Theses/Dissertations from 2014
THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE OF COMMUTER STUDENTS AND THE CONCEPTS OF PLACE AND SPACE, Marissa Weiss
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Girl Talk: Analyzing Discourse Among Urban Middle School Girls, Carey Delauder Bledsoe
CONNECTING SCHOOL AND CHILD WELFARE SYSTEMS TO STUDENTS IN FOSTER CARE: AN EMPOWERING INTERVENTION, Tonya Glantz
GENDER-TWISTING AND BROS TALKING: DISCURSIVE PERFORMANCE OF GENDER, POWER, AND RECOGNITION IN THE SEX ED. CLASS, Odile Mattiauda
THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE FAMILY EXPERIENCES WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS (FEASD) SCALE, Adam Moore
Teachers Developing Exemplary Inquiry Practices: Three Longitudinal Case Studies, Sara B. Sweetman
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Beyond the Black Horizon: Perspectives of African American Collegians Who Studied Abroad, Aaron Ian Bruce
Voices Silenced, Voices Heard: Exploring Status, Discourse, and Learning in Middle School Discussion Groups, Laura A. Chiaravalloti
GENDERED PATTERNS IN HIGH ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS FOR GRADES 4, 6, AND 8, Laura J. Falvey
TIME FOR LEARNING: UNDERSTANDING STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES TOWARD LEARNING IN EXPANDED LEARNING TIME REFORM, Kris A. Monahan
THE DIALECTICS OF TEACHER CHANGE WTIHIN A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE, Armand R. Pires
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Theoretical Frames and Teaching Styles of Physical Therapy Faculty Who Lead International Service-Learning Experiences, Jennifer Gail Audette
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Literacy coaching: The role of reflective thought in teacher decision making, Patricia Jane May
An empathetic approach to Physical Education Teacher Education, Tony Monahan
Possessing new worlds: Eliciting abstract thought and empathic response through image construction, Nancy Noonan
The role of pedagogical documentation in developing young children's thinking processes, Leslie A. Sevey
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Making room for one another: Practicing dynamic and designed dialogicality in a kindergarten classroom, Gerri August
The effects of a peer-mediated intervention on language and reciprocity in young children with social communication disorders, Sharon Bissonnette
Exploring some inattended affective factors in performing nonroutine mathematical tasks, John D. Butler
Children of possibility: Children's musicking in communities of practice, Kimberly Cotter-Lemus
The Relationship Between Assistive Technology State Standards for Teachers, Assistive Technology Implementation, and Student Performance in the Context of Evidence-Based Practice, Elizabeth Minchin Dalton
A quantitative study of the summer slide in science of elementary school students, Giovanna Guadagno Donoyan
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Short title: Teacher-student epistemological interplay, Donald Bruce Bierman
The opportunity to learn: Identification and measurement of school conditions that contextualize student achievement, Amy L. Burns
An investigation of communication patterns and strategies between international teaching assistants and undergraduate students in university-level science labs, Barbara Elas Gourlay
Beyond reflection of job performance: An investigation of how initial status teachers reflect on practice to address the educational needs of their students, Andrew Peter Kelley
Hegemonic struggles in one high school classroom: A Critical Discourse Analysis of high school students' democratic dialogue, John A. Walsh III
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Managed chaos: An ethnographic study of special education teacher practice, Lisa A. Ferrelli
Examining the effectiveness of a school-based mental health center's services, Sally A. Mitchell
Student engagement in a 7th/8 th grade social studies, ESL classroom, Julie Nora
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
The relationship between tactical knowledge and tactical performance for varying levels of expertise, Robin Kirkwood Auld
The incorporation of communicative language teaching into the elaboration of interactive software for ESL/EFL learning, Vladia Borges
Determining the effects of a foundations of education/diversity preparation class on the multicultural knowledge, skills and dispositions of preservice teacher applicants, Christine M. Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
The effects of a kit-based science curriculum and teacher characteristics on students' attitude toward science, Sharon K. Lee
Restructuring school: Improving K-8 science teaching and learning in schools through systematic professional development, Diana Catalina Siliezar
Youth in action: A study of developing citizen identity, Joyce L. Stevos
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Issues of gender and peer collaboration in a problem-solving computer activity, Laurie E. Center
Teacher collaboration: Learning from inclusion dyad dialogues, Carol Ann Frisk
The factors that influence middle-level teachers to incorporate community service-learning into the curriculum, Andrea J. Hainey-Turcotte
Freedom's children: Fifth graders' perceptions of the effects of peace education in the form of Kingian nonviolence, Sylvia Carolle Spears
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Personalizing the school environment: Teacher-based advisory programs that support student adjustment and academic outcomes, Caroline Johnson Caswell
Creativity in the time of accountability: Lessons from three middle schools, Kevin Michael Hurley
The relationships between metacomprehension strategy awareness, student reading performance and comprehension strategy instruction, Diane Elliott Kern
The personalization of the school environment: The relationship of students' access to support from an adult with student adjustment outcomes and experiences of school climate, Arthur William Lisi Jr.
The Embedded Writing Institute: A study of professional development, Beverly A. Paesano
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
A study of the relation between reading achievement and less-than-proficient urban adolescent readers' world view of reading, Gerardine Cannon
Peer group instructional conversation: Collaboration in context, Linda Greene Capalbo
The effect of an integrated curriculum on fourth graders' achievement in and attitude toward music instruction, Shirley E. Lacroix
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
The influence of teacher response on African American students' codeswitching, Celeste Minor Bowler
An analysis of Rhode Island child opportunity zones through the lens of whole-school change, Susan Patricia Casey Torrey
Providing phonemic awareness instruction to pre-first graders: An extended-year kindergarten program, Thomas Terrence Cleary
Technology Assisted Life Stories, Gary R. Harlow
Gender roles and science beliefs and their relationship to science interest, Judith Jean Paolucci
The relationship between teachers' theoretical orientations to reading and their verbal feedback to students during oral reading, Kathleen A. Swann
The effectiveness of transitional bilingual education on the reading performance of Cape Verdean students from Crioulo-speaking homes, Kay Helene Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Emergent readers' joint text construction: A descriptive study of reading in social context, Mary Lee Prescott Griffin
Understanding children's perspectives: Sixth graders talk about their art, Christine Anne Mulcahey
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Comparing the achievement of eighth-grade boys and girls on norm referenced and performance tests in language arts, reading and mathematics, Helen Christina Barboza
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
The Curriculum of Consciousness: The Disciplines from the Greeks to Post-Modernity, Daniel Novak
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Personality Type and Medical Specialty Choice, Ann M. Ronan
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
The Coping Strategies of Taiwanese Students at an American University, Litsong Lu
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
The Relationship Between Locus of Control, Gender and Field of Study Among Graduate Students at the University of Rhode Island, Mary Fetherston
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
An Error of Preoperative Instruction, Elaine Caragianis
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
The Views of Rhode Island Junior and Senior High School Directors of Guidance Regarding Group Counseling, Ann Marie Nunes
Theses/Dissertations from 1964
Counseling Role Perceptions of United States Navy Chaplains, Thomas Barclay Uber
Theses/Dissertations from 1962
Interpretation of the First Grade Program to the Public Through the Medium of the Press, Claire Andrews
Theses/Dissertations from 1961
A Comparison of the Characteristics and Scholastic Achievement Between the Transient and Permanent Children in Grades Four, Five and Six in North Kingstown, Gabriella Hamilton Adams
A Study of the Use and Non-Use of Anecdotal Records in Elementary Schools, Sylvia Antonelli
Theses/Dissertations from 1960
A Comparison of Acceptance Attitude of a Selected Group of Teachers and Counselors, Donald Herman Anderson
Theses/Dissertations from 1959
The Construction of a Mathematical Manual to Serve Secondary Schools with Particular Reference to Those of North Kingstown, Leroy Edwin Algren
Group Discussion as a Medium for Qualifying Concepts of Social Behavior in the Junior High School, Jack Randall
Theses/Dissertations from 1955
An Investigation Into the In-Service Training of the Teachers in Providence, Rhode Island, Dorothy Mary Alexander
Predictors of Scholastic Success at the University of Rhode Island, James Wilson Eastwood
Theses/Dissertations from 1954
A Project in Civic Education in Elementary Schools Through Pupil Participation, Mildred Claire Alger
Theses/Dissertations from 1951
The Disorganization of Certain Portuguese Families in American Society, Manuel M. Cabral