Recent Dissertation Titles
  • Personalization in Small Learning Communities: Supporting Teachers’ New Roles in a Conversion SLC Middle School
  • Walk beside Them: How Superintendents Support Principal Change
    Sustaining Professional Learning Community in the Context of High Stakes Accountability
  • Mountain View High School:  Improving Algebra Instruction Through Professional Development
  • Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Higher Education Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities for Growth
  • Governance Training for California’s Charter School Boards
    In Their Own Words: Factors Leading to Transfer as Identified by Ten Resilient Latino Community College Students
  • Professional Development in Using CPM Mathematics: An Action Research Team Targets Teacher Response to Student Questions
  • Using Service Learning to Increase Mobile Students’ Connection to School
  • Open-Door Thinking: Metacognition in Reading Comprehension Instruction
    Addressing College Mathematics Remediation
  • First Year College Student Decision Making: How Freshmen Respond to the Stress of the College Transition
  • Diffusion of Innovation: A Study of the Impact of Professional Development Practices on Coherent Implementation Of Open Court Reading In the Los Angeles Unified School District
  • Instructional Program Coherence In The Implementation Of An Elementary English Language Arts Curriculum In A Large, Urban School District
  • A Small Learning Community Intervention Targeting Sense of Belonging: Impacts on Student Engagement and Staff Perception and the Influence of Autonomy
  • Building Positive Student-Teacher Relationships Through Middle School Advisory Programs
  • Promoting High School Graduation in a Small Charter School: An Intervention Targeting Student Participation and Identification
  • An Open Lunch Intervention Targeting Sense of Belonging within a House Plan Small Learning Community - The Impact on Student Engagement and Staff Perceptions and Practices
  • The Impact of Interactive PowerPoint Instruction On Teacher Practice and Student Writing in High-Poverty Classrooms
  • Factors that Contribute to Success and Resilience of a Community College in the Midst of Frequent Presidential Turnover
  • Women and College Choice:  A Comparison of Staff and Student Perceptions at Four Women’s Colleges
  • Freshmen College Student Mental Health and Their Resource Usage
    The Decline in the Admission of Underrepresented Minority Students to Selective Public Institutions after the Implementation of Anti-Affirmative Action Legislation
  • What Parents Think: Strategies that Facilitate a Successful Transition to Middle School
  • Coaching Online Students to Persist
  • Student Perceptions of the Efficacy of Learning Disability Support Services
    Family Perceptions of Parent Involvement Programs and Their Influence on Student Achievement
  • Servant Leadership for Law Enforcement
  • Isolating the Environmental Elements of Living Learning Communities that Affect Binge Drinking
  • Substitute Teachers as Effective Classroom Instructors
  • The Road Less Traveled: Latino Students and Impact of Studying Abroad
  • Project SECURE: Safety through Empowerment-Cultivating Understanding to Reduce Errors
  • The Perspectives of Nonscience-Major Students on Success in Community College Biology
  • The Effects of an Online Problem-Based Learning Training Module on Medical Faculty Teaching Behaviors
  • Capturing the Stories of Non-College Preparatory Latina/o High School Graduates: Reclaiming Their Stake in Education and Their Dreams
  • Collaborative Development of National Survey of Electronic Portfolios in US Higher Education
  • The Relationship Between Teachers’ Beliefs and Perceptions About Student Use of Computers and How They Integrate Technology Into Curricular Instruction
  • Aspirations of Community Leadership: A Study of Talent Engagement and The Barriers and Motivation for Faculty Leadership Development
  • Best Practices for Managing Parent Concerns: A Mixed Methods Study of Student Affairs Practice at Doctoral Research Institutions
  • Student’s Perception of Need For Support In A Mandatory Study Abroad Program
  • Encouraging Educational Excellence: Empowering Parents to Be Advocates For Their Children From Birth to College
  • Reinventing High School: Leadership and Collaboration in Small Schools on High School Conversion Campuses
  • An Investigation Of How Teachers And Administrators In Schools With Consistent High Achievement In Mathematics Learn From Each Other In And Through Their Practice
  • Special Education and Start-up Charter Schools: Ascertaining Needs and Creating Solutions
  • Increasing the Representation of Students of Color in Significant Leadership Roles on a Predominately White College Campus
  • Organizing High School Students For Educational Transformation
  • The Forgotten Ones: A Customized Intervention for Low Achieving Asian Students in Community College
  • Creating a College Culture at the Elementary School Level
  • Peer-Mentoring for Newcomer Immigrant Students
  • Transforming Aspirations to Actions in Early Readiness Programs: Action Research in Early College Outreach