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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:

Yalvac, Bugrahan

Title:

Online Peer Review and Students' Understanding of the Nature of Science

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Nature of science
Science education
Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Peer Review
Sociological Nature of Science
Scientific Literacy
Authentic Scientific Investigations
Philosophy of Science

File:

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Committee Members:

William Carlsen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wenda K Bauchspies, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carla Zembal Saul, Committee Member
Thomas M Dana, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Chih-Sheng

Title:

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKING EFL PRE-SERVICE TEAHCERS' ENGLISH LANGAUGE LEARNING STRATEGIES AND THEIR BELIEFS TOWARD TEACHING METHODOLOGIES

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

teacher education
pre-service teacher
language learning strategies
teaching beliefs

File:

Download cscthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Traister, Catherine Ann

Title:

The Perceptions of Student Teachers, Cooperating Teachers, and University Supervisors Regarding the Assessment of Student Teacher Performance

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Student Teaching Assessment

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James F Nolan Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Debra Freedman, Committee Member
Iris M Striedieck, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

Author:

Shen, Chia-Shen

Title:

Early Childhood Educators' Perceptions of Quality and School Climate in Preschool Programs

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

program quality
early childhood program
school climate

File:

Download Thesis_of_Chiashen_Shen.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
John W Tippeconnic Iii, Committee Member

Author:

Schuster, Dwight A

Title:

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT BY SCIENTISTS AND TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF SCIENCE

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Professional Development
Science Education
Nature of Science
Inservice Teachers

File:

Download DissertationFinal7-13.pdf

Committee Members:

William Carlsen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carla Zembal Saul, Committee Member
James F Nolan Jr., Committee Member
William Boyd, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member

Author:

Freeman, Harry Paul

Title:

Case Study of Mentor and Intern Relationships in a Professional Development School Context at the Secondary Level

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

mentor
intern

File:

Download hp_freeman_.pdf

Committee Members:

James F Nolan Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Daniel Marshall, Committee Member
Dr John W Tippeconnic, Committee Member
Jamie Myers, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Huei-Ling

Title:

Early Childhood Educators' Perceptions of Professional Competence in Preschool Settings

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

self-desired competence
current competence status
professional competence

File:

Download Thesis_of_Huei-Ling_Wang.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
John W Tippeconnic Iii, Committee Member

Author:

Tseng, Hsia-yen

Title:

Effect of Self-Management Procedure in Preschool Setting

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

self-management procedure
preschool

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
"Ribert F Nicely, Jr", Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

Author:

Mauch, James William

Title:

Social Mathematics in the Curriculum of American Civics: An Analysis of Selected National and State Standards and of Magruder's American Government

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

statistics
mathematics
numeracy
innumeracy
quantitative literacy
social mathematics
civics
citizenship
social studies

File:

Download newDISSERTATION.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Murry R Nelson, Committee Member
Marilyn L Page, Committee Member
John B Frantz, Committee Member

Author:

Garcia, Matilde E.

Title:

A Study of a Third Grade Character Education Curriculum Based on Feminist, Multicultural, and Critical Pedagogies

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Multicultural
Feminist Pedagogies
Curriculum
Character Education
Critical Pedagogies

File:

Download garcia.pdf

Committee Members:

Miryam Espinosa Dulanto, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Murry R Nelson, Committee Member
Madhu Suri Prakash, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Mei-ching

Title:

THE USE OF PROCESS WRITING AND INTERNET TECHNOLOGY IN A TAIWANESE COLLEGE ENGLISH WRITING CLASS: A FOCUS ON PEER REVIEWS

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

process writing
Internet technology
peer review
English writing

File:

Download Dis.pdf

Committee Members:

Lourdes Diaz Soto, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Grant H Henning, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

Author:

Dean, Patricia Kay

Title:

A KINDERGARTEN TEACHER’S LITERACY IN PLAY BELIEFS AND PRACTICES IN RELATION TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES BASED ON NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

full day kindergarten
play and literacy
emergent literacy
early c hildhood education
writing
play

File:

Download dean.pdf

Committee Members:

James Ewald Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Miryam Espinosa Dulanto, Committee Member
Daniel Dean Hade, Committee Member
Dr John Tippeconnic, Committee Member

Author:

Fillman, Robin M

Title:

THE ROLE OF A READING FIRST READING COACH IN A RURAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL DISTRICT AS PERCEIVED BY THE TEACHERS AND THE ADMINISTRATORS

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

literacy coach
reading first
rural schools

File:

Download fillman.pdf

Committee Members:

James Ewald Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Member
Daniel Dean Hade, Committee Member
John W Tippeconnic, Iii, Committee Member

Author:

Chu, Yun-Fen

Title:

RETELLING THE STORY OF HUA MU-LAN: MILITARY EXPERIENCES OF UNIFORMED WOMEN FROM ONE TAIWANESE SERVICE ACADEMY

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

gender performance
the gendered division of labor
Taiwanese servicewomen
nationalism
Confucianism
subjective experiences
subject positions

File:

Download Dissertation_fianl1.pdf

Committee Members:

Marnina Gonick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member