Theses, dissertations, professional papers, and doctoral projects from graduate students in the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Follow


Theses/Dissertations from 2012

PDF

Moving Forward on Common Ground: A Mixed Methods Exploration of National Standards, Sharon Kay Cogan

PDF

Beyond the Baccalaureate: Black Students' Decisions to Pursue a Graduate Education, Edward Collins

PDF

Nuestras Experiencias: A Phenomenological Study of Latina First Generation Higher Education Graduates, Diana Elizabeth Cruz

PDF

School Leadership Readiness: Traditional vs. Online Administrative Preparation, Jose Delfin

PDF

Problem Solving Interventions: Impact on Young Children with Developmental Disabilities, Lindsay Ann Diamond

PDF

Language of Instruction Policies: Discourse and Power, Katherine Ann Dockweiler

PDF

Closing up shop: Meditations on the departmental/programmatic elimination experience, Susan Beth Donoff

PDF

Understanding Adolescent Perceptions of Science Education, Ellen Kress Ebert

PDF

The Relationship between Institutional, Departmental and Program-Specific Variables and the Academic Performance of Division I FBS Football Programs, Steven C. Eigenbrot

PDF

The Retention and Success of Alternatively Admitted Student Athletes: A Case Study of the UNLV Athletic Department, Adrienne Ekas-Mueting

PDF

Empowering Teachers: Characteristics, Strategies, and Practices of Successful Principals, Cailin Patrice Ellis

PDF

Fortifying the Pipeline: An Exploratory Study of High School Factors Impacting the Information Literacy of First-Year College Students, Jennifer L. Fabbi

PDF

Factors Contributing to the Educational Success of Single-mother Welfare Recipients at an Urban Southwestern Community College: Case Studies of Six Success Stories, Rhonda Rose Faul

PDF

Superintendent Leadership during Economic Austerity: A Multiple Case Study, Douglas Paul Finch

PDF

A Historical Case Study of School Desegregation and Resegregation in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1968-2008, Felicia Forletta

PDF

School Reform: Where Does Policy Come From? Where Should It Go?, Kim Karman Friel

PDF

Writing in Science: Influences of Professional Development on Teachers' Beliefs, Practices, and Student Performance, Lori Fulton

PDF

The Acquisition of Cultural Competence: A Phenomenological Inquiry Highlighting The Processes, Challenges and Triumphs of Counselor Education Students, Douglas L. Garner

PDF

Transformative Multicultural Science Curriculum: A Case Study of Middle School Robotics, Mary Katheryn Grimes

PDF

Enhancing the Calibration Accuracy of Adult Learners: A Multifaceted Intervention, Antonio P. Gutierrez

PDF

Interactive Effects of Working Memory Self-Regulatory Ability and Relevance Instructions on Text Processing, Nancy Jo Hamilton

PDF

Factors Affecting Talent Development: Differences in Graduate Students Across Domains, Stephanie Hartzell

PDF

Community Perspectives on Black Parent Engagement in West Las Vegas Before and After Desegregation: A Case Study, Tonia Faye Holmes-Sutton

PDF

The Motivating Language of Principals: A Sequential Transformative Strategy, William Tobias Holmes

PDF

A Comparison of High School Physical Education and Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, Kathryn Anne Holt

PDF

Cyberbullying Policy in Public Schools, Alison Humphries

PDF

Adaptive Behavior Malingering in Legal Claims of Mental Retardation, Renee M. Kadlubek

PDF

A Comparison of Bias in Four Measures of Monitoring Accuracy, Fred Kuch

PDF

Model Provisions For Building a Successful Lead Poisoning Prevention Program: A Case Study for the Western United States, Kathleen Lauckner

PDF

Effects of Teacher-led Reading Teaching Activities and Student Independent Reading on Fourth Grade ELL Student Reading Comprehension, Siping Liu

PDF

The Leadership Orientations and Effectiveness of College and University Career Services Directors, Jacob A. Livengood

PDF

Students' Conceptions about Climate Change: Using Critical Evaluation to Influence Plausibility Reappraisals and Knowledge Reconstruction, Doug Lombardi

PDF

A Case Study Using Principal-Agent Theory to Explore How a Public, Four Year University Interacts with a System Office, Annie Macias

PDF

Antecedent Influences: Factors that Guide African American Men to the Field of Education, Michael James Maxwell

PDF

Response to Intervention Data in Grade Retention Decisions: How is it Used?, Cheryl Anne Mayfield

PDF

Facing The Music: Student Power Relations in Student Leadership Within High School Band Programs, Curtis James Melton

PDF

A study of district leadership practices in the principal professional learning community, Danielle Grace Miller

PDF

Leadership Practice in Elementary School Dual Language Programs: A Collective Case Study, Joanie K. Monroy

PDF

Teaching Online Social Skills to Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Joseph John Morgan

PDF

Education Interest Groups: The Influence of Networks on Rulemaking and Policy in Public School Reform, Brian Curtis Myli

PDF

Celebrity Athlete Endorser Effectiveness: Construction and Validation of a Scale, Theodore Byrne Peetz

PDF

Safety First -In Search of Justice -School & Law Enforcement Agency Partnerships, Michael Anthony Pickett

PDF

A Father's Hands: African American Fathering Involvement and The Educational Outcomes of Their Children, Theodore Samuel Ransaw

PDF

Comparing Division IA Scholarship and Non-Scholarship Student-Athletes: A Discriminant Analysis of Academic Performance, Lisa Melanie Rubin

PDF

An Exploration Of Contextual Factors That May Influence The Expulsion Rates Of Middle School Students, Tracy Schroeder

PDF

Innovators and laggards? Faculty adoption of online distance education, Thomas Tailor Scott

PDF

Comparing Public and Private Institutions that Have and Have Not Implemented Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems: A Resource Dependence Perspective, Geetha Rathna Sendhil

PDF

Credentialing Success in Respiratory Therapy Education: Revisiting Bourdieu's Concepts of Field and Capital, Karen Lightbody Shaw

PDF

Principal Change Facilitator Style and Student Achievement: A Study of Schools in the Middle, Steven Keith Stewart

PDF

Division I Student-Athlete Degree Choice Assessment, Tony Terrell

PDF

Examining Competencies for the Human Resources Professional Within Idaho State Government, Cecil R. Torres Jr

PDF

Exploring The Relationship Between First Year First Generation College Students And Their Parents, Jerica L. Turek

PDF

Counselor Development in the Process of Mastering Cultural Competence: A Study of Professional Growth Experiences, Marie Antoinette Wakefield

PDF

Perceptions of barriers that inhibit African American women and adolescent girls from participation in physical activity, Sonya Daniels Walker

PDF

Concordance of Vocational Interest and Efficacy of Female College Students Pursuing a Traditional Career Path, Priscilla A. Walton

PDF

Theory versus practice: a study of strategy making in five public MBA programs, Michael Alwyn Wilde

PDF

Competencies for Financial Aid Officers: A Competency Model for Professional Development, Michael Neil Woolf

PDF

Efficiency of Fiscal Expenditures in Nevada Elementary Schools Using Data Envelopment Analysis, Todd Patrick Yocum

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

PDF

Effects of classwide self-management intervention on second grade students’ social skills in physical education, Elian Aljadeff-Abergel

PDF

An assessment of medical care provided by Nevada's high school athletic programs, Brooke Allen-Burnstein

PDF

Change is learning: Metacognition to resolve concerns during the third year of the implementation of a technological innovation, Nola Allen-Raffail

PDF

The process of coaching: An examination of authenticity, Steven C. Barnson

PDF

Investigating the Effects of Addition with Regrouping Strategy Instruction Among Elementary Students with Learning Disabilities, Christi Miller Carmack

PDF

Bridging the chasm: Emerging model of leadership in intercollegiate athletics governance, John C. Chandler III

PDF

Factors influencing music teacher retention: A mixed method study, Charles W. Cushinery

PDF

Evaluating a social skills training protocol in a private setting: Outcomes and issues, Judi Davis

PDF

The influence of peer tutors and technology-actuated reading instruction process on third-grade students' self-perceptions as readers: A multiple case study, Brenda Shill Daw

PDF

The role of narrative in multimedia learning, Myrna Elyse Diamond

PDF

Using graphs to represent physical phenomena in a fourth grade classroom, Mehmet Fatih Dulger

PDF

Reading the world in the word: The possibilities for literacy instruction framed within human rights education, Judith M. Dunkerly

PDF

The impact of regulating social science research with biomedical regulations, Brenda Braxton Durosinmi

PDF

College Choice Influences Among High-Achieving Students: An Exploratory Case Study of College Freshmen, Derek Takumi Furukawa

PDF

Comparing the student profile characteristics between traditional residential and commuter students at a public, research-intensive, urban commuter university, Dan Gianoutsos

PDF

Exploring the factors that influence adequate yearly progress within elementary school settings, Shannon Marie Hennrich

PDF

Creating effective leadership development programs: A descriptive quantitative case study, Spencer Holt

PDF

Teacher gesture in a post-secondary English as a second language classroom: A sociocultural approach, Natalie Hudson

PDF

The relationship between participation in extracurricular activities and Utah's proficiency assessments of students in a suburban school district, Everett N. Kelepolo

PDF

Alumni participation: An investigation using relationship marketing principles, Lisa Ann Kelleher

PDF

Environmental engagement demand differences within and among Holland academic environments, Derek K. Lester

PDF

It's a matter of principal: Examining relationships between leaders' change facilitator style and students' academic progress, Diane Lewis

PDF

Investigating the effects of a combined problem-solving strategy for students with learning difficulties in mathematics, Dustin B. Mancl

PDF

The Effect of Pre-collaborative Activity Instruction on Self-efficacy, Robert Ray Mattson

PDF

Licensing policies of public school principals, Jerri Mausbach

PDF

Personality, presence, and the virtual self: A five-factor model approach to behavioral analysis within a virtual environment, Michael Patrick McCreery

PDF

Learning middle school mathematics through student designed and constructed video games, Camille M. McCue

PDF

A Change of heart: A phenomenographic study of conversation, Marjorie Kay Meckes Conner

PDF

Causes of job turnover in the public school superintendency: An explanatory analysis in the western United States, Toby A. Melver

PDF

Engaging non-alumni advisory board members in hospitality education, Judy A. Nagai

PDF

Set in stone: Legends, traditions, and symbols influencing place attachment for Southern Utah University students, Claudine Nielsen

PDF

Students with reading disabilities participating in literature discussions: A case study, Elysha Patino O’Brien

PDF

A Mixed methods exploration of principal communication and school climate, Reece Oswalt

PDF

The hormonal correlates of stress and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in female veterans, Meghan Pierce

PDF

Assisting the accompanying partner: A dramaturgical explanatory study of dual career couples offices, Christine Promin

PDF

The Road traveled to becoming a safe high school, Monica J. Pufky Cortez

PDF

Best instructional practices for distance education: A meta-analysis, Robin Michael Roberts

PDF

The male educational leader in Utah: Gender dynamics, power, and relational leadership in a Mormon dominant culture, Rick Robins

PDF

Resilient leadership in high poverty schools, Edward P. San Nicolas

PDF

An examination of the preparation, experiences, and attitudes of effective school leaders of students with disabilities: Voices from the field, Patricia Ann Schultz

PDF

Cognitive load of critical thinking strategies, Hanem Shehab

PDF

A case study of organizational change: College restructuring in response to mandated department eliminations, Brandy Dyan Smith