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 2011
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