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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:

Griess, Carolyn Jean

Title:

Educating Early Educators: Voices of Early Childhood Educators Participating in Formal Education as Part of a Statewide Quality Rating Improvement System

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

teacher preparation
QRIS
early childhood

File:

Download GriessDissertation2012a.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathleen Mary Collins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Ewald Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephanie L Knight, Committee Member
Jane B Keat, Committee Member

Author:

Connelly, Kimberly Ann

Title:

The Primary Practices Questionnaire (PPQ): The Development and Validation of an Instrument Measuring Teachers' Perceptions of their Implementation of 'Developmentally Appropriate' Responsive Practices in the Primary Grades

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

elementary education
early childhood education
primary grades
survey development
teacher practices
developmentally appropriate practices

File:

Download Connelly_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

James F Nolan Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Ewald Johnson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephanie L Knight, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

Author:

Schappe, Julie Frear

Title:

Ethnography of Adolescent Literacy: Sociocultural Understandings of Literacies, Places, Materials, and Social Relationships

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

adolescent literacy
literacies
place
mapping
multimodal literacies
multisituated literacies
ethnography
journey

File:

Download Schappe_Ethnography_of_Adolescent_Literacy_Dissertation_2013_.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeanine M Staples, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeanine M Staples, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kimberly Anne Powell, Committee Member
Scott Mc Donald, Committee Member
Booker Stephen Carpenter Ii, Committee Member

Author:

Sullivan, Patrick

Title:

Characterizing the Nature of Students' Feature Noticing-and-using With Respect to Mathematical Symbols Across Different Levels of Algebra Exposure

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Noticing
Features
Algebra
Algebraic Symbols
Symbolic Representations
Student Learning

File:

Download Sullivan_Dissertation_14_130328.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Kathleen Heid, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Kathleen Heid, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Glendon Wilbur Blume, Committee Member
Rose Mary Zbiek, Committee Member
Mark Levi, Committee Member

Author:

Blahus, Rebecca Anne

Title:

Perceptions of Primary Teachers Using Responsive Classroom in the Era of No Child Left Behind

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Responsive Classroom
No Child Left Behind
teachers response to change

File:

Download R._Blahus_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

James F Nolan Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James F Nolan Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Iris M Striedieck, Committee Member
Bernard Joel Badiali, Committee Member
Robert James Stevens, Committee Member

Author:

Ngomba-Westbrook, Nalova

Title:

Tensions of Teaching Media Literacy in Teacher Education

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

literacy studies
media literacy
media studies
teacher education
survey research
case study

File:

Download WestbrookDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeanine M Staples, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephanie L Knight, Committee Member
Ladislaus M Semali, Committee Member

Author:

Mason, Lance Ernest

Title:

Cultivating Democratic Habits of Communication in the Social Studies

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

John Dewey
habits
communication
social studies
philosophy of education

File:

Download MASON_Dissertation_-_Cultivating_Democratic_Habits_of_Communication_-_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott Alan Metzger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Murry R Nelson, Committee Member
Alan M Sica, Committee Member
Shannon Wimberley Sullivan, Committee Member

Author:

Johnson, Kim Helene

Title:

understanding proportional reasoning of pre-service teachers

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

proportional reasoning
pre-service teachers
ratio
problem solving

File:

Download Johnson_Dissertation_072413.pdf

Committee Members:

Rose Mary Zbiek, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrea Vujan Mccloskey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Kathleen Heid, Committee Member
Nona Ann Prestine, Special Member

Author:

Grady, Maureen M

Title:

Students’ conceptions of mathematics as sensible (SCOMAS) framework

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

conceptions of mathematics
mathematics education
productive disposition

File:

Download MaureenGrady_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Edith Frances Arbaugh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Glendon Wilbur Blume, Committee Member
Gwendolyn Monica Lloyd, Committee Member
Andrea Vujan Mccloskey, Committee Member
Kai Arthur Schafft, Committee Member

Author:

Jin, Seunghee

Title:

The Use Of Facebook To Promote Korean EFL Learners' Intercultural Competence

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Web 2.0
Social networking
Facebook
EFL
ESL
Intercultural communication
Intercultural competence
telecollaboration

File:

Download Dissertation_FINAL_Seunghee_Jin_0715.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Edward Poehner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Mark Thomas Kissling, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member

Author:

Cone Hernbloom, Lisa Ann

Title:

Negotiating Race To The Top: An Intervention Teacher's Story

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

positioning
Race to the Top
intervention
autoethnography
critical policy analysis
agency

File:

Download Lisa_Ann_Cone_Hernbloom_Dissertation_The_Pennsylvania_State_University.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathleen Mary Collins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Member
Dorothy H Evensen, Special Member

Author:

Feeley, Susan Jane

Title:

Assessing Understanding of the Concept of Function: A Study Comparing Prospective Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Responses to Multiple-choice and Constructed-response Items

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Understanding
Function
Secondary Mathematics Teachers
Assessment
Multiple-Choice Items
Constructed-Response Items
Sierpinska
Indicators of Understanding
Certification

File:

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Committee Members:

Glendon Wilbur Blume, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Kathleen Heid, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nigel David Higson, Committee Member
Rose Mary Zbiek, Special Member

Author:

Xu, Xu

Title:

The Nation's Child: Childhood, Children's Literature and National Identity in Modern China

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Childhood
Children's Literature
National Identity
Modern China

File:

Download Xu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Gail Louise Boldt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gail Louise Boldt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Dean Hade, Committee Member
Jacqueline J A Reid Walsh, Committee Member
Shuang Shen, Committee Member

Author:

Slivka, Julie Anne

Title:

Exploring adolescents' productions of affect through beadwork

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

affect
literacy
play

File:

Download JSlivkaDissertation_11.22.13_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Gail Louise Boldt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gail Louise Boldt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kimberly Anne Powell, Committee Member
Christine Thompson, Committee Member
Charles Richard Garoian, Special Member

Author:

Shimizu, Jeanne Keiko

Title:

The Nature of Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Efforts to Make Ideas of School Algebra Accessible

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

teaching practices
quasi-teaching practices
teaching
accessible
framing
decompressing
trimming
bridging

File:

Download Shimizu_Dissertation_all_chapters_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Kathleen Heid, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Kathleen Heid, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rose Mary Zbiek, Committee Member
Glendon Wilbur Blume, Committee Member
Mark Levi, Committee Member

Author:

Oliveras, Yanira

Title:

The empirical relationship between administrator ratings of teacher effectiveness and student achievement on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

administrator ratings
teacher effectiveness
student achievement

File:

Download Oliveras_Dissertation_The_Empirical_Relationship_between_admin_ratings_of_teacher_effectiveness__stu_achievement_on_Texas_STAAR.pdf

Committee Members:

James F Nolan Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernard Joel Badiali, Committee Member
Iris M Striedieck, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

Author:

Arends, Jessica Hope

Title:

Faculty conceptualizations of global service-learning: Envisioning change, doing damage, and the role of identity

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

global service-learning
faculty
motivations
critical reflection
community impacts
identity

File:

Download Faculty_Conceptualizations_final_Arends_2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephanie Cayot Serriere, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth A Smolcic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine M Thompson, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Special Member