Theses and Dissertations

 
A selection of open access theses and dissertations from graduate students in the Fischler College of Education.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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Dissertation: Promoting Social Emotional Intelligence in Elementary School Children, Beryl Irene Bailey

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Dissertation: Promoting Social Emotional Intelligence In Elementary School Children, Beryl Irene Bailey

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Dissertation: Development of a Needs-Driven Theory-Based Model For Medication-Taking Education With Plans for Implementation and Evaluation, Jana M. Bajcar

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Development of a Needs-Driven Theory-Based Model for Medication-Taking Education With Plans for Implementation and Evaluation, Jana M. Bajcar

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Dissertation: Improving the Representation of Minority School Age Children In Gifted Education Programs Through A Multifaceted Referral and Evaluation Process, Magali Balado

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Dissertation: Implementation of Measures That Establish an Atmosphere Of Safety, Order, and Discipline on School Grounds, Robert N. Baldwin

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Dissertation: The Creation and Implementation of a Teacher In-Service Training Program to Change Classroom Strategies of Teachers Of Learning Disabled Students, Samuel R. Barfell

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Dissertation: Discovering, Supporting, and Advancing Gifted Education Students, Victoria Barkwell

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Dissertation: Improving Reading Instruction and Student Achievement In Fourth Grade, Manuel C. Barreiro

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Dissertation: The Creation of a Diagnostic Reading Program Designed to Meet The Developmental Needs of Primary Grade Readers, Thomas A. Baruffi

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Dissertation: Addressing the Training Needs of Educational Professionals Related to Students With Special Needs, Sue E. Bast

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Dissertation: Leading the District-Mandated Technology Focus at Twin Lakes Elementary Through The Development, Validation, and Implementation Of a Technology Training Program, Kristen E. Bazley

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Dissertation: Improving the Reading Comprehension Achievement of Third Grade Students, Delores L. Bedar

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Dissertation: The Role of Homework in Relation to Student Achievement, Rita Bernard

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Dissertation: Reducing Male Student Discipline Referral Rates At Westview Elementary School, Virginia Glass Berry

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Dissertation: Attachment Theory and the Secondary Student: Notes to Teachers, George H. Biggs

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Dissertation: Success Through Access: A Plan to Serve Students With Disabilities in the Liberty Central School District, Barbara Hackett Blakey

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Dissertation: A Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Program At an Inner-City High School, Tyrone A. Blue

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Dissertation: Resiliency Training of Sixth-Grade Students In an Educational Setting, Matthew K. Boggan

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Dissertation: Project Second Chance: A Dropout Prevention Program, May W. Bolden

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Dissertation: Improving the Academic Achievement of Sixth-Grade Students Who Do Not Perform at Grade Level in Mathematics, Eileen M. Bond

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Dissertation: Strategies to Reduce Student Ejections From the Classroom, Phyllis Booth

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Dissertation: Increasing the Use of Spatial and Musical Intelligences To Demonstrate Understanding of Learning in Middle-School Students, Tempest Diane Booth

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Dissertation: Improving Reading Achievement by Reviewing and Adopting A Kindergarten-Grade 6 Balanced Reading Program, Rodney L. Borger

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Practicum: Comparision of the Clinical Outcomes of Neonatal Nurse Practitioners and Pediatric Residents At All Children’s Hospital, Carol Botwinski

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Dissertation: Poetry: An Intervention to Improve the Fluency and Comprehension Skills Of Reluctant Readers in the Primary Grades, Monica A. Boyko

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Dissertation: Improving School Bus Safety by Reducing Bus Accidents, Thomas F. Boyle

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Dissertation: Is Enrollment in Algebra an Effective Strategy for Helping African American Students Pass the Mathematics Section of the California High School Exit Exam?, Deborah Bradshaw

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Dissertation: Measuring the Effectiveness of a New Midterm Feedback Form On the Graduate Clinicians’ Ability to Discern Their Clinical Strengths and Weaknesses, Tambi L. Braun

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Dissertation: Will a New Math Program Improve Burnsville Elementary School Third Grade Student Achievement?, Debra B. Brewer

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Dissertation: The Effect of Humor on Test Anxiety and Performance In Distance Learning Students, John Briggs

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Effect of Computer-Mediated Communications on Graduate Student Interactions, Douglas E. Brinkley

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Dissertation: Implementing the Six-Traits Model and Step Up to Writing To Improve the Writing Skills of Fourth Grade Students, Precious E. Broadnax

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Dissertation: The Value of a Public School Literacy Program In a Rural Setting, Wanda Brownlee

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Practicum: Training Teachers to Meet the Developmentally Appropriate Needs Of Preschool Children, Sharon R. Brown

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Dissertation: A Study of the Effectiveness of The Waterford Early Reading Program in a Rural School District, Dennis L. Bruno

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Dissertation: Evaluation of the Averett University Leadership Minor Program, Paul A. Bryant

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Dissertation: Improving the Spatial-Temporal Reasoning Ability Of Low-Achieving Third-Grade Students, Austin G. Buffum

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Dissertation: Improving Academic Performance of Students With Learning Disabilities, Francis Bundukamara

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Dissertation: Using Online Spatial Visualization Activities In a Geometry Course for Preservice Elementary Teachers, Kathy Bauman Burgis

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Professional Development Design Focused on Student Achievement and Research-Based Practices for Improved Reading Comprehension of Grade 5 Students, Karen Courtney Burke

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Dissertation: The Impact the Organizational Leadership Has on Selected Factors At the Georgia Commission on Equal Opportunity, Lisa L. Burroughs

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Dissertation: The Role of Rural School Superintendents On the Diffusion of Distance Education in South Dakota, Calderone L. Calderone

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Dissertation: El Desarrollo Comunitario en la Formación Docente en Una Universidad a Distancia En Venezuela, Silvia Camejo

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Dissertation: Improving Kindergarten Children’s Writing Through a Comprehensive Writing Program, Lori Canning

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Dissertation: Estrategias de Aprendizaje Y Desempeño Académico en Estudiantes Del Primer Año Universitario, Alicia Cardozo Hernández

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Dissertation: The Impact of Technology Workshops and Technology Integration in an Elementary School, Jill L. Carr

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Dissertation: Reading Achievement in the Elementary Grades, Jeri Cepura

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Dissertation: Development of an Associate of Applied Science Degree In Digital Photography at the Community College of Southern Nevada, Edie Chiarappa

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Dissertation: Using Graphic Organizers to Enhance the Academic Achievement And Self-Esteem of Haitian Esol Students, Ingrid Chrisphonte

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Dissertation: Development of a Retention Plan to Monitor African American Student Withdrawals at a Public School for the Performing Arts, Cody L. Clark

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Dissertation: Establishing a Culture of Reading at The Middle School Level to Improve Reading Achievement, Neal W. Clark

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Dissertation: Instructional Technology, Motivation, Attitudes and Behaviors: An Investigation of At-Risk Learners in the Middle School General Music Classroom, Sharon A. Clark

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Dissertation: An Alternative Staff Development Plan For an Alternative Education Setting, Vashti Moore Clayton

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Dissertation: Student Job Retention: An Urban Alternative High School Work-Study Improvement Plan, David W. Clegg

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Dissertation: Improving Reading Achievement by Integrating Technology In After School Instructional Programs, Timothy L. Cliby

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Dissertation: Case Study Project: A Professional Development Approach Linked to Student Achievement, Martha Adam Colwell

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Dissertation: Improving Administrators’ Skills and Knowledge Of Personnel Procedures Through The Use of a Web Site, Frederic E. Conde

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Dissertation: An Intervention Reading Program to Increase Reading Skills in 18 Months From CMT Proficient to Grade-Level Performance, Anthony J. Cordone

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Dissertation: A Professional Development Plan for Teachers Designed to Increase Student Enrollment in The Advanced Placement Program at Southwest Miami High School, Lucia Cox

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Dissertation: Technological Remediation: Special Education High School Students and High-Stakes Testing, Yvonne Craycroft Kirk

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Dissertation: Improving Adolescents’ Reading Achievement by Offering Increased Time to Read and Teaching Reading Strategies, Susan Albright Currie

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Dissertation: Implementing a Preschool Program in a Rural School District, Elden Daniel

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Dissertation: Development of a Career Planning and Placement Model With a Plan for Implementation and Evaluation, Thwanda L. Davidson

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Dissertation: The Role of the School Administrator in Building A Positive Culture in a New Elementary School Setting, Amy R. Davis

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Dissertation: A Comprehensive Program to Increase Reading Development Of Fifth-Grade Students at Monrovia Elementary, Cheryl R. Davis

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Dissertation: The Effects of Home-School Communication on Parental Involvement, Donna DeMusis Dekle

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Dissertation: Developing Block Schedule Instructional Methods in A Learning Organization at Theodore High School, Tammy D. Dennis

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Dissertation: Phonemic Awareness and Beginning Literacy Skills in Lower Socioeconomic Native American Kindergarten and First Grade Students, Ellen-Sue Diamant

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Dissertation: Development of a Sports Management Option to The Associates Degree in Health and Exercise Science At Camden County College, With a Plan for Implementation And Evaluation, Nicholas J. DiCicco

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Development of a Program for Improving Faculty Retention in Optometric Education With Implications for Faculty Recruitment Efforts, Sally M. Dillehay

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Dissertation: Inservice Needs of Online Adjunct Instructors, Judy Donovan

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Dissertation: Increasing Enrollment Sustainability: A Practical Model For a Community College’s Leadership, Dwight D. Dorman

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Dissertation: Addressing the Response and Responsibility of the Education System to The Social Concerns of At-Risk Students in American Schools: An Evaluative Study Of a Partnership Intervention Program, Ina Dorman

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Dissertation: The Relationship Between the Academic Achievement and Social Development Of First and Second Grade Students Identified for Participation In Early Intervention Program Classrooms, Freda Doster

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Dissertation: Case Study of Public School 370 and Implementation of An Education Program for Disabled 18- To 21-Year-Old Detainees, Dawn A.J. Downing

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Dissertation: El Uso Del Tiempo en El Aula Y El Rendimiento Académico de Los Estudiantes De Educación Básica en El Estado Bolívar, Maria Milagros Draegert

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Dissertation: Development of the Instructional Skills Program At the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Jane E. Duncan

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Dissertation: Evaluating the Effective Use of Technology In Education, Kathy A. Dunne

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Dissertation: Measuring the Prevalence and Assessing the Determinants of Depression Among Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Implications for Treatment, Drew Edwards

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Dissertation: Development and Evaluation of a Leadership Skills Curriculum for The Committee to Aid Abused Women in Northern Nevada, Susan Joy Edwards

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Dissertation: An Intervention to Remediate Motivational Shortcomings Caused by Childhood Maltreatment, Glade Eggett

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Dissertation: Revising Professional Development to Prepare Teachers For The Early Childhood Education Classroom, Irma J. Ellington

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Dissertation: Ninth-Grade Transition: A Program to Ensure An Effective Transition to High School, Steven Ellis

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Dissertation: Principal Evaluation: Development of a Collaborative Tool For School Improvement, Stephen W. Elrod

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Dissertation: Hands and Hearts for Children: A Family/School/Community Partnership Initiative, Charla C. Evans

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Dissertation: Implementing Positive Behavioral Interventions And Supports At Aspen High School, Kendall Evans

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Dissertation: Funding Options and Issues Regarding Capital Construction Projects in Jackson County Schools, Keith S. Everson

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Dissertation: Increasing Parental Involvement Through The Use of Homeroom Parent Support Groups, Shirley Ann Ewing

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Dissertation: A Plan to Retain a Greater Number of Probationary Teachers in the Aspen School District, Thom H. Farrell

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Dissertation: Development and Implementation of a Plan to Reduce Aggressive and Violent Behavior of Middle School Students During and After the Lunch Period, Carrissima W. Faust

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Dissertation: Desarrollo de Un Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizaje en Salud Pública, Mariano Fernández Silano

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Dissertation: Designing Student Teaching Experience To Reflect Best Practice, JoAnne Ferrara

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Dissertation: Reducing the Failure Rate Of English for Students of Other Languages (ESOL) in Levels III and IV in the Mainstreamed Classroom, Manuel Ferrer

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Dissertation: The Development of a Work Plan To Fund the Building of a New Facility, Gayle Florence Cane

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Dissertation: An Investigation Into the Effects of Collaborative Co-Teaching on the Achievement Of Eighth Grade Students With Learning Disabilities, Karen Culmo Fontana

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Dissertation: Providing a Curriculum in Kindergarten That Develops Reading Skills for Students Prior To Their Entrance Into First Grade, Linda J. Fouse

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Dissertation: The Negative Impact of Middle School Mathematics Achievement on Classical High School, William G. Frost

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Dissertation: A Second Chance for Struggling Students, Irene R. Fujii

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Dissertation: An Evaluation of Curricular Effectiveness in Addressing Critical Thinking Skills Among Physical Therapist Assistant Programs in New England, Elizabeth V. Fuller