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Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

District-Created Response to Intervention in High School Mathematics: a Program Evaluation Integrating Social Cognitive Theory, Elizabeth M. Wessling

Understanding the Role of Information Technology for Sustainable Development in Small Businesses and Micro-Enterprises, Jie Xiong

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Omani English Language Learners’ Proficiency with Idioms, Khalid Almashikhi

Impact of School-Based Mentoring, Joel Beyenhof

The Packasso Project: A Case Study, Fairouz Bishara-Rantisi

The Essence of Instructional Coaching with Elementary Teacher Candidates: Reflections of Practice, Abigail J. Burke

Characterization of Common Videos with Signatures Extracted from Frame Transition Profiles, Abhiram Reddy Gaddampalli

Social Learning Systems: The Design of Evolutionary, Highly Scalable, Socially Curated Knowledge Systems, Nolan Hemmatazad

A Program Evaluation of a Summer Program Designed to Reduce Summer Learning Loss, Kara L. Hutton

Leading Cultural Change to Impact Workplace Satisfaction of Teachers with a Focus on Teacher Career Cycle, Scott H. Ingwerson

Self-Efficacy Perceptions of Novice and Career Teachers in Instructional Strategies, Student Engagement, and Classroom Management, Jeffrey S. Kerns

School Librarian Candidates’ Diversity Dispositions: Examining the Impact of Cultural Proficiency Instruction, Bridget I. Kratt

THE DIFFERENCE A COACH CAN MAKE: Supporting New Teachers in the Classroom, Mary Beth Kueny-Runge

Understanding User Engagement in the Open Collaboration Model of Crowdsourcing, Cuong Nguyen

Reading and Math Outcomes of Randomly Selected Majority Culture Students Participating in an Elective, Parent Choice, Full Academic Content Area Spanish Immersion Program, Matt K. Rega

Teachers’ Perceptions of Student Attendance of a Newly Implemented Tardy Policy, Tyree Dawn Sejkora

Correlation Between Teacher Mindset and Perceptions Regarding Coaching, Feedback, And Improved Instructional Practice, Beth K. Stenzel

Investigation of Mentoring for Instructional Leadership within an Educational Consortium, Scott A. Sturgeon

Measuring the Effects of Guided Reading on NeSA-R Student Cohort Scale Scores, Todd E. Tripple

The Effect of Teacher-Child Interactions on Child Outcomes, Jean R. Ubbelohde

An analysis of the effects of financial education on financial literacy and financial behaviors, Jamie Frances Wagner

Evaluating a 1:1 Computer Program in a Secondary School, Andrew R. Walters

Efficient Simultaneous Task and Motion Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots Using Task Reachability Graphs, Brad Woosley

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

The Quasigroup Block Cipher and its Analysis, Matthew J. Battey

The Application of Graph Theory to Access Control Systems, Eric Brown

Automated Oracle Generation via Denotational Semantics, Liang Cao

Educator Mindset: Perceptions of Economic Inequality and Awareness of Poverty on Student Potential, Cindy B. Copich

Reading and Math Outcome Equity of Students, by Language, Ethnicity, and Gender Conditions, Required to Participate in an Attendance Court Program Based on Excessive School Absences, Kenneth E. DeFrank

The Effect of Public School Preschool, Private School Preschool, and No Preschool Attendance on Kindergarten Students’ Academic Achievement as Measured by Fall, Winter, and Spring MAP Scores, Matthew w. Fenster

Achievement Outcomes of Sixth-Grade Students With a Military Parent Deployed to a War Zone or a Military Parent Not Deployed Compared to Same School Students Whose Parents Have No Military Affiliation, Robert L. Ingram III

Sustained Effects of Intensive Reading Intervention: Can Intensive Intervention Gains Made in Primary Grades Be Maintained Through the End of Elementary School?, Jolene J. Johnson

The Impact of the Gradual Release of Responsibility on Graduate Teacher Education Candidates’ Self-Efficacy with iPads, Wendy L. Loewenstein

The Effects of a Language Arts Academic Pullout Program for Middle School “Academic Bubble” Students, Carrie L. Rath

Elementary and Secondary Teachers’ Attitudes Towards the Education of English Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom in Rural Schools, Adam N. Sempek

Program Comprehension of Aspect-Oriented Programs, Jeffrey Steenbock

Test-Driven Learning in High School Computer Science, Ryan Stejskal

Modeling and tracking relative movement of object parts, Praneeth Talluri

Identifying the Impact of Universal College Testing on State Academic Testing at the Eleventh Grade, Kristi N. Thompson-Gibbs

Analyzing Shakespeare’s Plays in a Network Perspective, Vikas Thotakuri

The Impact of a Kindergarten Intervention Program on Student Reading Achievement in Primary Grades, Tammy S. Voisin

An Exploration of High School Engagement Factors and their Relationship to College Completion Rates, Tamela J. Wegener

MULTI-ROBOT COVERAGE WITH DYNAMIC COVERAGE INFORMATION COMPRESSION, Zachary L. Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

A MapReduce Algorithm for Finding Hotspots of Topics from Time Stamped Documents, Ashwathy Ashokan

UNIT-LEVEL ISOLATION AND TESTING OF BUGGY CODE, Sanik Bajracharya

The effect of school counselors' domain specialization on seniors' milestone completion and college access planning, Nancy J. Bond

Evaluating the achievement of students who did or did not participate in a high ability learning program, Elizabeth A. Fitzgerald

Teacher effectiveness and experience comparing evaluation ratings and student achievement, Janice Marie Garnett

Categorizing and predicting reopened bug reports to improve software reliability, Rishikesh Gawade

The Importance of Mapping to the Next Generation Retinal Prosthesis, Jonathan Gesell

Analysis of participation in 21st century community learning center after-school program and student grade five achievement, Willie T. Herbert

Access patterns of ADHD students utilizing campus disability services supports, Meribeth L. Jackson

Implementing a one-to-one iPad program in a secondary school, Donald P. Johnson

FORETELL: Aggregating Distributed, Heterogeneous Information from Diverse Sources Using Market-based Techniques, Janyl Jumadinova

The Impact of High-Speed Internet Connectivity at Home on Eighth-Grade Student Achievement, Kent J. Kingston

Multi-Robot Task Allocation: A Spatial Queuing Approach, William H. Lenagh

SOFTWARE FAULT DETECTION VIA GRAMMAR-BASED TEST CASE GENERATION, Songqing Liu

Achievement, engagement, and English language acquisition of fourth-grade ELL students following five years of instruction in an English as a Second Language program or instruction in a dual language program in the same urban elementary school, Rony E. Ortega

Energy Awareness and Scheduling in Mobile Devices and High End Computing, Sachin S. Pawaskaw

Improving Requirements Generation Thoroughness in User-Centered Workshops: The Role of Prompting and Shared User Stories, Aaron Read

PERFORMANCE & SIMULATION ANALYSIS OF SENSOR AREA COVERAGE, Ali Rezaeian

An analysis of a district-led leadership seminar on the dispositions of certified staff members, Michael J. Rupprecht

Exploring the effects of district mathematics curriculum on NeSA-M student cohort scores from 2011 to 2012, Julee R. Sauer

3D Object Tracking and Motion Profiling, Corey A. Spitzer

Detecting Stable Communities In Large Scale Networks, Sriram Srinivasan

The effect of prior high school dual enrollment course completion and access equity on first generation college attending students, Douglas E. Stansberry

The Effect of Poverty on the Achievement of Urban African American Male Students Successfully Completing High School, Amy L. Welch

Behavior Outcomes of Kindergarten Through Third-Grade Students Following an Exclusionary Consequence or an In-School Alternative Consequence for Violent or Aggressive Behavior at School, Amy E. Williams

UNDERSTANDING THE ADAPTIVE USE OF IT CAPABILITIES AND DEVELOPMENT OF SHARED MENTAL MODELS IN VIRTUAL TEAMS, Xiaodan Yu

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Effects of a chronic increase in plasma corticosterone on the brooding behavior of the prairie skink, Plestiodon septentrionalis , Alexander James Anton

The Impact of Teacher Administered Positive Behavioral Support Interventions on the Behavior and Achievement of Intermediate Level Students Identified with Measured Moderate, Mild, and Low Disruptive Externalizing Behaviors, Gregory W. Betts

An approach in defining Information Assurance Patterns based on security ontology and meta-modeling, Aniruddha Bhaumik

The effects of single-gender math classroom activities on the achievement and behavior outcomes of fifth-grade girls and boys at a public elementary school, Erik P. Chaussee

The effects of the achievement gap on students formally identified as gifted. Does giftedness prevail?, Dwayne T. Chism

Comparison of college/career readiness outcomes between the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program and the traditional high school academic program, Sandra K. Day

Effects of embedded and direct language strategies on prekindergarten students' cognitive and social emotional development, Matthew L. Dominy

Parallel Adaptive Algorithms for Sampling Large Scale Networks, Kanimathi Duraisamy

The Impact of Prolonged Participation in a Pro-Social Cognitive Behavioral Skills Program on Elementary Age Students, with Behavior Related Disorders, Behavior Accelerative, Behavior Reductive, and Return to Regular Classroom Outcomes, Ted H. Esser

The Impact of School Choice on the Early Literacy Achievement of Kindergarten Students, Lydia L. Gabriel

The Impact of a Year-Long, Same School Social Skills Instruction Program on Students' with Verified Behavioral Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders Perceptions of Program Effectiveness, Gregory G. Gaden

Achievement and high school completion rates of Hispanic students with no English language skills compared to Hispanic students with some English language skills attending the same high school in an immigrant responsive city, Joanne M. Garrison

The sustainability of reading recovery intervention on reading achievement of students identified as at-risk for early reading failure, Anne J. Harley

Energy Aware Algorithms for managing Wireless Sensor Networks, Abhishek Karpate

A program evaluation of a special education day school for students with emotional and behavioral disabilities, Lucinda Klein-Lombardo

The Effect of Improved School Climate Over Time on Fifth-Grade Students’ Achievement Assessment Scores and Teacher Administered Grade Scores, Dawn M. Marten

IDENTIFYING CORE COMPONENTS IN SOFTWARE SYSTEMS, Phillip Meyer

The Effect of a Zoo-Based Experiential Academic Science Program on High School Students' Math and Science Achievement and Perceptions of School Climate, Elizabeth A. Mulkerrin

WRAPS – A SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE PROBABILITY OF PROKARYOTIC PROTEIN ANNOTATION CORRECTNESS, Benjamin K. Nelson

UNDERSTANDING THE ADAPTIVE USE OF VIRTUAL WORLD TECHNOLOGY CAPABILITIES AND TRUST IN VIRTUAL TEAMS, Dawn Owens

A Semantic Approach for Keyword Search on Relational Databases, Rajvardhan Patil

ARCHITECTURE-BASED RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF WEB SERVICES, Cobra Mariam Rahmani

The impact of low, moderate, and high military family mobility school district transfer rates on graduating senior high school dependents' achievement and school engagement, Jeffrey K. Rippe

Delineating the wildland urban interface using publicly available geospatial data, Mary Rozmajzl

The Effects of Marzano's Six Step Vocabulary Process, on Fourth Grade Students' Vocabulary Knowledge, Fluency, and Sentence Complexity, Janet S. Suing

Achievement, Engagement, and Behavior Outcomes of At-Risk Youth Following Participation in a Required Ninth-Grade Academic Support Study Center Program, Jeffrey P. Wagner

The Impact of a One-to-One Laptop Computer Program on the Literacy Achievement of Eighth-grade Students With Differing Measured Cognitive Skill Levels Who are Eligible and Not Eligible for Free or Reduced Price Lunch Program Participation, Eric G. Weber

The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Achievement of High School Students Participating in a One-to-One Laptop Computer Program, Anthony J. Weers

Taxonomic Classification of Media Reports in the Cyber Attack Domain, Jinhua Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Achievement, Engagement, and Behavior Outcomes of Youth At Risk Following a Pre- Eighth-Grade Summer Academic Enrichment Program and Participation in a School- Wide, School Year Long, Ownership, Mastery, and Grading Initiative, David K. Alati

The experience of counseling the terminally ill and the best counseling practices, Helen Jackson Bleicher

Multi-Robot Coalition Formation for Distributed Area Coverage, Ke Cheng