Theses, Dissertations, and Creative Activity from students in the Department of Educational Leadership.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Experiences of Recent Nebraska STEM Teachers Who Have Left Teaching, Courtney N. Matulka
A STUDY OF MATH ANXIETY IN TEACHERS, Laura K. Rademacher
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
MATHEMATICS CAPITAL IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION, Frances E. Anderson
GRADUATE STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF COURSE DESIGN AND MATERIALS, TEACHER PRESENCE, AND PEER ENGAGEMENT IN SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE COURSES, Sara Caniglia Schulte
Math Course Taking Patterns of Nebraska High School Students, Jennifer Coltvet
THE NEBRASKA TEACHER PIPELINE: TRENDS IN PERCEPTIONS OF PREPAREDNESS OF NOVICE TEACHERS, Cassandra A. DeStefano
WEATHERING THE STORM: VETERAN ELEMENTARY PRINCIPALS NAVIGATING HYPERSTRESS THROUGH THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, Matt Hilderbrand
MOTIVATORS THAT INFLUENCE MIDWEST PUBLIC SCHOOL PRINCIPALS’ CAREER PLANS, Decua Jean-Baptiste
EVALUATION OF A LOCAL ADULT GENERAL EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (GED) PROGRAM, DérNecia A. Phillips
TEACHER DIGNITY IN THE UNITED STATES: A HISTORICAL DOCUMENT ANALYSIS, Diana Schergin
RESEARCH PRACTICE PARTNERSHIP: TEACHER TURNOVER PATTERNS IN THE STATE OF NEBRASKA, Brian W. Stevens
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
DOCUMENT ANALYSIS OF CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT TEXTS UTILIZED BY NOVICE TEACHERS, Ashley N. Christensen
PRINCIPALS’ AND SCHOOL COUNSELORS’ PERCEPTIONS OF SCHOOL COUNSELOR LEADERSHIP ROLES, Donald R. Ferree Jr.
A Lived Experience of Opening a New High School: A Descriptive Case Study, Luke Ford
SCHOOL LIBRARY LEADER BEHAVIOR AND SCHOOL BOARD SELECTION POLICY, Cynthia M. Stogdill
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Parents Choosing Remote Learning for Their High School Students During the COVID-10 Pandemic, Aaron J. Bearinger
Program Improvement Through Graduate Student Leadership Development Plans, LaKresha P. Clark
Hope in the Time of Crisis: Interpretation of School Psychologists during Remote Learning and Reliability of a New Measure, Alysha Collins
Stakeholder Perceptions of Success Within a STEM Ecosystem, Heather L. Daubert
A Study on the Relationship Between Elementary Teacher Engagement and Collective Teacher Efficacy, Amy L. Falcone
An Exploratory Study of the Trends Emerging from a Forced Shift to a Digital Interface on University Faculty's Instructional Design, Ann E. Feldmann
Family Engagement by Learning Together: A Program Evaluation of Webinar Series Targeted to Serve Title I Families, Jaclyn Couch Gibbons
A Comparison of Student Hope and Social-Emotional Competence Between General Education and Special Education Settings, Whitley R. Hettenbaugh
Determining Stakeholder Perspectives Within a Local Multi-Stakeholder Collaborative Network, Garret Higginbotham
Leading Through Educational Distress: An Autoethnography of the Journey of a School Administrator, Michelle M. Klug
Principals' Empowering Leadership Behaviors and Collective Teacher Efficacy, What's the Relationship, Jennifer Langfeldt
Identity and Image: The Process of Cultivating Perceptions of Secondary Schools, Kathryn McWilliams
The Self-Efficacy of First-Year Elementary Principals: A Case Study, Meredith Mohanty
Mental Health Support: Through the Early Development Networks Team's Perspective, Heather Post
Middle School Parent Opinions of Social Emotional Learning Competencies, Jason T. Sutton
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Effects of ELL Instructional Strategies on Low Socioeconomic Students' Acquisition of Semantic and Sentence Syntax in Academic Vocabulary, Amanda A. Ault
Experience of Burnout Among Educational Leadership Doctoral Candidates, Ron M. Azoulay
Midwestern School District Support Service Providers' Wraparound Services, Heather Baker
Teacher Beliefs and Adverse Childhood Experiences, Jennifer Lynn Barnett
Teacher Knowledge, Beliefs, and Instructional Practices in Early Literacy: A Comparison Study, Brittney Bills
The Influence of an Early Childhood Endorsement Program on Early Childhood Leadership Competencies, Kanyon N. Chism
Educators’ Experiences Implementing Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum in a Suburban Elementary School, Danielle N. Elsasser
Educational Professionals’ Perceptions of their Role in Moving Toward Trauma-Sensitive Practices in Schools, Lisa M. Epp
Elementary Teachers' Self Perceptions of Professional Quality of Life, Kelly Gomez
Factors Influencing the Self-Efficacy of Novice School Librarians, Christine Haeffner
Supporting Innovation, Honoring Stability, and Achieving Coherence While Implementing Multi-Tiered Systems of Support for Behavior at the Middle Level, Chelsea S. Krebs
Primary Teachers’ Decisions for Selecting Multicultural Classroom Read Alouds, Jennifer Lemke
What Makes an Efficacious Elementary Principal? A Qualitative Study, Rebecca C. Meyers
An Exploration of the Alignment of Actual and Desired Roles for School Psychologists, Tessa Petereit
Teacher Leadership for Flexibility in Grading: an Exploration and Analysis of Grading Practices in One Urban High School, Ryan Pivonka
Influences on the Implementation of Guidedplay Practices in Kindergarten: A Grounded Theory Study, Amy Schmidtke
Implementation of a New Assessment System: a Look at Year Two of a Three Year Professional Development Plan, Janet A. Zahm
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Teacher Perceptions During the Candidacy Phase of the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme, Nicole M. Beins
Teacher Perceptions on Advisory Model at the Middle Level Through the Lens of Conflict and Connection, Emili L. Brosnan
Implementing A Multi-Tiered Behavioral Framework System In Seven K-4 Element Aries, Brad J. Dahl
The Effect of Caregiver Self-Efficacy on Health and Nutrition Outcomes in Young Children Enrolled in Head Start, Kristy Feden
Elementary School Administrators’ Perspectives of Expanded School Mental Health Systems and Implications for Further Training, Melissa M. Petersen
The Search for Coherence: an Exploration of Strategic Change in one Midwestern School District, Ashley Tomjack
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Exploratory Study of a School-Based Refugee Mental Health Project, Anne Marie Boose
A Multiple Case Study of Long-Term Success for At-Risk High School Students, Emily DuPree Christensen
An Exploration of Teacher Perceptions of Mental Health Indicators within the Construct of School Connectedness, Stephanie Jean Drodge
Family Engagement: Finding Parents’ Perspectives, Melissa Frans
Agentic and Communal Confidence in Relationship to Transactional, Transformational, and Transformative Leadership Styles of Educational Administrators in Nebraska By Amy Catherine Hansen Rauch Himes, Amy Catherine Hansen Rauch Himes
Nebraska Educator Perceptions on the Quality of Instructional Feedback in a Secondary Science Classroom, Megan Myers
Perceptions of School District Curriculum Administrators Regarding K-12 Engineering Education, Derrick A. Nero
The Nebraska Assessment and Accountability System from 1998 – 2017, Melanie L. Olson
Exploring the Nature of Resources and Relationships in a Multi-Stakeholder Collaborative Network, Tracie Evans Reding
Creating and Sustaining Vision, Mission, and Culture in a Time of Significant Growth and Complexity, Teri Lynn Schrag
A Phenomenological Approach: Perceptions of Teacher Evaluation and Future Implications of Practice, Elizabeth Tonniges
Teacher Perceptions of Quality Student-Teacher Relationships, Cecilia Wilken
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
An Analysis of Empathy as Leadership Attributes and Action in Educational Administrators and Teacher Leaders, Jill K. Bruckner
The Social Justice Role Of School Librarians, Stephanie A. Burdic
Middle School Common Grading Expectations and Teacher Perceptions of Grading Pedagogy, Jennifer Carson
Left to Chance: Gifted Students and Recreational Reading, Sara J. Churchill
The Impact of a Professional Development Initiative on Technology Integration within Instruction, Angela M. Daigle
The Development of Step up to Quality: What it Means for Families, Patricia A. Drewes-Hynek
The Experiences of Female High School Students and Interest in STEM: Factors Leading to the Selection of an Engineering or Computer Science Major, Sharon K. Genoways
Elementary Administrators’ Mathematics Supervision & Self-Efficacy Development, Kelly M. Gomez Johnson
Local Implementation Effectiveness of a Multi-Tier System of Support in Elementary School Settings, Terry P. Houlton
Empathy: Do Levels Vary by Years of Service, Age or Gender?, Josh Jessen
The Influence of Language Choice in Acceptable Use Polices On Students’ Locus of Control, Stacy L. Lickteig
A Comparative Analysis of 6th Grade Academic and Nonacademic Outcomes in two Different School Configurations, Anne M. MacFarland
Elementary and Secondary Teachers’ Attitudes And Efficacy for Teaching English Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom, Dawn L. Mathis
The Delivery of Professional Developemnt in the Middle School: Exploring Optimal Settings, Times, and Participants, Carrie A. Mohr
Factors that Influence the Reading Motivation of Fourth and Fifth Grade Students in a Midwest Urban Elementary School, Jo A. O'Garro
Nebraska Collegiate Methods Professors’ Perceptions of the Next Generation Science Standards: A Semi-Structured Interview Approach, Ashley B. Rasmussen
Factors that Influence Middle School Mathematics Teachers’ Willingness to Collaborate with School Librarians, Stephanie L. Schnabel
Examining Teacher Experiences: A Qualitative Study on Inclusion in the Elementary Classroom, Jennifer L. Sinclair
Instrucational Coaching: A Multiple Case Study Investigation of a Pre-Service Teacher’s Self Efficacy Through Supportive and Reflective Dialogue, Amanda Steiner
Becoming Independent: Employer Practices that Enhance Success for Employees with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, Stuart P. Stofferahn