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Author:

Searfoss, Annette Louise

Title:

Family and Center-Based Child Care Providers' Beliefs and Concerns About Professional Development Opportunities

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

child care
early childhood education
beliefs
concerns
professional development
Concerns-Based Adoption Model
expectancy-value theory

File:

Download Annette_Searfoss_Dissertation_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr James Johnson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Ewald Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James F Nolan Jr., Committee Member
Andrea Vujan Mccloskey, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

Author:

Burke, Brigid Moira

Title:

Experiential Professional Development: Promoting Communicative Language Teaching with Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound Design

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

professional development
Outward Bound
Expeditionary learning
communicative language teaching
foreign language teaching
world language teaching
experiential education

File:

Download EPD_dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Sandra J. Savignon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Member
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
James F Nolan Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Ballock, Ellen E.

Title:

The Development and Evaluation of a Self-Study Process for Critical Friends Groups

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

professional learning community
critical friends group
group development
professional development
self-study
goal-setting process

File:

Download BallockFinalThesisDocument.pdf

Committee Members:

James F Nolan Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen Treat Keifer Boyd, Committee Member
Bernard Joel Badiali, Committee Member
Iris M Striedieck, Committee Member

Author:

Petula, Jason

Title:

Teacher-to-Teacher Mentoring as Professional Development: Using Authentic Science as a Medium

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

mentoring
professional development
science education

File:

Download Jason_Petula_Dissertation_1.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott Mc Donald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carla Zembal Saul, Committee Member
John Daniel Marshall, Committee Member
Tanya Furman, Committee Member

Author:

Roman-Perez, Rosa Iris

Title:

Lessons for everyone from the basic skills classroom: A critical discourse analysis of basic writing syllabi

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

curriculum development
and sanctions
punishment
warnings
medical model
professional development
teaching assistant training
ideology
developmental
remedial
syllabi
basic writing
critical discourse analysis
pronouns
power and authority
history of remediation in US universities

File:

Download Rosa_Roman_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Patricia M Hinchey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Daniel Marshall, Committee Member
Peggy Noel Van Meter, Committee Member
Miryam Espinosa Dulanto, Committee Member

Author:

Lane-Myler, Jennifer Ann

Title:

Encountering and Accounts of "the other:" Teachers' perceptions and curricular planning following an immersion abroad

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Global education
intercultural immersion experiences
social studies education
teacher education
professional development

File:

Download Jennifer_Lane-Myler_Dissertation_4.26.2015.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephanie Cayot Serriere, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph M Valente, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeanine M Staples, Committee Member
Mindy L Kornhaber, Committee Member

Author:

Crowl, Michele Marie

Title:

The Influence of Professional Development on Informal Science Educators' Engagement of Preschool-age Audiences in Science Practices

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

informal science educators
professional development
preschool-age audiences

File:

Download Crowl_Dissertation_Curriculum_and_Instruction_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Julia Diane Plummer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carla Zembal Saul, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Heather A Zimmerman, Committee Member
Christopher Palma, Special Member

Author:

Robert, Jenay Robin

Title:

Case Studies of Tenure-track Science Professors: Exploring the Relationship between Teaching and Research

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

science education
stem faculty
higher education
professional development
research and teaching

File:

Download JenayRobertDissertation2016.pdf

Committee Members:

William Carlsen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rose Mary Zbiek, Committee Member
Gregory John Kelly, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member

Author:

Althewini, Abdulaziz M.

Title:

Saudi teachers’ beliefs about reading instruction in English as a foreign language (EFL)

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Saudi
ESL
EFL
teacher
teacher education
English
reading
professional development
belief
foreign language

File:

Download Althewini_dissertation_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Jamie Myers, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anne Whitney, Committee Member
Elizabeth A Smolcic, Committee Member
Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Committee Member

Author:

Grove, Doris Ann

Title:

The Impact of a Professional Development School on Professional Development in the Partner School District: A Case Study

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

professional development
partnerships
teacher leadership
school renewal
school reform

File:

Download _DorisDissertationFinal2.2.pdf

Committee Members:

James F. Nolan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James F. Nolan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernard J. Badiali, Committee Member
Roger Shouse, Committee Member
P. Karen Murphy, Outside Member