The department holds as its central mission the preparation and development of educators at all levels. The department ensures that its professional education programs are based on essential knowledge, established and current research findings, and sound professional practice.
Below are theses and dissertations of graduates of the Department of Teaching and Learning, as well as the Department of Curriculum and Instruction (until 2012).
For the entire collection of UNLV theses and dissertations, visit UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Voices From the Desks: Reconceptualizing the Mentoring of Beginning Teachers, Matthew R. Albert
The Closing of One Black Box, The Opening of Another: A Self-Study of How an Instructional Coach Makes Decisions, Andromeda L. Hightower
A Qualitative Descriptive Case Study of Teaching Multicultural Education in A High School Civics and Economics Class, Averill Duane Kelley
Co-Teaching at the Secondary Level: A Qualitative Study of Perceptions, Implementations, & Constructivism, Anne-Marie Raskin
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
“Failure Is Not an Option”: Sub-Saharan African International Graduate Students’ Experiences in U.S. Higher Education Institutions, Alfred Acquah
Classroom Management Practices Appropriate to Children of Military Families: A Case Study, Felicia Bucher
Measuring Social Studies Teacher Self-Efficacy: Development of a Valid, Reliable, and Fair Social Studies Self-Efficacy Scale, Leona Calkins
Examining the Attitudes of Preservice Teachers toward English Learners, Annie Chou
Teaching Beliefs and Teaching Practices: A Sequential Mixed Methods Study of Post-Secondary Mathematics Faculty, Katlyn K. Cox
A Multiple Case Study: Exploration of the Writing Instruction Practices of Veteran High School English Teachers, Victoria Lindemann
Embracing Diversity: The Campus Life Challenges, Needs, and Experiences of Muslim Female Students on U.S. Campuses: A Case Study of Iranian Graduate Students, Maryam Mohieddin Rad
Teachers’ Perspectives of African American Student Misbehavior in the General Education Classroom: A Mixed Methods Study, Ebony E. Sherman
Math Identity Experience of College Students in Developmental Courses: The Effects of Chronological Multicultural Mathematics, Jonah Shulman
The Unexpected President: An Instrumental Case Study on Women University Presidents, Jessica Soria
The Role of Peer Relationships in Developing, Promoting, and Maintaining Teachers’ Social and Emotional Competence in the Charter School Setting, Ted Jason Weisman
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Standardized Test and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Multi-Site Case Study of Singapore and Southern Nevada within a Culturally Responsive Evaluation Framework, Rosnidar B. Arshad
How do Beliefs Come into Play? An Examination of the Influence of Core Conceptions on Science Teachers’ Inquiry Lesson Plan Designs, Mehmet Fatih Dulger
Student Perceptions of Formative Feedback in Mathematics, Derek E. Fialkiewicz
The Use of Post-Course Feedback on Mastery Learning in a Professional Development Context, Thomas M. Kramer
School Climate, Teacher Self-Efficacy, and Teaching Practices: Evidence from TALIS 2018, Chengcheng Li
We Gon' Be Alright: A Narrative Inquiry with Black Male Doctoral Students, Lashaun D. Limbrick
Still We Rise: A Black Feminist Qualitative Inquiry Exploring Black Women’s Experiences on Twitter, Yvonne C. Morris
Learning As We Grow: A Multiple Case Study of Teachers Experiences with Graduate Online Courses, Erica K. Reid
Nos/otrxs Que Fuimos Separados: Recovering Testimonios of Separation and Resistance, Marcela Rodriguez-Campo
Popular Culture as a Tool for Critical Pedagogy: A Case Study, Kyle Rogers
Understanding and Addressing Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Misconceptions in Science Education, Nicole Juliana Thomas
Examining the Experiences of LGBTQ DPT Students: A Critical Ethnography, Catherine Turner
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Training Design Enhancement through Training Evaluation: Effects on Training Transfer, Elham Arabi
The Relationship Between Teacher Identity and Teacher Retention in Title 1 Schools: A Multiple Case Study, Michelle A. Arroyo
Change of Venue: An Exploratory, Multistage Evaluation that Examines the Impact of Change Based on the Shared Experiences of the Toe Tag Monologues, Lisa Ann Baaske
Understanding the Professional Experiences of White Jewish Women in Higher Education: An Intrinsic Case Study Analysis, Janna M. Bernstein
The Noise from the Writing Boundaries: Collaboration and Tutor Identity in Writing Intensive Courses, Laura Decker
Using the Critical Mathematics Pedagogical Framework to Teach Adult Basic Education Learners: A Transformative Convergent Parallel Mixed Methods Study, Matthew D. Gromlich
Addressing Disproportionality in School Discipline Through Alternatives to Exclusionary Discipline Practices, Kevin Matthew Higley
Toward Developing a Valid and Reliable Assessment of Learners’ Nature of Engineering Views, Erdogan Kaya
Awareness of Apprenticeships among College Students at a Research University in the Western United States: A Fixed-Convergent Mixed Methods Study, Kendra Vanessa O'Connell
A Combined Approach to Evaluating Student Engagement in a Virtual Laboratory Environment, Aster Sigel
Epistemic Aspects of Engineering for K-12 Education, Ezgi Yesilyurt
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Factors that Influence Nontraditional Adult Learners' Online Course Persistence: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods Study, Millicent D. Braxton
Implications of an Iterative Design Experiment in Transcendental and Polynomial Functions Within a Flipped Classroom, Aaron Boyd Harris
Exploring Preservice Teacher Agency Influencing Power Relationships with Teacher Educators: A Multiple Case Study, Steve Hayden
International Faculty’s Lived Experience of Teaching: A Multiple-Case Study of Taiwanese Professors in the United States, Ching Hsu Kim
A Video Game as a Pedagogical Tool for Pre-Service Teachers to Learn About Bullying Prevention and Intervention in School Contexts, Jeffrey Robert Laferriere
Centering Preservice Teachers of Color Through Culturally Relevant Critical Teacher Care: A Critical Race Transformative Convergent Mixed-Methods Analysis, Tara Joann Plachowski
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
A Case Study: Number Apps In Preschool, Amy Beth Adkins
Discovering the Self That Teaches: Multimedia Reflective Journaling and the Education Stories of Beginning Preservice Teachers, Meredith Paula Allard