Browsing GSE Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Tackling Inequitable Educational Policies & Practices: The Design & Implementation of the District-Level Diagnostic
(2018-05-01)Throughout the nation, enormous racial and socio-economic achievement and opportunity gaps endure in rural, urban and suburban communities. During the course of my residency, I sought to uncover what leadership attributes ... -
Talking to Learn: Investigating the Relationship Between Classroom Discussion and Persuasive Writing
(2018-05-08)Dialogic discourse emphasizes making meaning through discussion, and stands in contrast to recitation, where the teacher initiates a question that is followed by a student response and is then evaluated by the teacher ... -
Teach Gwinnett: A Case Study
(2014-10-22)Attempting to drive change through federal policy is a complicated business. On the one hand, legislation that is too prescriptive may result in unintended consequences. On the other hand, federal policy lacking substance ... -
Teacher Absenteeism: Engaging a District to Understand Why It Happens and What It Means
(2017-04-21)A teacher being absent more than 10 days in a school year has been demonstrated to negatively impact student achievement (Miller, Murnane, & Willett, 2008), and the U.S. Department of Education calls teacher attendance a ... -
Teacher and Teaching Effects on Students' Academic Performance, Attitudes, and Behaviors
(2016-05-09)Research confirms that teachers have substantial impacts on their students’ academic and life-long success. However, little is known about specific dimensions of teaching practice that explain these relationships or whether ... -
Teacher by Design, Not Accident! Partnering With Educators Rising to Prepare Tomorrow's Teachers, Today
(2017-05-01)As of spring 2017, more than 50 million students attend public schools in the United States. However, the number of new college enrollees who desire to enter education as a profession is at its lowest level in nearly 50 ... -
Teacher Implementation of an Adolescent Reading Intervention
(2017-05-03)This dissertation examines teacher implementation of an adolescent literacy intervention with a coaching component, guided by questions about fidelity of implementation (FoI) and curriculum adaptation. In the first of two ... -
Teacher Teams and Refined Praxis: an Investigation of Teacher Perceptions in Schools
(2016-05-16)Two approaches have emerged to counteract isolation (Donaldson, et al., 2008; Little, 1990) and lack of structures for teachers to reflect and learn (Ash and Moore, 2002; Schön, 1983; Dewey, 1910, 1933): they are teaming ... -
Teachers Learning: Engagement, Identity, and Agency in Powerful Professional Development
(2016-10-13)Professional development (PD) is seen by a broad cross-section of stakeholders — teachers, principals, policymakers — as essential for instructional improvement and student learning. And yet, despite deep investments of ... -
Teachers Learning: Engagement, Identity, and Agency in Powerful Professional Development
(2016-10-13)Professional development (PD) is seen by a broad cross-section of stakeholders — teachers, principals, policymakers — as essential for instructional improvement and student learning. And yet, despite deep investments of ... -
Teachers' Use of Low-Level and Rhetorical Questions as Interactional Scaffolding in Informational Read Alouds
(2018-05-08)Teachers’ questions in informational read alouds create opportunities for young students to engage in meaningful discussions with complex texts. While research has established high-level questions as important scaffolding ... -
Teachers’ Understanding and Use of Formative Assessments in the Elementary Mathematics Classroom
(2016-05-10)In 1998 Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam published the article, Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment (Black & Wiliam, 1998b). They asserted that formative assessments were the strongest way of ... -
Teachers’ Views of School-Based Professional Learning in Six High-Performing, High-Poverty, Urban Schools
(2015-05-15)Policy makers, practitioners and scholars agree that teachers need sustained job-embedded professional learning experiences to help students meet the demands of new accountability systems, higher education, and the workforce ... -
Teaching and Learning From Mistakes: Teachers’ Responses to Student Mistakes in the Kindergarten Classroom
(2017-05-08)In Kindergarten classrooms, teachers work to help students learn new information and skills but, as non-experts, students often make mistakes. Making mistakes and, subsequently, receiving corrective feedback are assets to ... -
Teaming to Learn: In Pursuit of Team Learning at a Venture Philanthropy
(2018-05-02)As a national nonprofit venture philanthropy, NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF) has invested $250 million in over 150 education entrepreneurs since its founding in 1998, in service of its mission to reimagine public education. ... -
Teasing Out the Complex Relationship Between Part-Time Faculty and Quality: A Qualitative Case Study Comparing Departments at a Large, Public University
(2016-05-12)During the last 40 years, institutions of higher education in the United States have dramatically increased their reliance on part-time faculty. Today, fully half of all faculty members hold part-time appointments. How, ... -
Technological Change in Higher Education Information Systems (1980 to the Present): A Case Study of the Pennsylvania State University
(2017-10-06)The dissertation offers a history of the significant impact of information systems on the routines of faculty and students beyond the classroom, and on institutional resources and policies. The paper provides an overview ... -
The Arch of Progress
(2023-05-22)The power of inspiration has long been recognized for its ability to help individuals overcome obstacles. Most educators will inform people of the person or circumstance that inspired them to pursue education as a career. ... -
The Causal Effects of Boston’s Prekindergarten Program on Students’ Medium-Term Academic Achievement
(2017-11-07)In my first paper I use data from four cohorts of students who applied to the Boston Public Schools prekindergarten program between 2007 and 2011 to conduct a lottery-based analysis of the impacts of Boston prekindergarten ... -
The Complexity of Solving for Racial Inequalities in Advanced Courses: How Collective Processes Can Support the Quest for Equity
(2021-10-15)College credit bearing coursework, such as Advanced Placement and dual enrollment in college classes, provides a variety of benefits to students who take and complete these courses. Students in advanced classes have access ...