Dissertations (GSE)
Dedicated to improving education policy, practice, and research, Penn's Graduate School of Education engages in work that informs policy deliberations at all levels of government, makes major contributions to the education research base, and provides valuable knowledge and services to practitioners and education leaders.
Programs are offered leading to the Master of Science in Education (M.S.Ed.), the Master of Science (M.S.), the Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), the Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), and the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees. Our degree programs offer a range of professional preparation for those seeking to begin or advance in a career in education. The School’s programs are organized in four academic divisions — Applied Psychology and Human Development; Foundations and Practices in Education; Language and Literacy in Education; and Policy, Management and Evaluation.
Theses and Dissertations from 2008
Mind the gap! Examining the gender differences in African American educational achievement, Faye Allard
Circles of support: New urban teachers' social support networks, Kira J Baker-Doyle
Pre-service teacher beliefs about language learning: The second language acquisition course as an agent for change, Deborah Busch
The distributed leadership experiment: First year impacts on school culture, teacher networks, and student achievement, Russell Cole
Multiple perspectives on the preparation and support of alternative certification teachers: A case for content- and context-specific support, Sarah Christen Costelloe
The relationship between the emotional intelligence of the principal and teacher job satisfaction, John B Craig
The strategic planning process: An analysis at two small colleges, Sharon Beth DeVivo
Language education policy and its implementation in three schools in Windhoek, Namibia's capital city, Aminata Diallo
Strategic planning as though learning matters: In search of evidence at small colleges, Eleanor A Fogarty
The land-grant mission 2.0: Distributed regional engagement, Nancy Elizabeth Franklin
Demystifying teacher leadership in comprehensive high schools, Robert Joseph Fraser
A qualitative examination of a university/theatre partnership based on Kanter's partnership phases, Ty A Furman
Bridges and barriers: The impact of structure on coordination in civic engagement, Kelly A Grady
Beyond the gates: An exploration of socioeconomically disadvantaged students navigating the University of Pennsylvania, Kenneth D Grcich
The freshman fizzle: A case study at the New York University Stern School of Business Undergraduate College, Susan M Greenbaum
Principal collaboration through the lens of communities of practice to improve student attendance at the local school level, Linda Ellen Grobman
What institutional conditions are indicators of migration to the Kuali Foundation's(RTM) community-source software partnership?, Clare Hansen-Shinnerl
Partners in learning: How Millennial students and advisors perceive advising within the first-year seminar, Anne J Herron
Social class and college choice in an independent school, Erin Purcell Hughes
Undergraduate leadership development at MIT: Making meaning from student leadership experience, Stephen David Immerman
The connection between assessment, accountability, and leadership in a systemic school improvement process, Danita Yolanda Ishibashi
(Co)constructing identities in urban classrooms, Cheryl Jones-Walker
African American male students' success in an urban community college: A case study, Peter Grant Jordan
35-Plus: The social studies department at Media Line High School, 1965--2007, Michael Edward Karpyn
Organizational analysis of teacher decision making and its effects in charter schools, Constance Keefe
Urban school districts' management of business, foundation, and private funding sources, Candy Lee
The influence of organizational culture on incremental change in higher education: A case study, Janet Lindner
"Eighth sister" no more: The evolving mission of Connecticut College, Paul Philip Marthers
Troubling teachable moments: Initiating teacher discourse on classroom homophobic speech, Robert Alan McGarry
Examining changes in role conceptualization in aspiring principals, Christopher W McGinley
Envisioning future selves: African American medical students on the path to careers in academic medicine, Marc Andre Nivet
Parsing Hispanic-White achievement gaps: The influence of individual, family, and school factors on Mathematics achievement differences in the elementary grades, Irma L Perez-Johnson
Revenue center management at the University of Southern California: A case study, Amir Rahnamay-Azar
"Ever to excel": A study of presidential leadership in progress, Mark C Reed
An analysis of factors that influence matriculation at the masters level, Rona D Rosenberg
Program expansion as an adaptive strategy: Case studies of three specialized institutions, Tamara Anne Rozhon
Fundraising strategies in higher education: Black, white---is there any gray in between?, Lori D Spears
Reflecting on practice: An exploration of the impact of targeted professional development on teacher action, Lisa B Thomas
Public board development and presidential leadership: A case study, Kathleen M Thompson
The National Collegiate Athletic Association self-study certification process: A waste of time and money, a necessary evil or a worthwhile exercise?, Suzanne J Wasiolek
Using a yardstick to measure a meter: Growth, projection, and value-added models in the context of school accountability, Michael Joseph Weiss
Inside or outside: Succession in presidential appointments, Michael D Williams
A case study of one urban Mid-Atlantic school district's implementation of student support teams at the elementary school level, Stephanie Elizabeth Wood-Garnett
Bridging worlds: What is a critical literacy teacher like you doing in a traditional writing classroom like this?, Yung-chiam (Sherri) Wu
Theses and Dissertations from 2007
Fighting the war at home: A case study of faculty retention at UNC, Stephen Allred
Sophomore men: Their growth, relationships and search for life direction at Colgate University, Rajesh N Bellani
Native leaders in the new millenium: An examination of success factors of Native American males at Harvard College, LeManuel Lee Bitsoi
Stick a fork in it: A psychometric evaluation of a food frequency questionnaire and an activity frequency questionnaire, Kelley E Borradaile
Mothers, children, and parenting: The role of age and a test of home visitor services as a strategy to improve parenting of adolescent mothers, Mary Cary Bradley
Narrative in lecture: Portraiture of faculty experiences and perceptions in higher education, Robert J Cannon
Higher education collaboration with industry: Three case studies of instruction based partnerships, Mary Ellen Caro
Language policy and planning, and language ideologies in Peru: The case of Cuzco's High Academy of the Quechua Language (Qheswa simi hamut' ana kuraq suntur), Serafin M Coronel-Molina
The road less traveled: A personal reflective journal of leadership practices that influenced learning in three school contexts, Priscilla McNeil Dawson
"You can't save them all": The moral economy of teacher work in a "failing" inner-city high school, Charles Aiden Downey
"I am not done yet": Literacy, identity work and narrative exploration in a women's drug treatment writing classroom, Kelley A Evans
Gendered educational leadership: Perceptions, power, and paths, Jeffrey Scott Fecher
Accreditation as a lever for institutional change: Focusing on student learning outcomes, Hania Ferrara
Friends first: The impact of meeting for worship on students at an urban Quaker school, Mark Franek
The writing exam as index of policy, curriculum, and assessment: An academic literacies perspective on high stakes testing in an American university, Jennifer Maria Freeman
Philadelphia University: The role of presidential leadership in market adaptation and evolution of mission, James C Garvey
Teacher autonomy: Distinguishing perceptions by school cultural characteristics, Nadine M Garvin
The impact of refurbished in-home computers and Internet access on student attitudes and achievement, Louis Michael Golden
An analysis of a pre-first grade program on academic, social and emotional achievement, William John Gretzula
Co-teaching partnerships in inclusion classrooms: Comparative case studies from a suburban comprehensive high school, Michele D Hassall
The conversion of an upper-division university to a four-year institution: A study in organizational change, Robert D Hradsky
Multilingual language policy and English language teaching in Sweden, Francis M Hult
Keeping the PROMISE? A study of West Virginia's merit-based scholarship program, Patricia White Hunt
Under construction: Learning mathematics across space and over time, Kara Jones Jackson
Language policy within and without the School District of Philadelphia, David Cassels Johnson
The great comeback: A comparative analysis of disaster recovery actions in higher education, Lea A Johnson
Negative evidence: Its positioning, explicitness and linguistic focus as factors in second language acquisition, Hyun-Sook Kang
The influence of campus internationalization on local communities, William P Kiehl
Making sense of financial education, Valerie Klein
Developing conceptions of teaching and learning within communities of practice, Mary Campo Kline
Facing adversity: Leadership lessons from women presidents at prominent research universities, Lisa R Kuhnle-Biagas
Effects of school-based cognitive-behavioral anger interventions: A meta-analysis, Julia G Lavenberg
The construction of ethnoracial identity within situational contexts: A study of triracial family histories, Samuel M Lemon
From mammies, maids and martyrs to agents, activists and authors: Lived experiences of black women in a transforming academy in the United States and South Africa, Joi Denise Lewis
Redefining student identity: Therapeutic intervention in the comprehensive high school, Amy Maisterra
Internationalization of graduate and professional programs at the University of Pennsylvania: An opportunity and a challenge, Mary C Mazzola
Faculty perceptions of, and participation in, a small school district's large-scale change, James A Melchor
The effects of body mass index screening and reporting on students' self-esteem and body image, Sherrell Dianne Mickens
Emergent Numeracy and Cultural Orientations (ENCO) project: Examining approaches to meaningful and contextual mathematics instruction, Shannon Monahan
Investigation of a nonlinear transformation to improve score linking for low- and high-performing groups of students, Rebecca A Moran
The meaning of place in an urban context for the under-represented minority student experience at NYU, Nancy J Morrison
A study of the relationship of external funding to medical school faculty success, Charlotte N Nunez-Wolff
Expression of voices, identities, and faith: Oral histories of Korean Christians and their experiences with the Japanese, Michael Young-Suk Oh
The administration of innovation: One high school's story, Keith R Pagnotto-Hammitt
The dynamics of leadership and change at three small colleges, Michele Drabant Perkins
A multivariate investigation of maternal risks and their relationship to low-income, preschool children's competencies, Marlo A Perry
An analysis of the levels of trust between the vocational and special education teachers and the administrative team in a Central New Jersey vocational technical school, Joseph A Petrosino
The teacher state: Remaking the nation amidst political instability and policy change in Eritrean secondary schools, Jennifer Riggan
Faculty governance at the entrepreneurial community college, Barbara G Risser
Measuring the impact of guaranteed tuition plans on enrollment at a minority serving public institution, Alan D. Robertson
Outrageous leadership: Three exemplary principals and the climate they create, S. Anne Roderiguez
What's behind being behind: A population-based investigation of multiple risks and school success, Heather L Rouse
Factors predicting anger control and suppression in young African American males with histories of aggression, Helen M Rupp
Tonka trucks, Barbie dolls, and quotas: The social construction of masculinity in the sexuality education classroom, Elinor M Scully
Navigating child welfare: Adolescent mothers and the politics of regulation, Lauren Justine Silver
The quest for excellence: A case study of academically high-achieving black males in a suburban high school, Lennox H Small
Constructing a school board's work practices: How practitioners represent the work of public school governance, Charles R Soriano
Engagement, achievement, learning: Making meaning of mastery at an urban charter high school, Deborah Stern
Empowering teachers through school-based decision-making, Jean R Stewart
The Bennington College Plan: Toward a shared understanding, Elissa Tenny
Algebraic reasoning in middle school classrooms: A case study of standards-based reform and teacher inquiry in mathematics, Joseph David Trybulski
With the help of my friends: Best friends and the educational outcomes of Hispanic ethnic youth, Elizabeth Vaquera
A Monte Carlo evaluation of different ways to estimate effect sizes in quasi-experiments and observational studies, Timothy W Victor
Essays in search theory, Lodewijk P Visschers
How do we learn: African American elementary students learning reform mathematics in urban classrooms, Lanette Roberta Waddell
An insider voice: Leading as a teacher, Diane Waff
Death and life of two Holocaust survivors: Memory, narrative and life study, Ann Weiss
Fostering prosocial behaviors in urban elementary schools: A closer look at the Montessori approach, Caitlin Wood Sklar
Inside the fortress besieged: Will Chinese life sciences postdoctorates in the United States return to China, Yaling Xie
Theses and Dissertations from 2006
My friends visualize when they read. It's like a movie in their heads. It's different for me: Meta-conversations with adolescent reluctant readers, Cecilia Anne Aitken
Singin' in a strange land: An ethnographic inquiry of academic disidentification among African-American male elementary students in the urban public school, Annette C Anderson
Child-centered examination of preschool learning behavior: A typological investigation, Lauren Elizabeth Angelo
Bordering on success: A portrait of the Calexico Unified School District since bilingual education, 1963--2000, Catherine L Belcher
Stories, politics and organizational learning, Joseph Anton Bodor
Preparing instructional coaches to promote reflective teaching: A case of how new mathematics coaches carve their roles as learners and teachers of colleagues, Broderick L Boxley
Embracing change: Beginning leadership and reflective practice at a values-driven independent school, Douglas S Brophy
Resistance, control, and the cost of unity: The role of African Americans in the founding of African American schools associated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the South, 1865--1914, Lawrence A. Q Burnley
Leaving the big time: A case study of two universities that moved their athletics programs to Division III, Thomas Carroll
Factors predicting undergraduate success and persistence at a doctoral research university, A. Bruce Chamberlin
The assessment of differential student learning behaviors in Trinidad and Tobago: A cross-cultural construct validity study of the Learning Behaviors Scale, Lia I Chomat-Mooney
FFELP or direct lending: A comparison of the decision-making process at two universities, Debra J Chromy
Teacher hiring practices: What practitioners say work, Vincent E Citarelli
The effects of inquiry-based science on the social and communicative skills of students with low-incidence disabilities, Heather Hopkins D'Angelo
A comprehensive thirty-four year longitudinal study of the academic progress and academic school experiences of boys in a highly selective secondary school population, Rodney Vern De Jarnett
The visibility is clear: Integrated marketing makes a difference in higher education, Dennis Richard DePerro
Countering the disproportionate number of African American students placed in special education: The pre-referral process, Martin L Dickerson
Promise, policy and process: An examination of the use of educational equity litigation to address racial and economic isolation of urban education, Malik C Edwards
Protecting the foundation, building the future: Perceptions and expectations for managing conflicts in academic research, Timothy J Fournier
Institutionally-related foundation boards: Processes and perceptions of performance, Gail E Fraser
Be(com)ing Korean in the United States: Exploring ethnic identity formation through cultural practices, Sung Youn Sonya Gwak
Impact of group-work and extended essay writing on online Advanced Placement students, Philip Gene Handwerk
Formulation and implementation of policies and programs associated with alcohol on a college campus: Two case studies, Carol Ann Hayes
Socializing knowledge: The production and circulation of social science in Malawi, 1964--2004, Dana G Holland
Examining how building-based math teachers and second-grade classroom teachers collaborate when they team teach, Rebecca Anne Hutto
Leadership in context: A case study of presidential effectiveness in a state university system, James R Johnsen
Mission and inclusive leadership: An independent school principal examines mission with students, teachers, and alumnae, Timothy M Johnson
Engendering change: Culture and social networks, Danielle Kane
Reciprocal peer tutoring for children with severe emotional, behavioral and learning problems, Judith Alperin King
The use of boundary objects for purposeful change in higher education, Kevin E Kirby
Decomposing teacher autonomy: A study investigating types of teacher autonomy and how current public school climate affects teacher autonomy, Clayton Singer LaCoe
Perspective on the meaning of fatherhood: Four case studies of rural, White fathers, Brent Allen Lawless
Embracing innovation: What matters to school counselors as they decide to adopt new professional practices, Judith L Madden
Organizational culture: In and through campus planning, Daniel J Martin
Interest group goal formation: The response to charter schools by NCLR and LULAC, Deirdre Martinez
The integration of mission in the co-curriculum: A case study of Messiah College, Margaret J McKeon
The impact mentoring relationships in an after-school program has on academic achievement and behavioral growth of elementary-age students, Parthenia Arnita Moore
An evaluation of a program-assessment process based on the study protocol used with Ajzen's theory of planned behavior, Veronica Marie Kraly Morrison
Data can't drive instruction, but they make a good map: Teachers' use of large-scale formative assessments to guide instruction in a small, urban district, Deborah I Nelson
Teacher autonomy: Why do teachers want it, and how do principals determine who deserves it?, Dennis Patrick O'Hara
The impact of leadership on institutional culture and mission: A case study of St. John's University, 1989--2005, James P Pellow
The infusion of local history into the New York State eleventh-grade United States History curriculum, Richard E Quest
"Distinctively Dickinson": The evolution of brand at a liberal arts college, Julie L Ramsey
School identification: How young African American males in an urban elementary school come to identify with school, Jesse Rawls
Competitive advantage: The effect of market competition on the formation of strategy in small business school higher education, Theodore R. Richardson
Decomposing teacher autonomy: A study investigating types of teacher autonomy and how it relates to job satisfaction, Lawrence Rudolph
Institutionalizing educational ideologies: Curriculum reform and the transformation of teaching practices in rural China, Tanja Carmel Sargent
University-industry research partnerships: Motivations for collaboration, Cherie A Scricca
The perception of parents of the appropriate degree of parental involvement in an independent boarding school: A matter of trust, Anthony Huston Sgro
Frank Aydelotte's use of Swarthmore College as a vehicle to achieve a national educational reform agenda, Ruth Shoemaker
Administrative decision making in higher education: How universities respond to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Joan K Singleton
Symbolic communication of college presidents during major institutional change, Dione D Somerville
Black students, white schools: The personal traits and organizational factors conducive to student success, Noah Tennant
Hopeworks: Roles, technologies, social languages, and development in one urban youth organization, Carol Cuthbertson Thompson
Nursing and allied health professionals' job satisfaction and intention to remain in their jobs, William Thygeson
"That's not fair!" The influence of culture related socialization on children's positive justice development in urban Gujarat (India), Gauri Kirtane Vanikar
K16 and the art of soccer coaching, Dave Veazey
How NCAA Division III colleges and universities use athletics as part of their strategic enrollment management plan: A case study of three institutions, Maureen Patricia Weatherall
A multilevel organizational analysis of the effects of school policies and leadership on teacher community in urban elementary schools, John M Weathers
Why a school for boys? An inquiry into why parents choose independent boys' schools, Andrew Thomas Weller
Theses and Dissertations from 2005
When venture philanthropy rocks the ivory tower: An examination of high impact donors and their potential for higher education development, Luisa C Boverini
Adolescent reading: An analysis of standardized assessment performance following the intervention of extended course time, Lois Mary Campbell
Reconstituting superman: Identifying ideal leadership styles in a financial services context, John Raines Collison
Policymaking and governance in a multi-campus state university system: The case of general education reform at the State University of New York, Dorcas L Colvin
Pennsylvania's high school culminating project as assessment: A case study concerning validity and reliability of a program at a Pennsylvania high school, Anthony T. S Conrad
A prompt for change: Using the National Survey of Student Engagement to initiate institutional change, G. Geoffrey Cromarty
Conduct unbecoming a teacher: A study of the ethics of teaching in America, Daniel J DiCenso
Conversation as intervention: How a group of teachers in a suburban high school talk about low achievement, Delvin Morris Dinkins
Competitive advantages: What three prestigious private universities do to compete in their elite Division 1A athletics conferences, Mary DiStanislao
Green design experiences: A case study, Wesley Thomas Doll
How low-income African American women take up opportunities when technology education is linked to social service, Marjorie M Edmonds-Lloyd
Comprehensive fundraising campaigns in the 21st century: Non-financial elements and factors associated with major campaigns at Doctoral-Extensive universities, Thomas J Farrell
The unfinished business of building a democratic middle school, Kathleen A Foster
A governing board's evolution to effectiveness: A South Dakota Board of Regents case study, Marilyn McCorkle Fowle
The interlanguage pragmatic development of the speech act of requests by Korean non-native speakers of English in an ESL setting, Sangkyung Han
Racial stereotypes and achievement-linked identity formation during adolescence: An investigation of athletic investment and academic resilience, Vinay Harpalani
Managing the introduction of quality improvement at Point Park University, Paul Hennigan
A study of care and support among teachers and students in a small suburban middle-senior high school, Melissa Gail Herb
(Re)negotiating knowledge, power, and identities in Hip-Hop Lit, Marc Lamont Hill
Are we there yet? A study of K--12 teachers' efforts at technology integration, Stefani Arzonetti Hite
Older and wiser: An event history analysis of women's adult college enrollment behavior, Barbara Jaffe
Language ideology, ethnicity, and biliteracy development: A Korean-American perspective, Mihyon Jeon
Regional branding by colleges, universities and their community partners: Expectations and sustainability of a marketing consortium, Patrick M Joyce
Fulfilling the promise: Black parents' experiences in supporting their children's mathematics education, Carol Kelley
Educational leaders and how they deal with the tensions of accountability: A case study of one district's response to the No Child Left Behind Act, Thomas John Locke
Educational values and economic constraints at Pennsbury schools, Paul B Long
How does USC football influence the strategic goals of the University of Southern California?, Stephen V Lopes
A middle school community's role in helping special needs students achieve, Richard Marchini
Number sense: An exploration of urban African-American students' numerical reasoning, Angela McIver
Who moved my classroom? Enabling instructor performance for the 2010s, Guido A Minaya
Being "down with the brown" and other enactments of hybridity: Indian American college students come of age, Hilal Nakiboglu
College and university responsiveness to students-as-customers: The reorganization of service delivery in the enrollment service arena, Jacquelyn Lisa Nealon
From the beginning: What educators and parents of children with special needs do to resolve differences, Jeannette E Newman
Science learning, group membership, and identity in an urban middle school, Stacy I Olitsky
A university and its denomination: The ties that bind in the 21st century, Paul L. H Olson
Language planning for biliteracy at a Korean American church school, Holly Pak
The role of output for learner attention to input in second language acquisition, Diana Paninos
Board matters: Experienced school heads and their work with trustees, Thomas W Price
No D.C. child left behind: An examination of the history and early implementation of the Washington, D.C. voucher program, Jennifer Ballen Riccards
Teacher learning in action: Understanding teacher learning in an inquiry group, Challice Rickard
Looking where the key is: Surfacing theories of change in complex, collaborative initiatives, John Matthew Riggan
"Much is required": Religious mission and university/community partnerships in urban settings, Jason B Rogers
Examining a comprehensive model for building capacity in homeless families, Chris Rogutsky
John Carroll University: A review and an assessment of its Jesuit and Catholic mission, Patrick H Rombalski
Navigating in a building sea of change: Successful growth strategies of two private higher education institutions, Jo Ann Rooney
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB): A closer look, Virginia Adams Simon
The importance of character development in American colleges and universities: How two schools accomplish their mission, Clifford L Stanley
Decision-making processes and budget outcomes during state appropriation reductions: A case study at San Jacinto College, Tuesday Lee Stanley
Part-time education at Johns Hopkins University: An analysis of institutional commitment, Sarah B Steinberg
From the mouths of babes: A study of four African American second-graders reading and responding to culturally relevant literature, Darrel Steward-Hoagland
Corporate e-learning: How e-learning is created in three large corporations, Luther Tai
Mechanisms for marketing higher education information services: The case of the College Board, Toshiro Takamiya
The power of teacher voice: Understanding interagency relationships in schools, Andrea Thomas-Reynolds
African American doctoral degree completers and the factors that influence their success in the Ivy League, Pamela Felder Thompson
An administrator's life: Stories of ambiguity, power, and sensemaking at en elite university, Sean E Vereen
"Can't let it all go unsaid": Self-definition, sisterhood, and social change in the literacy and artistic practices of young women of color, Kelly K Wissman
Adult students imagining civil capital: College writing, capitalism and the common good, Jennifer T Wofford
Civic education in Poland: The promise and challenge of democratic education, curriculum hybridization and active teaching methods in Koss, Teresa Genevieve Wojcik
Understanding by Design: An action plan for implementation, Stephen B Young
A mixed-methods study of the impacts and processes of an after-school program for urban elementary youth, Susan Goerlich Zief
Theses and Dissertations from 2004
Desperate measures: The effects of standards and standardized testing on teaching and curriculum in two Philadelphia schools, Cristi Alberino
The effect of university-school partnerships on the literacy rates of inner city children, Bettina P Baker
Management by interpretation, management by adjancencies: A case study of the Business Services Division at the University of Pennsylvania, Suzanne Bellan
Women and graduate business education: The Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, Marcy R Bevan
"Inventing what we desire": Reconceptualizing 'mentoring' relationships with student-teachers as dialogic praxis, Deborah Ann Bieler
Child-on-child sexual abuse: An investigation of behavioral and emotional sequelae, Janelle C Brown
Inquiry within and against: The experiences of four new teachers in an urban professional development network, Anne Burns Thomas
University and college presidencies as political campaigns, Mark P Campbell
A pedagogy for justice: Reinterpreting democracy, normative whiteness and the public space, Karen Rose Jandreau Clark
Organizational culture change as a result of a change in budgeting systems, Michael D Class
Fundraising effectiveness: Definition and measurement at a women's college, Marsha Hoffman Comegno
"Just a bunch of broads": The integration experiences of four pioneering women in the Philadelphia Police Department, Angela Marie Corbo
The role of communities of practice in supporting first-year teachers' learning to teach mathematics in urban schools, Shea Mosley Culpepper
Missed opportunities: Managing achievement and difference in an urban public college preparatory magnet high school, Joseph Daniel Cytrynbaum
Caring for African American kindergartners during picturebook readalouds, Patricia A Daley
Pathways to imagined futures: Transitional challenges in higher educational migration, Meredith Joy deChabert
Examining technology fluency: A window into and a reflection of evolving instructor schemas and practices, Donna DeGennaro
A tradition of honor, Gail DiSabatino Showghi
The shared service center: A model for university efficiency?, Cathy S Dove
A study of intimacy motivation as a correlate to unprotected receptive intercourse in men and women who have sex with men, Donald A Dyson
A study of self reported perceived intimacy as a correlate to participation in an anger management course, Christopher F Fariello
Demographic and psychological concomitants of ASD and PTSD: An analysis of children after traffic injury, Mindy Rebecca Feinberg
A gold standard: Development of a neighborhood school in west Philadelphia, Sharon Entenberg Feinblatt
From access to affordability: The Hope Scholarship tax credit, Ellen Frishberg
(Dis)entangling the paradoxes and possibilities of critical literacy in the community college Introduction to Literature classroom, Joanne E Gabel
Strategic planning and capital structure links: The University of Monterrey experience, Jose Eduardo Garcia Luna Martinez
Assisting communities through university partnerships: A study of the program in nonprofits, universities, communities, and schools, David Howard Grossman
Change, leadership and co-education: A case study of Chestnut Hill College, Beth A Hagovsky
Institutional leadership and the senior Student Affairs officer, E. Royster Harper
The buck stops where? A theory-based analysis on the rise of campus-initiated tuition increases and their effects on the University of North Carolina, Michael S Harris
Becoming good Whites: Dissonance, coping and identity processes among White Christian adults working on racial healing, Tracey Ann Hartmann
Leadership development in African-American graduates of a predominantly White women's college: A case study of Barnard College, Avis E Hinkson
Penn's College House system: Creating community, competitive advantage, and a culture of scholarship at an Ivy League university, Amy Renee Johnson
The athletic arms race at the University of Southern California, Robert V Johnson
Intellectual property policies in the digital age: Who owns the course and does it matter?, Tracy Ellen Kamens
Responses to unfamiliar pedagogical practices: Revelations about school culture and pedagogical difference, Alison Shira Klugherz Kideckel
Leadership in balance: The role of collaboration for leading change in a living organization, John F Kucia
Navigating the waters: A case study on public higher education system transformation, John Glen LaBrie
Cogenerating fluency in urban science classrooms, Sarah-Kate LaVan
A study of linguistic and rhetorical features in the writing of non-English language background graduates of U.S. high schools, Elisabeth I Levi
Sensemakers, strategyshapers and saboteurs: A case study analysis of the process of planting, watering, harvesting and up-rooting the seeds of transformational change, Patricia J Louison
Paths to scientific literacy: Comparing college graduates' science traits with course-taking patterns, Deborah Shira Marcus
L2 vocabulary acquisition through text reading: Can lexical processing strategies help?, Holly Ann Monheimer
The impact of the new economy on the direction of higher education in the 21st century: Three case studies, Robert De Vel Muller
On the metacurriculum: Leveraging the college experience for lifelong success, Michael C Murphy
Creating Camouflage: An exploration of adolescent girls' literacy practices and identities, Rachel E Nichols
Voices on the landscape: Reconceptualizing plagiarism, voice appropriation, and academic competence in ESL freshman composition, Mark A Ouellette
The gift of focus: Elementary school principals describe their leadership and what it would take for them to be instructional leaders, Todd S Parker
When the pot boils: The decline and turnaround of Drexel University, David A Paul
The role of community colleges in teacher education: The Colorado case study, Paul Bowen Prestwich
Four girls produce and transform texts situated in the arts and literacies: Accessing discourses of schooling, heritage, and difference at Taller Puertorriqueno, Anne Marie Roberti
Self-disclosure in gay male therapists: A qualitative assessment of decision-making, Brent A Satterly
Reducing the risk of teen pregnancy: Assessing the effectiveness of school- and community-based pregnancy prevention interventions, Lauren Sue Scher
Male coping in context: An exploratory analysis of hypermasculine reactivity to fear, Gregory D Seaton
An investigation of the situational dimensions of preschool emotional and behavioral adjustment: A study of problems within the classroom context, Rebecca Jane (Bulotsky) Shearer
Higher education and congressional partnership: A case study in tax legislation, Kathe Munz Shinham
Multiple meanings of parent involvement in Head Start: Parents and staff make sense, Eileen Storer Smith
Navigating unchartered wires: From "brick" to "brick-and-click". The transition of Foothill Community College, Aimee Erin Suzanne Tabor
King Vajiravudh's moral concepts for citizenship, Ratana Tanadbanchee Tungasvadi
Vidyashakti: Biliteracy and empowerment in India. The continua of biliteracy in action, Viniti Vaish
Telling different stories differently: The possibilities of (counter)storytelling with African-American adolescent boys, Lalitha Vasudevan
Factors that predict success and persistence of Hispanic-Puerto Rican students in engineering programs, Jose E Vazquez-Barquet
Community-university partnerships in action: A case study of the Louisiana State University-Old South Baton Rouge partnership, Gregory J Vincent
When worlds collide: Students, stress and the Student Affairs understanding, interpretation and response, Geneva M Walker-Johnson
Biliteracy resource eco-system of intergenerational language and culture transmission: An ethnographic study of a Chinese-American community, Shuhan Chou Wang
On becoming an urban teacher: Exploring agency through the journey from student to first-year practitioner, Beth A Wassell
A tale of two systems: School districts and state accountability policies, Elliot H Weinbaum
Poetic connections: Using literacy to connect the classroom, community, and culture of middle school students, Angela Michelle Wiseman
"To do for the many... what we do for the few": A case study of a teacher as reflective practitioner, change agent and researcher, Delores Y Wright
Hypervulnerable youth in a hypermasculine world: A critical analysis of hypermasculinity in African American adolescent males, Pamela C Zamel
Theses and Dissertations from 2003
Upper elementary grade children respond to culturally relevant historical fiction in a community-based literary club, Susan Browne
Logics of difference: Middle school girls orient to schooling, Patricia Susan Buck
Structured pathways to the presidency: Becoming a research university president, Velmer Stanley Burton
Understanding and influencing fund raising leadership, Donald Thomas Cahill
From the heart to the world and back again: Co-constructing school literacy practices with children from immigrant, migrant, and refugee backgrounds, Hans Gerald Campano
Information technology, the change process, and customer service in higher education administrative services, F. John Case
A comparative study of central cost allocation methodologies at private research universities, Robert Arthur Cooper
It's just the way things are done here: The role of institutional culture in the process of general education curriculum reform, Gregers Kjerulf Dubrow
MBA career services offices: Form and function, Steven Feld
Master's degree highly desired: Measuring the increase in productivity due to master's education in the United States Navy, Julie Dougherty Filizetti
Diversity and academic excellence: The pathway to national preeminence, Ralph Fitzpatrick
The educational metamorphosis: How three small colleges transformed themselves, Tiffany McKillip Franks
Direct departmental costs as they relate to departmental outcomes at selected schools of allied health, Jennifer Anne Giancola
"I'm tired. You clean and cook.": Shifting gender identities and language socialization in a Lao-American community, Daryl Marie Gordon
The impact of financial reporting on decision-making by boards of trustees: A case study at Stanford University, Andrew Lewis Harker
Can performance measurement improve teaching-learning effectiveness? Understanding the perspectives of community college faculty, Carol Luttrell Hawkins
Succession planning for key administrators at Ivy-Plus universities, John J Heuer
Changes in U.S. popular culture portrayal of youth suicide: 1950--2000, Patrick Edwin Jamieson
"What does it mean?": Making sense of (post)desegregation in a small urban middle school, Sarah Hope Jewett
Academic learning standards as reform in an elementary school setting: One school's journey, James Robert Johnson
Diagnosing female staff turnover in higher education, Victoria H Jo
"Thank you for asking": Exploring parent/teacher communications in a first grade classroom, Barbara Ryan Larkin
What is the impact of study abroad on L2 learning? A descriptive study of contexts, conditions, and outcomes, Peter Duncan Longcope
Missions, markets, and muscles: The intersection of ideals and realities in the debate over athletics at selective liberal arts colleges, Jesse Hickman Lytle
Navigating the journey: A case study of participants in a dissertation support program, Lois Anita MacNamara
The relationship of annual giving and endowment payout to future tuition dependency at private master's universities, Vincent Michael Maniaci
Leadership enhances the institutional impacts of Division I intercollegiate athletics: A case study of Syracuse University, Louis Gary Marcoccia
The relationship between higher education and state government in reference to autonomy and accountability, Tyrone Warren McCombs
Educating adult females for leadership roles in an informal science program for girls, Dale McCreedy
Postsecondary literacy services for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing, Susan Staib McGee
Ambivalent partners: Relationships between mothers and teachers in a full-time child care center, Wendy Hobbins McGrath
Integrating fund raising with academic planning and budgeting: Toward an understanding of strategic fund raising, Janine Pisani McGuire
Preschool competency in context: An investigation of the unique contribution of child competencies to early academic success, Christine Michele McWayne
The assessment of youth behavior pathology in Trinidad and Tobago: The Adjustment Scales for Children and Adolescents revisited, Michelle Ruth Menaker
Literature discussion groups respond to culturally relevant children's literature in the kindergarten classroom, Teresa Donato Miller
Mixed messages: Critical educational discourses and the cultural production of school change, Tricia Niesz
Reconceptualizing the college town: Urban universities and local retail development, Leroy David Nunery
The College of New Jersey: A case study in institutional transformation, Mary-Elaine Wszalek Perry
The use of passive investment strategies in the management of college and university endowments, Gary F Raisl
"The other Asian": Linguistic, ethnic and cultural stereotypes at an after-school Asian American teen videomaking project, Angela Rosario Reyes
A name by any other name: Responding to the increasing role of marketing in higher education, Glenn Rosenthal
Halfway in the can: An examination of data use in college and university decision making, Nichole Shumanis Rowles
The Culinary Institute of America: A history, Lawrence Timothy Ryan
The construction of identity through text: Sixth- and seventh-grade girls in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish day school, Lois Ballen Safer
A case study of student retention in two programs at a two-year for-profit institution of post-secondary education, Sergio Benjamin Sauchuk
The HIV prevention and educational needs of trans youth: A qualitative study, Lydia A Sausa
Reflections of desire and necessity: The literary understandings and responses of one urban, mixed-ability seventh-grade language arts class, Mary Beth Schaefer
Swarthmore College: The evolution of an institutional mission, Lawrence Miller Schall
Making connections between languages, between cultures, between texts: Intertextuality in bilingual elementary school read-alouds, Diana Lynn Schwinge
The impact of information technology on pedagogy in higher education, Karen Hyatt Sibley
Where is Hillel? A case study of Hillel and the University of Pennsylvania, Judith Anne Silverman
African-American teacher beliefs about learning and teaching: Portraits and perspectives of six urban school educators, Michele Jean Sims
"You need to be professional": An analysis of teacher positioning and imagined job interviews in a hospitality training program, Tamara Shane Sniad
Respect, struggle and change: Examining the agency of African American female adolescents in city schools, Melissa Anne Sterba
"Here without English you are dead": Language ideologies and the experiences of women refugees in an adult ESL program, Doris Stanley Warriner
Managing institutional risks: A framework, Rick N Whitfield
Theses and Dissertations from 2002
An exploratory study of health beliefs and practices of the Yoruba living in the Philadelphia-Wilmington Metropolitan Area (USA), Joseph Adetunji Adepoju
A place of their own? The changing roles of the intercultural centers at the University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College, Emmanuel Victor Ago
Consulting to institutions of higher education: An examination of the consultative process what works, what doesn't work?, Marnelle Alexis
Using and understanding humor in a second language: A case study, Nancy Dolores Bell
A media-based safer sex educational intervention for late adolescents, Edward Lee Brown
"What we would perish without": Response and responsibility in developmental education, Elizabeth J Cantafio
Perception, affection, and protection: A study of ecological support and psychosocial adjustment among young African American males with histories of aggression, Elaine F Cassidy
How student teachers construct and reconstruct knowledge about race, class, and culture, Connie L DiLucchio
Veteran teachers at the middle grades: Factors influencing participation in professional development, Nicole Diane Edgecombe
Perceived adequacy with regard to undergraduate sexuality education for health and physical educators in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: A proposed program of sexuality education, Jennifer Geubtner-May
The assessment of youth psychopathology in Trinidad and Tobago: A cross-cultural construct validity study of the Adjustment Scales for Children and Adolescents (ASCA), Suzanne Marie Grim
Zine writing, graffiti, and turntablism: The creative practices of three youth, Leif Charles Gustavson
Cognitive change in freshmen at Immaculata College, Charles H Hagan
Effects of academic achievement, extracurricular involvement and work experience on entry-level employment of college graduates, Barbara Louise Hewitt
Seeing "practices of hope": Re-reading critical pedagogy and service learning in a liberal arts college English program, Julie Eastlack Hopson
Listening to the voices of women diagnosed with vulvodynia: A model for sexuality education, Susan Kellogg-Spadt
An assessment of the association between college attendance and changes in students' values, Thomas Oliver Kelly
Learning to do: An analysis of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994, Janet Linda Kroll
Assessing the benefits of an after-school program for urban youth: An impact and process evaluation, Sherri Christine Lauver
Course-taking and achievement in mathematics and science: A comparison of three nations using TIMSS, Christine S Leow
K--8 schooling: A retreat? A mandate? An intervention?, Keith Frederick Look
Half-day kindergarten literature discussion groups: A worthwhile endeavor, Janice Lee Butler McBride
Khmer-American youth in an urban migrant education program: Discourses, literacies and possible selves, Theresa Ann McGinnis
Negotiating identity politics: Exploring Brazilian children's experiences at a Japanese school, Kyoko Morita
A descriptive study of 15 Roman Catholic priests, Church doctrine on human sexuality and contemporary human sexuality information, Paul Stephen Rimassa
Identifying and describing the roles of companion animals in the lives of workaholics: An exploratory study of workaholism, animal companionship and intimacy, Melody Arlene Santarpio-Damerjian
Understanding social reproduction: The recursive nature of structure and agency within a science class, Gale A Seiler
Career development and workforce preparation for non-college-bound high school students, Alton Christopher Strange
The role violence plays in an urban fourth grade classroom, Grace Lucia Sussman
Globalization and Japanese animation: Ethnography of American college students, Masatoshi Tominaga
The relationship between attachment classification and care behavior in preschool children: An exploratory study, Martha Dixon Tucker
High school mathematics coursework as a predictor of earnings in the labor market, Herbert Milton Turner
Women as writers in graduate school: Constructing academic writing identities, Kate Elizabeth Wartchow
Predictors of HIV-test completions by drug users: A randomized trial of home-collection test kits and clinic-based testing, Rasanjali Wickrema
Ideologies and methodologies in language and literacy instruction in postcolonial Eritrea, Martha Wagar Wright
Observation and reflection: How one teacher works with at-risk first-grade students in an inclusive school, Renata M Ziolkowska
Theses and Dissertations from 2001
Models in strategy: Empirical and qualitative comparisons with applications to non-profits, Chandra Aleong
Negotiating race and racism: Black youth in racially dissonant schools, Edith Gretchen Arrington
Towards a framework for family education: Language and literacy learning with Portuguese mothers and children, Eileen Marie Barry
The role of domestic goals and values in shaping adolescent girls' future occupational plans, Candace E Bell
Reading and writing for social change: Exploring literacy performances and identity work with queer youth, Mollie Virginia Blackburn
The impact of a deliberative forum process on people's understanding of a standards-based educational reform initiative in one suburban public school district, Mary Carlson Bolenbaugh
Reentry of the mature individual into the active workforce after retirement: Assessment of perceived cognitive and social training needs, Patsy Felicia Bradford-Bearkley
Reading, literature and culture: A case study of middle school students' responses to African American fiction for children, Wanda Michelle Brooks
An exploration in amatology: Self-defined trusting, intimate, and committed adult relationships, Katherine Elizabeth Burdette
Shifting metaphors: Of war and reimagination in the bilingual classroom, Melisa Shawne Cahnmann
Student voice: A call for improving teaching and learning at an urban charter school, Kelly C Davenport
Intimacy issue management in the post-surgical experience of breast cancer patients: A sexuality education program, Jennifer L Giordano
The emergent nature of the role of a reading specialist: A study of the sociopolitical forces that shape the role of a reading specialist, Meredith deHart Haab
Adolescent dating violence: An exploratory investigation of context and correlates, Diane M Hall
A community responds to economic change: A case study of the Lehigh Valley, Jacqueline Anne Hendrick
Reading between the lines: Teacher resistance to change, Pamela Freilich Hjelle
Weapon scans, lesson plans, and power-less computers: Becoming a teacher in urban America, Jason Robert Klugman
Executive development for higher education: A case study of the Wharton-IRHE Executive Education Program, Venard Scott Koerwer
Language minority populations twice neglected: A critical ethnographic study of language education policy and practice in middle America, Felicia Lincoln
Constructing a learning identity: Students who have a learning disability reflect on their learning at a university learning center, Denise Kathleen Marone
The impact of the revised New York State Regents Examination in English on instructional practice, Vasiliki Vicky Menexas
Parent ratings of behavior: Contextually based assessment for children and adolescents, Melissa Mordell
What is adjustment? The adjustment process of Japanese returnee children, Naoko Moriyoshi
"It's all in the preparation": An interpretive look at how one teacher prepares her students for participation in literature discussion groups, Melissa Andreana O'Donnell
Whole school reform in progress: Examining leadership in the restructuring and reculturing of an urban small learning community, Audra M Philippon
Sexuality communication in the family: A qualitative study with African American mothers and their adolescent daughters, Erika Ingrid Pluhar
Beyond the good language learner: Ideology, identity, and investment in classroom foreign language learning, Anne Ida Pomerantz
Cultural literacy, afrocentrism, and education for citizenship, Oswald H Richards
Antecedents to providing individualized care: How nurses come to know their patients, Joan L Rockett
Authentic discourses on human sexuality: A study of adult women and their friendship interactions, Jennifer Ellen Ruocco
Re-viewing writing: Teacher and learner perspectives in three adult literacy classrooms, Mary O'Donnell Russell
Moving targets: An interpretive look at how one school faces issues related to transiency, achievement and instructional continuity, Donna Rosato Sanderson
Creating and applying criteria to evaluate online continuing medical education, Joseph Robert Sapp
Critical pedagogy in praxis: An examination of cross-cultural awareness, Nathaniel Wade Smith
Lived experiences that impede or facilitate sexual pleasure and orgasm in people with spinal cord injury, Mitchell Steven Tepper
Predictors of condom use among Black male college students, James Corbett Wadley
A cross-national investigation of gender differences in mean and variance of mathematics achievement of thirteen-year-old students from a social-psychological perspective, Aubrey Hui-Ju Wang
Influences on the perceptions of professionalism in dental hygiene, Deborah Anne Wilson
The implementation of facilities services outsourcing at the University of Pennsylvania, Jerel Philip Wohl
Theses and Dissertations from 2000
A qualitative study of the sexuality of women living in a homeless shelter, Kimberly Deanne Acquaviva
The sheltered classroom as a context for second language learning processes and outcomes, Mohamed Ismail bin Ahamad Shah
Examining the career development exploratory tasks of urban minority youth: The application of a phenomenological variate of ecological systems theory (PVEST) perspective, Christopher William Ashford
Making whole cloth: Integrating math in a primary grade classroom, Deborah Sascha Bakan
Language planning and language policy in an urban, public school: The interpretation and implementation of a dual language program, Linda A Bender
Should we "talk like textbook" or "keep it real?": Discursively connected learning opportunities in sexuality education, Sarah Caroline Beshers
A content-based whole language classroom: Does it prove a context for second language acquisition?, Ruth Boyd-Kletzander
Use of the Stroke Recovery of Activities of Daily Living and Mobility (RAM) Index for prediction of outcome, Susan K Brenneman
Leadership in Friends schools: The experiences of school heads, Martha B Bryans
First in the family: First-generation college students in the Ivy League, Deborah Yarber Clarke
An empirical assessment of student outcome and classroom interactions during two phases of a sociocultural teacher training program, Ellen Maria Dabrowski
Understanding language use and social interaction in a French/English two-way immersion classroom, Stacy Moira Gayman
An exploratory study of the features and outcomes of a post-graduate human sexuality course for marital and family therapist trainees, Thomas Henry Hallam
A phenomenological study of adult attachment in adult male sexual offenders, Tamara Dana Kanter
The role of home visitation in improving outcomes for teenage mothers and their children: Evidence from the Teenage Parent Home Visitor Services Demonstration, Meredith Claire Kelsey
Gradual return to work: The antecedents and consequences of switching to part-time work after first childbirth, Stacy S Kim
Female preschool teachers' perspectives on formal and informal sexuality education in the preschool classroom, Ann M Kolodji
The roles of distinctive and redundant features in the production of the short A and E vowel contrast by L1 German speakers of English, Joanna Leah Labov
Media influence on identity formation and social competence: Does music video impact adolescent development?, Blake Te'Neil Lloyd
The dilemmas of critical teaching: One teacher's journey, Marjorie E Madden
What happens when parents and teachers engage in sustained conversation about learning, Rose Theresa Martin
Public policy and professional practice: The relationship of state regulation to continuing competency perceptions and behaviors of occupational therapists, Yvette Denise Mayhan
A constructivist perspective: The child's voice in written expression, Janice McDonnell-Hartwig
Managing gender expectations: A competency model for women in leadership, Carol Vallone Mitchell
Assessment and development of cultural competence, Eric Robert Mitchell
Faculty entrepreneurs: Fund seekers, experts for hire and faculty visionaries, Lynn Ortale
The effects of forms and meaning-focused instruction on ESL learners' phonological acquisition, Julie Kim Park
The struggle for school desegregation in Philadelphia, 1945--1967, Anne Ellen Phillips
"Reading myself between the lines": White teachers reading, writing and talking about issues of diversity, inequality and pedagogy, Sharon Michelle Ravitch
The academic impact of volunteer tutoring in urban public elementary schools: Results of an experimental design evaluation, Gary William Ritter
Charity care in New Jersey hospitals: Health policy issues in the development of a proposed method for allocating subsidy money, Rita Marie Romeu
Exploring the literacy practices of first year medical students as they negotiate the demands of medical school, Joan Maria Rushton
A balance between well care nursing and ill care nursing in the 4-year baccalaureate nursing programs of the Thai public sector, Kaewwiboon Sangpolsit
A sundial in the shade: Gifted education and the restructuring process, Julie Karen Heiman Savitch
Leadership and professional competencies: Serving higher education in an era of change, David M Smith
Urban principals and systemic reform: Empowerment and powerlessness, Mary Helen Spiri
What we talk about when we talk about race: Inventing feminist anti-racist teaching in a ninth-grade English class, Patricia Ann Suyemoto
Integrating Holocaust art and aesthetics into the curriculum, Nelly Toll
The Multidimensional Measure of Comfort with Sexuality (MMCS1): The development of a multidimensional objective measure of comfort with sexuality for use in the sexuality education and research, Philip Michael Tromovitch
Bilingual teachers-in-the-making: Advocates, classroom teachers, and transients, Manka Mary Varghese
Investigating a corporate coaching event: Focusing on collaborative reflective practice and the use of displayed emotions to enhance the supervisory coaching process, Patricia Ottilie Wachholz
Corporate education and new information technologies: Executive perceptions of implementation barriers, Jason Michael Wingard
A Delphi survey study: School psychologists' perceptions of learning styles, discrepancy formulas, and the learning disabilities identification process, Sally Tamburello Winterton
Education and economic growth: Evidence from China and policy implications, Weibin Xu
The Philadelphia Start-On-Success Scholars Internship Program as a case study in inner-city special education reform: A portrait of those who can't afford to stand still, Joseph Youngblood
Theses and Dissertations from 1999
Juggling two worlds: Ethnic identity of Korean-American college students, Hue-Sun Ahn
The response of small private colleges to financial distress in the nineties, Kimberly Maguire Allen
Stress factor effects on the morbidity of death due to hypertension: A postmortem analysis of environmental, socioeconomic and racial factors, Vijaykumar Benjamin Balraj
A case study of strategic planning and competitive strategy as applied to two institutions of higher education, Conchita Yvonne Battle
Climbing the ivy: Examining the experiences of academically successful Native American Indian undergraduate students at two Ivy League universities, Bryan McKinley Brayboy
The learner-interlocutor relationship as a factor in second language listening comprehension: A sociolinguistic perspective, Karen A Carrier
The role of first language transfer and second language proficiency in the writing of Chinese learners of English as a second language, Fred Jyun-Gwang Chen
African village: A case study of an African-centered public elementary school, Verna S Cole
Creating constructivist opportunities: Integrating the arts in education, Dennis William Creedon
Effect of time between HIV testing and availability of test results on posttest counseling return rates, Helene Soffer Cross
Multidimensional measurement of parent involvement and its relationship to parent and child adjustment, Gwendolyn Yvette Davis
Mother tongue, mother's touch: Kazakhstan government and school construction of identity and language planning metaphors, R. Stuart DeLorme
Preaching the gospel within a Lutheran and multicultural congregation, Kathryn Ann Eckstam-Ames
When book-smart is not life-smart: Contexts of sex risk at an Ivy-League university, Dana Lorrain Fry
What's the plan? Teaching and learning while on a pediatric residency rotation, Angelo P Giardino
When policymakers and practitioners partner: A stakeholder analysis of an urban school reform program, Alice Elizabeth Ginsberg
Using literacies to question identity, culture, and difference in the intensive ESL classroom, Jill Marcy Gladstein
Organizing and managing information technology to support K--12 education reform, Steven Michael Guttentag
The Georgia Project: A binational attempt to reinvent a school district in response to Latino newcomers, Edmund Tappan Hamann
Construct validation of the Learning Behaviors Scale by independent measures of student performance, Helen S Hamlet
The Penn Interactive Peer Play Scale for kindergarten: Building essential linkages in early childhood assessment, Virginia Ruth Hampton
Student satisfaction among traditional and nontraditional students enrolled in a private four-year institution in Delaware, LaVerne T Harmon
The structural and contextual analysis of anger in urban African-American adolescents, Teresa Cristina Herrero-Taylor
Voices heard in educational therapy for the remediation of learning disabilities in Christian schools: An analytic description of questions asked and answered, Susan Kathryn Hutchison
Rethinking parental roles: A teacher research study, Shirley Ann Kaltenbach
Meaning of migration, gender and identities in the lives of Asian Indian women: An exploratory study, Meeta Aggarwal Kumar
Fantasy and the internal working models held toward "comfortable interpersonal attachments" shape sexual desire: A theory applied to persons with hypersexuality, Richard A Leedes
Initiation and maintenance of HIV risk reduction: A prospective study among injection drug users, Szu-Hsien Tony Lee
Forms of engagement: Toward a language for the ethical significance of classroom literacy practices, Alice Lesnick
Contextually relevant assessment of the emotional and behavioral adjustment of Head Start children, Megan Noone Lutz
Science conceptions and connections: How third graders engage in inquiry to learn science, Susan Hemphill Marston
Empirical relationships between developmental competencies and peer play behaviors with African-American Head Start children, Julia Laraine Mendez
Working and playing with words: Variations across teachers in a holistic curriculum, Karen Nolan
An exploratory study of cognitive laboratories for development and construct validation of reading and mathematics achievement test items, Christine Andrews Paulsen
Black students in community service learning: Critical reflections about self and identity, Marcine C Pickron-Davis
The political work of teaching: Teachers' construction of the status "at-risk", Donna Marie Ronzone
(Not just) passing out: An ethnographic evaluation of one small, private, four-year college's developmental English program, Kelly Ann Shea
Learning conditions and learning outcomes for second language acquisition: Input, output, and negotiation, Rita Elaine Silver
Clinical decision-making in baccalaureate nursing students: A qualitative field study, Marian C Slater
"It's my life": Independence, cohesion and tensions in the social world of an Israeli preadolescent class group, Julie I Spiegel
Awareness of being White, perceptions about racial minority groups, and interracial contact: A study of Mennonites in America, Jill Christine Stoltzfus
Talk among student teachers in an urban high school: Questioning dimensions of difference, Michelle Yvonne Denise Szpara
The Siza Center: South Africa's reform effort to eliminate the educational and social effects of the Bantu Education Act, No. 47 of 1953, Bongani Vivian Thabethe
The Techno-MBA: One alternative for knowledge workers, Thomas Lee Vernon
Improving the odds for children of teen mothers: What matters most?, Cheri A Vogel
The role of desire in children's theory of mind, Margalit Ziv
Theses and Dissertations from 1998
Doing difference differently: Frameworks for promoting social change and transformation in schools, Thea Renda Abu El-Haj
Gesture in foreigner talk, Thomas W Adams
Literacy and its contexts: Evaluating direct, self-evaluative and proxy measures in Ghana, Wendy Akua Addae
Casting gender: The constitution of social identities through literacy practices among third and fourth graders, Diane Downer Anderson
Reading types, strategies, attitudes and habits: An investigation of reading behaviors and perceptions in one whole language community college reading classroom, Lisa Anne Barnes
Doing school and doing school differently: The perspectives of five adult learners on their past and current educational experiences, Alisa Ann Belzer
The Whitney Observational Depression Index: Development and refinement of an observational tool for measuring depression, June Eileen Burns
Understanding and improving collaborative relations between an urban middle school and a university: Mayer B. Sulzberger - Center for Community Partnerships experience, Richard Steven Carter
The unique and combined impact of health and caretaking risk factors on the school adjustment of urban first-grade students, Andrea Marie DelGaudio Weiss
Getting coordinated: Lessons from an implementation study of a school-linked, coordinated service initiative, Ellen Lillian Foley
What college means: Perceptions expressed by a small group of urban high school students, Cheryl Smith Garrett
An evaluation of marketing positioning in four year colleges and universities, Cynthia Marie Gerke-Newman
At-risk elementary students reflect on their reading through collaborative retrospective miscue analysis, Anastasia Germain
Student misbehavior: An exploratory study of individual, familial, social, and institutional influences, Susan Poland Giancola
The effects of reciprocal peer problem-solving on the mathematics achievement, academic motivation and self-concept of ``at risk'' urban elementary students, Marika Dayana Ginsburg-Block
The college choice process: An analysis of the factors that influence the college choice decisions of high school seniors to matriculate in a cooperative education institution of higher education, Christopher Edward Hopey
An analysis of the relationships of selected variables and the financial support provided to comprehensive coeducational Catholic colleges and universities by their alumnae, Linda Rovtar Hopkins
Primary schooling for all: An analysis of expansion and intersectoral linkages, Subbarao Venkata Ilapavuluri
A reading specialist's story of reflection and collaboration: An endeavor to support peers as they practice flexible grouping to meet students' literacy learning needs, Linda Strite Irwin
Neighborhood family literacy beliefs and practices, Bernadette Margaret Mulligan Janis
Towards a critical approach to professional development: Teachers' construction of professional identities and issues in children's literacies, Mellinee Kay Lesley
Teacher, adminstrator, and support staff behaviors toward and perceptions of the implementation of a change, Regina C Manginelli
The relationship of educational indebtedness and mode of professional practice for graduates of schools and colleges of optometry, Lawrence Hartley McClure
Women's experiences of continuing development: Midlife reflections of community college students, Bettsy Morse McCoubrey
"I'm ready to start": An elementary school's transition from a basal to literature-based approach to reading instruction, M. Jeannette Myers-Gilbert
Using cluster analysis for transcript analysis of course-taking patterns of General Studies graduates at Community College of Philadelphia, Wayne Steven Obetz
Boys' education and the arts: A case study of boys' attitudes about art and music education in an independent school for boys, Richard L Parker
Learning community on a "tight ship": Issues and dilemmas of control and change in restructuring an urban high school, Dina Hannah Portnoy
A piece of the ivy: A case study of Black student retention at the University of Pennsylvania, Wesley Tyrone Proctor
The socioeconomic impact of literacy program participation on women in rural Mali, Laurel Diana Puchner
The uses of presidential assessment in private, selective, liberal arts colleges, Judith Krieger Rogers
Unrealized potential: A case study of an urban school-to-work program, Howard Salasin
College students' use of psychotherapeutic services as a function of year in school, Randy Lynn Sandler
Collaborative learning beyond the classroom: A case study of the use of networked computers for learning in a boarding school, Alexander DeGraw Schuh
Putting school/work back together? A comparison of organizational change in an inner city school and a Fortune 500 company, Paul Skilton-Sylvester
Impacting future faculty diversity: The development of a model to recruit and retain a diverse doctoral student population at the University of Delaware, Praria A Stavis-Hicks
"What? What did he say?": Voices, contexts and social interaction between students with difference in the ability to hear, Nicola Ruth Temko
The evolution of writing in kindergarten: The role of student-teacher conferencing, Thomas L Tobin
Impact of open admissions policies in Vietnam, Thao Xuan Tran
Trust in the workplace: Taking the pulse of trust between physicians and hospital administrators, Beulah Trey
Redefining the meaning of campus: A case study of theological education at a distance, Donald Lurton Tucker
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, pastoral caregiving, and clergy homophobia, Robert Emory Vaughn
Interaction on the network: A case of PennMOO among ESL learners, Fara Adlina Wan-Mansor
Evaluation of two approaches to perioperative nursing inservice education in the hospital setting, Maryann Papanier Wells
Women's experiences of secondary infertility, Diane Marie Moyer Wieland
Theses and Dissertations from 1997
A critical analysis of the strategic decision-making process for information technology in academic libraries, Steven Jay Bell
The effects of trained peer response on writing quality, revision strategies, and peer talk about ESL texts, Cathrine Essy Berg
A case study of the participatory playwriting process with juvenile offenders, Janice Lake Betts
Structured dialogue as staff development: A case study of one public high school's dialogue, Paulette Bogan
Correlates of stress and racial identity attitudes in Black professionals, Cheryl D Bowers
An account of a school/university collaboration, Gail Denise Brooks
Frames of meaning: An analysis of occupational therapy evaluations of young children, Janice Posatery Burke
Understanding community: A comparison of the tasks of community in four school settings, Patricia Ellen Calderwood
Empirical relationships among parenting styles, determinants of parenting, and children's school readiness in urban Head Start families, Kathleen Coyle Coolahan
Practicing what we teach: A constructivist approach to mathematics teacher education, Caroline Brayer Ebby
From print to practice: Community as a metaphor for school reform, Deidre Renee Farmbry
The comparability of linear and nonlinear latent variable analyses of skewed dichotomous items, Irene Debra Feurer
The relationship between childhood stress and classroom behavior, Terri Allen Gaier
Overstress among American school children, 1840--1920, Gail Gaisin Glicksman
High-risk college freshmen: Toward understanding academic success, Carolyn Marie Goodspeed
The home and the world: Everyday interactions between ``learners'' and ``teachers'' in the Shakti Valley, India, Pritha Gopalan
Identity status and weight preoccupation in college women, Marianne Herzog
Mentoring at-risk youth: A research review and evaluation of the impacts of the Sponsor-A-Scholar program on student performance, Amy Wellington Johnson
Selecting the appropriate health plan: What employers should know about employee values, perceptions and choice behaviors, David Kasiarz
Language revitalization in the Andes: Quichua instruction, use, and identity in Saraguro, Ecuador, Kendall Amy King
Giving teachers control of the school reform agenda through dialogue: Are they ready for it?, Michelle O'Grady King
Otherwise qualified: An action-oriented study of the experiences of learning disabled labeled undergraduates at an Ivy League university, Catherine Elizabeth Luna
Factors which promote sustainability of a neonatal intensive care education program in an emerging country, Leslie Diane Mancuso
Teacher education reform: A case study in the process of reform at Normalsville University, Linda Lee McDowell
Parent involvement in schools, the intergenerational transfer of occupational and economic success, and the grouping of students: Lessons from suburbia, Daniel Joseph McGrath
Negotiating ``problem space'': Student needs assessment in a community college academic support center as a basis for reflective practice for learning specialists, Deborah Lynne Moeckel
Pennsylvania's instructional support team and the Pennsylvania Framework: Is there common ground?, Marcia Luanne Moyer
The effect of guided imagery on the personality trait of time competence/incompetence, Murray Needleman
The role of universal grammar in second language acquisition: Explaining variability of verb placement in L2 German, Susanne Nimmrichter
Patterns of honorific use in the everyday speech of four Japanese women, Yoshiko Okushi
The changing role of the reading specialist in independent schools: Caught in the crossfire of (un)spoken dialogues surrounding independent schools' ability to accommodate a range of student needs, Molly Warner Patterson
Negotiating school leadership: New principals and experienced teachers work toward change, Marjorie B Perloff
Dancing at two weddings: A case study of mathematics reform, Karen J Rothschild
Foreign objects: Cultural psychotherapy in theory and practice, Karen Merle Seeley
Predicting academic success for low-income students in an urban Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) program, I. Donald Snook
A potential impact of computer technology on students' alternative conceptions and explanatory style, Ralph E Swan
Inside, outside and in-between: Identities, literacies and educational policies in the lives of Cambodian women and girls in Philadelphia, Ellen Skilton Sylvester
Health Literacy: A participatory curriculum enacted in the United States and Honduras, Mary Jean Tecce Decarlo
Implementing dialogue to reform a total school district: A lens on both dialogue and the superintendency, Donna Hooker Topping
Cognitive ability, classroom learning behavior, and achievement responsibility as predictors of concurrent academic performance, Richard Victor Weiss
Ways of seeing children as literacy learners in an independent elementary school: Implications for assessment and change, Carol A White
The college choice process: A longitudinal study of decision-making among students and families, Caroline Daly Wilson
Acquisition planning for English: A case in Malaysian tertiary education, Mohamad-Hassan Zakaria
Theses and Dissertations from 1996
A study of basic writers and their use of word processing within a holistic classroom, Donna S Armstrong
A study of the effect of corrective feedback on foreign language learning: American students learning Chinese classifiers, Hao-Jan Howard Chen
The cross-cultural reentry experiences of short-term study abroad students from the U.S., James L Citron
Self-help groups for families of the mentally ill: Perceptions of helpfulness, Manulyn Citron
Subjected and productive bodies: The educational vision of the Ursulines in early colonial New Orleans, Tracy Ebbs
Trauma in school communities: How schools cope with the impact of trauma, John Joseph Ganz
Collaborative school-based research: Evaluation of an academically integrated HIV/AIDS prevention curriculum for middle school students, Kristen E. M Gay
Managing strategic change: The ABCs of the ``whys'' and ``hows'', Philip Andrew Lawson
The vicarious effects of treating female rape survivors: The therapist's perspective, Jennifer Anne Lobel
Teacher perception of classroom activity as viewed from some foreign language classrooms in Pennsylvania, John Bronnie Melesky
Subgroups of addicted and nonaddicted borderline outpatients based on symptoms exhibited and comorbid disorders, Delinda Erma Mercer
The story of service at The Pathway School, William Anthony O'Flanagan
Relationship between learning behaviors and academic achievement among school-aged American children and adolescents, Barbara Anne Schaefer
The development and demonstration of a positive personal construct of homosexuality among pastors: A phenomenological exploration, Darlene Roberta Kelley Scott
Taking the challenge: A journey toward change in four teachers' language arts programs through staff development, Karen Gail Smith
A phenomenological study of women who have overcome childhood abuse, Deborah Blair Stevens
Preparing for the freshman year: What four new liberal arts college presidents learned along the way, Frederick Mercer Van Sickle
Theses and Dissertations from 1995
The Pennsylvania Special Education Regulations and Standards: Implementation at the local school district level, Joann Marie Bierdziewski
A grounded theory study of adolescent daughters of fathers who are alcoholic, Mary Elaine Joan Dobbins
Words and lives: Toward a critical discourse on language among urban adolescents, Robert Anthony Fecho
A society contained, a culture maintained: An ethnography of second language acquisition in informal education, Valerie Susan Jakar
Racial socialization: The effectiveness of the transmission of messages about race by Black parents to their college-aged children, Rhonda Felece Jeter
Factor analysis, reliability and validity of the Preschool Learning Behaviors Scale, Nanette M Leigh
Negotiation as a context for learning syntax in a second language, Julian Darcy Linnell
An evaluation of an interdisciplinary science course designed to help at-risk students, Erica Nicole O'Neal
Is humor a useful teaching tool in human sexuality education? Perspectives of sixth-grade students, Marcia Rupp Vogel
Negotiating literacy learning in an urban secondary school classroom, Hannah Winston
Theses and Dissertations from 1994
Less-conscious values decision-making in Afro-American women concerning infant feeding choice, Dale Muther Allison
Women's response to reproductive trauma secondary to contraceptive iatrogenesis: A phenomenological approach to the Dalkon Shield case, Katherine Kaby Anselmi
Language and literacy development in a Cambodian community in Philadelphia, Joel Carlton Hardman
Colleges that have altered their admissions testing policies: Their rationale, process and results. A case study of four colleges, Kenneth Edward Hartman
The federal mandate to desegregate Pennsylvania's state-owned institutions of higher education: A case study of Title VI enforcement, Robert Ellsworth Lane
The social construction of young children's play, Alice Marie Meckley
What is self-defense? Experiential learning, the martial arts and the education of the individual, Gary Lee Moyer
``Una buena educaci\'on'': A study of parental values, beliefs, and aspirations in a dual-language school, Olga Gloria Rubio
The effect of competitive structure on price elasticity in local markets of higher education in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Michael Keith Townsley
Theses and Dissertations from 1993
Exploration of the student nurse role through analysis of student post-conference discussion: A qualitative study of first semester associate degree student nurses, Jane Eleanor Brown
Stories, styles, and perceptions of practice constructs among intensive care nursery nurses, Dorothy Konowitz Fischer
Creating live circuits: An exploration of Book Logs for upper elementary students, Helen Hope Holt
Subject(s) to change: Revolution as pedagogy, or representations of education and the formation of the Russian revolutionary, Bradley Owen Jordan
The Inner Light and popular enlightenment: Philadelphia Quakers and charity schooling, 1770--1820, William C. Kashatus
A connectionist model of second language acquisition, Thomas Anthony Keenan
Friends or foes: Relationships of trust and mistrust in inner city education, Carol Lundberg Kennett
The construction of two college study groups, Althier Margaret Lazar
Ethnography, classrooms and social networks in the Russian Jewish immigrant community of North East Philadelphia, Jeanne Johnson Newman
A descriptive study of the offer as a speech behavior in American English, Josephine Feldmark Rabinowitz
Teacher burnout, depressive symptoms, and coping strategies: Their relationship in two samples of teachers, Shelley Carolyn Randall
Conditional effects of institutional characteristics on the persistence of traditional-age students at four-year institutions of higher education, Barbara Ann Sylvia
The factors which have affected the implementation of the ACCESS PA project in forty-seven high school libraries in two intermediate units in Pennsylvania, George Herbert Zook
Theses and Dissertations from 1992
Language maintenance and shift in the Chinese community of Greater Philadelphia, Su-chiao Chen
Responding to linguistic and cultural differences in a multicultural classroom, Joseph Olusola Falodun
Nurse clinical decision-making: A naturalistic inquiry, Joan Marie Jenks
Evaluation of a Big Brothers/Big Sisters program for children of alcoholics, Joseph Thomas Keenan
HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes and beliefs among urban childbearing women, Katherine K Kinsey
Catalytic incineration of contaminants in air with a spiral heat exchanger-combustor, Matthew John Targett
Comprehensive evaluation of a teen pregnancy and parenting program: A principal's educational model, Kathleen Anne Thornton
Adding a third language: An in-depth analysis of the teacher questioning processes in a Chinese classroom, David Shoou-Der Tseng
Theses and Dissertations from 1991
A study of the leadership behaviors and career paths of black and white female student service administrators in higher education, Robinette Mardella Dasher-Alston
English as a Second Language college writers' revision responses to teacher-written comments, Linda Eckhardt Dessner
Shaping reading and writing: Common threads and unique patterns in one fourth-grade, Carole Cook Freeman
Child interlanguage discourse: The role of peer interaction, Kalala Kabongo-Mianda
Community standards regarding sexually explicit materials in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Personal standards and perceived standards, Mary Elizabeth Kearns
Ethnic identification and social interaction: A study of Asian-American students at a Philadelphia high school, Stacey Jeanne Lee
NNSTA-student interaction: An analysis of TAs' questions and students' responses in a laboratory setting, Mark Wittwer Tanner
A study of dropouts in a rural Pennsylvania school district, Leon Anthony Trager
Fossilization in second language acquisition: A Vygotskian perspective, Gay N Washburn
Theses and Dissertations from 1990
Concurrent correlates of job success for workers with the developmentally disabled in a New Jersey state facility, Loren Barbara Amsell
The effect of formal instruction on the development of sociolinguistic competence: The performance of compliments, Kristine A Billmyer
A study of the factors that affect the implementation of human immunodeficiency virus education programs in Pennsylvania schools, Bernard Joseph Healey
Thematic teaching in the kindergarten: A description of changed and unchanged practices, Annemarie B Jay
The acculturation of selected Filipino nurses to nursing practice in the United States, Naty Lopez
Ethnic identity and ethnic maintenance in the Puerto Rican community of Philadelphia, Cheryl L Micheau
Doctor-patient communication: An exploration of language use during the informed consent process, Louisa Jane Royster
Home school literacy: An ethnographic study of parents teaching reading and writing, Elizabeth Baurle Treat
A descriptive study of female sexuality in midlife: Implications for the development of adult sex education programs, Carole Israeloff Zawid
Theses and Dissertations from 1989
Match between cognitive demands of a Philadelphia science curriculum and students' cognitive abilities: Cross-cultural Piagetian replication, Andrew Michael Cleminson
Career paths of African-Americans who were promoted to upper echelon positions in the school district of Philadelphia: 1964--1974, Curtis Dunston Howard
Theses and Dissertations from 1988
The pilgrim's progress: The progressivism of Francis Wayland Parker (1837--1902), Matthew Stanley Fliss
Theses and Dissertations from 1987
Social scenes of reading: A study of eighth-graders' talk about books, Patricia Johnston
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS' NEEDS, ATTITUDES, AND ACTIONS IN RESPONSE TO COMPREHENSIVE CHANGE: THE STANDARDIZED CURRICULUM POLICY OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA (PENNSYLVANIA), GAIL BROOKSTEIN RAZNOV
Theses and Dissertations from 1986
THE FEMALE MID-LIFE STUDENT: A CASE STUDY OF THREE MID-LIFE WOMEN AT THE LUZERNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE (PENNSYLVANIA), ELEANOR MARY HOTTENSTEIN
AN EVALUATION OF MOTORCYCLE SAFETY EDUCATION IN THREE SOUTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA COUNTIES, ROBERT ALLEN LEASE
SCHOOL FINANCE POLICY FORMULATION IN PENNSYLVANIA: A CASE STUDY (POLITICAL CULTURE, LEGISLATIVE PROCESS), KATHLEEN KELLEY LYNCH
COLLEGIATE CHOICE BEHAVIOR IN A CHRISTIAN DAY SCHOOL: AN ETHNOGRAPHY, DAVID LOWELL PHILLIPS
PET FACILITATED THERAPY FOR SOCIALLY DISINTERESTED AND DEVELOPMENTALLY DELAYED CHILDREN, LAUREL ANN REDEFER
VOLUNTARY STAFF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS: A CASE STUDY OF PHILADELPHIA TEACHERS' LEARNING COOPERATIVE (TLC) (PENNSYLVANIA), MINORU SAKAMOTO
FROM MOUNTAINTOPS TO CITY STREETS: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION OF LITERACY AND SOCIAL PROCESS AMONG THE HMONG OF PHILADELPHIA (LAOS), GAIL WEINSTEIN-SHR
Theses and Dissertations from 1985
PUBLIC SPEAKING ANXIETY BEFORE AND AFTER INTRODUCTORY SPEECH CLASSES (COMMUNICATION APPREHENSION, PERSONAL REPORT, STAGE FRIGHT, RETICENCE), ROBERT JOHN BERCHICK
HOW NURSING STUDENTS FINANCE THEIR EDUCATION: A SURVEY OF THE FINANCES OF COLLEGE STUDENTS IN PENNSYLVANIA (FINANCIAL AID, BACCALAUREATE), LINDA PHILLIPS BROWN
THE DOWNINGTOWN EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM: AN EVALUATION (PENNSYLVANIA), DOUGLAS DAVISON
THE PLANNING, IMPLEMENTATION, AND EVALUATION OF A SECONDARY, GIFTED, CAREER EDUCATION PROGRAM (PENNSYLVANIA), JERRY L DUNKLE
CHILD LIFE SPECIALISTS AS PERCEIVED BY HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS (MEDICAL, SOCIOLOGY, OCCUPATION), LAURA LEE GAYNARD
ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING WITHIN A HOSPITAL SETTING: A CASE STUDY (CHANGE, BEHAVIOR, PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION, DEVELOPMENT), MARIE ANGELELLA GEORGE
THE LEGALIZATION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION: PERCEPTIONS OF THE ELEMENTS OF DUE PROCESS BY PARENTS AND SCHOOL OFFICIALS IN PUBLIC LAW 94-142 PLACEMENT HEARINGS (PENNSYLVANIA), STEVEN SELIG GOLDBERG
STUDENT, FACULTY, AND COMMUNITY PERCEPTIONS OF THE EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES PROGRAM AT THE MECHANICSBURG AREA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL (PENNSYLVANIA), LLOYD RUSSEL KRAMER
TERRY MAKES SENSE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF A HIGH SCHOOL PEER TUTORING EVENT (FERNALD, CARING, ASHTON-WARNER, NODDINGS, LANGUAGE-EXPERIENCE APPROACH), CHRISTINE HENNING LUCE
PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST'S COMPLIANCE WITH CHANGES MANDATED BY P.L. 94-142 AS A FUNCTION OF SELECTED PERSONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL VARIABLES (PL94-142), HOWARD RICHARD MARCUS
A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF SUPERINTENDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF SCHOOL BOARDS IN PENNSYLVANIA, ELMER CALVIN MYERS
USE OF SABBATICAL LEAVE POLICY BY PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS, PETER MORRIS NISH
PEER TUTORING: A STUDY OF ITS EFFECT ON MATHEMATIC ACHIEVEMENT AND ATTITUDE OF NINTH GRADE MATH I STUDENTS OF HARRISBURG HIGH SCHOOL (EXPERIMENTAL, INNER CITY, PENNSYLVANIA), SANDRA MADELINE NOVOTNI
PREGNANT TEENAGERS, THEIR EDUCATIONAL OPTIONS AND THE ROLE OF EDUCATORS: THREE CASE STUDIES IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA (PENNSYLVANIA), MAE A PASQUARIELLO
EFFECTIVENESS OF THE RANDOM DOT E STEREOTEST COMPARED TO THE SNELLEN ILLITERATE E AND COVER TEST IN PRESCHOOL VISION SCREENING (PENNSYLVANIA, AMBLYOPIA, MODIFIED CLINICAL TECHNIQUE), RONALD VINCENT PETRILLA
EVALUATION IN THE SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM: A RESPONSIVE EVALUATION MODEL, ROBERT S PITTMAN
GENDER ROLES AND GENDER STEREOTYPES IN CROSS-CULTURAL EDUCATION, WILLIAM RAYMOND POLLARD
A STUDY OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATOR ATTITUDES TOWARD MAINSTREAMING HANDICAPPED CHILDREN (PENNSYLVANIA), RICHARD DAVID PRICE
A CASE STUDY OF PROFESSIONAL STAFF DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES IN A SUBURBAN SCHOOL DISTRICT IN SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA DURING THE 1982-1983 SCHOOL YEAR, LEROY ERNEST SEITZ
THE FURNESS-MITCHELL COTERIE: ITS ROLE IN PHILADELPHIA'S INTELLECTUAL LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (PENNSYLVANIA), CHRISTINE MOON VAN NESS
Theses and Dissertations from 1984
STUDENTS IN PROGRAM CHECKPOINT: SELECTED CASE STUDIES (PENNSYLVANIA), SARAH ELIZABETH ANDERSON
A FORECAST OF POSTULATED EVENTS WHICH REFLECT EDUCATIONAL TRENDS IN THE TRAINING OF PENNSYLVANIA ELEMENTARY TEACHERS IN THE USE OF MICROCOMPUTERS, CAROL D CITARELLI
MATHEMATICS ATTITUDE AND ACHIEVEMENT IN GRADES FIVE THROUGH SEVEN IN A SOUTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL DISTRICT (GENDER, SEX), NICHOLAS J CORBO
ANN PRESTON, M.D. (1813-1872): A BIOGRAPHY. THE STRUGGLE TO OBTAIN TRAINING AND ACCEPTANCE FOR WOMEN PHYSICIANS IN MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA (PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA; QUAKER, MEDICINE), PAULINE POOLE FOSTER
EGO DEVELOPMENT AND SEXUAL MORAL REASONING IN FEMALES: SINGLE-SEX VS. COEDUCATIONAL COLLEGES, DEIRDRE A GARVAN
THE IMPACT OF GUEST STUDENTS ON THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT SYSTEM OF HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE (COST, ENROLLMENT, ECONOMICS; PENNSYLVANIA), PHILIP JOHN HIPPENSTEEL
A SURVEY OF PRINCIPALS' PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR WEEKLY SCHOOL-BASED STAFF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS (PENNSYLVANIA), ELLEN G LINKY
THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL COUNSELOR IN SEX EDUCATION AND SEX COUNSELING IN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS (TRAINING PROGRAMS, ATTITUDES), JOSEPH JOHN LONGO
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DROPOUT PREDICTION INSTRUMENT FOR AN URBAN HIGH SCHOOL, CLARENCE EUGENE NICHOLS
Theses and Dissertations from 1983
A STUDY OF CHANGE: THE WEST CHESTER SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (PENNSYLVANIA), IRENE BENDER
DRIVER EDUCATION FOR LEARNING DISABLED AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED STUDENTS IN CHESTER COUNTY: STATUS OF AND CONFORMANCE TO SELECTED REFERENCE STANDARDS (PENNSYLVANIA), JAMES FRANCIS BOLOGA
TEACHER ABSENTEEISM: A STUDY OF SELECTED FACTORS IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS OF THE SOUTH PENN SCHOOL STUDY COUNCIL, GROUP D (PENNSYLVANIA), ROBERT WILLIAM COFFMAN
PROGRAMMING FOR PRESCHOOL GIFTED CHILDREN, MERVIL ELIZABETH DORR
DRIVER EDUCATION FOR EDUCABLE AND TRAINABLE MENTALLY RETARDED STUDENTS IN CHESTER COUNTY: STATUS AND CONFORMANCE TO SELECTED REFERENCE STANDARDS (PENNSYLVANIA), ALAN GREGORY ELKO
A NEEDS ASSESSMENT APPROACH TO CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN JEWISH EDUCATION, SAUNDRA STERLING EPSTEIN
SHIFTS IN THE COUNTERTRANSFERENCE PERCEPTIONS OF SELECTED PSYCHOTHERAPISTS UNDERGOING EST SELF-AWARENESS TRAINING, BARBARA KNIGHT-MEYERS
A STUDY OF A SCHOOL SYSTEM'S RESPONSE TO PENNSYLVANIA'S SPECIAL EDUCATION AUDIT, BERNIE H MANNING
THE IMPACT OF STATIC OR DECLINING ENROLLMENTS ON STAFFING AND CURRICULA PRACTICES IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS OF THE SOUTH PENN SCHOOL STUDY COUNCIL, GROUP D (PENNSYLVANIA), PARKER EUGENE MARTIN
WEST FALLS HIGH SCHOOL: A MODEL OF CHANGE: CHANGES WHICH HAVE OCCURRED AT WEST FALLS HIGH SCHOOL, WEST FALLS, PENNSYLVANIA, 1971-1981 AS PERCEIVED BY SCHOOL PRACTITIONERS, LOUISE WILSON MCCANN
DESIGNING AND PILOTING A FULL-DAY, ALTERNATE DAY KINDERGARTEN: A CASE STUDY OF A PROGRAM CHANGE, JOHN DOYLE MENSER
THE IMPACT OF A WORKSHOP APPROACH ON THE PROCESS OF COMPOSING EXPOSITORY WRITING FOR TWELFTH GRADE INNER CITY COLLEGE-BOUND STUDENTS, BEATRICE SHARPLESS MOORE
PSYCHOSOCIAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF IRANIAN STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE EFFECT OF THE IRAN-AMERICA CRISIS ON SELECTED PROBLEMS, MAHMOOD SHAFIEYAN
WEST FALLS HIGH SCHOOL MODEL FOR CHANGE: STUDENT ACTIVITIES (PENNSYLVANIA), ROBERT E SHAPLEY
RETENTION OF HIGH-RISK STUDENTS AT CHEYNEY UNIVERSITY: EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO INTERVENTION STRATEGIES (PENNSYLVANIA), MILDRED VIRGINIA THOMPSON
Theses and Dissertations from 1982
ATTITUDES ABOUT CAREER AND ACADEMIC GOALS: A COMPARISON OF ENTERING CURRICULAR GROUPS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, WENDY WEXLER BRANTON
THE MAKING OF A READER: A CASE STUDY OF PRESCHOOL LITERARY SOCIALIZATION, MARILYN COCHRAN-SMITH
THE ATTITUDES OF PRINCIPALS IN SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA TOWARDS PROGRAMS OF EDUCATION FOR INTELLECTUALLY GIFTED STUDENTS, JOSEPH ANTHONY MARTIN
CORRELATES OF HEALTH RISK IN UNDERGRADUATES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, GARY SAMUEL SILVERMAN
THE CHANGE PROCESS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA COMPREHENSIVE READING PLAN IN SIX TITLE I CENTERS - A CASE STUDY, CINDI BETH WEISS
AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF A MENNONITE CHRISTIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, DOROTHY MCCLEAF WINTER
Theses and Dissertations from 1981
BOUNDARY LIVING: BLACK AND WHITE STUDENTS AND ADULTS STUDY THEIR COMMUNITY THROUGH AN ETHNOGRAPHIC/ETHNOHISTORIC PERSPECTIVE, RAE ALEXANDER-MINTER
TRENDS IN THE SUPPLY OF AND DEMAND FOR PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, CAROLYN MAY CANTAGALLI
A RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF THE PHILADELPHIA INTERDISCIPLINARY HEALTH AND EDUCATION PROGRAM, LINDA MARIE HAMASHIMA
SELECTED FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH STUDENT ENROLLMENT DECLINE IN THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA, PATRICK ODEY IDIKU
CORRELATES OF COMPUTER ANXIETY IN COLLEGE STUDENTS, ANNALYSE CALLAHAN RAUB
A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT USING THE PENNSYLVANIA COMPREHENSIVE READING/COMMUNICATION ARTS PLAN, GLADYS SPANN RENFROW
PLANNING EDUCATIONAL CHANGE: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA COMPREHENSIVE READING/COMMUNICATION ARTS PLAN IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, CHARLES ELISHA THOMPSON
Theses and Dissertations from 1980
A COMPARISON OF THE SOCIAL BENEFITS OF ASSOCIATE DEGREE AND BACCALAUREATE DEGREE NURSING PROGRAMS IN PENNSYLVANIA, DOROTHY ANN BROOTEN
A META-ANALYSIS OF THERAPY OUTCOME RESEARCH WITH TEST ANXIOUS COLLEGE STUDENTS, ROBERT ANTHONY DI TOMASSO
REPORTED PROBLEMS OF RURAL STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA AS A FUNCTION OF GENDER AND CLASS, HARRIS ROBERT GINSBERG
DEVELOPMENT OF A HANDBOOK FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS, STEVEN JAY GROSS
TEACHER APPRAISAL SYSTEMS IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, WILLIAM W LEE
PERCEPTIONS AND OPINIONS ABOUT THE EMPLOYMENT OF FEMALE ADMINISTRATORS IN THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM OF PENNSYLVANIA, MARY BOOSE WALKER
THE RELATIONSHIP OF SCHOOL DISTRICT INVESTMENT RETURN TO SELECTED CHARACTERISTICS, REVENUE SOURCES, AND INVESTMENT PRACTICES IN PENNSYLVANIA., ARTHUR EARL WOLF
Theses and Dissertations from 1979
THE OPINIONS OF MATHEMATICS TEACHERS AND INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYERS REGARDING BASIC MATHEMATICS SKILLS PRIORITIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY (PA), STEPHEN ROBERT GRING
Theses and Dissertations from 1978
VALUE SOCIALIZATION OF THE BLACK PHYSICIAN: THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE - A CASE STUDY., FLORA DORSEY-YOUNG
THE EFFECT OF CORPORATE SUPPORT UPON HIGHER EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA., JOHN MICHAEL KELEHER
Theses and Dissertations from 1977
INTERPERSONAL PERCEPTION AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS AS A FUNCTION OF SEX AND LEVEL OF ASSERTIVENESS., LINDA DUNPHY BEAN
Theses and Dissertations from 1976
EMERGENCE OF THE FREE, COMMON SCHOOLS IN CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA: 1834-1874., IRENE G SHUR
A LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA., LILLIAN LISA ULRICH
Theses and Dissertations from 1975
THE HUMAN NEWBORN AND HIS MOTHER: AN ETHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THEIR INTERACTION., HEIDELISE ALS
THE ROLE OF THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL AS PERCEIVED BY PRINCIPALS AND SUPERINTENDENTS IN URBAN, SUBURBAN, AND RURAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS OF SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA., GRACE THERESE CURRAN
THE STATUS AND PROSPECTS OF CATHOLIC SECONDARY EDUCATION IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA: A STUDY OF THE ATTITUDES OF THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY., CHARLES H DIAMOND
A PROGRAM FOR EDUCATING DISRUPTIVE STUDENTS IN THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS OF PHILADELPHIA., FRED M HOFKIN
THE HOUSE OF REFUGE OF PHILADELPHIA., CECILE PARRIS REMICK
Theses and Dissertations from 1974
A TAXONOMY OF GENERIC TEACHING COMPETENCIES FOR COMPETENCY-BASED TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN PENNSYLVANIA AND THE METHODOLOGY FOR ITS DEVELOPMENT. (VOLUMES I AND II), BENJAMIN MCALLISTER ASHCOM
THE STRATEGY OF THE SUPERINTENDENT IN MAINTENANCE AND CHANGE IN A DEEPLY RESISTED, STATE-MANDATED MERGER: A CASE STUDY., TIMOTHY HILLHOUSE DANIELS
AN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN BAPTISTS IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES., WILLIAM TOLBERT VANDEVER
RESPONSES TO SEXUAL PROBLEMS IN MEDICAL COUNSELING AS A FUNCTION OF COUNSELOR EXPOSURE TO SEX EDUCATION PROCEDURES INCORPORATING EROTIC FILM., NEVILLE ROBERT VINES
Theses and Dissertations from 1973
A COMPARISON OF THE SIMILARITY IN LANGUAGE SKILLS OF IDENTICAL AND FRATERNAL TWIN PAIRS., KAREN MESTEL FISCHER
PERSPECTIVES OF BLACK TEACHERS IN PREDOMINATELY WHITE SCHOOLS IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA., PHILIP PENROSE HOGGARD
Theses and Dissertations from 1972
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY AND THE ANGLICIST-ORIENTALIST CONTROVERSY IN INDIAN EDUCATION, 1833-1837, HAZEL MARIE GRIFFIN
Theses and Dissertations from 1971
SELECTED FACTORS RELATING TO THE SUPPLY OF AND DEMAND FOR ADMINISTRATORS IN PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, MARK CALVIN NAGY
TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: AN APPRAISAL AND RECOMMENDATIONS, WILLIAM WEAVER REYNOLDS
Theses and Dissertations from 1970
AN EVALUATION OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOL COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAM OF THEWEST CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, HOWARD FREEMAN
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENT EMPLOYMENT AND SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT INTHE STATE COLLEGES OF PENNSYLVANIA, RAYMOND H JENSEN
ADEQUACY OF THE BASIC INSTRUCTIONAL SUBSIDY FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION IN PENNSYLVANIA, 1969-1970, LAWRENCE M LENGEL
Theses and Dissertations from 1969
EVOLUTION OF THE CURRICULUM FOR PREPARATION OF SECONDARY TEACHERS IN PENNSYLVANIA STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS COLLEGES, WILLIAM RICHARD HALTTUNEN
Theses and Dissertations from 1968
NEW ENGLAND'S EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INCORPORATED ACADEMIES: THEIR ORIGIN ANDDEVELOPMENT TO 1850, RICHARD GERRY DURNIN
A FOLLOW-UP AND COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BEGINNING TEACHERS PLACED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL PLACEMENT SERVICE FROM 1959 TO 1964, OLIVE POPE GALVIN
Theses and Dissertations from 1967
Theses and Dissertations from 1956
AN ANALYSIS OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS INPENNSYLVANIA, RAYMOND HEISEY KOCH
Theses and Dissertations from 1955
A STUDY OF THE EDUCATION OF THE OLD ORDER AMISH MENNONITES OF LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, SHELDON MADEIRA
PREDICTION OF ACADEMIC SUCCESS IN THE UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOLS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, JOHN GEORGE PARRES