School of Education ETDs
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Exploring Principal Support for Teacher Learning Through Professional Learning Communities in Torchbearer Schools, Joseph P. Dawson
The Role of the Teacher in Family Involvement: A Multiple Case Study, Terri Garrison
Applying Charlotte Mason's philosophy to early childhood education: a qualitative study of four teachers' experiences, Grace Mooney
Self-Perceptions And Social Comparison With A Primary Focus On Racial Identity In African American, Hispanic And Caucasian Fifth-Grade Children, Jeffrey G. Moore
Exploring Perceptions Of Academically Underprepared Students At A Southeastern Community College, Lillian Yvonne Owens
Closing the University/School Divide: A Grounded Theory Approach to Preparation of Early Childhood/Elementary Education Teacher Candidates, Jennifer L. Summerlin
A Multiple Case Study Exploring Factors Promoting Nursing Faculty Satisfaction with Teaching Online in Three Schools of Nursing in the Southeastern United States, Nancy Pope Wingo
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Four Women of Courage: A Historiography of Early Childhood Education For African American Children in Alabama, Sharon Webb Abrams
The Role of Children's Books in Classroom Discourse and Pedagogy, Deborah Bailey
Concerning Shared Leadership Development: A Phenomenological Study of Administrator Experiences within Public-Private Partnerships, Brian James Barsanti
A Systematic Evaluation Of An Educational Bible Study Classes Focusing On Diabetes Prevention - Just Having C.H.U.R.C.H: Controlling How Unhealthy Regimens Can Hurt., Latoya Rena Bishop
The role of human ficolin-2 during invasive pneumococcal disease, Allison Marie Brady
Students' Perspectives of an Urban University Nutrition Environment: A Qualitative Approach, Kara Burnett
John Keats and the Perceiving Subject in The Fall of Hyperion: Poetics, Symbol, and Play, Clara Delene Busby
Principals' Perceptions Of The National Board Certification Process For Administrators: A Phenomenological Study, Wendolyn Conner-Knight
An Integrative Literature Review Assessing the Need for a Health Education Intervention for Adults with Pedophilia in Alabama, Lynn V. English
Baseline Measures Associated With Subsequent Weight Loss In Overweight Girls, Alexandra French
An Evaluation Of The Healthy Eating Active Living (Heal) Alabama Program For Prevention Of Childhood Obesity Among Fifth Grade Students, Kelley Devane Hart
An Investigation of Organizational Health and Student Achievement in Urban Title I Elementary Schools in Alabama, Lora Ann Johnson-Perry
Studying the Looping Cycle in Early Childhood Public Education: A Multiple Case Study Analysis, Katherine Allsopp Thomas
Understanding the Described Experiences of Court Judges, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Volunteers, Department of Human Resources Caseworkers, and Foster Parents, Mitsy Collier Wilbourne
How Children Quantify Area, James Wilder
Exploring The Impact Of Youth Participation In Community Service On Health Behaviors, Kymber Nigel Williams
Fifth Graders' Understanding of Fractions on the Number Line: A Standard Introduced in the Common Core State Standardards for Third Graders, Taajah Felder Witherspoon
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Development and Validation of a Survey Instrument to Assess Health Information-Seeking Behaviors Among African-AmericanYoung Professionals, Shauntice Allen
Perceptions of participating K-12 educational leaders' experiences and decisions regarding the crisis caused by the April 27, 2011 tornadoes in rural Alabama, William Earl Bishop
The Incidental Leader: The Role of Reading Recovery Training in the Professional Lives of Teachers in a Rural Alabama School System, Sharon Lynn Bounds
Describing Primary Grade Teachers' Practice Of Shared Reading As A Strategy To Build Vocabulary And Comprehension During Literacy Instruction In A Southeastern Urban School System, Daisy Lee Chandler
A Mixed Methods Study to Assess Family Quality of Life Among Caregivers of Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury, Stephen Louis Firsing
The Alabama Promise to Improve Student Achievement: A Phenomenological Study of Torchbearer Principals, Stacey P. Gill
Exploring Rti Reading Intervention For Hispanic English Learning Kindergarten Students In Central Alabama:, Kelly Leah Hill
Use Of Social Ecology And Mixed Methods Research To Develop An Instrument To Assess Determinants Of Hiv/Sti Risk Among A Young Adult Population, Lasonja Bonita Kennedy
Urban Kindergarten Teachers' Perceptions of Former Head Start Students and Their Readiness For School, Stephanie Hardy Parker
Academic Advising Experiences and Retention of First-Generation Students at a Public Historically Black College and University in the Southeastern United States, Jarrod Ennis Patterson
Engaging First Graders In Transformational Early Childhood Emergent Learning Themes, Amanda Daniel Pendergrass
Kindergarten Goes To The Fair! How the World's Fair of 1876 Advanced the Kindergarten Movement in the United States, Elizabeth Cornelius Pruett
A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of African American Female School Leaders in Suburban School Districts, Armentress Denise Robinson
Perceptions Of District Leaders, School Administrators, And Teachers Regarding The Professional Learning Community Model To Support Adult Learning, Kristi T. Sayers
Student Persistence Predictors And Community College Institutional Effectiveness, Jeffery Lee Shelley
Oral Language Development In Title I Preschools In Central Alabama: A Multi-Case Study, Suzanne O'Rear Snow
A Phenomenological Study of Principals' Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Alabama Torchbearer Schools, Mark Anthony Sullivan
A Quantitative Study Of Mathematics Teaching Self- Efficacy And Principal Instructional Leadership In Alabama Elementary Schools, Dilhani Uswatte
Overcoming the challenges of school improvement: A phenomenological study of nine Alabama principals, Corvetta Vann
Classroom Support Strategies for Students with ADHD: Frequency of Use, Level of Effectiveness and Roadblocks to Implementation, Angela Walker
Pregnancy Intentions Of Impoverished African American Boys, Jasmine Darrington Ward
Visible Learning in a Reggio Emilia Inspired Kindergarten: Parents' Descriptions of Documentation, Melissa Gibbons Whetstone
