub Harrison EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Leadership for Social Change: Learning from Latina/Chicana Activist Educators, Marcia Venegas-García PhD
Dissertations and Theses from 2010
Dissertation: Open Access: The Experiences of Expatriate Teachers in International Schools: Five Ethnographic Case Studies, James S. Anderson EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Using Internet Videoconferencing to Connect Fashion Students With Apparel Industry Professionals, Vera Bruce Ashley EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Revitalization, Reinvigoration and Motivation of Survivors in Changed, Restructured and Downsized Organizations: A Study of Leadership Challenges in Local Government, Ronald L. Baza EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: An Empirical Look at the Relationship between Personality Type and the Challenges of Telecommuting, Jacquelyn E. Brown PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Indigenous Leadership: A Talking-Circle Dialogue with Cree Leaders, Julia L. Buchanan PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Contributions of the Unwanted, Claudia Estela Chavez McKay PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Examining the Role of Meaning-Making and Cultural Competence in How Teachers Understand and Approach their Work with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students, Sarina Chugani Molina EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Social Capital and Economic Empowerment: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship between Changes in the Value of Accumulated Assets and Measures of Social Capital among Rural South African Women, Robert Charles Gailey PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: An Investigation into Digital Media: Characteristics of Learning Objects which K-12 Teachers Determine Meet their Instructional Needs, Patricia Ann Guthrie EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Extending our Understanding of Social Belonging: College Students' Use of Technology, Psychosocial Well-Being, and Sense of Community in University Life, Sara Kathleen Henry PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Role of Higher Education in Advancing Nurse Practitioners: A Look at the Institutional Decision Calculus of a Health Sciences University, Debra Jo Johnson PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Examining Professional Development at the Organizational Level through the Lens of Teachers and Administrators, Lori Kelsey EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Effects of Instructor-Avatar Immediacy in Second Life, an Immersive and Interactive 3D Virtual Environment, Sabine Karine Lawless-Reljic EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Relationship between Reading Fluency, Writing Fluency, and Reading Comprehension in Suburban Third-Grade Students, Mary Leonard Palmer EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Strategic Planning: Contextual Factors that Facilitated and/or Challenged the Implementation of Strategic Planning in Two Nonprofit Organizations, Devadhasan Masilamony PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Postconflict Community Development in Sierra Leone: Western, Cultural, and National Influences, Whitney Mclntyre Miller PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Factors Influencing the Decision of High School Graduating Seniors in Corozal, Puerto Rico, to Pursue University Studies, Aned Yarelis Muñiz Gracia EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: An Investigation of the Test-Taking Skills and Associated Thinking Processes of Ninth Grade English Language Arts Students, Mary B. O'Shea EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: California Charter School Closures: Perspectives and Advice from Nine Former Charter School Directors, Jennifer Reiter-Cook EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Latina First Year Experience: Factors that Contribute to Persistence from the First to the Second Year in Higher Education, Guadalupe Rodriguez Corona EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Investigating the Self-Assessment of Adult Literacy Learners with Dyslexia across Several Cognitive Domains, Kelli Sandman-Hurley EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Understanding Charter School Governance: A Case Study of a Conversion Charter School Board of Directors, David Mark Silver PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Balancing Act: A Study of International School Heads' efforts to Manage the Professional and Personal Aspects of their Lives, Christiane PJ Sorenson EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Lost-Boys Phenomenon: Case Studies of San Diego High School Males, Richard Stakelum EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Women and Authority: Transitioning Into a Role of Assigned Authority as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in a Leadership Class, Lorri L. Sulpizio PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Teaching, Learning, and Writing in the Third Space: A Study of Language and Culture Intersecting with Instruction, Susan Toma-Berge EdD
Dissertations and Theses from 2009
Dissertation: Open Access: Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (NJROTC): The Impact of NJROTC Participation on Naval Accessions and Retentions, Phillip T. Angelini EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Restoring Confidence: A Qualitative Study of the Experience of Interim Commanding Officers in U.S. Navy Operational Units, Shoshana S. Chatfield EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: California Education Foundations: A Mixed Methods Study, Laura J. Deitrick PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Adult Learning and School Leadership: Application and Learning from a Group Relations Conference, Heather Dierolf EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: A Formative Experiment Investigating the Use of Reflective Video Journals to Increase High School Students' Metacognition, Brian Jeffrey Dixon EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Effects of Different Types of Prompts on Achievement and Attitude in Mathematics, Barbara R. Greer EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Impact of a Simulation Based Leader Development Training Program on Transformational and Transactional Leadership Behavior, Robin Louise McCoy PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Campus Internationalization Initiatives: From Policy to Practice in Study Abroad Programming, Kira Mendez Espiritu PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Impact of Authentic Leadership and Ethical Organizational Culture on Auditor Behavior, Janice Taylor Morris PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: From Strain to Success: A Phenomenological Study of the Personal and Academic Pressures on African American Male Community College Students, John R. Mosby PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring Efforts on Two College Campuses to Cultivate a Culture of Vocation, Mark Peters PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Congregation Activism in the Community: A Study of Faith-Based Leadership, Jensen Harry Shirley EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: More Power to You: Parental Experiences with the Public School Choice Option Provided by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Roslyn Williams Woodard EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: An Experimental Study of Instructor Immediacy in the Wimba Virtual Classroom, Lorah Wood Bodie EdD
Dissertations and Theses from 2008
Dissertation: Open Access: The Nonprofit Ethics Survey: A Contextual Approach, Audrey Dawn Barrett PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: School Web Sites within the Educational Marketplace: A Case Study Investigating the Parents as Engaged Consumer-Users, Claudia Jane Beeman EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Academic Writing and the Pedagogical Practices of Effective Teachers, Thomas DeVere Wolsey EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Improving College Retention by Identifying Factors Influencing Student Success, Maryjane Felter Leonard EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Private and Public University Students' Perceptions of Cultural Adjustment Problems in Study Abroad Programs, Walter R. Heinecke EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: The Role of Residential Learning Communities in the Faith Development of First Year College Students, Dayanne Izmirian PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: How Spirituality Impacts Ethical Leadership: A Cross-Case Analysis of Eleven Corporate Chief Executive Officers, Mary Rose Johnson EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Academic Achievement of Students in a Charter Homeschool, Mary A. Leeds EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Asian American Children's Literature: A Qualitative Study of Cultural Authenticity, Virginia S. Loh EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Teachers' Beliefs about the Factors that Support Successful Second Language Acquisition of Elementary School Students, Joann M. McDonald EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Roots of Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Education, Patricia Ottow Keen EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Provosts in Building a Student Learning Assessment-Supportive Organizational Culture: A Multiple-Site Evaluation within the California State University System, Chris Procello PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: E-Coaching in Organizations: A Study of Features, Practices, and Determinants of Use, Rebecca Vaughan Frazee EdD
Dissertation: Open Access: Developing an Instrument to Measure School Community Engagement with Implementation of Information Literacy Curriculum, Candace Wexler Aiani EdD
Dissertations and Theses from 2007
Dissertation: Open Access: Validating the Experiences of Male Mexican American Community College Transfer Students Studying at Catholic Universities, Eliazer Ayala-Austin EdD