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Author:

Lin, Yen-Chun

Title:

Parents' Perceptions of Child's Play and the Relation to Children's Development of Social Competence and Creativity

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

child play
social competence
creativity

File:

Download Yen-Chun_Lin_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Tomas Yawkey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Dean Hade, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
Robert Lee Burgess, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Yu-Chuan

Title:

Private Kindergarten Scorecard

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

performance management
self-evaluation

File:

Download Final_Defense_4-30-2007_-stakeholer_internal_organizaion_process.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
William Hartman, Committee Member

Author:

TSAO, YA-LUN

Title:

The Impact of Social Play Activities on Promoting Social Interactions of High-Functioning Autistic Children in Taiwan

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

social play activities
high-functioning autistic children
pivotal response training (PRT)

File:

Download 911361854_Ya-Lun_Tsao.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pamela S Wolfe, Committee Member
Ladislaus M Semali, Committee Member
Rama B Radhakrishna, Committee Member

Author:

Burns, Rebecca West

Title:

Conceptualizing Supervision in the Professional Development School Context: A Case Analysis

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Professional Development Schools (PDS)
Supervision
Hybrid Educator
Field Experiences
Clinical Faculty
University Liaison

File:

Download Burns_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernard Joel Badiali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James F Nolan Jr., Committee Member
Dr Kimberly Powell, Committee Member
Stephanie L Knight, Special Member

Author:

Olan, Elsie L

Title:

Stories of the past and present:what preservice secondary English teachers draw on when learning to teach writing

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

writing
preservice secondary English teachers
teacher education
stories
pedagogical tools
inquiry assignment
SCT
SCAT

File:

Download E._Olan_Diss.The_Pennsylvania_State_University.pdf

Committee Members:

Angiline Louisa Whitney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Angiline Louisa Whitney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
James F Nolan Jr., Committee Member
Roger C Shouse, Committee Member

Author:

Fuentes, David Andres

Title:

Exploring Pre-service teachers' historical thinking through the Cooperative Biography: A Design-based Research Study

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Historical thinking
Historical understanding
pre-service teachers' perceptions of history
design-based research
history education

File:

Download D._Fuentes_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephanie Cayot Serriere, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephanie Cayot Serriere, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scott Alan Metzger, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member

Author:

D'Urso, Alexandra

Title:

Life stories and sociological imagination: Understanding identity in France and Sweden vis-à-vis the life works of Faudel and Adam Tensta

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

life stories
public pedagogy
Adam Tensta
Faudel
living biography
sociological imagination

File:

Download DissertationFINAL-withFrontMatter.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacqueline Edmondson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Meredith Christine Doran, Committee Member
Gail Louise Boldt, Committee Member

Author:

Boyer, Elisebeth Connolly

Title:

Preservice Elementary Teachers’ use of a Discursive Model of Meaning Making in the Co-construction of Science Understanding

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

elementary
science
preservice
discourse
argument

File:

Download Boyer_Dissertation_7-16-12.pdf

Committee Members:

Carla Zembal Saul, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carla Zembal Saul, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scott Mc Donald, Committee Member
Kimberly Anne Powell, Committee Member
Susan G Strauss, Committee Member
Glendon Wilbur Blume, Special Member

Author:

Wu, Ying-Chi

Title:

A story of the past makes its way to the present: Mobility in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Alice in Wonderland
media adaptations
mobility
picturebook
pop-up book
e-book

File:

Download Wu_Dissertation.pdfDownload permissions_for_image_use.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Dean Hade, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacqueline J A Reid Walsh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Dean Hade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline J A Reid Walsh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steven Herb, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member

Author:

Mohamed Jiri, Khairul Aini

Title:

Becoming teachers of English-language learners in two multicultural countries: narratives from preservice teachers in the United States and Malaysia

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Malaysia
Comparative and International Education
Teacher Education
English as a Second Language
Multiculturalism

File:

Download Khairul_Aini_Thesis_2012_R_.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Youb Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Youb Kim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kyle Leonard Peck, Committee Member
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Susan G Strauss, Special Member