Student Dissertations
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Date of Dissertation
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Title
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Author
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| 1988 | Literacy for Living: What Literacy Means in the Lives of Three Adults | Lorraine Neilsen |
| Writing and Reading Genres in a First-Grade Process Classroom | Brenda Miller Power | |
| Academic Discourse: An Ethnography of the Public and Private Literacies of University Students | Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater | |
| The Teaching Portfolio as a Vehicle for Professional Growth | John J. Freeman | |
| 1990 | Learning to Live: Values and Experience in the Life of a Classroom | Mary Comstock |
| Meaning Makers in the Literacies of Play, the Creative Arts, and the Language Arts | Judith Fueyo | |
| A Study of Children's Reading/Writing Relationships in a Grade Five Classroom | Mary Ellen MacMillan | |
| Breaking the Rules: Teaching and Learning Writing in the High School | Ann Vibert | |
| 1991 | Vivencias: Writing as a Way into a New Language and Culture | Meg Peterson-Gonzales |
| One Writing Process: A Self-Reflective Analysis of the Creation of a Young Adult Novel | Tom Romano | |
| Summer Revisions: An Ethnographic Study of High School Teachers in the Culture of a Summer Writing Program | Bonnie Sunstein | |
| Large-Scale Portfolio Evaluation of Writing | Jay Simmons | |
| 1992 | Experiences of Four Laotian Refugee Adolescents from on Family in an American Secondary School | Danling Fu |
| Writing Patterns of Securely and Insecurely Attached, Inner-City First Graders | Cindy Matthews | |
| Teachers, Peers, and Authors As Resources in a Response-Based Classroom | Margaret Murray | |
| More than Print: The Home and School Literacies of three Fourth-Graders | Margaret Voss | |
| 1993 | Alternative Certification in New Hampshire: Perceptions of Teachers and Principals | James R. Jelmberg |
| Culturally Responsive Talk between a Second-Grade Teacher and Hawaiian Children during Writing Workshop | Tim Rynkofs | |
| 1994 | Let Us Now Praise Famous Students: A Qualitative Study of High School Students with Learning Disabilities | Judith Elizabeth Day |
| Problem Finders within the Discourse of Mediation | Judith Ferrara | |
| Teaching as Reflected in the Science Autobiographies of Preservice Elementary Teachers |
Stacey Gauthier | |
| Writing and Reading as Reflexive Inquiry: A Reflexive Inquiry | Donna Qualley | |
| Dancing on Razon Wire: Caring to Write and Writing to Care in a Women's Prison | Kathe Simons | |
| From Eighth Grade to High School: A Story of Enculturation and Adaptation | Cyrene Wells | |
| 1995 | Teachers of Mathematics "Recognition and Recording Reform in Mathematics Education" Documentation Project through Cross-Case Analysis |
Loren Phaffle Johnson |
| Autobiographical Understandings: The Evolution of a Teaching Self | Joann Portalupi | |
| Literacy Portfolios: Considering Issues of Purpose, Power, and Potential | Carol Wilcox | |
| Making a Place for Poetry: Response in and Adult Writing Group | Andrea Luna | |
| 1996 | An Analysis of the Relationship between Funding Levels and Expenditure Patterns in New Hampshire High Schools, 1985-86 to 1993-94 | Thomas Carroll |
| Critical Thinking: A Voyage of the Imagination - An Investigation into the Role of the Imagination in Critical Thinking |
David Hodgdon | |
| Profiles of Reform in the Teaching of Calculus: A Study of the Implementation of Materials Developed by the Calculus Consortium based at Harvard (CCH) Curriculum Project |
A. Darien Lauten | |
| Changes in Self-Sufficiency: A Feminist Approach to Literacy Program Evaluation |
Marcia Makris | |
| Performance Management within the Cooperative Extension Service |
John Pike | |
| The Relationship between Intellectual Development Using Hunt's Paragraph Completion Method and Buczynski's Ways of Knowing Inventory and Collaboration in Full-year Student Intern and Cooperating Teacher Supervisory Pairs |
Mildred Struck | |
| Student Satisfaction with Faculty Advisors: Influences on Retention in Higher Education |
Susan Wyckoff | |
| Giving Voice to the Spirits: Storytelling in the Service of Belizean Literacy | Gerald Kelly | |
| 1997 | Talk Before Writing: Oral Rehearsal as a Pre-Writing Strategy for High School Students with Difficulties in Retrieval |
Valerie Aubry |
| Power Play: Sexual Harassment in the Middle School | Elizabeth Chamberlain | |
| Perceptions of New Hampshire Teachers and Supervisors Regarding Teacher Supervision |
Pamela Clark | |
| Influences on Teachers' Curricular Choices in Project-Based Science Classrooms | Karen Laba | |
| Sharing Reality: The Reflective Process of a Middle School Team |
Carol Mulligan | |
| Collaborative Leadership in Building Technology for Higher Education in New Hampshire |
Elizabeth Rivet | |
| A Poetics of Reconciliation: The Aesthetic Mediation of Conflict |
Cynthia Cohen | |
| 1998 | Literacies without Judgement: Composing a (Con)Text for Cultural Healing in Northeast Brazil |
Francisco Cavalcante |
| Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Preservice Teacher Education: A Pedagogy of Collaborative Inquiry |
Mary Jane Moran | |
| Authors of Pictures, Draughtsman of Words | Ruth Hubbard | |
| Examining Student Conceptions of the Nature of Science from two Project-Based Classrooms |
David Moss | |
| Roles of Organization and Rapport-Building in Effective Middle School Literacy Instruction | Douglas Kaufman | |
| Music and the General Classroom: Literacy in a New Key | Dan Seger | |
| Explaining Gender Differences on the Advanced Placement U.S. History Exam |
Fred J. Wetzel | |
| 1999 | Problem-Based Learning in Athletic Training Education |
Francisco Catlaw |
| Analysis of Impact and Value of NEASC High School Accreditation Procedures on School Accountability and School Improvement from 1987-1997 |
George A. Cushing | |
| Finding a Voice: Poetry and Performance in a First-Grade Classroom | Lisa Lenz Bianchi | |
| Mentoring Adolescents: A Sociocultural and Cognitive Developmental Study of Undergraduate Women and Sixth Grade Girls in a Mentoring Program |
Katharine Fachin-Lucas | |
| Learning to Read Music Cooperatively in a Choral Setting: A Case Study |
Andrew Inzenga | |
| Queering/Querying Identities: The Roles of Integrity and Belonging in Becoming Ourselves |
Cari Moorhead | |
| Writer Use Talk and Multi-Media Journals to Forge a Literate Classroom Community | Julie Brooks Pantano | |
| Memoirs, Movements, and Meaning: Teacher/Student Research in Freshman Composition | Carol A. Hawkins | |
| Children make Sense of Characters and Social Relationships through a Gesture_Based Theatre Convention (Tableau) | Patricia G. Wilson | |
| An Introductory Teacher Education Practicum to Learn about the Motivations, Journeys, and Understandings of Preservice Teachers | Dan Rothermel | |
| Composing Compassion: Developing care Communities via Engagements in the Visual Arts | Cynthia Vascak | |
| 2000 | The Perceived Effects of State-Mandated Testing in New Hampshire |
Stephen A. Kossakoski |
| Lifers: A Study of At-Risk Adolescent Readers |
Pamela N. Mueller | |
| 2001 | The Level of Teacher Involvement in the Vermont Mathematics Portfolio Assessment Process and Methods of Instruction in Grade 4 Classrooms |
Carol A. Fritz |
| A Study of Mathematics Course Sequence and Student Performance in a Block Scheduled High School |
John H. Moody | |
| Unpacking the Rehearsal Practices of Theatre Professionals and the Significance for the Teaching of Reading | Dale L. Wright | |
| 2002 | One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Making Change in Early Head Start |
Patrice Hallock |
| Third Grade Evaluators Thrive as Readears |
Amy F. Smith | |
| Efforts to Equalize Funding between Wealthy and Poor School Districts in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont |
Michael Harris | |
| Self-Determination and Success Outcomes of Two-Year College Students with Disabilities: An Integration of Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches |
Deborah Jameson | |
| The Manifestation of Leadership in Three High-Flying New Hampshire Elementary Schools |
Steven T. Kelley | |
| Elementary Accreditation: Pro Forma or Substance: A View from Inside the Schoolhouse Gates |
Maryann J. Minard | |
| Sense of Place among New England Organic Farmers and Commercial Fishermen: How Social Context Shapes Identity and Environmentally Responsible Behavior |
Anneliese Mueller | |
| Individuals with Disabilities as Parents and their Earliest Connections to Systems of Support |
Mary Schuh | |
| Educators Evaluate Themselves Via Multiple Literacy Artifacts and Reflections |
Kathryn L. Staley | |
| 2003 | Connections between New Hampshire Superintendents' Leadership Orientations and Their Perceptions of Selected Issues Associated with Politics in Education |
Althea Sheaff |
| Introducing Performance into the Communication Curriculum for Engineers: Breaking the Mould |
Constance M. Israel | |
| Knowledge, Inquiry, Action: Teacher Collaboration at Prospect Center's Summer Institute |
Karen Woolf | |
| Committed to Encounter: Sources of Teacher Engagement with Students in a Cross-Cultural Study of two Sister Schools in Japan and the United States |
Rosemary Zurawel | |
| 2004 | Asian American Perspectives of College Experience: An Interpretive Narrative |
Linda Chen Einsiedler |
| Inclusion in Physical Education for Students with Severe Disabilities |
Michelle A. Grenier | |
| Predictors of Parental Notification Policies and Practices for Alcohol-Related Violations at Colleges and Universities |
Gavin Henning | |
| The Role-Taking Experience of Undergraduate Peer Tutors: A Cognitive-Developmental Approach |
Margaret Pobywajlo | |
| Perceptions of Eighth Grade Mathematics Teachers on the Impact of the Maine Education Assessment on Instructional Practices |
Mary Christine Runge | |
| Shifting Worlds: Leading Educational Change in A Quantum Universe |
Mary O. Singer | |
| Obstacles to Integrating Sustainability into Decision-Making Processes in an Institution of Higher Education | Julie Newman | |
| Teaching Not Knowing: Reflections on a Writing Practice |
Terry A. Moher | |
| 2005 | Shared Governance in New Hampshire: Superintendent and School Relations in Small, Rural New Hampshire School Districts |
Betsey Stebbins Cox-Buteau |
| Alternative Teacher Compensation Systems: Practices and Perceptions as Reported by New Hampshire Principals |
Bradford W. Craven | |
| Faculty Perception of the Effects of Collective Bargaining Agreements on Their Professional Roles: The New England Public Higher Education Experience |
Nancy Hamer | |
| Exploring Table Talk: Does Dialogue or Debate Correspond to Success and Satisfaction In Teacher Collective Bargaining |
Michael Jette | |
| Visualizing the Invisible: The Role of Race and White Racial Identity and the Teaching and Pedagogy of New ESOL Teachers |
Tonda Liggett | |
| Bridging the Gap Between Asynchronous and Traditional Learning Environments: Technology for Adult Learners |
Jayne M. Pelletier | |
| Can I Get a Witness? The Significance of Finding a Witness for Liberatory Education |
Martha J. Ritter | |
| Third Graders Speak: Experiences and Perspectives of Reading and Writing in Urban Public Schools |
Kimberly A. Boothroyd | |
| Transition Voices: Perspectives, Concerns, and Experiences of children, Parents, and Teachers as Children Transition from Kindergarten to First Grade |
Laurie I. Harper | |
| Scientific Literacy in a Primary Multiage Classrom - Teaching at the Edge of Magic | Charlene Kohn | |
| 2006 | Adventure Education as Cultural-Historical Activity: A Study of Experience, Learning and Social Processes in Project Adventure Workshops |
Jayson Seaman |
| Problematic Practices and Outcomes of Initial Implementation of Formal Mentoring Programs in Two New Hampshire Public School Districts | Pamela A. Miller | |
| 2007 | Interdisciplinary Middle School Teaming | Donna J. Cronin |
| Coming to Know Reflective Practice: An Ethnography of Novice University Teachers | Gail Fensom | |
| Critical Autonomy: Investigating Social Class and Education | Peter-John Giampietro | |
| More than Simply "Hanging Out": The Nature of Participant Observation and Research Relationships | Julie Simpson | |
| Urban Middle Schools' Teacher Efficacy change Resulting from Project Adventure's Year-Long Respect Curricular Intervention: A Quasi-Experimental Design with Corroborating Data | Brooke M. Moran | |
| How Spanish Speaking Parents Understand Kindergarten and Support their Children's Education Within the Context of a School | Phyllis B. Schlichter | |
| 2008 | Systematic Decoding, Spelling and Communication Instruction for Students with complex communication Needs | Gretchen Hanser |
| Rhetorical Tactics in the Struggle for Gender Equity: Autobiographical Curriculum Inquiry in Women's Rowing | Jennie A. Marshall | |
| Indoctrination in Education: Offering an Alternative Conception | Barbara Peterson | |
| 2009 | Engaged Scholarship at Land-Grant Institutions: Factors Affecting Faculty Participation | Lisa Townson |
| Understanding SLA Through Peer Interaction in a Chinese Classroom: A Sociocultural Perspective | Lei Wu | |
| 2010 | Educator Perceptions of Policies That May Impact Black Male Persistence | Antonio Henley |
| Parent and Teacher Perceptions of School Partnerships in New Hampshire Schools | Brenda Zarnowski | |
| 2011 | Independently Innovative: Teachers and Change in Successful Schools | Mary Halpin Carter |