Dissertations from 2014
Bay Area Student Involvement in the Environmental and Food Justice Movements: A Narrative of Motivations, Experiences, and Community Impact, Laura E. Solof
Ready to Write: Exploring the Student Perspective on the Transition to College, Julie Sullivan
Four Preservice Teachers' Use of Mathematical Knowledge during Lesson Planning and Instruction in the Field Experience, Margaret Swearingen
Integrated Academic and Social Support for Military Veteran Students: Imagining a New Horizon in Education, Gerardo Ureno
Dissertations from 2013
Being a Project Manager in a Multinational Corporation: An Interpretive Perspective On Working Practices and Experiences, Waleed Afndy
Teaching Dilemmas: Language Development for English Learners In a Hyper-Segregated Dual Immersion Program, Allison Briceño
Ownership, Control, Sponsorship, and Trusteeship: Governance Relationships Within Private Catholic Religious-Sponsored Secondary Schools in the United States, David Louis Caretti
An Exploration of Leadership and Campus Cultural Orientation In a California Community College, Eduardo Cervantes
An Investigation of First-Year Teacher Induction Programs in Jesuit Secondary Schools within the California Province, Justin James Dixon Christensen
Increasing Community College Basic Skills English Instructors' Use of Autonomy Supportive Instruction to Impact Students' Perceptions of Autonomy and Engagement, Dionne Janice Clabaugh
An Evaluation of a Nursing Leadership Simulation Experience Using Multitrait Multimethod Matrix, Toby Embry
The Effect of Dynamic Assessment on Adult Learners of Arabic: A Mixed-Method Study at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Mohsen Mahmoud Fahmy
The Effect of Sequent Input on Speech Accuracy and Fluency in Adults at the Intermediate Level, Salah Farah
An Exploration of Worship Practices at an African American Church of Christ, Lamont Ali Francies
A Comparison of Two Teaching Methods for Pediatric Medication Administration: Multimedia and Text-Based Modules, Renee Granados
The Power of the Hula: A Performance Text for Appropriating Identity Among First Hawaiian Youth, Cesily Hong
The Impact of Transactional Strategies Instruction on the Reading Comprehension of a Diverse Group of Second Graders, Sunjoo Shawn Kim
Starting a Dialogue with Mexican Born Students: Appropriating a New Understanding in a Public High School, Vicne Leeburn
The Effects of Explicit Reading Strategy Instruction and Cooperative Learning on Reading Comprehension in Fourth Grade Students, Gina M. Lencioni
Including Exceptional Children in a Christian Learning Community: New Narratives in Special Education, Jennifer Camota Luebke Ed.D., MBA
Effects of Academic and Non-academic Instructional Approaches on Preschool ELLs' English Language Development, Ivana Markova-Lama
Sandwich Generation Caregivers: Ethical Legacies Throughout Generations, Sharon Z. Marts
Foreign Language Learning in a Non-school Environment: Effects of Simulated Immersion Training on Affective Factors in Learners' Experience, Eunsook McNiel-Cho
Complicating Whiteness: Identifications of Veteran White Teachers in Multicultural Settings, Anthony Miele
Mature Women Beyond Foster Care: Narratives on Fractors contributing to Subjective Well-Being and Life-Sustaining Skills, Marie Elizabeth Moore
The relations among school status variables, teacher academic and arts curricular emphases, and student academic achievement in grades 1, 3, and 5, Browning Michael Neddeau
Electronic Portfolios as Living Portals: A Narrative Inquiry Into College Student Learning, Identity, and Assessment, Celeste Fowles Nguyen
Individual and Collective Diaspora Remittances in the Philippines and Korea: An Interpretation of Narrative Identity, Communicative Action, and Recognition, Janice Gow Pettey
"These Rights Go Beyond Borders and Pieces of Paper": Urban High School Teachers and Newcomer Immigrant Youth Engaging in Human Rights Education, Juliet A. Schiller
Counter-Narratives of La Raza Voices: An Exploration of the Personal and Professional Lived Experiences of Mexican-American/Chicana/O Faculty at California Catholic Institutions of Higher Education, Frank Vincent Serrano
Effect of a Classwide Peer-Mediated Intervention on the Social Interactions of Students with Low-Functioning Autism and the Perceptions of Typical Peers, Lisa A. Simpson
Being in Deep, Authentic, Dramatic Celebration: Narratives of Community Cultural Workers for Social Change, Mi'Jan Celie Tho-Biaz
Asian American Women Leaders in the Pacific Coast: Their Pathway to Presidency in Two-Year Institutions, Joan Torne
Lived Experiences of Women with Hidden Disabilities: A Phenomenologically Based Study, Michelle Jean Yee
Casa de la Solidaridad: A Pedagogy of Solidarity, Kevin Yonkers-Talz
Dissertations from 2012
Presence in Nursing Practice: A Critical Hermeneutic Analysis, Alicia Laurel bright
Emerging 21st-Century Educational Challenges and Opportunities: An Appreciative Inquiry of Public Education In The U.S. Virgin Islands, Sheree NeCole Bryant
Black Women’s Perceptions of the Relationship among Nepotism, Cronyism Job Satisfaction, and Job-Focused Self-Efficacy, Johnson LaVoria Chandler
Sustainability with an Ethical Aim: Lessons from an American Nun in Amazonia, Stephanie Denise Demaree
Imagication = Imagination + Education: What Fifth Graders Think About Arts Integration in Public Elementary Schools, Lisa Edsall Giglio
Perceptions of Bilingualism and Home Language Maintenance and Loss: A Study of Latino Parents at a San Francisco Bay Area Elementary Charter School, Emily McCormick Enstice
African American Entrepreneurship: Narratives of Fresno County, California, African American Entrepreneurs, Felix Shielim-Nwaeke Enunwa
Exploring the Leadership Practices of Social Justice Leaders at Urban Charter Schools, Kandle Fraser
Coping Behaviors of Day Laborers in San Mateo, California, Antonio Gallardo
Latino Immigrant Parents of English Language Learner Students, School Involvement and the Participation Breach, Jose Vicente Gonzalez
The Separate and Collective Effects of Personalization, Personification, and Gender on Learning with Multimedia Chemistry Instructional Materials, Shannon James Halkyard
Supporting Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals: Participatory Action Research in Human Rights Education, Page Hersey
Serving Youth Who Are Serving Time: A Study of the Special Education Services for Incarcerated Youth in a Short-Term Care Facility, Sachiko Hoshide
The Relationship Between Interaction Patterns on an Online Idea Generation Community and the Implementation of Ideas, Michael D. Jacobson
The Image of the Artist: A Content Analysis of Authenticity, Ethnicity, and Quality in Young Adult Novels, Jeannine L. Jeffries
De La Salle Christian Brothers' Experiences of Catholic Identity in Higher Education in the United States, Scott Anthony Kier
The Experience of Lasallian Association on the Part of Lay “Associates in Fact” in the District of San Francisco, Gregory T. Kopra
A Participatory Action Research Study with Bi-ethnic Children in South Korea on Bi-ethnic Identity Development, Jeong Min Lee
Investigation of the Misconceptions Related to the Concepts of Equivalence and Literal Symbols Held by Underprepared Community College Students, Terrence Joseph Maguire
Post-Dollarization Narratives of Economic Literacy in Ecuador, Luis A. Reynoso
Learning for Cambodian Women: Exploration through Narrative Identity and Imagination, Alvina Marie Sheeley
"This is a Public Record": Teaching Human Rights Through The Performing Arts, Andrea McEvoy Spero
Implementation of the Core Components of Response to Intervention Models: A Study of Two Schools, Dawn Witt
Dissertations from 2011
Ground zero project development in Burma : appropriating the future through history, identity, and imagination in assessment, Alyssa A. Bahr
Healing India : implications for peace, Sriya Chakravarti
Beyond Nepantlá : an exploration of factors that affect the academic success of Chicano, Lilia Zabalza Chavez
Being and Becoming Public School Teachers: Career Mobility of Chinese Overseas-Trained Teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Lily L. Chow
Transcending Borders: The Experience of Six Undocumented Immigrant Mothers in the United States, Patricia DeRobles
Pictorial Map Effects on Learning How to Summarize, Richard Anthony DeSoiza
It Takes a Community to Change a Broken System: Using an Inter-organizational Collaborative Group to Ensure All Oakland Students Graduate from High School, Nyeisha T. DeWitt
The effects of three concept mapping strategies on seventh-grade students' science achievement at an urban middle school, Navdeep Dosanjh
Re-imagining individual and communal identity : corporate mergers, Susan Duvall-Dickson
A quantitative study of the relationship between faith formation opportunities and the religiosity of lay educators in Catholic secondary schools, Douglas R. Evans
California High School Exit Exam for students with disabilities : the impact of setting, anxiety, and stereotype threat on stuents' math performance, Tracy M. Fields
Academic Language Teaching and Learning in the Third Space Classroom: A Preservice Teachers' Perspective, Cinzia Forasiepi
Undergraduate student perceptions of affiliate organization contributions to what they learn about leadership while serving as officers in professionally oriented clubs, Mitchell Friedman
Early education in California : communicative action in the public sphere, Yolanda Garcia
The relationship between cognitive moral development and attitudes toward cheating among preservice and in-service high school teachers, Michael G. Glaser
Grading and Reporting Purposes and Practices in Catholic Secondary Schools and Grades' Efficacy in Accurately Communicating Student Learning, Peter Imperial
To Know, Love, and Serve God: The Characteristics of a Holy Cross School, Walter E. Jenkins
Perceptions of middle school Latina students on factors effecting their education : a participatory action research study, Katherine L. Johnson
An exploration of the experiences of flow by skilled professional contract workers, Patricia C. Johnson
Critical hermeneutic inquiry in Kagaa, Kenya : refiguring village health education through community inquiry, Peninah N. Kaniu
Using a standardized communication tool SBAR to improve LVN students' shift reporting, Anna Yan Yan Kwong
Implications of Branding Initiatives in Higher Education Among Trademarked Institutions in California, Joy Victoria Lamboy
Deliberate Practice in Professional Speaking Expertise, Helen Lie
Ethical dilemmas : pressures on leaders to walk the talk, Marion C. Moreno
