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About the Collection
This collection contains graduate student theses and dissertations from the UNLV Department of Teaching and Learning. Records are organized by Year, Author, and Title. To view the entire collection of UNLV theses and dissertations across all programs, visit the UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones collection.
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Is Being Green, White? A Critical Ethnographic Study of Social Norms in Conservation, Heather Whitesides
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Literacy and Social Justice: Understanding Student Perceptions and Conceptions about Literature, Jennifer Marie Crosthwaite
The development of language and identity: A sociocultural study of five international graduate students living in the U.S., Alexandra Dema
Forecasting The School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Generative Case Study of Early Literacy Experiences of Black Male Youth, Tarryn E. Mcghie
Gestures as Mimetic Forms of Identity in Post-Secondary Italian as a Foreign Language Classrooms: A Sociocultural Perspective, Ilaria Nardotto Peltier
Multicultural Education in Action: A Multiple Case Study of Black Elementary Aged Children's Identity Development and Engagement with Civil Rights Literature, Rebekah E. Piper
Engineering the Path to Higher-Order Thinking in Elementary Education: A Problem-Based Learning Approach for STEM Integration, Abeera P. Rehmat
"Because of my Identity:" Valuing the Experiences of Latina Students in the Culturally Responsive Service-~Learning Classroom, Janessa Schilmoeller
Negative Impacts of Teacher Evaluation Reform: The Role of Federal Policy in Student Achievement and Teacher Quality, Allison Smith
Division I Men's Basketball Scholarship : The Challenges of Being a Black Male Athlete, Lonnie Gene Wright
A Phenomenology Study of First-~year Teachers Looking at the Shared Lived Experience of Learning to Grade, Brandon Lee Yost
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Enhancing Teaching and Learning through iPad Integration in a Clinic-~based Literacy Course, Kyle F. Kaalberg
An Autoethnography of Heart-Based Hope Leadership: A Matter of Life or Death, Cynthia Jeanne Kimball
A Multiple Case Study of Whiteness and Critical Literacy Practices Among White Elementary Teachers in Urban Public Schools, Amanda Rose Vandehei
Impact of A Grade Contract Model in A College Composition Course: A Multiple Case Study, Nayelee Villanueva
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
A Multiple Case Study of Gay Teacher Identity Development: Negotiating and Enacting Identity to Interrupt Heteronormativity, Zaid Mashhour Haddad
Black Teachers, White Schools: A Qualitative Multiple Case Study on Their Experiences of Racial Tokenism and Development of Professional Black Identities, Abigail Kathleen Hasberry
The Effect of Scaffolded Strategies on Content Learning in a Designed Science Cyberlearning Environment, Cynthia Lee Kern
A Tale of Two PCs: An Evaluation of Access Platforms for the Blind Utilizing the "Blackboard Learn" Learning Management System, Robert Lambert
Validity of Subjective Self-Assessment of Digital Competence Among Undergraduate Preservice Teachers, Joseph Andrew Maderick
Kindergarteners' Concept Development in Science and Literacy Learning Through Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI), Char Adelia Moffit
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Understanding Adolescent Perceptions of Science Education, Ellen Kress Ebert
Writing in Science: Influences of Professional Development on Teachers' Beliefs, Practices, and Student Performance, Lori Fulton
Transformative Multicultural Science Curriculum: A Case Study of Middle School Robotics, Mary Katheryn Grimes
A Father's Hands: African American Fathering Involvement and The Educational Outcomes of Their Children, Theodore Samuel Ransaw
Credentialing Success in Respiratory Therapy Education: Revisiting Bourdieu's Concepts of Field and Capital, Karen Lightbody Shaw
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Factors influencing music teacher retention: A mixed method study, Charles W. Cushinery
The role of narrative in multimedia learning, Myrna Elyse Diamond
Using graphs to represent physical phenomena in a fourth grade classroom, Mehmet Fatih Dulger
Reading the world in the word: The possibilities for literacy instruction framed within human rights education, Judith M. Dunkerly
Teacher gesture in a post-secondary English as a second language classroom: A sociocultural approach, Natalie Hudson
Learning middle school mathematics through student designed and constructed video games, Camille M. McCue
Students with reading disabilities participating in literature discussions: A case study, Elysha Patino O’Brien
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Female North African-French students in France: Narratives of educational experiences, Donna L. Murray
Interaction and language development of ELL students in mainstream classrooms, Beth A. Ralston
Gesture as an act of meaning-making: An eco-social perspective of a sheltered-English second grade classroom, Alessandro A. Rosborough
Pre-service elementary science teaching self-efficacy and teaching practices: A mixed-methods, dual-phase, embedded case study, Cheryl Ramirez Sangueza
Second language inner voice and identity, Brandon Kenji Shigematsu
Negotiating the integration of new literacies in math and science content: The lived experience of classroom teachers, Jennifer Joy Wimmer
An Investigation of exemplary teaching practices of teachers of Native American students, William M. Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
A Comparison of face-to-face and online learning environments to prepare teachers to use technology, Ashley Janel Addis
Adult ESL student perceptions on computer assisted language learning, Jillian Burrus
So tell me, what's different but the skin I'm in? Seven adolescent black girls making sense of their experiences in an online school book club featuring African American young adult literature, Benita Rutonya Dillard
Agent and subject of discipline: How the novice teacher experiences the techniques of power, Lynn Anne Murray-Chandler
Teacher candidates' attitudes toward immigration and teaching learners of English as a second language, Midena M. Sas